Edward de Bono (1990)Lateral Thinking,Penguin.
John Grinder & Judith DeLozier (1996)Turtles All the Way Down:
Prerequisites to Personal Genius, Metamorphous Press.260 NLP AT WORK
THOUGHT PROVOKERS1 Identify someone to whom you do not relate to as well as you
would like:
❏ In your family.
❏ In your work.
❏ In your social circle.
For each of them list what you believe about them. Think of an
occasion when you communicated with them and it was not the
way you would really like it to have been.
Now think of someone in each of these groups with whom
you have a good/excellent relationship. Identify one of the beliefs
you hold about them. Imagine holding the belief that you have
about the family member with whom you have a good relationship
for the family member with whom you would like to improve your
relationship. Imagine having an interaction operating from that
belief. What are you seeing, hearing, and feeling? How are they
responding to you? If they are not yet responding in the way you
would like, re-experience the belief of excellence until you have it
more firmly or strongly in your mind.
Repeat the process. Now repeat the whole process for the
person in your work and then the person in your social circle.
2 Think of a goal that you want for yourself but have not yet achieved
and you are not sure why not. What beliefs do you hold about:
❏ Your ability to achieve this goal.
❏ Your right to achieve this goal?
What beliefs might be limiting you in the achievement of this goal?
What beliefs might you hold instead of the limiting ones?
3 Which of the beliefs of excellence do you already hold?
4 Which beliefs of excellence would you like to hold?
5 Which one belief of excellence would make the biggest positive
difference to your life if you held it? What do you imagine would
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