Life and Executive Coaching with NLP

Successes of our Certified NLP and Time Line Therapy (TM) Practitioners

2009-08-26T03:57:00.000-07:00

We all want to succeed.

But we, in Asia Mind Dynamics, know, that the participation in a Neuro Linguistic Programming and a Time Line Therapy(TM) Training is intense and sometimes exhausting. The days are long but then, the changes are dramatic. What seemed once hard to achieve suddenly becomes achievable. We have seen it over and over again. let me give you some headlines.

In our NLP Trainings in Malaysia, we have assisted people in manifesting their goals:

- A person dreamed of becoming a Datin and reached her goals. Moreover, she is now one of Malaysia's Top Women;

- A former student who did not think much of himself turned out to become a serial entrepreneur and will soon cooperate with us

- A dissatisfied employee dreamed of becoming a millionaire, set the foundation for it in our training and now has reached her goal

- A company that sent about 15 senior managers to our training over a period of time managed to half their employee turnover - imagine the amount of money saved!

- A aspiring author did not know how to continue as his publisher sat on the draft for too long. He visualised and embedded his goals into the unconscious mind and can now be found on the top-selling list in MPH

The list is not complete, but we have realised that NLP Training is not just about becoming more confident and feeling better about yourself. We have learned that it is possible to show you the pathway and door to success.

How did it happen?

Over the years that we operate as one of the NLP Training companies in Malaysia, we have had the chance to put together a training manual and process that clearly is distinguished and targeted to assisting you. Sure, it might look similar to other training companies in the market, but it is the way we present it and the additional stuff that comes aside during the training, that somehow allows you to go from limitation to success in just a few days.

Well, we experienced practitioners that had their first breakthrough just a few hours into the training. And we break our own records.

Interested in knowing more?

Call us up at 6-012-32 76 048 (Najwa) or 012 - 287 5048 (Andreas). Or check out our website at Asia Mind Dynamics

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The Value of Time

2009-08-26T03:17:00.000-07:00

Have you realised that time has a value to each and every one of us? And no, it is not about being late to a meeting but how we express time in the words we use and the meaning we give.

Let me give you an example.

"We are wasting time".

"Be on time".

"We lost time".

"Let's hurry up".

"We are hard-pressed for time."

"Can we finish on time."

"I have another meeting lined up."

"We are running out of time."

All these are expressions of how we code time in our neurology. The value we give time in our life. Is time a resource, a thing, something to treasure, something to waste and so on.

In NLP or Timeline Therapy(TM), we say that people can be "in-time" or "through time".

People that code time as "in-time" oftentimes have the future in front of them and the past is seen as something behind. The timeline from past to future and present, when connected, touches the body. For "Through Time People", the timeline does not touch the body.

The way they code time expresses itself in their behaviour. It is said that Through Time People are more punctual, while In-Time People live in the moment and can forget time and appointments. This is a general rule, of course, and society, environment, education and experience can impress a different behaviour. In addition, our behaviour changes according to the context in which we operate, and thank goodness for this.

Still, it is an interesting topic to think about and to reflect on how we code and express the need for time in our life.

So, how do you code or express time in your life?
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Time in our life

2009-07-11T23:52:00.000-07:00

Have you realised that time has a value to each and every one of us? And no, it is not about being late to a meeting but how we express time in the words we use and the meaning we give.

Let me give you an example.

"We are wasting time".

"Be on time".

"We lost time".

"Let's hurry up".

"We are hard-pressed for time."

"Can we finish on time."

"I have another meeting lined up."

"We are running out of time."

All these are expressions of how we code time in our neurology. The value we give time in our life. Is time a resource, a thing, something to treasure, something to waste and so on.

In NLP or Timeline Therapy(TM), we say that people can be "in-time" or "through time".

People that code time as "in-time" oftentimes have the future in front of them and the past is seen as something behind. The timeline from past to future and present, when connected, touches the body. For "Through Time People", the timeline does not touch the body.

The way they code time expresses itself in their behaviour. It is said that Through Time People are more punctual, while In-Time People live in the moment and can forget time and appointments. This is a general rule, of course, and society, environment, education and experience can impress a different behaviour. In addition, our behaviour changes according to the context in which we operate, and thank goodness for this.

Still, it is an interesting topic to think about and to reflect on how we code and express the need for time in our life.

So, how do you code or express time in your life?
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Susan Boyle and her Lessons for Leadership

2009-06-06T06:27:00.000-07:00

Have you heard of Susan Boyle? May be not but her story is worthwhile relating as there is an interesting leadership lesson in her rise to become a star.

She was the singing sensation on a British television talent contest. When she first appeared on the show, you could see the audience cringe. The judges, amongst them Simon Cowell, known also from American Idol, rolled their eyes.

Then, when she started to sing, everybody gasped and was amazed about the beauty of her voice.

When I saw her video on YouTube (her song was downloaded 200 million times), I was also blasted away as well. I started to wonder, why it took so long for her to come out.

There is a leadership lesson here.

Do you know the talents around you? How many talents are hidden in organisations and not discovered? May be they gave up a while ago, may be they were never really challenged or may be they were pushed aside one time too many.

How many talents are not discovered for whatever reasons. How many could contribute to your company, to society, or even to friends around them, but they believe that they are not worthwhile doing this.

But the story about Susan Boyle is not yet finished.

In the finals of the show, she was the favourite. But her behaviour became erratic already a week before the final show. She cracked during the finals and became the runner-up. Disappointment was written all over her face.

Next thing I heard, she was in the hospital. Due to mental and emotional exhaustion.

Isn't this another leadership lesson?

How many times do we promote or hire people who are not ready to take on bigger roles and more responsibilities. They have been trained in all the technicalities. Delegation skills, time management, may be even a short course on Emotional Intelligence. All nice and well because it is necessary. But then, who took care of the mindset involved. Getting a promotion and becoming a leader is a big step, don't you agree? It takes a totally different mindset to manage a different set of challenges.

Many newly appointed leaders crack, just like Susan Boyle. Some who have been promoted show sudden lack of confidence, low self-esteem, uncertainty, fear, and what not. In their head they have one mantra: "Who am I to be here?" "Do I really deserve this?" "What will happen if they find out that I am not that clever as it seems?"

These negative thoughts keep running and running and then, they become the self-fulfilling prophecy. Another leader, so promising before, that fails.

It seems so hard to identify these issues earlier.

In my NLP Trainings, many participants initially come with lack of confidence, or low self esteem. In my coaching sessions, there are many that are desperately trying to cope, running agains the wall, over and over again.

This is the lesson that Susan Boyle teaches us. We need to look out for the talents in our organisation. Those that are quietly doing their thing. Those that are on the way to give out. Those that are disengaged.

There is a need to support those that are going to get promoted.

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The strange language of NLP

2009-04-30T06:03:00.000-07:00

NLP or Neuro Linguistic Programming has its own language, just like any other discipline. Think computer science, accounting, IT, even market research, HR Consulting etc.

For that matter, every company has its own language - expressions that tie its members together and create a culture.

The main challenge is that when you join a class in university, a company, or read a book about some things, it is your choice and mostly, you have some idea about the topic or area that we entrench. May be about the jargon used. The words we use to differentiate ourselves from others - just listen to the words young people use and compare it to the words older people use. There are plenty of differences.

Now, most people who join NLP Classes also have some idea of what is happening. They might have read a book - plenty available nowadays - read an article, talked about it with friends, checked it out on the internet and so on.

They might know that NLP is about personal development, discovering your inner self, finding direction, managing goals, helping others, communicating better or at a very deep level, changing behaviours, instant change, learning how to manage meetings or negotiations and much, much more.

So far, it is clear.

But NLP approaches things differently and in a very different style. It goes deeper. Actually, NLP teaches participants to approach life differently. It teachesthat we are not failures, that it is possible to succeed, to understand that there is opportunity in challenges. It teaches to manage our mind, that we have a choice in our life that we can define our future, that it is possible to overcome negative behaviours, beliefs and habits in a moment. It shows that we can work with others to help them achieve their goals.

It is only ..... that NLPlers use a very funny language.

Have you ever heard some NLPlers try to explain what NLP is? To someone who has no idea about NLP? It is a permanent struggle.

Remember, that NLP's founders were engaged in computer science (Richard Bandler) and linguistics (John Grinder). Somehow this combination proved fatal in terms of choice of language.

If you come to the "right NLPlers" they talk about "Submodalities, Meta Model, Strategies or Chaining or Collapsing Anchoring.

It is hard to stay alert in this maze.

Some newer NLP schools try to change the language, but then, it is even more confusing.

It is about the ability to really translate something somewhat difficult and strange into something that is beautiful and easy to understand. To me, it is one of my goals in the training to allow my practitioners to use NLP and be able to explain it to anyone they meet easily and effortlessly.

If they manage that, then I know my job is done. Because NLP is easy.

It is simplest form, it is about identifying where someone wants to go in their life (their future) and to contrast this with where they are now. Then, it is about discovering the ways and steps they need to take to reach their desired future. What would they need to go there, how do they go there, when and how someone is affected after reaching their goals.

That is probably the easiest definition. There are more available that go deeper into the sphere of NLP, but then, still manage to get the message across.

Because NLP is about communication. And if someone who is working with the most magnificent tool of communication (that is NLP, in case you wonder), and cannot explain it easily then how? You know the answer to that question.

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The little girl aside of the street

2009-04-30T06:02:00.000-07:00

It was raining, last night. My son called me and asked me to pick him up after his tuition, at about 6.00 PM.

While driving out from our area, I have to pass a public school. Aside of the school, under a tree, there stood a little girl. She was small, may be seven or eight years old. Standing under the trees, in her blue school uniform.

The uniform appeared to be wet, or may be even drenched. Like she was waiting already a long time.

I saw her standing there, while I drove by. My thought went out to her and I hoped that whomever she was waiting for would come soon.

There was no one else around. And it was getting dark, while the rain got heavier.

Now, my son’s tuition is not too far away, so about 15 minutes later, I came back to the same spot.

She wasn’t standing anymore but now cowering on the floor. Pressed even more against the fence, that surrounded the tree.

I thought I stop and ask, what is going on. Lucky to me, my son can speak Bahasa, way better than me. Hey, it is his mother tongue, okay?

Tears were streaming down her cheeks and she looked so small, so helpless and scared.

We asked her if she was waiting for someone (stupid question, as if she would stand there, all alone, by herself, for any other reason than waiting for someone to pick her up). She sniffed and said that she was waiting for her mother.

My son asked her for her mother’s telephone number, and, with lots of trials, and repetitions, she gave us the number. My son also took an umbrella from the car.

I was a bit worried as well, for my own sake, of course, and curious, what went on inside of me. Because, there is so much bad stuff with children ongoing in Malaysia, that I hoped no one would accuse me of something. As such, I was also happy that my boy was with me.

We tried to call her mother twice, but she didn’t pick up the phone. Suddenly, another girl came around the curve and told the little girl to come along. The little girl knew her and was relieved. So was my son and I. My son was happy and said, that this was nice. He enjoyed helping. I told him that we might have changed a life.

But what I am wondering about is the following. Where was the mother and how could she let the little girl get so devastated. It is a helpless situation. She was so scared and there would have been no one to help her. The feeling of helplessness must have been so overwhelming. Imagine you are 7 years old. And you are left alone, somewhere. Where to go, when it gets dark? You would be at the mercy of the environment. May be there are some recollection of horror stories told in movies, or by the parents about darkness and being alone. I don’t know but I know that it must have been scary.

May be her life changes after this and she knows that there is help, somewhere, that arrives when needed (do I see myself as the white knight?).

But may be she felt abandoned. And fear. These can be deep-seated negative emotions that we often encounter in our training. These emotions are created when we are young, and these experiences follow us into adulthood.

I know that the girl will be okay, but I pitied her for the experience.

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Language as tool to enable change

2009-04-30T06:01:00.000-07:00

You just gotta love that guy. If you are interested in learning about the power of language and influence, I invite you to constantly listen out for Barack's speeches.

Look for the way he is anchoring messages in his speeches to certain body movements. Listen how he uses hypnotic language patterns, or those high-level words that we can all agree to. The main differentiator to Bush is that he is using the language of suggestion - he invites people to listen to him.

Those that have made it through the Language and Behaviour Profile Training or our NLP Master Practitioner will realise that the language of suggestion is most suitable for those that are resistant to messages.

And, be honest, everybody is resistant to messages when we are confronted with them the first time. When we see someone the first time and this one person tries to convince us. How do we feel? Like we want to run away....

To further support my point - just remember the last time, someone approached you on the road or in the mall and wanted to strongly sell something to you. Argh - I believe you felt this churn in your stomach. It didn't make you feel good, did it?

The contrast is the language of invitation. Inviting people to listen to you. In NLP, we call this "Softening Frames". They are introductionary parts such as "I invite you to....", "May I suggest....", "Would you be able to consider..."

It is just another sentence, sure, but the sound is different. Try it out the next time you want to make a point or convince someone.
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Barack invites people to listen to him. This probably is the main difference to the Bush administration who demanded that others (involving the rest of the world) listen to them - think about the way Bush stated the "be for us or against us" points after September 11.

The article below indicates the importance of language in making a point.

Wayne Fields, a professor of English and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis is quoted as saying that "using language is one way to help effect that change."

Don't we all agree?

I am happy that I have chosen the language of influence as my job, as my hobby and my mission in life. Have you?

Read the article and share your thoughts!!

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– The "War on Terror" is losing the war of words. The catchphrase burned into the American lexicon hours after the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, is fading away, slowly if not deliberately being replaced by a new administration bent on repairing the U.S. image among Muslim nations.

Since taking office less than two weeks ago, President Barack Obama has talked broadly of the "enduring struggle against terrorism and extremism." Another time it was an "ongoing struggle."

He has pledged to "go after" extremists and "win this fight." There even was an oblique reference to a "twilight struggle" as the U.S. relentlessly pursues those who threaten the country.

But only once since his Jan. 20 inauguration has Obama publicly strung those three words together into the explosive phrase that coalesced the country during its most terrifying time and eventually came to define the Bush administration.

Speaking at the State Department on Jan. 22, Obama told his diplomatic corps, "We are confronted by extraordinary, complex and interconnected global challenges: war on terror, sectarian division and the spread of deadly technology. We did not ask for the burden that history has asked us to bear, but Americans will bear it. We must bear it."

During the past seven years, the "War Against Terror" or "War on Terror" came to represent everything the U.S. military was doing in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the broader effort against extremists elsewhere or those seen as aiding militants aimed at destroying the West.

Ultimately and perhaps inadvertently, however, the phrase "became associated in the minds of many people outside the Unites States and particularly in places where the countries are largely Islamic and Arab, as being anti-Islam and anti-Arab," said Anthony Cordesman, a national security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank.

Now, he said, there is a sense that the U.S. should be talking more about specific extremist groups — ones that are recognized as militants in the Arab world and that are viewed as threats not just to America or the West, but also within the countries they operate.
The thinking has evolved, he said, to focus on avoiding the kind of rhetoric "which could imply that this was a struggle against a religion or a culture."

Obama has made it clear in his first days in office that he is courting the Muslim community and making what is at least a symbolic shift away from the previous administration's often more combative tone.

He chose an Arab network for his first televised interview, declaring that "Americans are not your enemy." Before his first full week in office ended, he named former Sen. George J. Mitchell as his special envoy for the Middle East and sent him to the region for talks with leaders.

According to the White House, Obama is intent on repairing America's image in the eyes of the Islamic world and addressing issues such as the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, unrest in Pakistan and India, Arab-Israeli peace talks and tensions with Iran.

Using language is one way to help effect that change, said Wayne Fields, professor of English and American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis.

