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Here's One I Prepared Earlier...

Do you remember Blue Peter?  Do you remember when they would build a doll's house or a rocket made from a Fairly Liquid bottle?  And sometimes you could send away an SAE and get the instructions.  Well, when I saw the Action Man Quartermasters Stores, I was hooked!  I convinced my mother to part with a 1st class stamp and an envelope, and when that sheet came in I started on my project immediately.  Sticky wood-effect paper for the flooring, half a ping pong ball for the light shade, and the rifle rack that I already owned.

But here's the interesting part to this story - for me anyway.  While I was building it, I was also teaching an invisible audience how to build it at the same time!  I mean, out loud!

In NLP they call this modelling.  

At 10 years old I was replicating what I'd just watched the week before - I was building something and teaching an audience how to build it as I went along...

I guess once a Coach, always a Coach.

Many years later I spent 7 years studying martial arts - in particular Lau Gar Kung Fu.  Of the 64 of us that enrolled in that first class, after 7 years we were down to one - and it was me!  The disadvantage was that I got a lot less personal tuition than the rest of the class - it made sense for the teacher to teach all the other grades and spend what time was left with me.  The advantage was I got to teach, and that I really enjoyed. And all of my pupils went on to pass their gradings and win their next belt.

Skip forward to 2007 and I launched The Fully Booked Bootcamp.  This was a 12 month programme for people who had an idea for a business, and my job was to teach them how to launch it, market it and make it profitable in year one.  We had a room full of students, including Brian Costello, Jackie Walker, Brian Larkin.

Brian Costello launched Headstrong.  Jackie went on to become The Divorce Coach.  Brian Larkin won a BAFTA.

A couple of years later I did a 6 month "virtual" Bootcamp called The Alchemy Challenge - this was a webinar programme designed to monetise whatever knowledge or skills the students brought to the table.  Most of them implemented what I showed them and made money.

The Platinum Challenge came later - this was a follow up to Alchemy, but in particular on how to run your own Teleseminars, the best way to do product launches and a whole training on creating your own profitable membership sites.

After all this, I came to the following conclusion - I'm very good at making other people successful.

Whether its turning around a suicidal client, or Coaching someone into a better career, or helping teachers activate all the training they've ever had, it seems that the more I focus on my clients getting THEIR desired outcome, the better it works.

And before anyone quotes Zig Ziglar, the gist is switching from achieving my own goals to helping others get their's. All the best ideologies teach that principle, and I suppose that's how the principle has shown up in my life.

So its time for the next programme, and I'm gathering data on who needs help with what.  if you haven't completed my online [and anonymous] survey yet, please do.  Its at 

https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/VD9BF68

Watch this space.  Now, where's my double sided sticky tape?

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From Woe To Win

Maybe you can relate to this story...

Back in 1989 I was a Clerical officer working in the Pensions Department of The Benefits Agency.  Seems like a lifetime ago, though its actually 25 years ago.  I had a car, a flat, a day job and my weekends to myself, and I was living on £850 per month. Plus the occasional food parcel that my dad would show up with.   A laughable income now, that wouldn't last me a week!

While it felt right at first, after a few years I knew the job inside out, it had become pretty dull, and I began to harbour thoughts about doing something else.  Was this it?  As the most experienced member of the pensions team, I was seeing men and women at retirement age coming in and getting a massive £54 a week.  And that was assuming you'd paid all your contributions all your working life.  Was that the best you could hope for?

Around that same time my first love decided to have a fling behind my back, so I was hurt, angry and full of trust issues.

Now I'd grown up reading marvel and DC superhero comics, loved role playing games and movies, and so at age 19 I'd started a wee fanzine business on the side called "Superhero UK".  Every month I'd be up till midnight stapling the pages of the photocopied zine together, I had customers all over the world who sent me postal orders [remember them?] and I had to keep a ledger of subscription payments, who owed me money, who's subscription was up for renewal, etc.  19 years old and I thought I was an entrepreneur :-)

As a result I met and got friendly with a bunch of like-minded guys from Birmingham who had aspirations to produce a full colour superhero magazine that would unite the worlds of comics, movies, toys and games all in one place.  They knew a guy called Bob who worked for IPC magazines and knew the industry.  The result was Fantazia magazine, which we managed to get stocked on the shelves of high street newsagents like John Menzies.  I remember going to a concert at the SECC and seeing it on the shelf in the kiosk.

