The assumption that "if somebody can do it - anybody can do it" is one of the core convictions of NLP. It is also one of the beliefs that people new to NLP often battle with. When anyone does not believe it they talk a great deal about natural talent, superior education and wider access to resources, to say but a few of their excuses.
Making excuses is a technique of disempowering oneself. When you create an excuse you are in fact saying: "there is a reason that explains why I can't do it." What you are actually doing is expressing a restricting belief. And that limiting belief is restricting the power to achieve what you want. You are excusing yourself from trying to achieve.
Let's start again on this little piece of NLP training - what is a belief? My definition is the same as that so gracefully penned by Sue Knight, "a belief is an emotionally held opinion treated as a fact that forms the basis of your day to day decisions, skills and behaviour."
Now, if you treat as a fact that if someone can do it any person can do it, and use this belief as the footing for your thinking, feelings and actions you will be Acting As If......
And we know from many experiments that "acting as if" is an exceedingly powerful way to change our behaviours. Why don't you just give a try to the supposition that "if someone can do it anyone can do it"?
The advantage of this exercise is that it is highly likely to exorcise at least some of your concerns about your own capacities. It may well remove one of the limiting views that has been restraining you during your life to the present day.
Just try it for 1 or 2 days. Find something that someone else can do that you would like to be able to do and just try and do it yourself.
Making excuses is a technique of disempowering oneself. When you create an excuse you are in fact saying: "there is a reason that explains why I can't do it." What you are actually doing is expressing a restricting belief. And that limiting belief is restricting the power to achieve what you want. You are excusing yourself from trying to achieve.
Let's start again on this little piece of NLP training - what is a belief? My definition is the same as that so gracefully penned by Sue Knight, "a belief is an emotionally held opinion treated as a fact that forms the basis of your day to day decisions, skills and behaviour."
Now, if you treat as a fact that if someone can do it any person can do it, and use this belief as the footing for your thinking, feelings and actions you will be Acting As If......
And we know from many experiments that "acting as if" is an exceedingly powerful way to change our behaviours. Why don't you just give a try to the supposition that "if someone can do it anyone can do it"?
The advantage of this exercise is that it is highly likely to exorcise at least some of your concerns about your own capacities. It may well remove one of the limiting views that has been restraining you during your life to the present day.
Just try it for 1 or 2 days. Find something that someone else can do that you would like to be able to do and just try and do it yourself.
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Imagine a precision instrument that records the actions, words and feelings of the best performers. Then download that data to a powerful decoder that analyses and codes the behaviour. Transfer the code to your personal control panel so that you can reproduce excellence at will. This is how NLP Techniques work. NLP Practitioner David Ferrers will show you how to build your own control panel during Business Coaching or at one of his NLP Training workshops or during NLP Practitioner Training in India.
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