"One of the contrasts between the two administrations is the care with which Obama uses language. He thinks about the subtle implications," said Fields, an expert on presidential rhetoric. The Bush administration "didn't set out deliberately to do things that were offensive but they liked to do things that showed how strong they were, and to use language almost in an aggressive sense."
Obama, he said, understands that language and conversation must be worked at and that it's "not just a series of sound bites."

White House officials say there has been no deliberate ban on the war-on-terror phrase. And it hasn't completely disappeared. White House press secretary Robert Gibbs has used the wording in briefings, and it's still in vogue among some in the Pentagon and State Department.
Asked about Obama's avoidance of the phrase, Gibbs said the president's language is "consistent with what he said in his inaugural address on the 20th. I'm not aware of any larger charges than that."

Juan Zarate, who served as the deputy national security adviser for combating terrorism during the Bush administration, said he has seen signs that the new White House is trying to subtly retool the words, if not the war.

"There's no question that they're looking very carefully at all issues related to how the war on terror is packaged, to include lexicon," said Zarate. "All of this is part of an attempt to see how they could at least frame a change in policy even if, at the end of the day, the actual war on terrorism doesn't change all that much."

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Does NLP allow you to read people's minds?

2009-04-30T06:00:00.000-07:00

I am in Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) for quite a while now. My passion started of in 2004 with a 2-day course and I never looked back. It is an amazing tool to understand myself and others.

After completing my all the different courses related to NLP (e.g.; Hypnosis, Timeline Therapy(TM) Techniques and others), I am now training these different disciplines to those interested.

I am sure that those of you who read this and have done their NLP Practitioner or gone beyond it have encountered the most famous question everyone in NLP once encounters - "Can you read my mind? What am I thinking right now?"

Those that ask me look at me with eyes wide open. A curious expression on the face. May be a slight smile.

I don't know where this idea comes from. Is it propagated by Darren Brown or did it come about because of the most famous application - the Eye Accessing Cues?

You see, people move their eyes in all directions, all the time. Even so it its validity is questions every now and then, NLPlers state that when people experience, create or recall a certain event, they move their eyes into certain directions.

You move your eyes up when you create or recall a picture, to the side when you create or recall sounds and down when you either get in touch with your feelings or check on your self-talk (a short crash course in NLP).

It might be because of this that NLPlers are said to be mind readers. But actually, it is more complicated than this.

Reading minds has something to do with a variety of things, of which only one are the Eye Accessing Cues.

Other factors that play a role are the ability to build deep rapport, watching body movements and body language (hey - it is a sure give away), the tonality of people and listening, listening, listening to what people have to say.

Most importantly, however, are the way people express their values and beliefs in their actions, the behavioural traits expressed in their "normal" language (look for the Language and Behaviour Profile to know more about it), and a lot of cold reading.

Wikipedia describes Cold Reading as follows:

"Cold reading is a technique used by mentalists and is claimed to be used by fortune tellers, psychics, and mediums to determine details about another person in order to convince them that the reader knows much more about a subject than he or she actually does. Even without prior knowledge of a person, a practiced cold reader can still quickly obtain a great deal of information about the subject by carefully analyzing the person's body language, clothing or fashion, hairstyle, gender, sexual orientation, religion, race or ethnicity, level of education, manner of speech, place of origin, etc. Cold readers commonly employ high probability guesses about the subject, quickly picking up on signals from their subjects as to whether their guesses are in the right direction or not, and then emphasizing and reinforcing any chance connections the subjects acknowledge while quickly moving on from missed guesses."

I am not claiming to be able to read people's mind. That's way too hard. The mind is too fast for me. But I learned through my own training that it is possible to be pretty accurate about a person's attitude to life, their way of approaching things, what they value and what is important to them. I am often correct in knowing their style of dressing when I talked to them on the phone.

People are like open books. Open books when you know what to look out and listen for. Of course, this is not something that is easily learned in just 10 days. It takes practice, patience and time. It is lots of fun, nevertheless.

Imagine, just for a moment, you simply know what is important to a person by looking at them, and then you make a respective compliment. The door to rapport and trust is wide open. It allows for deep conversations. No more pretending, and an open and mutually enhancing conversation based on win-win.

The result? You are perceived to be a great coach, a better parent, a more empathetic colleague, a super boss an understanding HR person, a wonderful salesperson, THE great listener and more.

Add on to the list....... by yourself. What do you want to be?

That is the power of NLP. The pleasure to speed up relationships. The ability to understand yourself to shut up your own inner voice. The wonderful feeling to just be there for the other person, when they truly need it.

And then, if required, to initiate change. To widen the other person's perspective. To let them have insights into their problem, and develop their own solution.

I say that this is the WoW Factor of NLP.

Isn't this wonderful?

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Integrity and overpromising in a competitive environment

2009-04-30T05:58:00.000-07:00

So the economy is down. Companies postpone, or reschedule training. Individuals choose more carefully before they sign up with a course. Especially a course that seems more expensive.

I mean, look, Asia Mind Dynamics is more expensive than others. Especially, when you look at the total price and overlook that our training days are longer - 10 days or more. And while we mostly start at 9.00 AM (I said mostly!!)we hardly ever finish before 6.00 PM. Sometimes we trained until 9.00 PM, but then, this depends on the intensity of the questions asked by the participants - and I am open to it. We are also more expensive because we provide more knowledge, more extensive and intensive exercises and don't forget all the after-training support provided.

Sure case - quality costs something and value comes with a price, right?

Call me arrogant (I don't think I am not, actually!) but we also value high quality participants. Those that really go the extra mile for change. Interestingly, we most of the time manage to just get those that we want. We have a secret "weapon" to understand the participants and know their thinking structure. Okay, sometimes we fail and sometimes we get it partially right, but well..... We value high quality participants because this allows all participants to grow together. Work together, bond and share most intensively!

We could overpromise on benefits and outcomes of the course to get a higher number of participants. You probably know that when you know NLP you really can achieve a lot in your life. Change habits, behaviours, beliefs, and values in a short time. It really helps to identify and overcome limitations and handicaps to design something magnificent and worth living. It is the fastest way to change, way beyond any traditional change approach.

So yes, we could overpromise to get more sign-ups. People would come. Expectations are higher. Hopes are raised.

But then, what would happen? If we promise heaven and earth to our participants and all they would get is hell? They would spend their hard earned cash and then, they would be bitterly disappointed.

In fact, we would tarnish our reputation. There is this old saying, that bad news travels fast, and today, in Internet time,bad news travels at the speed of light.

I tell corporate clients that ask me if I can conduct a so-and-so type of training, if I can deliver or not. If I can, I am happy. If I can't, I tell them I can't. I refer them out. Sure thing, because in the end, I am only as good as my last training.

Similar with individuals that join our public training. I could tell anything, and hey - it would be true. Wouldn't it? Because I changed my life a lot since I started NLP in 2004. But did I change so totally it in just 10 days? No, of course not. I set the course differently, I learned a lot of skills and methodologies and let go of a lot of negative stuff. But there was more and I kept going. Learned more, entrenched myself in NLP, and all the related stuff, such as NLP Coaching, Hypnosis of different kinds, Timeline Therapy(TM) Techniques, Silva Mind and all. It is a journey into the mind and still ongoing.

I am not overpromising. I recently heard from someone that Company X offers so much more than we. Company X is a competitor of sort. Their ads in The Star are not developed or checked by the trainer but by their staff. A long list of possible achievements. In a way shorter course. I wouldn't tell anything bad about them, even so I know their trainer, and the staff. Because it would not reflect good on me.

I feel sad when I hear people signing up for the courses. I am in a dilemma. Shall I tell stories and experiences or not? I don't. Everybody needs to do their own experiences.

Another way is to tell stories about the competition. Sure, times are hard for many, and many just tell stories. Stories that don't reflect too good on the competition.

Why do I tell this story?

Because I recently heard stories that they told stories about Asia Mind Dynamics. More than once already, really.

It was in the beginning of Asia Mind Dynamics, that someone asked Company X about us. They were saying that we are still new, inexperienced, would not know NLP and that they should come to Company X. Is this the truth? Well, yes, it was true. We were new in the market but not inexperienced.

Yesterday, another participant mentioned inquired with them and compared their course,which is different, with ours. Company X told them that we would also join their class. How can? I am already a trainer in all they offer. Sure, I still upgrade my skills because I learn. But sorry only in courses that enhance my skills.

Why did I write this article now?

Overpromising doesn't work. Because it will come back to haunt you. Someone realises it, mismatched expectations and the rumour mill starts. I hear enough complaints about bad NLP trainings - I don't want to hear it, because of my next point. I acknowledge the complain, and search for the best intention in the complainer. Or in the training company.

Badmouthing the competition only reflects on the one who badmouthes. Imagine someone who badmouthes about someone. Do you trust this person? I don't. Because I never know if the person does not badmouth about me as well, once I am no longer around.

What I want you to know is the one thing. Bad mouthing or backstapping is related to values and beliefs, or may be even higher, to the identity of person or company.

What do they value or belief and how do they try to achieve it? Where are their boundaries to getting business in? Values, just like beliefs, are not always positive. There are negative values, only that no one really admits it it. It is not in, or too frightening. But their language and their behaviour expresses their true state of mind.

Longterm, it probably hurts their body.

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The Secret and negative thoughts

2008-12-20T19:14:00.000-08:00

The Secret is still all around us. Even so I think it is a bit simplistic, the good part is that people become aware that they are in charge of their life.

However, there are some people that take the message of not to think any negative thoughts to serious and even condemn realistic assessments as too negative. Now, I believe that reality is what we make out of it. Each and every one has his or her own interpretation of events. This interpretation ultimately forms their experience and how they experience their life - it creates their "model of the world".

Now there are situations that need to be evaluated. Look at the global recession, for example. I mentioned earlier that there is a need to change the things we are doing. May be more, may be less. Up to you. But I met people who really freak out the moment you mention the word crisis. Like it is the pest or something similar. Like the don't want to touch it at all. It is too negative. If you mention the word, there is the danger that energy is put inside and then it will hit us.

In similar fashion, when we talk to clients about goal setting and budget developments. We set an achievable goal, and don't I dare to say it, there is this voice in the back saying - 'when we put this number on the board, won't we limit us? Shouldn't we avoid mentioning numbers, because they are holding us back? Won't the universe give us more, if we really, really really use outrageously high numbers?' When I say may be we should shoot for the stars to reach the moon - oh no, another limitation!!

I believe, no, I know we create our own reality. What we have inside of us, and how we personally evaluate events will ultimately determine the quality of our life. We can achieve a lot when we learn how to reframe certain events. Negative ones especially. Some people spiral into negative thoughts and are somewhat addicted to it. For them it is good to realise that this strengthens a negative condition in the mind. It is good for them to learn how to manage their thoughts.

But when I am able to manage my thoughts - positive and negative ones - this also means that my quality of my life, to me gets better. This means that I am ready with scenarios and ideas on how to tackle challenges. Not ignoring challenges. Because, isn't ignoring challenges equivalent to running away? Like an ostrich putting his head into the sand, hoping, that he won't be seen?

As mentioned, I like the way of how the secret opened the mind of many. It helped millions of people become aware of their thoughts. But there is more to it, way more. So, let me invite you not to stop at the secret, but move beyond. Use it as a beginning point to design your life. To manage your thoughts. To explore new ways of thinking. Enjoy the fruits of success. But then, start also to manage the stuff that life also throws at you. The challenges. The hard pieces. The limitations. Reframe them. Shed new lights at them. Why are they thrown at you? What is the learning? How can you tackle a similar challenge the next time around. What is the purpose, for you, in experiencing something like this. Just some beginning questions. Something to think about! Or, may be I am just too negative?

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The fear in the eyes

2008-12-20T19:03:00.000-08:00

Is fear something that is living with us, in every situation?

Let me tell you the story. I am a bit pinked-eye, when it comes to walking around in Sydney. I was in Pitts Street the other day, a normal shopping street with plenty of office buildings.

I had been there a couple of years ago, and remembered some bookshops in the area. I love books and thought, may be I can find some treasures in Australia, that don't exist in Malaysia.

So I asked a woman on the street for direction. She stood aside a postbox, so that was convenient for me.

When I asked her she turned to me, very reluctantly. Fear was in her eyes.

I don't know if Sydney is dangerous and whether or not, there are snatch thieves, robberies or similar. I don't know what kind of impression I gave her - I wasn't dressed shappily or anything.

May be it is the experience that we carry in us - do we all know stories of people being mugged? - may be it is the constant indoctrination from the media that times are changing and robberies are on the rise.

I don't know.

But similar to the loneliness with the IPod or the drunkard in the bus, there are indicators of changes happening in the relations between people.

I left the woman with a very friendly smile, after she gave me the information. May be I made a change inside of her. May be not. But try, you who read it - make a change today. Be friendly to those around you. Together we can change the world, and every individual can start now, to just smile at people again and share a friendly word with them, every now and the.

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Facebook,narcism, leadership and the current crisis

2008-10-29T03:03:00.000-07:00

Are you on Facebook?

May be spending hours and hours on either designing your website, leaving messages on your friends' site, sending out flowers, fighting battles with werewolves and others?

Or are you the more casual user, checking in every now and then, but otherwise, you are more quiet?

Let's be a bit tongue in cheek, if I may!

A study now links narcissism to Facebook users.

"Researchers at the University of Georgia gave personality questionnaires to nearly 130 Facebook users and analyzed the content of their online profiles. They also had untrained observers look at the profiles and rate how narcissistic, or excessively egotistical, the owners of the profiles were.

The results of the study are detailed in the October issue of the journal Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin.

The researchers found that the number of friends and wall posts (messages left by the owner of the profile or friends) that a person had on their profile correlated with how narcissistic they were. Study leader Laura Buffardi, a Ph.D. student in psychology, said this is similar to how narcissists behave in the real world, forming numerous but shallow relationships with others.

Narcissistic Facebook users were also more likely to have glamorous, self-promoting pictures for their main profile photo, while others tended to use snapshots, the study found. The untrained observers also noted the differences in photos and amount of social interaction."

Isn't it interesting?

Are you now going to change your picture, your approach to Facebook, or do you bask in glory, saying, that this is alright like that?

But don't worry and whatever you do - another study found that narcists tend to become leaders. And this sheds a totally new light on Facebook, right?

May be companies can start sourcing their candidates from Facebook - which would presume, again, that narcissists are able to lead.

Are they? .... I read, somewhere, that they are not. And the lead researcher of the study also states that "it's not surprising that narcissists become leaders. They like power, they are egotistical, and they are usually charming and extraverted. But the problem is, they don't necessarily make better leaders."

Sorry! So may be this is the explanation for the current financial crisis? May be and this is just my piece here, leaders were to narcissistic in reaching short-term gains, to please Wall Street, so that they didn't care less about the reliability of their business model or if the lending structure was sustainable? I am guessing only, and I am not an expert of the financial crisis, just thinking about it :)

But whatever it is - communication is important. And Facebook together with other social websites are changing the ways we communicate.

(By Asia Mind Dynamics)

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Scaling change

2008-09-23T02:14:00.000-07:00

I love scales and may be the reason for this is my huge background in market research. Scales from 1 to 5, or 1 to 7 always gives you an indication of where someone or something stands.

Imagine, for just a moment, you get back the result of a product test and the satisfaction of the consumer ranges 7 out of 10. Or, in an employee opionion survey, the satisfaction of the executive is 5 out of 10.

This is a clear indication of something amiss. It is not perfect, may be not even close.

Let's say I am coaching a client in his or her preparation for an interview with a candidate. We are working on developing their skills. Or in a more neurological intervention, I am coaching a client to take on a new behaviour.

Sure, sometimes things work out immediately, and the intervention is an immediate success. Sometimes, it takes a staggered approach and more than one intervention.

