Getting things done using NLP techniques

Motivation is one of the great skills that NLP can teach.  This technique, combined with others, can build a powerful "propulsion system" which can make a massive difference in your life.

Read this extract on motivation from Richard Bandler's "Make Your Life Great", which details a technique to help you enhance your motivation.

People often go to therapists complaining about problems such as procrastination, but procrastination is not a psychological problem; it's just a matter of mental organization...

 

...Some Japanese martial artists have students go over and over the movement, criticizing them until they get it right. Chinese martial artists make a picture of themselves doing a movement as perfectly as the teacher, without even having to get on the mat.

 

They repeatedly make these images over and over again, and then they turn the picture around, step inside the teacher, and make the movements....

 

...I'm asking readers of this book to do the same.  Take a moment and plan.  Make a plan inside your head, a decision about how to do something differently.

 

If you plan to make the things that you want more passionate and more appealing, here's the secret.  Make vivid pictures, and put them where you already see things about which you're passionate.  See what has to be done first, then what follows, and what follows that.  Know where you're going - and above all, make getting there a worthwhile undertaking.

 

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Exercise: Getting Things done

1. Choose a situation where you feel out of control - not because you don't have the knowledge or the skills, but because your emotions get the better of you.  One example of this might be fear of success or fear of failure.

 

2. Understand at this point that this is simply an attitude that is stopping you from doing something you know you should do, so decide as richly as possible what you will be doing when you are back in control.  Choose a specific example of this behaviour, preferably one that is immediately testable.

 

3.  Sit comfortably, then float out, imagining yourself sitting a little behind and up from your physical body.  In your mind's eye, see that back of your head, the width of your shoulders.  See what your clothes look like from this point of view. Make this picture as fully dimensional as possible.

 

4.  Now, imagine that you see yourself starting to stand up, and, as that happens, actually stand, so you are in precisely the same position as your imagined image.

 

5.  Repeat this thought and action several times, making it faster each time, until you feel yourself being pulled to your feet by the vividness of your image.

 

6.  Imagine you are standing a little behind and up from an image of yourself about to start the activity you identified in Step 2.  Ensure that it is in the same position and has the same qualities as the standing exercise

 

7.  Run the activity from start to finish several times.  Do this faster and faster, stepping into the image each time, until you feel the same "pull" as before.

 

8.  Test by starting the activity and following it all the way through at least three times.  Then sit down quietly for a few moments and imagine how your life will be different and better as this new skills generalizes out into other, equally useful and appropriate areas of your life.

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