My outside work project didn't go down well in the office, and the crunch came when a member of the Benefit Fraud Team warned me at an office party to stop rocking the boat.  He didn't like my positive attitude, and I certainly didn't want to catch his! That convinced me that I'd outgrown the civil service and it was time to dig my escape tunnel from an institution that valued targets rather than caring or integrity.

Plans were made and I handed in my letter of resignation, and got ready to move down to Birmingham to work full time as Editor of the new magazine.  We had an office upstairs at 69 Hurst Street, not far from the Bull Ring, and the computers and gear we needed went on our credit cards.  Four young bucks living the dream and having a ball.  I knew it would pay me an income, and stretch me at the same time.  We even managed to get distribution in the States, and Bob and I flew to the Las Vegas Comic Convention to interview Stan Lee [the guy who invented the Hulk and Spiderman], meet the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles [or the 4 guys in suits] and do a lot of industry schmoozing.  At least I did - Bob was too busy at the Chicken Ranch and The Grand Canyon.

Two things then happened which both shattered my certainty and security.  The first was my Dad dying.  I was the last person he'd seen alive.

The second was when Bob decided he wanted the whole magazine business for himself, and we found out that a "Gentleman's agreement" isn't worth the paper its not written on!  He took the lot, and there was nothing we could do about it.  Christ!  More trust issues.

So with money rapidly running out, credit card debt, and my dream career over, I came back to East Kilbride with my tail between my legs and cried my heart out.  Panic.  Betrayal.  Grief.  Hopes crushed.  No idea of what was next.

I walked back into the benefits office to sign on.  "Aye whit happened tae yer wee self employed business now, eh?" came the gloating jibe.  I was seething, and embarrassed.   Humbling.  Having to fill in application forms for Income Support and hand them to one of my colleagues that I'd sat beside just days earlier.

Money was the big issue.  I was terrified of getting into more debt, or not having enough to live on, and the stress and ill health that it can bring.  I was told I was good with people, I knew the Benefits system inside out, and I'd had my first taste of the private sector.  Plus my Dad had been a Bank Manager.  So I chose the one career that I thought would be right for me... and became a Financial Adviser.

That one decision would shape me - it taught me about money, investment and saving.  I got used to having targets, making sales and customer service.  It also taught me a lot about how NOT to treat people. And best of all - it started me listening to Zig Ziglar, then Jack Black, then Tony Robbins.  Little did I realise that I'd stumbled into a new passion that would shape my career for the next 20 years...

The moral of this story?  Sometimes you feel like you're drowning in despair and overwhelm, with no way out.  Yet there's always a tiny voice from your conscious mind telling you "It's going to work out, this will pass".  You have no idea where you'll be in 10 years time, but as long as you have the intention to make things better, then you will attract, manifest and chance upon opportunities.

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What's Frustrating You In Life Right Now?

I was having a heavy discussion with some colleagues yesterday, and it inspired me to reach out and ask you, dear reader, what's going on in your life right now.

It would be great if you could complete this anonymous [and therefore safe to complete :-) ] survey so I can get a "feel" for what's happening in my readers' lives right now, and how I can best help you.

Thanks in advance for doing me this big favour.

NLP Practitioner Course Contest Winners Announced

Hi there, its Jonathan here, and I’m at the world headquarters of my company – that’s my home office actually J

Now the reason for this much awaited video, is to announce the contest results for the competition that I’ve been running for the last 7 days.

All the names have gone into a hat for the NLP + HGE Practitioner competition.  If you remember the prizes are as follows:

FIRST PRIZE is a chance to win a seat on my flagship course - saving yourself £2137 - as my guest. 

But then I made it even juicier by having a second and third prize

The second prize is the whole course on audio cd, so you can learn NLP at your own pace and refer back to it forever.

The third prize is a copy of my new book Lose Weight For Scotland - a complete 90 day programme combining expert tips, sneaky professional inside secrets, and self hypnosis to get you into great shape, if you're not already.