In between I am asking the client where on a scale his change indicator is. I might ask "on a scale from one to ten, with 10 being the old behavior totally gone and you have now totally changed and assumed the new behaviour, where are you?" While the question looks innocent, there is a lot going on in this question. With a lot of different embedded suggestions - see the underlned words!

Whatever the client gives me, anything below a ten, I would ask "what do you need to do now, in order to reach a ten now!?" Again, see the underlined words with some embedded commands!

What this requires the client to do is to go inside and imagine what they need to do. They give me the answer. Whatever comes out now, I might ask them to just do that. Or imagine doing this. Visualising with all their different representational systems - what do people say to them, what will they hear, what will they see or feel, after they managed to change their behaviour.

Powerful, I tell you!

Now, for you, who is reading this, you can use this as well.

When you are a parent and you want your child to get better grades in school. Ask the child to scale his or her current results, and then ask, what he or she would need to do to get a higher grade?

Or, if you are a business developer and the client is not yet convinced that your product or service is the best - ask the question.

Or you are suppose to present something - where on the scale are you? And then ask yourself, what you need to do to reach the famous 10!

Or, you are an employer, a lover, a company advertising, a politicean who hasn't managed to convinced the masses of his or her message ... please fill in the blanks!

Ha! Let me play a bit, can I?

What do you need to know (may be from us?) that we in Asia Mind Dynamics are the company you need to work with to succeed? Or to know that we help you create the experience in our NLP trainings that you want to join us now!

Isn't this wonderful All these questions?

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NLP used during the Beijing Olympics

2008-09-15T23:18:00.000-07:00

It is now official - the British team that competed in the Beijing Olympics used ..... Neuro Linguistics Programming. And it is part of the success recipe - they achieved the best performance in 100 years, underlined with 19 Gold metals.

Apparently, and according to the article, the usage of NLP is common in the US and the Russian teams since ages, and Michael Phelps is probably another example.
If people can visualise winning and what it is like to hear the crowd as they cross the winning line and what it feels like to win, it becomes a reality to them and their mind shifts their perception of what is possible and enhances their performance.

Sonia Saxton says that "In the last few years NLP techniques have been top of the list and now coaches are a lot more experienced in athletes helping themselves mentally. Understanding the psychology plays a bigger role because that is what achieves the results."

During preparation for Beijing, triple gold medal winning cyclist Chris Hoy has said: "Visualisation is a very important part. It's good to go through every little detail of the race in your mind beforehand.

“Then when it comes to race day, you are prepared and you know what to expect. A major part of it is having self-belief."

Sonia Saxton adds: "When Roger Bannister ran the first four-minute mile, he didn't think it was possible until he imagined doing it. He saw it in his mind and imagined he had already done it, heard his feet hitting the ground, and felt physically what it was like to have achieved his dream. He overcame the belief that it wasn't possible."

Malaysia Team - please contact me and I would be so incredibly happy to assist the nation to achieve their goals.

Source: Personnel Today

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What do you do when .... Questions that make you think!

2008-08-07T03:51:00.000-07:00

A couple of questions that might haunt you or anyone else in your surrounding, every now and then. Some of these might be personal, some might relate to your professional field. Think about them, and may be share your responses, if you wish.

- How do you cope when you know you have to do something, but then, somehow, nothing moves you to action?

- What do you do when you have a deadline to meet in the next 1 hour, but suddenly, a colleague bursts in your office asking for help?

- How do you feel when you say "no" to someone or something that is important to others, but actually not to you?

- How do you usually upgrade your skills?

- If you could change one thing in your life, right now, what would that be? (powerful question, think about it!!)

- What is your goal for the next 5 months?

- How many tasks do you handle per day?

- Do you still remember whom you met yesterday morning?

- What was the best thing that happened to you today?

- Whom will you satisfy tomorrow?

- When was the last time, you really relaxed, not doing anything, and felt really good about it?

- How do you feel when you meet new people?

- How would you cope with addiction?

- How do you feel when you are disappointed by someone and what do you usually do about it?

Interesting questions?

(Posted by Asia Mind Dynamics)
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Gaining confidence through singing - the new portable Karaoke machine

2008-06-21T22:02:00.000-07:00

May be the new invention or innovation from Japan assists us in gaining more confidence? Ask yourself - how many of us like to sing in public, in front of an audience? Or even on the street?

I believe most of us feel horified just thinking about this. Itis bad enough to speak and present, isn't it? Now singing on the street?

Well, we might soon see people running around with portable Karaoke sets.

"A Japanese toy maker will soon sell a portable, personal karaoke machine so you can belt out your favorite tunes anywhere, and without having to wait for the microphone."

The machine weighs less than a pound and is a 7 cm cube.

This will surely help with confidence - to the horror of those exposed to it.

Now, you can imagine 100s of younsters roaming the streets or malls in Kuala Lumpur, all singing their own Karaoke song!

However, as a secondary benefit - they all develop mental strategies for confidence. Because ultimately, it takes some stomach to sing. I rather sing in the car or under the shower. Preferably alone, otherwise, my son tells me to shut up!!

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Barack closes in to his goals

2008-06-18T21:33:00.000-07:00

How would I have known in January this year that Barack Obama sets out to become the candidate of the Democrats in the US to challenge McCain in the November election? Now, Barack is at the language, and the way how he uses and structures it.

It is a fascinating structure of thoughts and how they do something inside their head. Then, gently and always with regards to the safety and security of the one you talk to, one has to change their thought structure - their sequence of pictures, sounds and feelings.

Like - remember a specific time you felt happy? How did you do it? What came first, next and last, that created your happiness? Was it something you saw, heard or felt? What did you say to yourself and when, specifically? This is, roughly speaking, how you structure your experience. If you want, compare it with something you don't like and see, how you structure your thoughts in this situation. I strongly believe that there is a difference in the way you perceive those structures in your mind - e.g.; the picture could be colourful or black and white.

If one is able to understand how you do this, inside your head, it is easy to initiate change and then can assist you in managing your experience. Managing your emotions. Make you understand the difference between bad feelings and good feelings and what you can do about it.

Barack paints those pictures in his audiences' mind and thus, is able to structure their experience. That is how he wins. That is how you can win, if you are just curious enough to be interested in learning it. Will you?

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Limits to the brain - cut off at 4!!

2008-05-05T02:03:00.000-07:00

For a long time, we were thinking that we could juggle plenty of things at the same time. It is called multitasking. And a long time back, I wrote that the limits to the conscious mind is that it can only hold between 5-9 pieces of information at any one time. The number gravitates to the higher side on a good day and to the lower side on a bad day.

It is something I always stress in my NLP trainings. Together with the fact that multitasking is bad for the economy (and you!!). This is the reason why we cluster and associate information. Seven categories in my To-Do List are more manageable than 25 different categories.

Now, research limits the ability some more. "Scientists think the true capacity is lower when people are not allowed to use tricks like repeating items over and over or grouping items together. ""For example, when we present phone numbers, we present them in groups of three and four, which helps us to remember the list," said University of Missouri-Columbia psychologist Nelson Cowan, who co-led the study with colleagues Jeff Rouder and Richard Morey. "That inflates the estimate. We believe we're approaching the estimate that you get when you cannot group. There is some controversy over what the real limit is, but more and more I've found people are accepting this kind of limit."

Cool, isn't it? It is so wonderfully nice to see how scientific research puts more and more into the real realm of experience what NLP has always discussed.

(Source: Yahoo)

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Persuasion can be done - one person at a time

2008-04-30T04:42:00.000-07:00

Seth Godin has an entry on persuasion and it is a good one.

The main point of his entry is that persuasion is not a thing" that can be mass produced. We are all different, and we all run different patterns. Different patterns that are based on our own, unique, individual way of how we experience the world around us. On our own values, beliefs, and attitudes.

NLP says that the Map is NOT the Territory. In order to understand each other, we need to explore the standpoint of the other person. Otherwise, it is communication on a one way street.

So far, I agree.

However, I also believe that there are basic patterns running in groups. Basic belief patterns, that then are expressed linguistically and in behaviours as well.

These are the default patterns. If I talk to a group of senior salespeople, who are in the field for 20, 30 years or longer, they will be sceptical. Why shall they believe me, the Ang Moh? Who is from Europe, and talks about this strange thing called mind?

Or when I talk to women - how can a man understand their issues?
Or see different patterns, mental maps and behaviours in different professional groups - what about Marketers, versus Lawyers? One is (hopefully) more future driven and probably more general, while the other one is more detail oriented and specific (hopefully) looking out for problems on the horizon and how to avoid them.

This means that in order to make myself understood, I need to speak their language. I need to understand how they make sense of the world. Otherwise, it is like I am speaking from Planet Pluto (okay, no planet anymore) to Planet Mars.

So yes, we are all different individually, but our experience impresses certain behaviours and language patterns onto us. And understanding this allows me to influence those whose language I normally don't speak.
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Happy Valentine's Day to all lovers and wanna-be lovers

2008-02-13T17:22:00.000-08:00

To be in love is one great feeling. The heart is pumping, the moment you think of your lover, and you are simply happy. Nothing can bother you. You sing songs loud, and may be wrong, just because it makes you feel so good.

Every single second away makes your heart ache, and you cannot wait for the phone to ring, and the voice to hear. Even the most stupiest comment makes you smile, and all is well.

Research has even found that to be in a loving relationship is good for your heart! "It may be that people who are married or in close, healthy relationships have lower levels of anxiety, are less likely to smoke, are more physically active and are more likely to have a well-developed social structure. On the contrary, it is known that loneliness kills, and that many times, people lose their sense of purpose when a loved one is gone.

Love is a great feeling, and actually the most powerful feeling of all. Just, for a moment, think of a time you, who reads this, felt really loved. May be it was the hug of the person, or the sight of him or her or the voice that just blew you away.

Most likely, all three came together, when you are close to your lover - the touch, the sound and the sight. In NLP, we call this the VAK or the main representational system. All of us have our own preferred sytem, the one channel, we like to address most. Some of us are more visual than others, and some are more feelings driven. When you are in love, all channels are open, and receptive to this great energy called "love."

Enjoy the feeling and have a Happy and Most Wonderful Valentine's Day.
(Source)
(Asia Mind Dynamics)

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About 2008 - what needs to happen to make this your best year ever?

2008-01-08T03:23:00.000-08:00

It is already one week into 2008.

Have you initiated the changes that you intended to initiate on this spectacular December 31, 2007? If you have, how do you feel? I hope the answer is better!!

What, if you have stopped continuing with these changes already - why have you stopped? What made you fall back to your old behaviour?

Let me ask you a question, can I?

Just assume that you can make these changes - what would need to happen, inside of you, that, in the end of 2008, on this December 31 2008, you look back and say - "This was the best year in my life!! I have made the changes to overcome my limitations and to embark on magnificent success."

I am curious - tell me, okay?

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Jelapang toll plaza, behaviours and change

2008-01-07T01:52:00.000-08:00

I came back from a short trip to Perlis. My mind was in a curious state of mind, since just last week, there was another accident on the infamous Jelapang Toll Plaza station.

"The Jelapang toll plaza has seen 142 accidents in 10 years with the latest on Dec 11 when eight people died and 14 were injured when the bus they were travelling in rammed into the back of a tanker." (NST)

I wondered, what could go wrong at such toll station. I woke up from a dream. Because, it surely is not the plaza that causes the accident. In fact, I haven't seen any toll station hitting out at drivers to make them have an accident.

Who is driving the car or the bus? Drivers are sitting behind the wheel - and boy, they drive fast. I am usually driving very careful, mostly around the speed limit. Which, to remind you (haha), is 110 KM/hour in Malaysia. And what happened was amazing - amazing in a negative sense of the word. Plenty of buses overtook me. That's right. And hey, they didn't crawl by my car so that I would have a good look inside their interior. Nope - they went fast. And when I say fast, I mean real fast. Chasing each other, at least sometimes. Around curves, and while the bus was leaning to the side, I imagined the bus driver hanging on to the wheel, pulling it down to beat gravity. I wondered how the passengers inside felt.

It is the behaviour of the driver that causes accidents. May be they believe to be Michael Schumacher, or they just want to act cool. May be their company is chasing them to speed up for delivery or additional tours. May be, may be, may be. To me, and I am sorry, these are excuses. Sometimes, I hear or read, that yes, the brakes didn't work. Hey - how come such car is on the road? Watching some of the lorries overtaking, even in normal traffic during rush hours, how close they come to other cars in front of them. Scarily close. If then something happens, they have no chance whatsoever, to stop the bus or the truck. It takes a damn long time for such tonnage to slow down. It is the drivers' behaviour, because ultimately, I believe in choice. They chose to speed, or to expose themselves to such jobs or behaviour or company or whatever. Would I punish them? It is not up to me to decide, and I don't believe in punishment, and rather prefer education.

Have you ever asked yourself what a driver feels after reading about a major accident? Or, to be even more drastic. Just watch and observe the reaction of "normal" drivers after they have passed one of the many accident sites. You know, one of these accidents, when everybody slows down and watches. Thinking, that lucky me, this was not me. And then, just after the crawl aside of the side, to step on the accelerator and speed off, chasing another dream.

So when the toll road has been removed, sometimes in 2008, there will be one excuse less for accidents. Will they stop? I wish, but then, do I believe in Santa Claus?

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Does the language used in a merger define the future of a company? From Synergy Drive to Sime Darby

2007-12-04T02:46:00.000-08:00

A lot is being said about the success of the merger of Sime Darby Bhd, Kumpulan Guthrie Bhd and Golden Hope Plantations Bhd to become one of the world's leading leading plantation group with a landbase of 543,000 ha that originally was named Synergy Drive.

The merged entity, now renamed Sime Darby, today made a has made a stunning debut on Bursa Malaysia with its shares surging by 25.8 per cent.

Everbody talks positively about the entity, and all seems to be well.

Allow me to look a little bit behind the scenes and analyse the language that has been used and how it might or might not indicate the potential for the company. Not all of what is given below are direct quotes, but I hope that the sources used quoted correctly without using their own words too often.

First, the company has been renamed to Sime Darby, its old name that was in use before the merger and the name Synergy Drive. The reason given by Chief Executive Officer Datuk Seri Ahmad Zubir Murshid was that a consultant recommended the name Sime Darby after conducting a survey and Datuk believes that "the existing Sime Darby name carried a fair value in terms of market brand." (NST, November 29, 2007).

The Star quoted Datuk as well, saying that "the new Sime Darby, which will re-list tomorrow, strongly reflected the long-standing brand and equity market values as a conglomerate with multiple core businesses locally and internationally." (The Star Malaysia)

He also stresses that "said the company is effectively bringing together more than 400 years of plantation know-how." (Business Times, November 20, 2007). In the same paper, Datuk stated that "Together, we will combine our knowledge to benchmark the best sustainable practices across all our plantations."

He also talks about "balance cycle of the core business", "integration of plantations", "cost efficiency".

There is nothing wrong or right about the language patterns. They show, to me as LAB Profile Trainer used to look behind the language that people use to detect their behaviour, that it is not the language of change, revolution, major initiatives and so on.

This is okay, because too many mergers created chaos and overpromised. As such, caution and a more defensive language is suitable.

However, accepting the fact that language is an expression of what we think and knowing that top management sets the course and culture of an organisation combined with the scope of challenges faced by Sime Darby - e.g.; globalisation, competition, merger integration), I surely hope that the team behind the merger and in the seats of the company is more proactive.

Why is that? This is because the current language used in above examples shows more a conservative style, think and wait approach style, problem oriented and not necessarily a future driven and goal oriented "let's do it" approach.

By the way - the Language and Behaviour Profile (LAB Profile) is a tool derived from the Meta Programs of NLP that allows the user to understand and predict a person's behaviour in a given context from their language pattern. Just a few sentences or a short conversation is needed to get an inside into people's mind and how people operate. This then allows you to adjust your own language and behaviour patterns. The end result? Language of Influence, offered by Asia Mind Dynamics in the LAB Profile Training in February 2008!! Call now for more information.

