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This month I would like to talk about the need to stay focused, even when it seems almost impossible to stay on track. I recently had the opportunity to really practice what we preach, giving me the chance to use our skills in a new way. At the same time it made me wonder about how often do we use these wonderful skills for our own growth and development? Teaching the NLP Basic Practitioner Course allows me the great thrill of seeing people begin to unlock the true power of their minds using NLP. I see people change they're eating habits, drop destructive behavior, and reprogram long self-limiting beliefs, all in a few days. I feel a surge of joy as I watch their eyes light up as they grasp this power. However, like any new skill, it is easy to begin to take these skills for granted and forget the true gift we have gotten by being exposed to the power of NLP.

Do you use the techniques for yourself? Do you have any bad habits that you have picked up recently that you need to eliminate? Have any self-limiting beliefs crept back into your mindset? I think we have an obligation to utilize our full potential. We have been blessed with the techniques that few in history have been exposed too. Let us become the shining lights on the hill. I say this knowing that I, too, must be reminded of our gifts, and, as with most reminders, I had to get literally kicked in the head by reality to get reminded of the power of these skills.

I am also announcing two new courses.

Learn How to Do a Stop Smoking/ Weight Loss Group Seminar This is a new course that is invaluable if you want to do groups. (See our marketing section at the end of the E-zine.)

A Complete Stage Hypnosis Course, by Jim Wand Jim Wand is the busiest stage hypnotist I know. Jim does over 200 shows a year and now you can learn his secrets! June 28 - 29, 2003 Chicago, Illinois More on this later, but clear your calendar!

Peter O'Dell’s

Street-Smart NLP Master Practitioner Training

December 6 - 9, 2002

9 AM to 6 PM

Boca Raton, FL

Details follow later in Marketing section of the E-zine.

From the Road: I was in the Detroit area to attend the IMDHA conference (It went great!) and taught a basic NLP course to an eager bunch of new students. I had just done several Stop Smoking/Weight Loss seminars for the general public in the Virginia Beach area just prior to my going to the conference. The seminars had been a great success and I arrived at the conference in a light-hearted mood. I checked into a hotel (a different hotel than where the IMDHA conference was held), and placed my valuables into the hotel’s safety deposit box. I was scheduled to teach the two days before and after the conference, leaving me free to enjoy the conference itself.

An interesting thing happened when I came back to the hotel to change for the dinner. After I had changed and was heading out I heard the clerk banging away at something behind the front desk. I mention this because I travel a lot and you learn to "tune out" things in hotels. I asked the clerk if he needed help. He said no, he was just trying to get a disk out from the computer. I suggested not to hit the computer so hard, then off to the dinner.

Monday I went to the front desk to retrieve my valuables and when they handed me my box, I opened it to find it was empty. All my valuables, including the seminar funds, were gone. You could see where the side of the box had been forced open. I was speechless. We are always told not to leave valuables in the hotel room and to give them to the hotel for safekeeping, and now I found the hotel itself was not safe. Needless to say, it started my day off badly. I had to fill out a police report, deal with the hotel company, and call the person I do seminars with to let him know the income from the earlier seminars was missing.

After all this I had to go teach! Then I also had more public seminars to do!

I apologized to the class for the upcoming interruptions, mainly phone calls (police, hotel people, etc.) I then had to use our skills to refocus and teach the course. Since I teach about controlling states and staying in the "Zone", I have seen the power of these techniques. I knew they would work. (I will point out what I did in the Techniques and Tips section of the E-zine.) I am glad to report that the class went well, and it helped me to stay on task, and not focus on the loss. I also had most of the class attend a smoking & weight seminar to see some of what I taught in action. When I left town Wednesday, I allowed myself to decompress and release the anger. The anger ran its program, and I used it to propel me into action with the hotel and to get the hotel to take action and resolve the loss. I will keep you appraised of the outcome.

Techniques and Tips:

One of the things that elite athletes do is use anger to motivate action. The military, also, uses this technique. The trick is to focus the energy of the anger and use that energy, and not let the negative aspects take over and get frozen in fear.

Turning Anger into Action

1. Find a time in your life when time moved very slowly. Examples are: sitting in a very boring class or lecture where time drags, minutes seem like hours. Stuck in a traffic jam. Waiting for bad news, (or for your kid to get home), Waiting in a Doctor’s office. Sitting in a dentist’s chair.
2. Pick one or two and step into the experience. Notice all the things you can. What do you see, hear, smell, feel, etc.. Look for all the little things.

SEE: Is your vision narrow and focused, or broad and open. Are there colors, or does it seem dull and in grays.

HEAR: Are the sounds loud and quiet, clearer, muffled, close or far away. What about internal sounds...where are the voices?

FEEL: Where is your center? Are you externally or internally focused? How is your stomach and chest? Do you feel heavy or light?

SMELL or TASTE: Do you notice anything?

Be as specific as possible. These are your sub-modalities.

3. Clear your mind. Break the state.
4. Find a time where time moved very quickly. Examples are a party where the evening is gone before you know it. A really good movie, where you’re lost in it. A sporting event you’re enjoying (participating). Being with someone you love.
5. Find your sub-modalities for this experience.
6. Compare the differences. Try to mix and match some of these.
7. Allow yourself to experience what is known as the "Zone" - fast on the inside; slow on the outside. Your internal responses are rapid, flowing, and effortless. Your mind and body react instantly to events on the outside that seem to be moving slowly. Fast on the inside/slow on the outside.
8. Give yourself an anchor so you can have the "Zone" when needed.

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