I’m going to pick out the 3 winners, but here’s the good news - I’ve changed my mind… about the prizes… but more on that later.  Let’s see if you’ve won first...

If you liked and commented on social media to help me spread the word, then your name is in here.  The plan was to offer ONE person a free place on the course.  That’s a £2137 course – for nothing.

But you left so many nice comments – All you had to do to enter was answer 2 quick questions - Why do you want to learn NLP?  What you would use it for - what area of your life would you want to improve?

55 lovely people left comments, Here’s some examples of what was said

I want to learn NLP for my own personal development. I would use it to become the best version of me possible and then in turn help others achieve a more rewarding and happy life.

I would relish the opportunity to discover a new deeper level to my being, to help me understand my own personal journey and potential growth that I can then share with others, for optimum reward for themselves and those around them.

So that I gain more self confidence which is necessary to be taken more seriously and to feel more comfortable preaching what I practice.

So I don’t know who’s going to win, but what I’ve done is take all the 55 names of commenters, and put them on little bits of paper, and I’m going to pull them out of my Wizard’s Hat

Now I need to mix these up real good cos someone is going to win a £2137 personal development course… The tension is building…

OK here’s prize draw winner number 1 -Lisa Warren

Winner #2 Garry Conway

And winner #3 Elizabeth McLeary

So well done – thanks for your help in spreading my message, and you’re about to be really glad you did – cos here’s the deal… Remember I said I’d changed my mind?

I have.  Here’s what my gut tells me to do – my intuition is telling me to give ALL 3 of you a free place on my course.  So that’s what I’m going to do… IF you get back to me before Saturday.

OK here’s what you have to do – private message me within the next 72 hours and I’ll give you all the details.  But if you don’t come forward, you miss the slot.

Thanks for entering the contest, and if you didn’t win, make sure you take part in anything I make available in the future.

Congratulations, and I’ll be seeing you in 3 short days time on our next NLP + HGE Practitioner Course.

NLP Practitioner Training Courses In Glasgow - What Others Have Said

If you're considering doing an NLP Practitioner Course then you must be looking to develop yourself.  Now most of my students are private individuals who want to work on themselves, not necessarily looking for Certification to become an NLP or HGE Practitioner as such.

Having worked as a therapist and Coach for over 20 years, I do resonate with other helping professionals, especially those that want to earn a living by helping people and grow a successful practice.

One of the reasons people come to me is because I am happy to teach them how to get clients and actually see a return on the investment they've just made.  So many people pay thousands of pounds every year to attend training courses, then never actually make any money from their new skills, and that's a pity.

Train with me and your life will actually get easier --  not just because you've dumped a lot of past luggage, and are running your head instead of it running you - but also because you can add 3 or 4 figures a month to your income.  Now I call that life changing money - enough to pay the mortgage, or pay a loan off, or get a new car.

You'll also hold certification in both NLP and HGE - the former internationally recognised qualification, and the latter unique to my Company and extremely few in number.  And that's because I don't believe in "Hiring in masses and training in classes".  I like smaller groups with lots of individual attention.

So you probably feel like you should be demonstrating more in life than you are, and you feel you deserve better than you're getting.  But despite all the books, cd's and seminars, you still have no idea how to make significant improvements.  if you did then you'd be doing it.

Whether its more energy, more money, better health or more free time, you goal is probably similar to most people that I attract - to make the most of the years you have left.  But you're terrified that all the naysayers might be right and all that "pop psychology" was a waste of time. [In truth a lot of it IS]

So let's end the frustration and let me teach you the tools you can use to make tangible, real fruitage in your life.

I don't want you to go through any more disappointments or longing. Come and learn what really works in the real world, so you can look forward to a life full of contribution, progress and fun. That's where I'm headed, and if you want to jump on board, now's the time.

Here's what Nicola had to say...

NLP Practitioner Course Contest August 2014

Hello there!  How would you like to win £2137 worth of personal development training?

I'm excited to tell you that on Saturday the 16th of August we launch our next NLP + HGE Practitioner Certification.  Its called Get Everything You Want, Change Anything You Don't.  