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How does motivation work?

2007-10-20T19:47:00.000-07:00

There is a ongoing discussion on creating motivation and how to motivate an employee to perform faster, or how to motivate children to do their homework or clean up the room.
Heck, there are plenty of programs offering the solution to motivation or motivational speakers that promise to entice or motivate their audience.

Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP is working with something that is called Meta Programs. For the sake of more human language, let's call it now the Mental Filters. These mental filters describe how we see and experience the world around us.

Meta-Programs are the human mental filter that run in our brain. The programs run in every area of our life, and change, according to the context in which we operate. Examples for contexts are "driving a car", or "working on a project" or, "joining a company".

Let me give you an example of one such filter related to motivation.

Have you ever wondered why someone is constantly motivated by reaching goals, while another person is only motivated by fear? This is just one expression of those motivation filters, and in the context of NLP, they are called "Toward To" and "Away From" Programs.

It is a bit like the Stick and the Carrot Approach. Away From describes how someone wants to avoid problems, or identifies challenges or problems ahead. With Toward To, someone is driven by goals and solutions.

I am very much toward to in running Asia Mind Dynamics and developing training programs, or dealing with clients, however, I am away from when it comes to paperwork (I simply don't like it and someone is doing it for me :) ).

Suitable goal setting actually involves both, to get people started on something! Have you ever wondered why your goal setting doesn't really work? May be it is because you don't feel the pain enough and only describe what you want to achieve. Or you just describe what you don't like and forget to outline the positive outcome of your action!

There are plenty of more meta-programs or filters in our mind that constantly run, and determine, how we see and interact with the world and how we keep our motivation going, once we are motivated.

Examples are:
- Proactive versus reactive: How is someone acting on a certain situation. Getting into action or waiting for others to go first? Think about motivation. Do you work with someone who proactively searches for problems or finds solutions or waits, until others have started and contributes at a later stage?

- Exposure to change: How change resilient is someone? Can you expose someone to a lot of change or lesser amount of change? How do you package the new goal or the problem solving issue? In a way that shows the person that a lot of change is involved or that it is more evolutionary change? If you package it wrongly, it frightens the person off!!

- External versus Internal: Is someone reacting more to the motivation drive of others and how others start working already or decide on his or her own if he or she is ready for the action.

- Specifics versus General: How is somoene sorting for information. Is the person looking at the details or more for the broad picture? How do you describe the problem or the goal to someone? In very specific words or in a way that allows their mind to paint the picture?

To identify the patterns or filters in a person's mind, a set of about 12 questions can be used.

This sounds easy but then, here are three factors of crucial importance when looking at the answers:

1.) It is about the answers by itself, one by one

2.) It is about the behaviour that is exhibited through these filters

3.) It is the interaction between these filters - this is then the most crucial part of the equation.

The overall question to ask is - what kind of behaviour would someone have to exhibit to make him or her suitable for this task. And by task, it means the context in which you act. Be it driving a car, or working in an office or on a project.

The article below is quite exhaustive in describing these two filters about motivation, thus, worthwhile distributing and reading. To reiterate however, please understand that there are more filters or mental maps that come into action by the individuals.

"Understanding Motivation
Friday, 05 October 2007So how do you motivate someone? Read on.
First we must remove the notion (illusion) that "we" motivate anyone. Each individual motivates themselves, or does not. They will either take action or will not, based on their assessment of the situation and evaluation of their options. We cannot forcibly get anyone to do anything that they themselves do not evaluate, consent to, and takeaction towards.

Each individual is always perfectly motivated. This may at first sound like a strange statement; given the fact that we can probably all think of at least one person we know who seems to have little or no motivation. But its TRUE! Here's how it works: If a person is lying on a couch, watching TV and eating potato chips they are just asmotivated as the so-called "workaholic."

The person lying on the couch perceives doing nothing as leading to pleasure and relaxation, and lack of effort equals ultimate pleasure. The "workaholic" works 12 hour days because he or she believes that the money earned now will allow them to one day lie on the couch and do nothing in luxury later (perhaps for a longer period of time). Or the "workaholic" may feel that hard work equals power, pride, or money, all of which he or she equates to ultimate pleasure.

So the person on the couch is seeking pleasure as is the "workaholic," they are just using two different strategies to get to the same goal (pleasure). The proof of this lies in the fact that if you removed the imagined motivator (i.e., money, power, or pride) from the "workaholic," you would probably very soon see them lying on a couch somewhere trying to get back into a state of pleasure. Both are chasing pleasure (as all humans do) but have chosen two different ways to try and accomplish it. This demonstrates that everyone is perfectly motivated and that if we wish to properly motivate them in treatment we need to learn what their motivators are.

Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) teach us that each person has a different "motivational strategy," and these are based on to sets of values called "moving towards" and "moving away" from strategies. A moving towards strategy means that you most actively seek to move towards pleasure (such a person might be motivated by money, acceptance or other rewards).

A moving away from strategy means that you most actively try to avoid things that would mean pain (such as getting fired, hit or yelled at). Both strategies are aimed at maintaining a state of pleasure which is every one's instinctive goal (hence motivating). There is, of course, typically a blend of bothstrategies being used, but typically one is dominant.

The "workaholic" is using the moving towards strategy predominantly, but also occasionally fantasizes about a day of doing nothing but lying on a couch. The "couch¬-potato" is enjoying lying around, but also fantasizes about having more money or control over his or her life.
In Behavioral Psychology this is often referred to, crudely, as the "carrot and stick" method of behavior modification. Given that each person uses both strategies to greater or lessor degrees, the method of motivation that works best tends to use both the carrot and the stick.

Take a parent trying to motivate a child to do something like take a bath. Using a moving towards (carrot) strategy, the parent would offer the child a treat if they took their bath. Another parent, using a moving away (stick) strategy might instead offer the child a punishment if they do not take the bath.

The most effective method of motivating the child is to use both; therefore the parent could present the child with the positive scenario of a reward for taking a bath and a negative consequence if they do not. This is know asa "Push-Pull" strategy, the negative consequence is "pushing" them towards doing the behavior and the positive consequence is "pulling" them towards the behavior.

Each person has differing belief systems, motivators, and strategies for getting their needs met. The quickest way to uncover their strategy is to listen to them speak and watch for clues as to whether they are primarily using a push or pull strategy. This process can also be quickened by the use of questions. Have the person think backto a past accomplishment that they feel great about and ask them how they accomplished it. Then ask them what they were afraid of as they tried to achieve this accomplishment (to find the push strategies) and then explore this with them and note how each fear works conceptually.

Move on and ask them what they pictured and what excited them as they moved towards this goal. Also ask them what excited them about this goal and how did they feel when they achieved it (pull strategies), note conceptually the type of pleasure they are motivated towards.

Then, to gain additional information and fill in any holes, ask them why it was so important for them to achieve the goal. If you don't like this question and answer model you may more subtly pick up their strategies by listening to their patterns in common conversation.

For example, if you hear a person speaking with apprehension about being fired when it is unlikely, this person is probably sharing his/her moving away from strategy (fear). Or, if youhear a person sharing a concern as to whether or not he/she will get an important promotion, they are giving you clues that they may have a strong pull strategy (moving towards gain). Look for a common thread to their interpretations of situations to find their primary strategy. Once you have their primary strategy, you can begin to use it as your primary motivational strategy with this person to create movement.

For example, if you are treating an addict who has a push strategy, bring to his attention all the negative things that could befall him if he doesn't take suggestions and how bad he would feel. If the addict has a pull strategy, talk to him about how taking the suggestions will improve his family situation, job status and overall health and happiness.

The key to motivation, to reaching the other person, is to use THEIR strategies for motivation, NOT the yours. What works for us does not work for all others; this is the great truth. Your challenge is to step outside yourself and work with the other person's thought patterns, not to have the person adjust to doing things your way. Thisability to match and shape the person's strategies and thought patterns is the hallmark of a good influencer/motivator.

About the Author:
Paul J. Cline MA CAGS CAP Ed.D (ABD) is a Trainer / Seminar Leader,University Professor, Certified Addictions Professional (CAP) andlocal expert on Addictions and Mental Health. Paul is owner ofAdvanced Training Seminars, providing seminars, consulting andcoaching based in St. Petersburg, Florida (727) 204-0779. Visit ourwebsite at: http://www.advancedtrainingseminars.com/"

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Garbage Trucks in your life

2007-10-08T05:17:00.000-07:00

How often do you let other people’s nonsense change your mood? Do you let a bad driver, rude waiter, curt boss, or an insensitive employee ruin your day? Unless you’re the Terminator, you’re probably set back on your heels. However, the mark of your success is how quickly you can refocus on what’s important in your life.

Sixteen years ago I learned this lesson. And I learned it in the back of a New York City taxi cab. Here’s what happened.

I hopped in a taxi, and we took off for Grand Central Station. We were driving in the right lane when all of a sudden, a black car jumped out of a parking space right in front of us. My taxi driver slammed on his brakes, the car skidded, the tires squealed, and at the very last moment our car stopped just one inch from the other car’s back-end.

I couldn’t believe it. But then I couldn’t believe what happened next. The driver of the other car, the guy who almost caused a big accident, whipped his head around and he started yelling bad words at us. How do I know? Ask any New Yorker, some words in New York come with a special face. And for emphasis, he threw in a one finger salute, as if his words were not enough.
But then here’s what really blew me away. My taxi driver just smiled and waved at the guy. And I mean, he was friendly. So, I said, “Why did you just do that!? This guy could have killed us!” And this is when my taxi driver told me what I now call, “The Law of the Garbage Truck™.”

He said:

Many people are like garbage trucks. They run around full of garbage, full of frustration, full of anger, and full of disappointment. As their garbage piles up, they look for a place to dump it. And if you let them, they’ll dump it on you. So when someone wants to dump on you, don’t take it personally. Just smile, wave, wish them well, and move on. Believe me. You’ll be happier.

So I started thinking, how often do I let Garbage Trucks run right over me? And how often do I take their garbage and spread it to other people at work, at home, or on the street? It was then that I said, “I don’t want their garbage and I’m not going to spread it anymore.”

I began to see Garbage Trucks. Like in the movie “The Sixth Sense,” the little boy said, “I see Dead People.” Well now “I see Garbage Trucks.” I see the load they’re carrying. I see them coming to dump it. And like my taxi driver, I don’t take it personally; I just smile, wave, wish them well, and I move on.

One of my favorite football players of all time is Walter Payton. Every day on the football field, after being tackled, he would jump up as quickly as he hit the ground. He never dwelled on a hit. Payton was ready to make the next play his best. Over the years the best players from around the world in every sport have played this way: Tiger Woods, Nadia Comaneci, Muhammad Ali, Bjorn Borg, Chris Evert, Michael Jordan, and Pele are just some of those players. And the most inspiring leaders have lived this way: Nelson Mandela, Mother Theresa, Ghandi, and Martin Luther King.

See, Roy Baumeister, a psychology researcher from the University of Florida, found in his extensive research that you remember bad things more often than good things in your life. You store the bad memories more easily, and you recall them more frequently.
So the odds are against you when a Garbage Truck comes your way. But when you follow The Law of the Garbage Truck™, you take back control of your life. You make room for the good by letting go of the bad.

The best leaders know that they have to be ready for their next meeting. The best sales people know that they have to be ready for their next client. And the best parents know that they have to be ready to welcome their children home from school with hugs and kisses, no matter how many garbage trucks they might have faced that day. All of us know that we have to be fully present, and at our best for the people we care about.

The bottom line is that successful people do not let Garbage Trucks take over their lives.
What about you? What would happen in your life, starting today, if you let more garbage trucks pass you by?

Here’s my bet: You’ll be happier. (By David J. Pollay)

(Source = http://pos-psych.com/news/david-j-pollay/20071002426)

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NLP Techniques: Chunking up and chunking down

2007-10-02T06:14:00.000-07:00

The ability to chunk up and down is one of the most important in NLP and one of the most ignored in and after the actual training. It refers to the specificity of how people talk and is one of the meta programs that run in our mind.

(Meta programs are the mental filters in our mind. There are about 15 of those (e.g.; extenal versus internal orientation/ decision making abilities/ stress response/ toward to - away from etc - those will be taught in the Master Prac in detail. Some schools developed more than 50 meta-programs, but I ask myself - how much do you want to know about a person?).

The ability to chunk is crucial during the coaching or conversation process. We all remember situations when we became upset because someone was so detailed oriented, while we wanted to move on with the big picture, or someone didn't see the problems coming, because they were so engaged in the big picture.

In coaching, it is crucial to have the ability to move someone from the small details that hold them back to the bigger picture - what do you actually want - to help them gain new insights into their problem.

How good are you in following discussions? Have you ever been lost, don't know where the discussion headed?

The beauty is that once you master the skill, you never get lost in any conversation, and your brain is really trained up to move across many different levels.

Finding the middle ground

By Denise Rogers

Aug 31 2007

I'm a `chunk-down' kind of person. I need all the details. I was talking to one of my clients about this concept the other day. He's a `chunk-up' kind of person and he notices that he gets very frustrated when people start asking him about the details. He is focused on the big picture.

`Chunk up'/`chunk down' is one of the major sorting styles or META programs that is part of NeuroLinguistic Programming (NLP), a set of skills that will enhance your communication and personally. META programs are a variety of fundamental interrelated behavioural patterns describing how people interact with the world at an unconscious level. Our META programs become established by age eight!

Have you ever noticed when some people are faced with a new experience they are quite eager; they move toward a risk while others tend to hold back and move away tending to be more cautious?
People that move toward use phrases such as, "Let's go for it." "I'm ready." "Sign me up."

People that move away use phrases such as, "We need to think this through." "I don't know if that will work."

Have you ever noticed some people agree with everything and try to fit in while others make it a point to disagree and be quite contrary? People who want to fit in are focused on trends or what is fashionable. Those who are contrary choose the unusual.

Have you ever noticed how some people are quite focused on timelines while others are more interested in the experience? When a meeting is called, one arrives at eight o'clock; the other arrives at `eight-ish.' Those who are focused on time use phrases such as, "Precisely." "Let's stay on schedule."

Those who are focused on the experience use phrases such as, "Soon." "I'll get there around noon."

Problems arise when we become polarized in our responses. You can see how frustrating it is to be a manager/owner who is cautious working with a subordinate who is a risk taker, or vice versa. They really need to be able to talk about what is happening for each of them and sort through the issues.

For example, if a person automatically goes to the details and refuses to talk about the big picture they can become less effective. Similarly, if someone is polarized on being (in time) they will create unnecessary stress for themselves and others in those situations where being on time is not required. An example might be attending a drop-in social event from 3-5 p.m. and needing to arrive exactly at three!

The key is to move to the middle ground between the two ends of the continuum. That is true maturity.

Read the full article here.

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NLP Certified Practitioner Training: Recommendations from participants

2007-08-30T23:24:00.000-07:00

There are plenty of reasons to train with Asia Mind Dynamics, but what better than let the students talk!! Life on video taken after the last Certified NLP Practitioner Training.

Because, to become the best, you have to train with the best.

Rowena, who "lost" her phobia of cokcroaches in the training. What training is THAT where you lose a skill? Before the training, she was really good at her phobia, now .... gone!!

Subashini, who found her way in the training, and develop unbelievably positive goals. In addition, she lost her love for chicken and has stopped eating our feathered friends.

Suan Tin, a wonderful woman, with so much warmth and dedication to her family and company, came torn apart in conflicts and left the training strong, powerful and as someone who knows how to deal with confict.

Jonathan of JonQ. A great guy who experienced major breakthroughts in the training.

