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Remember that NLP gives you the tools to prepare mentally for any
presentation. Get clear about how you want to appear at the presentation –
laughing and jovial, full of deep and meaningful gravitas, or perhaps
somewhere in between? Find a time when you were like that in the past, so
that you can hold, or anchor, the previous experience and regain that feeling
for yourself. Turn to Chapter 9 for all about setting stage anchors.
Here’s the most important tip – the Holy Grail: don’t get hung up on other
people’s tips and techniques. We all present differently, and being yourself
can be refreshing. When you speak from the heart about something you care
passionately about, people connect with your authenticity and sense of
purpose.
Managing Your Time and Precious Resources
Everybody has the same amount of time in the week: 168 hours. So why do
some people spend their lives racing against the clock while others gently
amble along? The difference is in how people use that time.
Understanding how you relate to time makes a big difference to your daily
experience. NLP distinguishes between people who operate in time – where
you live in and for the moment – and people who operate through time –
where you step back to view past, present, and future as an onlooker. Being
in the moment is easier when you’re in time. Planning time is much easier
when you’re through time. Time-travelling tips are waiting for you in Chapter 13.
As an NLP coach, Kate encourages her clients to notice how they relate to
time, and to spend it wisely, in order to understand the impact of spending
time on what they don’t want to be doing and freeing up their energy for
what really motivates them. Your time is precious, and when you’ve spent it,
you can’t reclaim it.
Taking on too much to please others has the opposite effect when you let
them down. NLP shows you how to say ‘no’ while maintaining rapport with
friends and colleagues.
Being Coached to Success
Do you want to do something, something in particular that you’ve thought
about for a long time but have yet to start or to achieve? If so, NLP coaching can
help you make that leap from the idea – the initial desire to make a change –
to making it happen.