This will be my thirty-second Practitioner course, and I wanted to leave it til after the Commonwealth Games were over cos it was impossible to get a venue anywhere in the city centre - 4 weekends of my latest thinking on NLP, Hypnotherapy and personal growth.  

And you come out the other end having learned a lot about yourself, not only more confident but holding 2 certificates in your hand - one in NLP and one in HGE.  That's my trademarked version of NLP, but with all the good bits they missed out put back in again.  
Course, this might be hitting you out of the blue and you're not even thinking about doing a couse like this - that's ok, just take a look at the videos I've been putting on my blog this week from the guys and gals who've just finished my last training, and listen to the good things they have to say about it.  

We've already got folks from Scotland, England and who knows where else coming up to do the training. 

But the good news is that today I'm offering you a chance to win a seat on that life changing course - saving yourself £2137 - as my guest.  

But wait!  Don't order yet!  As they say on the infomercials.  Nah, lets just make it even juicier by having a second and third prize right?  Why not?  its my contest, so I make the rules.  Lets have 2 more prizes into the bargain:

The second prize is the whole course on audio cd, so you can learn NLP ast your own pace and refer back to it forever

The third prize is a copy of my new book Lose Weight For Scotland - a complete 90 day programme combining expert tips, sneaky professional inside secrets, and self hypnosis to get you into great shape, if you're not already.

Now what’s a good way to Inspire you to help me spread the word virally but with an “ethical bribe”- so you and a few other lovely  people will pass this message around, so I can reach more people just like you.

All you have to do to enter is answer 2 quick questions below this post:

1. Why do you want to learn NLP?
2. What you would use it for - what area of your life would you want to improve?

Then 'Like' this post, and share this post on your timeline, or retweet it.

Now, I don’t know I only 2 people will do this for me, or 100 people, but the odds of YOU winning a place on NLP Practitioner course are waaay better than winning the lottery, so you've got everything to gain, and it'll only take 30 seconds.

NOW, next Wednesday the 13th I’m going to take all the names of people who left me comments directly from the social media pages, and I’m going to put them into a hat to randomly pull out the winner of the seat on the course, as well as the home study version on cd, and the book winner.

Then I’m going to have it arranged for the winner [it could be you] to attend the 8 days of training free of charge… just for answering 2 simple questions.  Pretty easy, right?

So get typing, and get ready to see if you're the winner on Wed the 13th.  

And pack a bag - you might be in Glasgow on the 16th, two grand better off!

Take care, see you later.

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NLP Training Free Webinar In Case You Missed it

In case you missed it, I explained a lot about how NLP can be used to get everything you want, and change anything you don't.  Sounds like a big claim?  Then have a listen to the replay on Youtube below:




Here is one of my most recent students sharing his experience of an NLP Certification course:




And if that's whetted your appetite and you want to learn more, why not download the full course brochure for our upcoming NLP + HGE Practitioner Course HERE

http://jonathanclark.org/events/

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The Secret That Wasn't In The Secret

Have you ever studied Spiral Dynamics?  Beck and Cohen's take on the work of Claire Graves - a model of evolution that I wrote about in my book Ignite and Unshackle [available HERE]

 The model of striving to get what you want, "If its to be its up to me!" and all of that stuff, is level 5 on the scale.  The True Silence approach that I'm talking about is actually at level 12 - 13.  So instead of spending time, money and energy on smart strategies, magic bullets, and mental tools.  There comes a time when you renounce them and go to the next level, which is actually easier...

What I'm suggesting is a NEW PARADIGM – and it's really simple [and therefore profound].   Here's the idea - nothing that man can do is of his own creation.  He’s tapping into [discovering] what’s already there.  For example the concept of Flight - it existed before we looked into it [ask the birds and the bees], but then man looked at wings, uplift and thrust, and now we have aeroplanes and helicopters.  

So I’m going to share with you some reliable principles that you can tap into.

By the way profound things are always really simple.  Want a profound life?  Simplify!

As it says in a certain good book “The harvest is rich but the labourers are few”. There's plenty to go around, but the folk who know how to tap into it are small in number.  Well, I want you increase that number by one - you!