There were more trainees, but we only took videos of those four. I am more than happy to provide names and telephone numbers to those who are interested in speaking with these four or others. Because, well, Asia Mind Dynamics and I are proud of our students who are the best trained practitioners around!!

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Phobias in your life

2007-08-18T21:58:00.001-07:00

Phobias are some @^#%$@ for some. Once you have one, boy, it can ruin a life, since a phobia starts running your life.

I don't know how many phobias there are, but if you are interested, check it out here. Quite a long list of pretty good phobias. I am serious. I mean, a phobia is tough, right? It is a deep seated, irrational fear, that triggers off, everytime, someone with a phobia encounters a certain situation.

A phobia is deep-seated in the unconscious mind, and I am always saying to those with a phobia, that this is a sign of how strong their unconscious mind is.

"People with phobias try to avoid what they are afraid of. If they cannot, they may experience:

- Panic and fear
- Rapid heartbeat
- Shortness of breath
- Trembling
- A strong desire to get away."

It is quite a cute description, right? A strong desire to go away? I saw people screaming just by the sight of a cockroach.

I once read about a child that was scared of wind! Now that is something. She was told by a friend that when the wind blows people are blown away and never return! That sad, right? But it explains a lot.

The mind protects us from ever encounter the same situation again, and because we don't have the tools to remove the fear, it stays with us. I saw a document once about a woman in fear of cockroaches as well, and she checked every single corner of her house the moment she came home and every single place, she visited during the day. She was really, fully dressed up, everytime she left the house, in protected clothes!!

A phobia can ruin your life.

I finally have a person in my NLP Certified Practitioner Training with a cockroach phobia. Yes!! I can demonstrate how easy it is to remove a phobia, once the right technique is applied. Haha, and I am looking forward to it.

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How to work with anger and other negative emotions

2007-08-11T07:30:00.000-07:00

I know you know people like this. Those that are always angry. Whatever happens, whatever people say, they are angry.

I don't know anybody who gets up in the morning and decides that he or she wants to be angry immediately. But often, it just takes a little bit of disturbance and those people get angry.

It shows on their face, in the body posture and the reaction to others. More so, it is hard to say anything to them, because they have this aura of ..... "don't touch me, don't say anything" around them. Why talk to them in the first place, right? I mean, gosh, no one wants to be exposed to anger.

Sometimes it seems that those who are angry always assume that whatever comes up to them is meant to hurt them. Whatever others say is directed at them.

It is easy to let go of anger, with something that we in complimentary therapy call Time Line Therapy (TM). But this is another, long to explain topic.

Anger and hostility correlates strongly with heart diseases, poorer health conditions and earlier death. It is, of course, not good to repress your anger, since this is more like nuking your inner body and totally pollutes your mind. In fact, if you become aware of your anger, you will probably realise that you get angry more and more often, without actually being provoked.

Anger is created far inside of our brain, something that is already 500 million years old inherited from fish on our climb up the evolutionary ladder - the limbic brain and one of its parts, called the amydala.

It is suppose to preserve us and make us ready, when we need an energy boost, when a human is threatened - fight or flight. Inside something little, almond-shaped, called amygdala.

(Source: http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/limbicsystem.html)

Now, once aroused, the amygdala sends off a lot of chemical material into the blood stream, muscle tensing etc, to get us ready to fight or run.

These signals are set off, before we can actually think. Thinking is derived in a different structure in the brain, the prefrontal cortex and kicks in later. That is then, when you get back to your senses, and realise that your anger was useless.

Have you ever done something very "stupid" only to regret it later? That means that your rational behaviour started later, and the emotional brain hijacked you. In the worse case (and we have seen those in Malaysia in many recent cases), your logical thinking is totally blended out, rage takes over and you go for whatever you think you need to go for.

The sad part is anger is addictive. The good part is that you can learn to let go or control it. Awareness creates choice. If you don't want to undergo coaching to let go of your anger, watch yourself and see, when you get angry. Right down the situation in which you are in. What is happening around you?

After a while, you might realise certain patterns that cause you to get angry, certain circumstances, comments, or even people. And then you can start working at it to change. Because, awareness creates change!!

In our training classes, we teach you how to use the power of your mind to achieve your goals. Why not checking out our brochures and if you are ready for change, join us and others on the journey to success and self-management?
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Trusting your boss - or not?

2007-07-05T17:35:00.000-07:00

As published in Asia Mind Dynamic's homepage:

A new study by Leadership IQ reveals frightening data, at least for the US.

"Only 20% of people strongly trust the top management of their organization. 36% moderately trust their top management, while the remaining 44% range from not trusting to strongly distrusting their top management."

"The study further discovered that people were more trusting of their direct boss than top management. 34% of people strongly trust their direct boss. 35% moderately trust their direct boss, while the remaining 31% range from not trusting to strongly distrusting their direct boss."

"An employee’s longevity with a company directly correlates with how much they trust their management. The results of the survey show that trust significantly predicts employee loyalty. Approximately 32% of a worker’s desire to stay or go is the result of feeling or not feeling trust towards their boss."

So the questions are:

For leaders:
- Does it matter if your employees trust you?
- How do you usually behave to gain trust?
- What can you do more of or less of to gain trust?

For employees:
- What does a boss need to do to gain your trust?
- How does lack of trust relate to your productivity?
- Would you perform better if you could trust your boss?
- What would your boss need to do in order to gain your trust?
- How often does your boss need to demonstrate this behaviour before you trust him or her again?
- Is the trust related to the company, to the products or services provided or to the individual at the top?

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I sacrificed my life for you!

2007-05-01T21:49:00.000-07:00

I was waiting at the corner of a building for someone to pick me up (hey - not what you think, okay!!).

Suddenly, I heart the scolding voice of a mother, as she stormed around the corner with her daughter. The daughter, about 10 years old, cried heavily. The mother's face grimaced in anger.

And then she said to the daughter: "You know, I sacrified my life for you. Now you go into that building and.... " I couldn't hear the rest.

But I was shocked. Because when a child is still at that age, they are still accepting all that will be told by their parents, and relatives, and those in the nearer and closer surrounding. Even Television.

I believe that this was not the first time the daughter has heard this, or, at least, it won't be the last time either. The result of this will be a child that grows up damaged, inside her unconscious mind, full of guilt. May be always looking and searching to serve the mother. To make up to the mother, to be the good daughter.

I hope I am exaggerating. But I fear I am not. Beliefs are installed very fast and can operate forever.

Please, I know the mother meant well, but really, watch your language, just like you want your children to watch their language. Please remember, all children try their best to be good and act according to whatever resources they have. Their is hardly ever a child which wants to grow up and be bad!!!

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Stressful that stress is ruining sex lives in China

2007-04-04T05:33:00.000-07:00

Oh man, poor China. Oh, oh - "Stress in China's cities is taking a toll on residents' sex lives, with 30 percent of middle-aged couples having no intimate relations.

Thirty percent of middle-aged couples have given up on sex altogether as a result of physical or psychological problems related to stress. One quarter of couples aged under 30 reported similar problems. The survey also found 45 percent of men in relationships suffered from erectile dysfunction."

What stress to read such news. The good part is that this is reducing the pressure on overburdened city infrastructures, since it longter reduces the number of city dwellers - no, sorry, I am kidding.

I don't know what causes the stress, but I can imagine that it is long working hours combined with traffic jams and long commuting time.- Hey, who is in the mood for sex after 12 or 13 hours of work combined with may be 2 hours of heavy traffic? Then, of course, it is the overall work pressure as well - heck, China's economy is growing hugely each year, and somehow, not all can be attributed to foreign direct investment or IT. Somehow, business is good for individual companies which grow - but then, to stretch this a bit further, employers don't find enough people or great talents - which subsequently leads to more work for the individual. Do you see the circle?

There cannot be enough time for sex then, mah!!! How can?

Then, of course, what is stress? Isn't it the result of an event occuring outside of us and we react to it, internally? Remember my EB/ IS equation of yesterday? Here thus is another example.

In addition, what do we do with this External Event? We frame it in our mind, after it is processed through the many filters in our mind, such as values, beliefs, memories, and so on!

Then, we react to it, internally, by forming our feelings or, as NLP calls it - the Internal Representation that is the results of an external event.

Now, imagine, despite all this what causes stress, ask yourself - how come that there are other people who don't have these problems, despite being exposed to just the same events - traffic jams, being overworked and all?

See, as such, stress is just a reaction of us internally to an external event. And since we react to it, we can actually change it.

How? Well, reframe the event, reframe the stress. Take a few deep breath, break down your tasks into manageable chunks, have a short break, do something different that you really like first, and more of this.

Or, you can take charge even more by thinking, and feeling about a time, that you had a similar challenge and enjoy the same feelings again. This can also change your overall state to the better.

When I still worked in corporate life, I created a YIPPPEE Folder. A folder with things inside that made me feel good. Like, funny videos, letters or mails of recommendation from clients and colleagues about a job well done. And so on.

Hey - watch these videos, there are tons out there, and for sure, it makes you better prepared for all the stress. And then go home (after work) and have great sex.
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Where to go now, Spiderman?

2007-03-20T22:00:00.000-07:00

He did it again. 10 years after his first attempt, French “Spiderman” Alain Robert climbed the Petronas Tower again, without robe and only using his hands and feet. He reached the 58th floor before police coaxed him out of his pursue.

Imagine the wind. Imagine the height. Imagine how it would be like to be up there and see the world so small below you.

This is fantastic - now imagine what kind of feelings, pictures or sounds went through his head while he climbed up. Probably total confidence, absolute trust in his ability and forward looking to the top of the tower.

Surely not - oh God, what do I do up here, careful that I don't fall, this is dangerous.

What you do in your mind and body when you set out to do something is what we in NLP call a positive internal representation (argh, what words!!!). An Internal Representation is about the things inside your head when you go about to do something. The question, always, is, what are you saying to yourself, and what is happening in your body!!

Be it the presentation that you fear or that you anticipate or that cold call that you postpone or just do it due to the fast beating of your heart or the confidence that you have.

Anything you do!!! Really.

Now imagine this spiderman and the first few steps that he takes. He is standing at the bottom of the tower, probably looking up. People around him might not notice him, but they will soon. Then Alain sets off and quickly reaches the first floor. What are people on the street going to say? Come down, or hey, man, that is cool!!! What happens to the people inside the office that see him hanging outside? Fear or anticipation or excitement?

Off, off he goes and fast he is. Real fast. And attracts attention.

So, ask yourself, what is going on in your head when you start out doing something? And remember, every time, you do this, and even if you feel uncomfortable the first time around, it stretches your belief system and the neurology!

What we teach in our NLP Certified Practitioner courses intensively, and also in our 2-day introductionary course this weekend is to how to manage your feelings. How to always be in a state that empowers you because it is the fear inside of you that is crippling you.

Just imagine what you can do if you just know ways to overcome this fear and become the magnificent person that you dream of being? You can be it, so very easily, really!!!!!!!, when you just realise your potential!

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“Andreas has the enthusiasm for his subject that explodes into your subconscious mind and really makes NLP real for me. I recommend this training for everyone who already thinks that they are great – because they will realise just how much better they will be.”

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“Your passion and drive is extremely powerful and empowering. I enjoyed the classes.”

First impressions count

2007-03-14T02:22:00.000-07:00

It is so, so, so very important to make a great, no, let me rephrase this - an outrageously great impression with whatever you do.

Impressions count.

When the customer calls your company, how well prepared are your people to make a good impression? Is the receptionist trained up well enough? Does she or he know how to build rapport over the phone on an instant? What if the receptionist is not around? And someone else picks up the phone, someone, who is not that used to customer contact but happens to be, well, just there? How prepared is this executive?

When the customer buys your product, how well trained are the salespeople? Okay, sure, the normal retailer might not be part of your value chain, and is not on your salary list. But wait a minute!!! What if the salesperson has no clue about your product but happens to know the product of your competitor? Because, just may be, the competitor paid a visit to the shop, and explained the product in one free session? Well, while the customer was looking for your product, the salesperson rather explains your competitor's product, that he knows so well.

How easy is your product to handle? How is the feeling of the product? is it easy to set up, or is it absolutely necessary to read the manual for hours and hours to just get the basics right on the buyer's premises? And, by the way - how well written is the manual? Full of mistakes? Forget about the grammar, that might be fine, because not everybody's first language is English (even so you could hire a proofreader!). But what about the spelling mistakes? Or, are the instructions easy to follow and understandable? Are there pictures leading visually inclined people through the setup?

How willing is your customer service to visit the customer's premises to give a hand with the installation? Has your company prepared them to assist a customer even after office hours? Do you have a hotline?

Oh - and by the way - how prepared are you, outside your office? Do you talk positively about your company? Are you a brand agent? What would a customer think when he meets you, by chance, in the supermarket or the mall?

Be aware that pitfalls for your company are all around. Today you need to serve many different kinds of customers who all look differently at your product. While segmenting your marketplace and your communication is one way to address different needs, in the time of the Internet, you also want to develop approaches for a 1 to 1 marketing. And, just to make sure - address customers in the way they want to be addressed. Not in the way that is convenient for you.

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“Andreas has the enthusiasm for his subject that explodes into your subconscious mind and really makes NLP real for me. I recommend this training for everyone who already thinks that they are great – because they will realise just how much better they will be.”

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Types of people

2007-03-05T23:33:00.001-08:00

There are only three types of people. Seriously.

Those that are interested in meeting others to just widen their horizon and to grab the chance to learn something new - in any situation. They are the ones that search for value in any encounter, and question their beliefs. At least, when I meet them and they really are not interested in what I am saying, they say so. Honestly. Even in Asia, where sometimes, vague commitments or concessions are the rule.

Those that might say 'yeah, let's meet' but then never show the interest in following through. They don't respond to emails, calls or text messages. Their secretary or personal assistant excuses them - ' he went out for lunch', 'for an appointment' or, the favourite, is in a meeting. I love those. Sometimes, I ask how long the meeting will last and call again, on the dot. Embarrassment is audible, hehe!! The worse case are those that set up an appointment but then don't show up. Call 5 minutes before the meeting actually starts.

The third group are the fence sitters that never get anything done. They are interested, they meet, they talk, but then, cannot decide. Favourite saying? 'We call you when we are ready', 'we call you in a couple of days/ weeks', or, the favourite 'can you call again in 3 weeks time?', often hoping, that I won't call. There was a time, when I wrote down when to call and called, exactly after 3 weeks, or 2 days. Nowadays, I hardly care.

I prefer to work with the first group. They are ready for change, see value and want to accelerate. The other groups will come around, sooner or later. But it is like change everywhere, and willing to move - sometimes it is too late, and the train or the opportunity has gone - passed!!

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“Your passion and drive is extremely powerful and empowering. I enjoyed the classes.”

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Malaysia's getting obese - government plans fastfood ad ban

2007-03-05T23:33:00.000-08:00

The numbers scream at you - the rate of obesity in Malaysia increased from around 20% to 40% in just one decade. A huge jumb, if the numbers can be trusted (hm - I still see so many slim Malaysians, how?).

The great part in Malaysia is that the food is really, really, one of the best in the world. Heck, I miss the rice (nasi) and curry, when I am in Germany. The beauty of the food is that often, different types of dishes are mixed. Like, German food Malaysianised. Get the picture?
I would actually say that if there is one major trait that combines all Malaysia, it is the food culture.

Now, the government is planning to ban ads advertising fastfood, or impose a sin tax on fast food. Now, how do you define fast food, is my first question?
Then, what about other food that is also contributing to obesity, such as Teh Tarik, or Nasi Lemak? (these are Malaysian drinks and Malaysian dishes).

Isn't it the culture that supports the food intake? Look at any of the Malaysian festivals, such as Hari Raya or Chinese New Year? House-to-house visits are common and encouraged - and what happens then is that visitors are offered food. It is not necessarily polite to say no to the offer.
I don't believe an ad ban will work.

