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You’ve probably had times in your life where you’ve achieved a goal so easily that it seemed totally effortless. You established a goal and then it just seemed to arrive, as if you’d picked it out of a catalogue, placed your order and it was delivered to you at just the right time, all wrapped up and nicely packaged.

"So what do you want to achieve?" I asked a recent client. "Well, really I just want to achieve a work/life balance," she responded. "Hmm, and what exactly is a work/life balance?" Like many others, she seemed confused. She mumbled something about, "having more time for herself" and then confessed she didn't really know. I told her I thought that the concept of work/life balance was a load of nonsense and, in trying to achieve it, we’re faced with yet another source of stress and angst.

Strengthen your influence factor by using these tips to have more leverage with your colleagues, boss, children, friends or anyone else. These tips are easy to use and you may find them more than a little surprsing.

This book contains information and applications for almost every area of your life and could have a major impact on the relationships you have with your partner, children and animals - if you let it.

In an experiment in the USA, a teacher was given a group of under-performing students to teach for a year. Although the students were considered ‘slow’ the researchers told the teacher that the children were the crème de la crème; naturally gifted and expected to excel. The teacher accepted what she was told and expected top performances from every child. Her brain had being ‘programmed’ by what she’d been told and thus what she would experience.

The short and simple answer? NLP is the study of Human Excellence.

Although 3 weeks of lying on the beach of a tropical island might seem like a great way to de-stressify yourself, sometimes that just not possible! So here are some quick, practical and easy ways to de-stressify, chill out and generally get back to feeling in control. AND, you can use them all year round.

When I was a young schoolgirl there was a girl in my class who hated me with a vengeance. Jean Owen. She used to bully me; push me around and hit me whenever she felt like it. She was much bigger than me and I felt powerless to do anything about it. Jean was also the class clown and everyone else thought she was great. But I detested her with a passion. Then one day something serious happened …

He was literally doubled up. First he coughed, then he spluttered then he erupted into a staccato laugh that sounded like a machine gun firing. At one point he was gasping for breath and could hardly breathe.I love it when I get this kind of response to a joke!

You might have already met the Night Terrorist. He might turn up after you’ve had a particularly busy day. You’re tired. Your muscles ache and your head is spinning. As the evening progresses you think longingly of your bed.

When you hear that word 'but' don't you just grind your teeth? You know that whatever nice thing was said in the first part of the sentence is about to be negated. You steel yourself as you prepare to receive... the real truth.

NLP can, and is, being used in just about every facet of human endeavour. Since it was developed in the mid 1970's the use of NLP has expanded exponentially. The reason for such huge growth? It works! While many people who haven't been exposed to NLP often think it's a type of therapy, nothing could be further from the truth. Here are just SOME of the ways NLP is currently being used.

When you speak the same language as someone else it's easy to believe that all parties have the same understanding of each word. If this were really the case we would rarely misunderstand each other.

How is it that every day, people trust complete strangers in fast cars to abide by the road rules and stay on their side of the road? Yet, when it comes to listening to what their partner says and playing by the rules of good relationships, the same people throw trust out the window and 'mind read' bad intentions.