Remember that when I was going through hell in 2010, my Coach said to me:

Everything is going to be OK

You’re safe

Things can only get better 

So now I'm saying the same to you right now - no matter how tough things are in your world, same message applies.

So let me share with you the 4 bodies in the left hand column...

Here's the secrets of manifestation and banishing stuff:

Manifestation = Spritual > Mental > Emotional > Physical

First you get the seed planted, the inspiration, the idea [S], then you dwell on it and plan it [M], then you get excited and put passion behind it [E] and eventually it becomes a tangible thing in your physical world 

The reverse is also true - to dissolve something  = Physical > Emotional > Mental > Spiritual.

First you change what you're doing, then release any negative emotions around it, dwell on what you want instead, and the old problem disappears back into the void.

Think about it - that's how computers got invented, how the internet came into being - its even how YOU and I came into being.

In the next post I'll talk more about HOW you can use this method so you can get everything you want, and change anything you don't...

An Invitation

Jonathan offers a FREE and revealing teleseminar on NLP, which included information that he prefers not to publish on a blog.   If you are seriously interested in being and having more, CLICK HERE to listen to Jonathan's "Get Everything You Want, Change Anything You Don't" teleseminar

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Strive, Survive, Dive Or Thrive?

Is this you? 

Striving to make things happen the way you want them to...

Struggling to juggle all the demands and keep up...

Studied loads and trying to implement all the tips, tactics and "-ologies" that you've learned, cos they promise a better world...

Visualised your goals, used vision boards or mind-maps and the like and yet your reality is way different...

Set goals only for them not to come true, and then you start to doubt that any of this "mind stuff" actually works...

You see, the conscious mind [the analytical critic that asks questions all the time.  Does it?  Yes.  Is that true?  Yes.  Is that what I'm hearing in my head right now?  Yup] loves to get entangled with the mind forms, the complexities.  it is built to figure things out and tease out the wool so it can analyse and form conclusions.

• About 17% of brain mass is your conscious mind: yet it controls only 2–4% of actual perceptions and behaviour.  The majority is unconscious.

• It looks for patterns and images that are familiar, and rejects those that aren’t.

• This is the part of you that thinks and reasons things out. Your free will resides here. This is the part of your mind that will decide the changes required to live the type of life you want to experience. In other words, your intentions and outcomes.

The conscious mind can accept or reject any idea.

Conscious Impulses Travel through your neural pathways at 120–140 MPH

• No person or circumstance can cause you to think about thoughts or ideas you do

not choose.

• The thoughts you consistently choose and impress from your conscious mind to your

unconscious mind will determine the results in your life.

Normal conscious activity and STRIVING used to be able to change things, but one day it stops.  That's what happened to me.  No matter what I tried, none of the old ways were working any more. "GREAT!  You can now realise that you are ready to evolve" said my Coach.

The BIG mistake that we as a race have been making for the last hundred years is closing the eyes, going into silence and taking something IN with you, like a picture, or affirmations, visualising.   That only works temporarily, or doesn't work at all.  i have more books on visualisation than I ever visualised having.

You should go into the silence is a receptive, waiting state, and wait for what comes out.

Whenever you’re experiencing lack, you’re thinking about lack.  Yet where there is silence there is peace.  In Huna its called the Void.  Some call it the Quantum Field, or God, or Creation.  Insert your deity of choice.  If you go into that space with no intention, no "noise" or interference, then the void can deliver up to you that which you need right now, or more.

Think about it - there are INFINITE problems in human conscious awareness.  There’s a self help book / method/ seminar / cd set for EVERY problem man can think of.  Money, health, relationships, family, spirituality.  Therefore if you have 3 problems you need to study 3 different methods.  What a burden.  DROP all of it!

My old motto was inspired by my brother-in-law's service in the Navy – “to strive, to serve and never to yield”.  That was my mantra until 2010.  I have a new motto now... 

Law Of Attraction Brought Me A Tank!

There's been a lot of talk back and forward in recent years about Law Of Attraction, what you focus on you attract, the morphogenic field and all of that good stuff.  As ever I'm only interested in what actually works.  Does it produce consistent fruitage?  Or is it just another dose of hope and hype that keeps you upbeat temporarily...?