In fact I believe it is a case of misplace responsibility. Look - isn't it the responsibility of the individual to take care of their food intake? Execise regularly? Eat vegetables and do something that contributes to healthy lifesyle?

What do you think? Do you think you live health-conscious? Do you see it as your responsibility or do you think it is the government, who has to take care of this?

In the end, it all boils down, as well, how you do what you do in your mind, really. And we teach you this in the NLP Practitioner course that is coming soon again. Read up on it in the brochure, okay and sign up for the courses now?
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“Your passion and drive is extremely powerful and empowering. I enjoyed the classes.”

So come on board, now!
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Preparing training modules and thinking about leadership

2007-03-02T04:38:00.000-08:00

This is serious fun.

Yesterday, I drafted the rough outline of my "The Secret of Excellence in Leadership" Training workshop. It will be the first workshop in Malaysia that combines Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP with the ingredients of leadership.

Of course, a lot of work went into it already, through reading of various books and really getting deep down into the material - creating the knowledge, so to speak.

Now, I am sitting here, in my study at home, still flipping through various book (many, many books!!). Picking a line here, and there, and putting it into the presentation.

This is serious fun, because, well, I can build in the jokes, and the serious material.

The exercises, the worksheets, the material that will go into the manual.

Serious fun, and that is what it is al about.

I am reading a lot of books on leadership. Be it John Maxwell, or Kouzes and Posner or Steven Covey, or Jack Welsh and Donald Trump or the work and studies from management consulting firms, such as Hewitt Associates, my former "home".

I learn, and also realise that leadership is different - whoever describes it.

Well, this is nothing really new - but nevertheless an interesting fact. I imagine, in my mind, the CEO of an organisation, or the aspiring executive who wants to be a leader one day. They might be totally different in their thinking and behaving, in the values and beliefs, from a Donald Trump or a Jack Welsh, or a Ghosn, for that matter.

They slender through the bookshops, and pick up those books. May be they buy it, may be not. Whatever. But what if they do it, and they "try" (is there ever a try?) to implement it in their organisation or respective department.

Enthusiastically, they start the journey, but will they succeed? I am not so sure, honestly. These books are good, the studies are well done, but we are all different, are we not? And more of it - our organisations are different, our employees with whom we cooperate are different.

What really will happen if you come back and implement a management style a la Donald Trump or Jack Welsh. Can you imagine that? What do you think?

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So come on board, now!
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The little people in Penang

2007-02-16T04:59:00.000-08:00

The employees knew that something was coming, because a while ago, an earlier batch of employees was retrenched by the company (identity hidden) already. So there were rumours that more people would be retrenched or outsourced, but nobody knew exaclty, who would be affected and when it was their turn to leave.

Then management came and called the employees into a meeting room. The employees were simply told that their job was no more. The employees were asked to clean their tables, given a plastic bag, to put their private stuff in and then come back to the room for further details. Time given to do the clean-up - 30 minutes.

Suddenly they were out, in the cold. After so many years of working for the same company, they lost their job. 25 years, 20 years or even "only" 7 years or 5 years.

Losing the job that they thought was theirs for life.

Their colleagues only realised what has happened when they wondered why their colleagues didn't come back. The employees, now retrenched, were told that there were coaches that would help them to draft their resume.

Things that happen in Penang and this is were I came in.

I was in Penang for two days and had to coach a couple of those employees on how to get started in the job market. I wasn't alone as there were at least 5 of us, hired for the job by a company specialised in getting people back onto the feet and into the job market or become entrepreneurs. It is a great effort and a great company - when I lost my job a longer while ago, they also helped me. This outplacement company was hired by the retrenching company to perform the job and help the employees for a couple of weeks.

A look into the eyes of the participants revealed their desparation. Their heads down, voice low, no hope anywhere in their system. They had never written any resume, some of them never had any other job. The road ahead looked pitch dark. How to find a job, when you are over 50, and worked 25 years in the same company?

I started my work and realised quickly, that all that I wanted to say and had prepared didn't make any sense to those guys. Way too high level, way ahead of their educational background. These were the "little people", those that are often steamrolled by the economic train when things turn the wrong way.

I had to change things, on the spot. Had to talk their language, which was tougher than I thought. I saw that manytimes, I did not make sense, so I had to revamp my message. I was learning. But here I was, a Mat Salleh, trying to teach the participants on how to find out, now, what they were good at in their job. It was not difficult and took a long time. But we linked up and connected, and they started to laugh, and participated. Still, after a while, they got silent again. Sad eyes, the twitch at their mouth back again.

And we got there, in the end. It felt so good to see the first draft of resumes.

We also talked about communication, and what to do in an interview. We conducted mock interviews. This was hard for some. They were stumpling and it was easy to see how nervous and uncertain they were. One of them, the oldest, nearly started to cry.

The team had organised that some executives from a recruitment agency would come by. Two young executives and here they were. Fast in their actions, and direct in their questions. "Prepare your resume and send it to us." So easy to say, but no understanding of my guys!! Lucky these guys were somewhat ready then already.

I am back now, and hope that I made an impact.

I am waiting for their resumes to check and correct it.

I had a reality check, these last few days and that was a major learning for me.

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Asia Mind Dynamics - New Courses Are Starting

2007-02-16T04:41:00.000-08:00

I can get back to my old saying - are you serious about change?

And, if you want to change, why not learn to use the planet's most advanced technology on human communication, called NLP or neuro linguistic programming.

Hey - we all "do" NLP every day - day in and day out, in our "normal life"? We communicate, don't we not? We talk to others, we have great conversations and sometimes bad ones. We are leading teams, sometimes perfectly and hamoniously, sometimes lesser so. We have great sales situations and sometimes, we simply don't get on with the buyer (or may be even us?) and don't sell.

Hmmm!!!

Want to know how it works? The processes behind what is going on in your mind and how to improve the processes? Well, it is so easy, so extremely easy to accelerate in whatever you do. Because, all you need to do is to change the way you are thinking, or better, the way, how you represent information inside of you. Hey - I am not talking positive thinking here, but the style how you operate.

What is your thinking, your feeling, for example, when you go into a sales situation? Do you think, "Gee, I don't want to mess up this sale, like I did last time!" or do you think "finally, this is the sale that I am waiting for, and I am going to get it."

If you are aligned in your thoughts, visuals, inner self-talk and feelings, and assume a physiology of excellence, then you will succeed. Easily, and effortlessly!!!

Want to know how?

Well, Asia Mind Dynamics is organising these great seminars from March to May 2007:

1.) Personal Excellence – Accelerate your life with NLP - March 24-25, 2007 (Weekend) and March 29-30
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Introductory Price - RM688 (normal price RM1,488)

2.) Leading Magically –Accelerate your leadership skills with NLP - April 7-8 (Weekend)

Early Bird Investment: RM988 (until March 24th)
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3.) Selling Magically – Accelerate your sales with NLP - April 14-15 (Weekend)
Early Bird Investment: RM988 (until March 31th)
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4.) NLP Certified Practitioner Course - April 30-May 4, and May 7-11 (10 days for a Certified NLP Practitioner)
Early Bird - RM5,800 (until April 8)

So, download the registration form now, and book your seat.

Training Schedule 1st Quarter

For more details on the different programs, click here:

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Congratulations to all graduates of the Certified NLP Practitioner Course of Asia Mind Dynamics

2007-02-16T04:36:00.000-08:00

Last Sunday was the day of Asia Mind Dynamics and the participants that came out of my NLP Certified Practitioner Course. 8 days, four weekends, and we got closer to each other, through offsite meetings, onside discussions and exercises.

We all were stretched, in breaking our habits, learning new patterns and understanding of how to run our brain and, ultimately, our life.

No more excuses for having a lack of energy, lacking motivation or coming late. Guys, you are AT CAUSE for your life.

We started the 8 days by stating, that this will be the best training that the participants ever had - and we achieved it!!!!!

They were ready for change, because .... they were there. This contrasted many that said, yeah, I have to change, I will come, and I want to take control of my life.

These guys were there, and they succeeded - brilliantly!

It was exhilarating for the participants. Last Sunday was their day - they had their "examinations", or demonstration. This happened by showing their skills in exercises to the trainer - me :)

They performed magnificently, all of them.

Congratulations to Michael C., Michael H., Nora H., Najwa D, Jasmine R., and Margaret T. I am proud of you!

I was very surprised to received a present as well - a pointer. Great - because well, you know why :)

More pictures can be found here.

Some comments from the participants:

"Andreas has the enthusiasm for his subject that explodes into your subconscious mind and really makes NLP real for me. I recommend this training for everyone who already thinks that they are great – because they will realise just how much better they will be.”

or:

“Your passion and drive is extremely powerful and empowering. I enjoyed the classes.”

Wow - I am so proud. It was a great moment, to sign your certificates.

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2007-01-30T06:03:00.000-08:00

Motivation- and Leadership Training

Ahhh - that's me!!

Explaining motivation
What actually is motivation?
Installing a State of Mind into neurology, so that you are always motivated, confident, energised, anything, whenever you need it.
This is so, so, so important and NLP teaches you that you can have any state you want, at the snap of a finger!

Award Ceremony

Goal Setting Training

Explaining processes - there is nothing more important than explaining exercises or proccesses so that participants really "get the way of doing it". This means they will go out into the "real world" after the training and understand how to apply the learning straight away!

Embedding your goals into the neurology - a simple, fun but very empowering exercise
Visualising your goals - this exercise shows the power of the mind

Interested in an initial conversation with me, about coaching or training? Please send an e-mail to nlp AT AsiaMindDynamics.com or call me (Andreas) at 6-012-287 50 48.

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A race of my own

2007-01-30T05:56:00.000-08:00

I am working on my own, currently, or, if you want, with my wife, who is a certified hypnotherapist.

Then, I have a couple of friends with whom I also plan to conduct trainings with, such as the one last week. We also submitted a proposal to a very big organisation in Malaysia and were shortlisted - which is one great success story.

What I want to say, however, is that now, since I have my own business, things are really great and crazy, in all ways possible.

Many, many things to do, from organising tax payments, marketing, tracking of leads, developing material, meeting people, writing proposals, creating templates for letters, invoices and similar. I shouldn't forget blogging, of course. There is much, much more, but boy, this is a 8 days a week job.

Fun so and I wanted it that way, right?

The major difference is that I am stirring the wheel - so I can browse the web when I want, or call, when I want.

How does it feel? Well, last week, I started to think of it as Monopoly Game. You know the game, right? Well, I loved to play the game when I was way, way younger, about 200 or 300 years back. I loved to win, and in fact, I might say that the game developed my competitive streak in me. It was nice to win, and to own the places that I wanted.

Of course, this is different now, since I am dealing with real time events and people or organisations. As mentioned earlier, this is a beautiful business, with beauty shown when people and organisations tranform magnificently. This feels like I have bought a hotel in Monopoly, and someone just steps onto the place.

It simply feels great, to see something, that is called Asia Mind Dynamics grow. And still, there is so much to do. I keep you posted.

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Nearly a month!

2007-01-30T05:53:00.000-08:00

... Nearly a month since I posted my last entry. This shows how busy I have become. incredibly busy, but it is beautiful!!

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2007-01-13T19:01:00.000-08:00

It is so great when friends become really, really successful. so successful that they turn up in the newspaper, in fact.

I met Emma James during my training in Sydney in October last year. She is a World Champion Powerlifter, a title that she hold for numerous years. Hey, we had fun, talking, exchanging ideas, studying and training together.

Once we both succeeded in our training, we went out, together with the whole gang that was there with us, to celebrate.

Here are the results of this outing:

(Evan, Emma and me)

It is fun to carry a world champion, hehe. So here is another one, also showing her humour.

(Evan, Emma and me)
But it doesn't last long, because, well, she really is strong!!!

(Emma carrying me!!!)She nowadays trains athletes, and shares her knowledge with others in her NLP Training classes in the UK.

A fun lady, but very, very dedicated to the success of those that she works with. I am hoping that she is, one day, visiting me in Malaysia, so that she can share her knowledge with Malaysian athletes as well. Because, hey, NLP is great for use in sport as well - anybody out there reading this from the sports world in Malaysia?

By chance, I found the article copied below - all the best Emma - I am going to send you the link to this entry!

"World Champion Teaches her Secrets

World Champion Athlete and NLP Trainer reveals her secrets to the World!

[ClickPress, Sat Jan 13 2007] World Champion Powerlifter, Emma James, is beginning a new course to teach other athletes, managers and coaches the secrets of her success.

As an NLP (neuro linguistic programmer) Trainer, she applied many of the techniques she learnt as a successful therapist to her own training and not only took World Titles but also world records. Now, after successes with her own performance and those of her clients she has applied the pure sports application to the normal NLP Practitioner course and is about to launch this to the world.

“I am completely happy now with the results these techniques have produced for individuals and teams and am ready to incorporate it into a course. Managers and coaches that have used these techniques as well have had true success and I hold enough World Records now not to worry about my competition learning my techniques!” Emma said.

The first of the NLP Sports Practitioner courses are to be held in Dubai in February and then the premier UK course in May. For further information about Emma James see www.stimulus.webeden.co.uk also email her for coaching or competing advice."

Click here to get to the original article.

Last Last few days to register for the Certified NLP Practitioner Course in January/ February if you are serious about change - in this course, you will learn more about the workings of the conscious and the unconscious mind.

Places are still available. Register now by faxing in the registration form available in the brochure.

Or call at 012-287 50 48 to check for more information.

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NLP Training - After the training is completed

2006-12-30T21:07:00.000-08:00

Ah - there is a time when any training is completed. And then most of the time, reality (whatever that is) sets in. While the beauty of NLP is that it really helps people to change - change on the conscious and unconscious level with greater understanding for self and others - people around the participants haven't changed.

Sadly, many training outcomes are set in a way that they are not very effective - okay, something always sticks with the participants, but often, the learning is quickly forgotten. This happens for a variety of reasons.

One is that the transition back into the normal life is not smoothened. This is difficult in a personal development training, but also in a corporate setting. Coming Monday morning, many participants come back to work, see that the e-mail inbox is full and then, decide to postpone the implementation of the new learning for a day or two.

However, in most cases, the learning is forgotten when not applied immediately. I read a number that 85% of the training effect is lost in such cases. I am not sure if there are numbers for those that participate on their own without corporate sponsorship.

Another reason is that trainings are often conducted to change behaviours. But to change behaviours is not that easy, if the unconscious mind is not integrated. Only if learning is integrated on the conscious and unconsious mind is learning long lasting (something that you get when you train with Asia Mind Dynamics!).

People around those that participated in an NLP training realise that participants coming from NLP courses have changed dramatically. Mostly, participants discover new choices, or develop new pathways in their life. Many participants change their jobs for the better, develop better relationships with loved ones and those around them, gain the promotion that they desired, have a clear picture of the future and more.

But not all and sometimes, it simply is tough to retain the path of change. As much as those participants want to be at Cause for their life and create the results in their life that they desire, the reality can be grinding. An NLP course gives you plenty of tools to operate in a "normal world" (may be it is the crazy world) .

What then can be done?

Well, there are a couple of great, great advantages to go with Asia Mind Dynamics. I will organise regular meetings with all those that participated in the training, there will be online discussion groups, and we will be able to exchange ideas via e-mail, chat boxes or even mobile phones.

If a refresher is needed, I will organise one - for either the individual or the group. Over time, there will be a monthly meeting with those that went through my training, to support each other and learn from each other.

Basically, it is about learning together on how to apply what has been learnt to the real life, to change your life and influence those around you positively. Because, we want to create a world that is worthwhile living in and contributing, right?/

So get the insight now - here is the outline of the brochure and then sign up!
Or, send a mail to NLP AT AsiaMindDynamics.com for more inquiries.

