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When you work with a coach who embraces the principles of NLP with skill,
that person uses the NLP presuppositions and believes in your unlimited
potential. The coach supports you in achieving goals that seemed impossible,
by getting you clear on your values and beliefs and changing the interference
that gets in your way. And that can be seriously liberating and fun. No joking.
NLP coaching focuses your attention on getting the results you want – the
outcomes – and stops you dithering along the way, dissipating energy on all
the things that you don’t want. NLP helps you to jump over or remove the
barriers that stop you. Coaching closes that gap from where you are now to
where you want to get to – from your present state to your desired state.
Action turns the dream into reality. One key reason why coaching gets you
results is that you make a commitment to action. Another reason is that you
break down your goals into bite-sized, realistic chunks. When you work with a
coach you make a commitment to somebody else, as if somebody’s standing
beside you with the stopwatch and clipboard and checking in at regular
intervals to make sure that you’re on track.
The principles of NLP can apply to achieving success in sports, and so you
often find sports coaches using the anchoring techniques of NLP to help a
client get into a confident state before a big match or performance.
Coaching is often about enabling people to restore their balance and
harmony. We believe that coaching is about much more than simply
excelling on the golf course or in boardroom battles. Taking a holistic view –
considering all aspects of your life – enables you to create your own future.
We coach highly successful executives who want to be outstanding in their
work. By examining the whole picture of their lives as well as their work
patterns, these people unleash their own energy and direction to get what
they want.
If you excel in one aspect of your life to the detriment of other aspects, say
your work, life at work may be great but your home life becomes miserable.
You then have an unbalanced and potentially unhealthy existence. Clients
who succeed at the extreme heights in business can damage their health or
important relationships along the way. And those who have a very comfortable
home life can neglect their professional potential. If these scenarios describe
you, finding an NLP coach can help you restore balance and harmony to your
life.
Using NLP to Support Your Health
‘Stressed’ spelled backwards is ‘desserts’. Little wonder that dieting is so
stressful when you keep seeing those puddings in front of your eyes –
puddings can be very attractive when you’re stressed!