Over my 23 years of studying personal development, I've tried anything and everything to make my life easier.  Some of it worked and made things better, other stuff took me down a blind alley, other things were profound and are now part of my staple toolkit.  But for me, and this is only MY opinion, my clients pay me to supply them with results - not fleeting improvement then getting sucked right back into the S**T again.

In 2010 I started to notice problems appearing, in several areas in my wheel of life.  So I applied all of my usual strategies and methods to better things... and nothing worked.  Despite all my best efforts, and practising what I preached, things just got worse.  Health, relationships, money, family... all started to crumble and worsen no matter what I did.

Now I don't know if you're the same as me, but I've learned that I need to get better at asking for help.  And it took me ages to summon the nerve, but finally I went in desperation to my old Coach from 4 years earlier.  And he gave me some advice.

First thing he said was that "Its OK - you're going to be alright" and I started sobbing.  Have you ever had someone say exactly the right thing to you at exactly the right time, but you didn't even know it was exactly what you needed to hear?

He then gave me some advice on what to do about it.  Now what he asked me to do had two effects on me - firstly, it sounded like precisely what I needed right now and it felt spot on, BUT secondly it went against everything I believed in.  Every cell in my body wanted to attack the problems, solve the challenges and try and our-strategise the issues.

I heard myself talking about the protest incident at Tienanmen Square - remember this scene?  It felt like I was staring right down the barrel of a tank gun, attached to a stonking huge war machine that was threatening to crush me.  And my nature is to look for its weak point, or stop the tank, or build my own tank!

My Coach suggested I sit down with my back to the tank, and meditate.  As if there was no tank there...at all... and every iota in me said "That's INSANE!"

So for 6 months we spoke on the phone every week.  And for 6 months I was at WAR.  Not on the outside mind you - not attacking the problems in my money, health and relationships - but in turmoil on the inside.  At war within myself.

Tomorrow I'll tell you what happened :-)

How To Use NLP To Get What You Want

By Jonathan Clark

Even if you've never looked at NLP, here are 6 truths about acquiring knowledge...

Over the last 23 years I have presented 30 NLP Practitioner Courses and have certified scores of NLP Practitioners.  Since NLP came into being in the early 1970s there has been a virtual revolution in the field of learning and especially Accelerated Learning.

From Howard Gardner’s Multiple Intelligence Model specifying seven different kinds of intelligence to Tony Buzan’s work in Mind-Mapping and scores of other theorists and practitioners, we now know so much more about how to speed up the learning process.  Here are 6 of the insights I've had over the years - some of them may be useful to you...

1. If one person can do it, so can you
Neuro-linguistic programming (NLP) is an approach to communication, personal development, and psychotherapy created by Richard Bandler and John Grinder in California, United States in the 1970s.
Bandler and Grinder claim that the skills of exceptional people can be "modeled" using NLP methodology, then those skills can be acquired by anyone.  They also claim that the therapeutic "magic" as performed in therapy by Perls, Satir and Erikson, and by performers in any human activity, had a structure that could be learned by others.

2. You can make money from your knowledge
By the late 1970s, the human potential movement had developed into an industry and provided a market for some NLP ideas. At the center of this growth was the Esalen Institute at Big Sur, California. Perls had led numerous Gestalt therapy seminars at Esalen. Satir was an early leader and Bateson was a guest teacher.

Bandler and Grinder claimed that in addition to being a therapeutic method, NLP was also a study of communication and began marketing it as a business tool, claiming that, "if any human being can do anything, so can you." After 150 students attended a ten-day workshop in Santa Cruz, California, Bandler and Grinder gave up academic writing and produced popular books from seminar transcripts, such as Frogs into Princes, which sold more than 270,000 copies.

A community of psychotherapists and students began to form around Bandler and Grinder's initial works, leading to the growth and spread of NLP as a theory and practice. For example, Tony Robbins trained with Grinder and utilised a few ideas from NLP as part of his own self-help and motivational speaking programmes like "Unleash The Power Within" UPW which I've attended 4 times now.