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Stress and Christmas shopping

2006-12-20T21:39:00.000-08:00

Malaysia is on sale, once again. And sure enough, it coincidences with Christmas. The queues in front of the shopping malls are huge, and disoriented shoppers walk dazily around, eyes wide open.

Many appear stressed, and now before the final, final weekend before Christmas, expect chaos. I will be one who is going to buy some presents for my boy on Saturday. He wants some Play Station Games (Star Wars), a new football, and a bicycle.

I am already not the nicest shopper during normal shopping days but now, with Christmas music blaring, promoters hassling, too many people pushing and shoving, wow, can I not feel pity with myself? I call it sensory overload, and that it surely is. You are entrenched in noise, visual teasers, and just the enclosures with too many people close by.

Well, it is the end-goal that I keep in mind. My boy's smile on the face, when he opens the presents. Of course he now knows that Santa Claus is actually is Papa, so there is no surprise on that side anymore.

A healthy mental attitude is healthy to start with - I play it out in the back of my mind, what I want, where I want it and then, be very determined in what I really want, in order not to be distracted too often.

I attempt to be in the mall at the earliest, to avoid being trapped in one of the huge traffic jams. And then, I entice myself as well with a short visit to the residential bookshop or a coffee. As an additional incentive.

Will I stay cool? Well, I hope and believe I am not heating up inside. I will be doing fine :).

How are you coping with the stress during Christmas shopping?

But once again, I am amazed by the amount of tools that I have at hand after I learnt NLP.

My upcoming NLP course still has places free - so register now to secure your seat now - download the brochure for the registration form . Send me a mail at NLP AT AsiaMindDynamics.com for more information.

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NLP Certification Program and Trainer Profile

2006-12-07T00:02:00.000-08:00

I just published the brochure of the NLP Certification Program in Kuala Lumpurt at the right side of this blog, plus my profile.

Take a look:

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The lost customer - will they ever return?

2006-12-06T23:57:00.000-08:00

Recently, I went for lunch to Madam Kwan in KLCC. Madam Kwan, as most of you know, is one Malaysian restaurant with great, great food. The problem (is it one?) with such great places is that they are packed over lunch time. So, if you don't book a place, well, you better have time to wait.

I had a booking for me and friends, but I was there a bit too early. So I could watch the crowd gathering outside. Some were pretty tense, because they couldn't really see their bookings in the book, others were more astonished about the number of people already waiting. A third group was waiting patiently and silently.

The waiter attending to the waiting guests tried hard, but trying is not good enough for some. Especially, since the poor guy had to leave the door and check with his colleagues in the back about tables, I assume, and then come back to the front.

In the time that he was gone, no one was there to attend to the waiting guests - and more came. So there was room for impatience.

Some guests waiting went away, saying, that it takes too long and that they go over to Little Penang, another restaurant. Clearly, there are also queues in front of Little Penang, but I am not focussing on this right now.

The question here is, of course - will those customers ever return? How will they talk about their waiting experience to friends, neighbours, other colleagues? Such events are lasting events for some, while others browse over it easily.

However, every lost customer is lost business - a business that might not return, anymore!

So what can be done? Better management of the waiting list, for sure. Don't let the guests alone - always have someone to entertain them, or be ready to entertain them.

The guy attending to the customers looked stressed, and it was a stressful environment. So give him something that motivates him, immediately, and on the spot - ha, of course I talk about the magic of NLP here :)

Also, understand the individuality of customers. Every customer is different and wants to be treated differently. So train your people to be able to identify the different characteristics of customers, and treat customers the way they want to be treated. Rapport building, for one, is one great way in doing this, subconsciously!

Again, I am promoting my training here, of course, and again, this is something that we are going to talk about in intensity during the training. How to identify the different types of customers and be able to serve them in the way that entertains them most appropriately, so that, in the end, the level of complaints get reduced and you get a reputation even better than the current one. Which, in turn, increases sales. Great, what?

So join me now, okay?

Here are some details!

Just send me a mail to NLP AT asiaminddynamics.com and we take it from there, okay?

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Eye patterns, customer orientation and decision making strategies

2006-11-29T01:55:00.000-08:00

This now is a bit of an advanced NLP topic, but I am in the mood to write about it.

I believe that all of us have realised that when we look at people, they move their eyes, in all directions. It might look like it is a wild goose chase going on, but hey, when people move their eyes, they are actually doing something inside their head.

Now this has been a bit of a contentious topic over the years, with some groups saying that it is nonsense, and others, that it is a workable "technique". I think that if it works for you, it is fine, and if some believe it doesn't work, well, they will come around, sooner or later, okay?

Because, fact is, we all move our eyes.

Talk to people, ask them questions, and look at them, how they move their eyes - and you will see that they do!
Now, basically, there are six quadrants as you can see in the chart.

Vc - which stands for Visual Construct - people construct pictures in their head that they haven't seen before
Vr - which stands for Visual Recall or Remember - people access pictures from their memory,

Ac - which stands for Auditory Construct - people construct sounds, that they haven't heard before
Ar - which stands for Auditory Recall or Remember - people access sounds from their memory,
K - which stands for Kinesthetic - people access their feelings
Ad - which stands for Auditory digital or self-talk - people access information.

(Borrowed, with gratitude, from Renewal CA)

Now, listen - in many NLP books it is written that this is how you access your own different quadrants, but hey - I am teaching you that this is how it is when you are looking at the other person.

Why?

Because people access or construct information inside their head and it goes very, very fast. What they are doing is formulating their way of action - how do they do what they do. You want to know what is going on inside their head, not inside your own head, for that matter.

Complicated?

Not really.

You can use the information, on which quadrant people access to identify how they motivate themselves, how they make decision, and how they reassure themselves that they have made the right choice.

Wow, that is great, because, well, you now can look people into the eyes, and know what they want, how they want it and how they are assured of what they got.

Imagine, you can use this to build rapport with people, and serve them better. Because instead of being the pushy salesperson, who is coming from the wrong end of town, you simply know how to sell according to how people want their stuff. What customer orientation is that? What great sales strategy!

Just by looking into their eyes.

Now, wasn't there a movie, where oen actor was saying - "look into my eyes, baby"? Gives a whole new meaning.

These eye patterns elicitation is something I am going to teach in the NLP Certified Practitioner Course in January/ February 2007. I will provide much more detail, and we have a couple of great exercises around it, so that you are able to really use it in your day to day life. So why don't you join me?

Just send me a mail to NLP AT asiaminddynamics.com and we take it from there, okay?

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NLP Certified Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur: Course Benefits

2006-11-21T06:46:00.000-08:00

Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP, due to its nature, touches all areas of humans and the environment. This is because we all have a subconscious mind, because we all think, act, behave, communicate, interact with others, have our habits, capabilities, values and identity.

Thus, it always looks so encompassing, when you read NLP brochures. But, here it is - what you will learn in the upcoming NLP Certified Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur in January 2007.

Interested to know more? Send me a mail to nlp AT asiaminddynamics.com

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During the Certified NLP Practitioner Training you learn to apply NLP in many different areas successfully:

Grow your career, or your business - NLP in Business – e.g.; Sales, management, communication, performance enhance. career development;

Your personal life – Communicating with others and create more rewarding relationships, become a better parent, learn easier and remember more

For A Healthier Life – the breaking of bad and installation of great habits

Personal Acceleration – empowerment and motivation at your fingertips
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In detail - what are you going away with:

What are the benefits and outcomes of this training?
Practical tools for your day-to-day life ….

• Learn how to set and achieve goals that really materialize
• Create instant rapport by communicating much more effectively with the people you meet
• Change your mindset, gain emotional mastery and access your inner personal strength and
capabilities —be at peak performance anytime you want
• Become aware of other people’s body language by increasing your understanding of sensory
indicators
• Learn how to communicate to the subconscious mind
• Be able to give and accept constructive feedback
• Understand the way other people think and act and be able to influence them positively
• Eliminate limited beliefs and generate new behaviors – see opportunities where before, there were
only problems
• Be able to identify and interrupt unwanted behaviour in yourself and others
• Get rid of those habits that you always wanted to get rid off – and help others to do so as well
• Resolve inner problems with great healing methods
• Get closer to your clients, friends and family – learn how they get motivated, make decisions and be
reassured
• Run meetings effectively, succeed in business negotiations, dramatically grow your sales, and
become a successful parent
• Learn how to coach others effectively and become a more effective leader
• Become more creative, innovative and powerful in your thinking and brainstorming skills by amazing
others with your lateral-, high level and specific thinking abilities
• Learn precision questions to get behind the meaning of words and sentences
• Learn hypnotic language patterns and how to apply them in your day-to-day life for greater success
• Be able to see varied perspectives from many different positions

And much, much more….

• In short … the training in NLP puts you in charge of your mind, body and therefore your life and your
destiny!

My personal aim is that you go away from this training knowing that this was the most amazing, and life changing training ever.

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NLP Certified Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in January/ February 2007

2006-11-15T01:13:00.000-08:00

Asia Mind Dynamics is organising a fast paced, fun loaden and success oriented Certified NLP Practitioner Course in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia!!

Course Benefits can be found here

If you are interested in changing your life, and to make 2007 a year of personal and professional breakthrough then register immediately (nlp AT asiaminddynamics.com) and book your seat NOW:

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Training Dates

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January 20 - 21, 2007

January 27-28 2007

February 3-4, 2007

February 10-11, 2007

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There will be not more than 15-20 participants in the training so that I personally can attend to all participants to help them succeed in the exercises.

My aim in this workshop is to assist participants such as you to get to know the magic of NLP, fully understand how it works and be able to apply it in all parts of your life - perfectly.

I developed staggered stages for the registration process:

1.) The investment for the Early Bird registration, which closes on December 31, 2005 is RM5,700*;

2.) The investment from January 1 onwards until training commences is RM6,300;

3.) When you bring a friend who also signs up for the training, the investment for you will remain at RM5,700 after December 31 while your friend has to invest RM6,300;

4.) Should both of you sign up before December 31, you qualify for RM5,200 and your friend for RM5,700*;

* These condition applies for full payments only!

Please be aware that we impose an administrative fee if you cancel your participation 1 week before the training to cover administrative and other occurring charges on our side.

Accelerate your performance!

Create the changes you desire and break through in your personal and professional life.
Make 2007 a year that counts!

Please send a mail to me in case of questions or inquiries -

nlp AT asiaminddynamics.com

See you there!

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Rapport building - now watch this picture

2006-11-14T20:08:00.000-08:00

A while ago I wrote that rapport building is matching and mirroring the other person in their physiology, tonality and the words they use.

I don't know how much has been said during the recent meeting between Indonesian Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, and Australian counterpart Alexander Downer before they signed the security agreement in Indonesia last Monday.

The pact signals closer ties between two countries that have experienced a long history of thorny relations and looking at the picture below, boy, I have to say that these two hit it off. Look how much they mirror each other and I really don't think that they do this purposely. Both tilting their head, both signing nearly simultanteously, and have the same facial expressions. Rapport can be so beautiful.

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Malaysia's ranking in the happiness survey - is being happy so difficult?

2006-11-13T00:37:00.000-08:00

Adoh - what is that? A map of happiness? Produced by the Psychology Department of the University of Leicester, and Professor Adrian White, an Analytic Social Psychologist. And Malaysia is placed pretty well at rank 17 as one of the happiest nations?

The analysis is based on the findings of over 100 different studies around the world, which questioned 80,000 people worldwide. For this study data has also been analysed in relation to health, wealth and access to education.

There is, firstly, no clear indicator in the study of what makes people happy. One time, the article states that "the frustrations of modern life, and the anxieties of the age, seem to be much less significant compared to the health, financial and educational needs in other parts of the World."

Hm - what do I think? Personally, I think that the definition of happiness varies widely across the world.

From an NLP point of view, happiness is a State of Mind. And a State of Mind can be changed, almost immediately. Initially, and if you are a person that carries a lot of sadness, or similar emotions with you, happiness might only be short lived, until you clear up issues in your emotional life. But basically, to reach a happy state is easy.

What do you need to do?

in short (very short), all you need to do is a to do a two step process:

- Change your physiology. Stand upright, and look upward. How difficult is it to be sad when you look upwards. Related to it - smile. Smile, and even if it is a faked smile. Fake it till you break it. The moment you smile, neurochemicals are released from your brain into your body and the body reacts to it, sooner or later (probably sooner). And your State of Mind changes!!

- In addition, you just need to remember a time when you where happy (or any other State that you want). Remember a specific time, focus on the positive feelings. Then float into your body, see what saw, hear what your heard and feel the feeling of happiness rising in you. You can access positive states anytime, anywhere!This is standard NLP for anyone. Remember something you like and you are back into the same state (don't try it with states you don't like, hehe!).

Now - of course, this doesn't change the fact that there are some people out there that want to be unhappy. They chose to be unhappy, with everything, and curse and swear and point the finger at others as the cause of their unhappiness - the government, the boss, the driver on the road, the unfriendly service attendant, the blogger next door, whose opinion you don't share. But, again, that is THEIR choice. And again, you can chose to be unhappy or happy, whenever you want.

Try it out, as I explained above, or also here with the Circle of Excellence!

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The secret to success: Rapport building skills

2006-11-09T18:55:00.000-08:00

Do you read self-help books? Do you find that there is often a description about building rapport but then, you don't quite know how this goes? Would you like to build better rapport with those around you, but don't know how?

There are also plenty of recruitment and interview skills handbooks out there, but I also find that they are not always helpful. Don't you agree? I understand that the intention of the authors is to help readers in search for good answers.

Still, the question still remains - how the heck do you build good rapport? Especially, since first impressions count. Today more so than ever in an increasingly competitive environment!

Rapport by Answers.com is defined as "Relationship, especially one of mutual trust or emotional affinity." How true is that - but does it help? Not really, right?

NLP talks differently about rapport, and states that rapport is not about a relationship - it leads to it - but that rapport is the instant connection with another person mostly on at the subconscious level. Just another definition, still not helpful.

Well, let me give you some numbers - people always communicate, in fact, you cannot NOT communicate. Everything in your appearance communicates. You body, your physiology, your skin colour changes (yes, they change constantly!!), your words and the way you say those.

There was a research done, a longer time back by someone called Birdwhistle or so (others say that there was someone starting with an M, who established the findings earlier), that states the following:

During a communication, what you communicate via words makes up only 7% of the total. In contrast, 38% of our communication with others is a result of the verbal behavior - tone of voice, timbre, tempo, and volume. Overwhelmingly, 55% of our communication with others is nonverbal communication, such as body posture, breathing, skin color and our movement. Figure that!!

Remember a time when you just knew that the person in front of you wasn't telling the truth or that is was a bad time to interupt the other person because he "looked so busy"!

True, what?

So rapport relates to matching and mirroring the other person in their physiology, tonality and the words they use. Do this consciously - match and mirror people, the moment you get into touch with them - but not in a way that is too obvious, because that would be mimicking!! And hey, it is not manipulative - look around you, and see, how people that converse sit in similar positions, stand just as if they were mirroring each other, how great they feel when you talk the same language (e.g.; see how guys link up with each other, when they talk about sport!!). For me, it is like a dance with each other. In harmony. The subconscious mind is picking up the signals and says "hey, this person is just like me, I like the person." Isn't this happening all around us?

What I have done here is giving you a short breakdown on what rapport building is about and how to do it. Try it out, over the next day or two. When I conduct the training during the NLP Practitioner course (in end-January), I will explain, in much more detail, how good rapport building is done, and what goes into it (NLP teaches you the process of how to do things). But the result is that it makes you more aware of how things are done, and in the end, it makes real practitioner more successful - in interview situations, meetings, negotiations, hey, even in discos and pubs. And that is what everybody wants to be in life, more successful, right now.

