“One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” – Dale Carnegie

This quote by the amazing Dale Carnegie is a powerful reminder of the need to complete our “dreaming” or goal setting by creating an NLP ANCHOR and then stepping onto our success path.

An anchor sets up a response pattern so that you can feel the way you want to, whenever you want. Use a sensory stimulus as the anchor to attach to the state you want, and then repeat that stimulus to recreate the state.

There are many examples of this powerful process, already in your memory bank.  Have you ever noticed that when you hear an old song or smell something familiar that specific memories of sounds, tastes, smells or feelings are triggered?  That’s because you consciously or unconsciously created an anchor for this experience.

And you can use this anchoring on purpose, to change your behavior and achieve your goals, such as loosing weight, stopping smoking, overcoming the fear of public speaking, successfully interviewing for a job, improving performance and much, much more.  It can be as easy as turning on a light switch…

Here are the basic steps for creating an anchor.

1. Decide what state you want to anchor. (i.e. confidence)
2. Recall a past vivid experience for the state you are anchoring.
3. Apply a specific trigger as the state is reaching its peak (i.e. press your thumb and index finger together, or think of a symbol)
4. Break the state – think about something else, then
5. Test and Repeat the anchor until you achieve the experience you want

So, think about your dream or goal.  What specifically do you want to accomplish? How will it look, feel, sound taste and smell when you achieve it?

Allow your senses to really come alive as you experience achieving your goal in each of your senses.  Allow that “experience” to grow and grow until it could burst in its intensity. Then apply your trigger.

Working with a clinical hypnotherapist and NLP practioner will allow you to take full advantage of these and even more powerful tools for your personal development and success.

Repeating these steps again and again will bring life to your goals and from that life comes the next step… suiting up and heading out to achieve your success…

I hope you found this helpful.  For more activities like this, and a “fresh perspective“ for your life sign up for my newsletter here.

Wishing you Many blessings this year and always, Patricia

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My husband and I recently took a vacation to Kauai, Hawaii to celebrate our 16^th wedding anniversary.  We had a wonderful time even though it was just one week.  While there we snorkeled, hiked, shopped and took a fabulous helicopter ride.

Vacations provide a wonderful opportunity to “step away from” life as usual…

Since returning I’ve meditated on the following question:, “So Patricia, what’s going to change – what are you going to do differently in your life now that you’ve returned to it with “fresh eyes”?”

Fresh Eye Perspective

What can a fresh eye perspective do for us, and what’s the point?  We’ve all heard the statement about being too close to a situation to see it clearly.  Well, stepping out of and gazing at our lives helps us see what we are actually doing.

Taking an unbiased objective view provides us many pearls of wisdom.  We can see where we are supporting our selves, where we need help, what we are tolerating, how we are treating ourselves and what effect it’s having on our lives…

Gaining a fresh perspective is valuable and you don’t need to travel on an airplane or spend money to do it. Here’s an activity to help.

Activity

Find quiet time alone

Close your eyes and take several deep-relaxing breaths

Picture yourself as the main character on a movie screen as you are sitting in the audience watching…

Allow the movie to begin in 2009… and watch as month by month goes by…

What do you see?  What happens to the main character?  What is she/he doing, thinking, seeing, feeling and telling herself?

Allow yourself time to take it all in…

Then, knowing you can change the movie for this main character for 2010, think about how you will change it.  What will happen…. What do you want to happen…

Spend quality time here designing the script and casting characters…

Write it all down and check it periodically through out the year for any editing you may want to do.

I hope you found this helpful.  For more activities like this, and a “fresh perspective“ for your life sign up for my newsletter here.

Wishing you Many blessings this year and always, Patricia

Our December Newsletter
http://community.benchmarkemail.com/users/pevessey/newsletter/Dec-08-2009-Email

New Hypnosis for Weight Loss Courses starting soon…See them here:
http://online.activecommunities.com/BurienParks/Activities/ActivitiesDetails.asp?ProcessWait=N&aid=219

Your comments & feedback are always welcome and encouraged. For an appointment call 206-459-2898 or e-mail me at: patricia@integritylifecoach.comHome page http://www.integritylifecoach.com Copyright© 2010 Patricia Eslava Vessey… All Rights Reserved