3. Every skill has a structure, or recipe
According to one study, a classic interaction in NLP has several major stages including establishing rapport, gleaning information about a problem mental state and desired goals, using specific tools and techniques to make interventions, and integrating proposed changes into the client's life.  In short - get rapport, uncover the blocks, make changes, and encourage a new, generative direction.

Although the original core techniques of NLP were therapeutic in orientation their generic nature enabled them to be applied to other fields. These applications include persuasion, sales, negotiation, management training, sports, teaching, coaching, team building, and public speaking.

4. You're big enough and old enough
NLP is all about “running your own brain” and managing your own states. As a model about how we function in thinking and communicating, it’s a model that enables us to model best practices and excellence. And over the years, I have used NLP to model learning. Today we no longer have to teach people the NLP jargon at the trainings.

People can read at home. This is one of the oldest technologies for accelerating learning— reading books and listening to audios prior to coming to the training! This primes learners and participants as it prepares them for the patterns and processes. And so that’s part of my programme. We require people to read at home so that they essentially will go through the content of the training before they get to the training.

5. We can get into our best states before we start learning.
We now know that we do our best learning when we are in our best learning states—open, receptive, motivated, primed, and energetic. Instead of waiting for people to come to the training and taking several days to “pump them up” and “sell them on the training” by giving them lots of “Whys” for the value of the training— we do that before they come. Yes, it’s another revolutionary idea.

Traditional “classic” NLP teaches trainers to spend lots and lots of time presenting the why of the training before starting. And that’s a great idea if you have a room full of un-motivated people! In that case, I'd have to spend lots of time selling those who will be participants on the value of “running your own brain.” But do I have to do it that way? No way!

We can use pre-training materials and teleseminars [You can listen to one HERE] to get people into the right state from day one—from hour one. Doesn’t that make sense? It does to me. It also makes for a much, much more exciting training to start out in the first hour with a room full of exciting, passionate, and committed people.

This is also at the heart of NLP—rather than baby people as if they are not responsible for their own thinking-and-feeling states, for their own learning— we start from the position that we believe in them, believe that they are responsible for running their own brain, and that they can do that!

6. You don't want to be an "armchair magician"
That’s why our trainings are very experiential. With learners having already been through the training once (via books, and CDs) they are now ready to put the pedal to the floor and blast through the hands-on experiences to learn in practice how to actually do the processes. And that’s our focus: hands-on practice for competency.

Perhaps by using accelerated learning techniques, using the wild and incredible new technology called “reading and listening at home,” and getting to the essence of things from the beginning—then in eight eventful days ... people who didn’t have a clue about how to actually run their own brains, manage their states, cure phobias, get control over their consciousness, and communicate with more precision can begin the NLP journey.

After all, when we use these newer processes for accelerating the training of NLP, while we intensify the training, we also shorten the time. This means we can reduce the price of the training (which we have). It means participants don’t have to spend as much or take off as much time from work. You can even get trained by teleseminar, like this one HERE which reveals why I created my version of NLP called Hypno Genetics.

For me, I prefer to make NLP increasingly available to more people. The more accessible we can make it, the more people can learn the magic and power of NLP. And, we believe that the more people who can learn to run their own brains and manage their own states—the better off our world will be. And that’s part of my vision for you

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***UPDATE***

Since I launched this offer I got a flurry of emails and Facebook messages from several of my subscribers and past clients, asking me the same question: "Why would you do this, and at such a low price?"

Quick bit of background - every year I make a crazy offer available, where I bundle some of [what I think is] my best work together and make it available for a limited time at a massively discounted price.

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    Having spent 22 years studying this methodology and 14 years training people how to use it to get what they want in life, I have a lot to thank it for.  It’s been very good to me, and it was the best set of tools I had found up until this point for career achievement and personal growth.  But it's not for everybody...

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 Exactly.

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“Although I’ve done presentation techniques for 30 years it had never really gelled in my mind.  I can’t get over the difference it’s made for me.  I’ve done NLP before, I’ve done the Tony Robbins courses before, but until you get somebody who actually touches the inner core of your unconscious, it doesn’t work, and Jonathan does that.” – Carol Bentley

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   If you don’t know NLP yet, or maybe as a Coach, you might like to learn additional ways of making you better at what you do.

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