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Success story for NLP

2006-11-08T21:19:00.000-08:00

How is that? I just found this entry from someone on the web:

The author wrote that she was a "recipient of an NLP intervention in early 2004. I used to live with constant depression, self-sabotage and chronic under-achievement. I had spent nearly 20 years working with different therapists, reading self-help books, and studying different psychological approaches to find a way to get myself healed and whole. It may sound surprising, but my intervention lasted all of 6 hours and I immediately became a different woman :: healed and whole.

That next week, I ended my ongoing therapist appointments. Within 3 months I moved into a new career making 500% more than before. And within 6 months I had learned enough about NLP on my own to start using the approach to ‘pay it forward’ and help others remove their own obstacles to success."

Hm - NLP works, right? What are you saying?

(Psst: When are you going to jumb onto NLP to accelerate your life? Asia Mind Dynamics is going to offer a NLP Practitioner course VERY soon - ready to rock and change your life?)

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Beautiful - hypnosis leads to weight loss

2006-11-08T21:07:00.000-08:00

A North Texan Teen, 13 years of age, says something almost like "magic" helped her lose 70 pounds - and it is the magic of hypnosis. Before that, she only ate junk food.

Once again, a lot of our habits, if not all, are deeply burried in our subconscious mind. Without positively influencing this huge part of our mind, most of our conscious efforts to change behaviour can fail.

Learning, behavioural change and all needs to encompass both, the conscious and the unconscious level. And to change our habits, we have to change this deep structure inside our mind.

Thus, ask yourself, is hypnosis a way to overcome obesity? I believe it sure is.

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NLP trainer in Malaysia

2006-10-29T04:03:00.000-08:00

Yesterday evening, I arrived back in Kuala Lumpur, from a 3 week training in Australia. Training by Tad and Adriana James to become a trainer of NLP and Timeline Therapy (TM) training myself.

Boy, its been an astonishing up and down over the last 3 weeks. There were about 40 participants in the training. Many from the UK, one from the US, some from Australia, even lesser from Malaysia, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Accompanying the training were coaching assistants that were already schooled by Tad and Adriana and they observed the development of the individual participants.

And developing we did. From the very first beginning, and after being put into different groups, we were "subjected" to exercises, exercises, exercises. Feedback by the coaches and by one of the partipants.

What happened? I would describe it as breaking down my neural networks in my brain, putting it all into a mixer and let it re-develop and emerge in a beautiful and magnificent fashion.

How did we do? Well, considering that all of us were to become trainers, we had to learn how to present ourselves magically. How often is it happening in the "real world", the world we came from and had to present, that we move around wildly in front of our audiences, gesticulating with our hands and pacing around up and down. Does this sound familiar? All those gestures are kind of disturbing, and very often coming from somewhere deep down inside - because we feel we need to do it or were told that this is how to present. The worst case are those presenters, that start to scratch themselves, sway on their feet, or pace around like tigers in a cage. I know you know what I mean, right?

So, the first thing to learn in Australia was to get rid of those unsconscious behaviours. So - for the first 5 days or so, we were not allowed to move our hands when we did presentation exercises.

It started by standing in front of our 6 member group, about 1.5 meters away - don't say anything, don't move anything on your body, especially not the hands. For 5 long minutes. I tell you that these were the longest 5 minutes of my life!!!. Standing in front of people I didn't know. And not to go inside and think, but to also switch off the inner dialogue. Wow!! After about a minute or 2, I felt this feeling of extreme discomfort inside of me. Something kept growing, and I couldn't run away. This is what I mean by breaking down the existing neural network!

There was more. In another exercise, we learnt how to see from the corner of the eyes, when someone in a group makes a slight movement, even if it is only a finger. I had to point this out the moment I saw it, point out with a slight movement of my finger.

Then, also, standing in front of the group and make each of them feel that I connect with them through my eyes. The moment, they had the feeling of connection, the individual had to raise the hand and put the hand down, when the connection was lost. Target was to get all hands up at the same time!

We also learnt to create and develop metaphors, put an audience into trance, close metaphors, and to build rapport with a larger group of participants. This is important when I teach NLP to a larger number of people (what is my aim!).

Then, after 5 initial days, we learnt how to move our hands during a presentation more consciously, to bring a point across. And we learnt how to structure material that needs to be taught, how to structure exercises, answer questions in a way that the whole audience has something to learn and so on and so on.

All in all, I was re-created in a very special ways.

There were two presentations that all of us needed to do in preparation for the evaluation period. The first 2 were dry-runs, for the "big evaluation days". And these were tough challenges. I failed one of the presentations, like many others. It was devastating, initially, because hey - I thought I knew my stuff. Apparently, the evaluator didn't, and it was a great learning for me!

Then came the evaluation period - 4 days in a row. I felt like going back to high school or university.

First, a theoretical test about Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). About 80 questions, with 210 points to achieve in total. Passmark was 70%. I learnt and learn, studied real, real hard. Memorising, getting it into my head. Knowing my material backwards and forward. The day of the test was the day were I felt real good. No anxiety at all, just coolness and great anticipation. I normally felt anxiety, but not this time around, because of the beautiful Timeline Therapy (TM) techniques. It just helps to take out negative emotions, fear, anger, and all, as well as anxiety.

Still, 6 hours of writing in the test. 6 hours and about 60 pages - handwritten. This was one thing that was hard, because, hey - I usually use a computer, right? We didn't get to know our marks but most of us cam through the test. But this is no wonder, because all of us studied real hard for the test.

Then the first presentation - and I presented magically. No flaws, whatsoever!! Then, demonstration day - this means we were to demonstrate an exercise to a larger group of participants. I have to admit that here, I was nervous initially. This, despite visualisation of the whole process the night before. What happened? Well, I visualised my favourite exercise, but forgot to include the short theoretical introduction in the visualisation. naturally, there was a break, but I came through. The demonstration itself was smooth - great and exhilarating.

The next presentation then, the second and last was an easy right, since I was bursting with energy, joy and fun. Nothing was going to hold me back, and so I am here now, back in KL with two trainer certification. One for NLP, and one for Timeline Therapy (TM) Training.

For you, to share in my happiness about the successful completion, the picture below. It was a hard October, but it was worth every single minute of emotion, sweat, and long nights of learning, studying and preparations!

Here a picture from the graduation ceremony:

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18 habits to make this Ramadan a WoW!

2006-09-28T02:25:00.000-07:00

It is the time of the year again, when Muslims around the world fast - the month of Ramadan. It is the month of greatest meaning to Islam and Muslims around the world fast throughout the day to strengthen one's self-discipline and to be reminded of those less fortunate in their existence.

Let's try to make it a good one, the best ever:

Make this Ramadan a real great WoW
Be tolerant to yourself and others, even when you think that your opinion is the right one
Donate to those that you know are less fortunate than you
Be friendly to yourself and those around you, speak relatives, friends, neighbours
Love yourself and your neighbours
Walk the talk
Be polite
Show vulnerability. It is okay to show feelings even as a guy :)
Share your knowledge with others, freely
Give up at least one addiction - what about smoking?
Get to know someone that you haven't known before
Invite those of other religions and share your thoughts and opinion. Learn from them
Break fast with someone who is clearly different from you
Learn something new this Ramadan, develop a new hobby
Spend more time with your family
Find time for reflection on you and develop a real great plan of what you want to change in your life
Overcome at least some of the bad thoughts and feelings inside of you. Eliminate anger and hate and create tolerance and patience
Take more care of your body. Don't engulf yourself in loads of food and other habits (e.g.; smoking), after the break of fast
Keep the positive habits developed during Ramadan going until the end of your life.

How is this for a start? Do you want to add on some more?

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The ecology of success

2006-09-25T20:02:00.000-07:00

What a title. But how important is it for you to define your final outcome and when do you know you have reached success (didn't you know that there is more to success, always?). Have you put in place the write measurements? A SMART Goal? Steps to achieve your goal?

Very good. What will it be? More rewards, awards, more money, a better position, a more beautiful car, may be a new husband, boyfriend, wife and girl? Your own company? How great your goals are, really!

But one thing we as humans like to forget in the chase for success. Something that we in NLP call "ecology". So you defined your success - and hopefully it is what YOU decide is success, and not your boss, neighbour, the tax department!!

You have a clear plan forward - Grrreeeaaat.

So ask yourself:

What will happen when you are there? How will the world around you look like? Or, you personal surrounding? What has changed, after you have reached your goal?

Remember the movie "Click" that I wrote about? Adam Sandler reached his goals but destroyed everything around him. So when you have reached your goal, how does this then influence your family, your friends, your job, your competition, your city, country, the planet?

Think about it for a moment.

When George Bush Jr. announced the war on terrorism, he had good intentions, and the world was with him, initially. But look at the ecology now, and the effects and outcomes of his actions. Did he actually reflect on his actions, initially? While it is good to be focused on your outcomes, when you see that the results don't come in in the way you want them to be, or the ecology changes, you better change your strategy.

This is what George Bush Jr. doesn't do! He doesn't change his strategy, even so it is not working. The ecology around him collapses and clearly, there are more and more critics that doubt that he can reach his goals in the way he currently pursues them.

So, what about you? After spending 15 hours per day on the job, trying to build a better future for your family, secure the education of your child, how does your ecology look like? Inside of you - has stress build up, did you have a first heart attack, do your kids still remember you, and your wife loves you?

If you see that the ecology doesn't reflect positively on your success, stop for a while, look around you, and may be change strategy or your plans. Don't beat around the bush!

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Leadership interviews at nPost - GoDaddy founder Bob Parson

2006-09-21T03:11:00.000-07:00

nPost has plenty of interviews with leaders about their success, challenges, dreams and failures/ learnings when building up their enterprises.

These interviews are not conducted with the "normal type of CEO", such as Jack Welsh, or Donald Trump or whoever. Refreshingly, these interviews are conducted with other, lesser known CEOs.

I just read one interview with Bob Parson, the CEO of GoDaddy.com. I know I had my issues with them, a while back, but in the meantime, they have improved a lot. At least on servicing my side and x.

He tells the story about GoDaddy and how he and his friends tried to meddle their way to success in the end of the 1990s. The company nearly went bankrupt - losses of US$300,000-400,000 a month and it was all his cash since he was the only investor. Okay while this is not the typical start-up (who can afford such personal losses, even in Malaysian Ringgit?).

What I liked is the part when he was close to giving up and took a final trip to think through about ways to close down the company and related procedures.

Coming back from the trip, he says that he "saw a guy parking cars one day and the guy seemed really happy doing that and I decided that if the business went broke then I could always park cars."

Okay - it is not the dream of every entrepreneur to end up like this, but what I believe he is trying to say is that there is always a way forward. Fail Forward Fast, one of Tom Peters favourite saying comes true here. The spirit of gung-ho, let's do it, go for it etc. Or, in a different manner, that the universe will take care of you, in the end.

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The Apprentice - is it possible to copy the Donald ?

2006-09-18T03:07:00.000-07:00

I watched the first couple of seasons of The Apprentice pretty diligently always hoping to learn something - what I did.

I wonder if someone actually realises the similarities between the candidates that get hired. Energetic, robus, getting things done, standing up for themselves and straight to the point.

Now ask yourself - are these the characteristics that make up a winner? Or are these the characteristics that make up a winner for Donald Trump? Looking at the types of personalities that populate his organisation, it is clear that these are the ones that are liked by him, because that is how he is.

Nothing wrong with that because believe me, these are propbably the right candidates (even so I wonder, watching the series, if these are really the creme de la creme in the US? Some candidates are really below the level that I would consider suitable for a corporate life, but this is my perception, of course!!).

Now imagine the people who buy his books, looking for solutions in his approach to business. If they are similar to his personality - energetic, robust etc - well, they might learn something. If not and you are too different, you set yourself up for a new learning.

Because, while it is possible to model big Donald, and assume his personality, it takes a giant step for someone who has not mastered the art of modelling (something that NLP teaches you, by the way!).

The inner workings of a Donald are just too different from the one who picks up his book.

PS: I discovered (and I am probably not alone), that Donald Trump is not perfect. Lucky for the rest of us. I wanted to check his blog and the last entry visible is from May 29, 2006.

Interestingly, that entry talks about decision and procrastination. May be they just decide about the next perfect entry :) (Just Kidding, mah!)

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Revenue numbers, project development and the entrepreneurial mindset

2006-09-16T23:32:00.000-07:00

It is budgeting time in many companies. The thousands or millions are thrown all around us. There are the good and the bad salespeople. The ones that met their target and those that still glamour to meet the numbers to secure their bonus.

Forecasting is also in the air. Again, numbers, heavier than before (is it true that every year, you get kind of punished when you achieved your goals? Your numbers to achieve get higher?).

Anyway, this is also the time I always start to wonder.

There are those that are good in their business, and they sell a lot. So let's assume (and the numbers are made up, as are the names) that there is a business developer called Mr. X, who is able to secure 12 million Ringgit in 2006. Great number, he beat all the goals that he set out for last year. And now, Mr. X plans for may be 15 million.

Mr. X is happy. He gets a salary increment and a bonus of may be one month or two months salary. Let the story continue and assume that his salary is very, very high, for Malaysian standards - let's assume that Mr. X gets a salary of RM240,000. (I put in this number because it is easily dividable by 12 moths, lor!). So, he generates RM12 million - speak: RM 1 million per month - and is awarded with RM20,000. The ratio is 0.02%. Or, to put it differently, for every one dollar he earns, he generates RM50 dollar.

Now, Mr. X is also very much favoured by his clients. They love him and they would go with him, if he changes company. If he changes, he might get a little salary increment.

What I don't really get is the following:

Why is Mr. X, so successful, staying with this company? Why is he not jumping and opens up his own business? If he is able to take along just 50% or even 10% of the value that he originally generated, wouldn't he feel better?

Is this loyalty? Someone stays because he loves a company so much that he earns to the ratio of 1:50? Is this the plain old fear, that holds someone back? The fear of what? Because clearly, if Mr. X doesn't deliver anymore, he will get fired, right?

Or do I just have a wrong point of view?

I am interested - so help me out, dear reader, because I am lost!

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Controlling artificial arm via the brain

2006-09-16T23:24:00.000-07:00

Do you know that all the movements of the body are stirred by the subconscious mind? How else is it possible that you can move your hands, or get into a car or go around somehow?

Do you tell you body to move? Muscle number one, please contract, number 2 expand, number 3 do this .... and so on? Nope - it is all stirred from parts in your brain, automatically and since we are born or even earlier.

But here comes the exciting news. How about the news that someone is able to move an artificial arm via thoughts?

26-year-old Claudia Mitchell is just doing this. She lost her arm in a motorcycle accident and recently received an artificial limp, or, better, a bionic arm.
The medical team "found a way to use chest muscles to connect the prosthetic to nerves that once sent signals to the hand, wrist, elbow and shoulder. After an amputation, the brain still thinks the arm is there. It feels sensations and sends signals to move. But those signals are too weak for modern mechanics to detect from the surface of the skin, so Kuiken's team amplified them."

"First, plastic surgeon Greg Dumanian of Northwestern Memorial Hospital moved the targeted nerves into muscles in Mitchell's chest. Then, the nerves that cause the motion of those muscles were disconnected. Mitchell can no longer send a signal to flex her pectoral muscle, but when she wants to close her hand or bend her elbow, the nerve impulse moves her "pec.
When that muscle moves, it sends a signal strong enough for a sensor on the skin to detect. After some rewiring by Dumanian, six muscles in Mitchell's chest now move six motors in the bionic arm.

And nerve data flow up, too. When Todd Kuiken, who heads neural engineering, touches a certain spot on Mitchell's chest, she feels him touch her hand, even though it's no longer there."
There is more work that needs to be done but this is only the beginning of exciting times for those that struggle with losses of limps.

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