Five Success Principles for NLP
Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) consists of very effective techniques that give you back choices that you didn’t know you had. Even more than that, it is an attitude of curiosity, of wanting to learn new things, and explore possibilities. In order for anything from NLP to be successfully applied, there are five basic principles that need to be respected.
Let’s have a look at them:
Firstly, you need to know your outcome. In case you haven’t yet, do read the article about outcomes, now. Well done. So, anything that happens in NLP is focused on the outcome of the person you are working with. Although you might be tempted to sometimes impose your own outcomes on someone (we always know better, don’t we?!), the clients outcome is the most important. Hence, you can only achieve effective change when respecting someone else’s model of the world and working towards their outcome.
Secondly, take action. While this might seem self evident, many people do not do that. They make up excuses, or give excellent reasons of why sitting around and doing nothing is the right thing to do. Well, NLP is all about making things happen, for yourself or for others. Things seldom happen when nothing is done to expedite an outcome. Rarely has somebody achieved anything by sitting around pitying themselves, because nothing is happening, so, feel free, to take action now.
Third is sensory acuity. Many times when we are talking to someone, we are talking to ourselves in our heads at the same time, and once the person takes a breath, we take that as an invitation to give our own opinion. Rarely has that elicited effective change in anyone. Sensory acuity, noticing those minute shifts and changes in others, is only possible when you are paying absolute attention to the person. Listening, looking and having total external focus will lead to you noticing everything that is going on, while also making you a great listener that people want to talk to. So, no talking behind your head!!
Fourth, and my personal favourite, is behavioural flexibility. If what you are doing isn’t working, anything else has a better chance of working, so change what you are doing. Many times we just stubbornly repeat the same thing, yet that has already proven not to work. The more flexible you are in your own behaviour, the more you are controlling the situation you are in, and the better you become as a communicator in general.
Finally, you should always operate from a state and physiology of excellence. Operating from a totally resourceful state will empower you, and as states are quite contagious, it will also empower whoever you are with. If you are not feeling too hot, change that, by adopting a physiology of resourcefulness and firing off anchors that make you feel good.
These, in short, are the five principles to excellence in NLP and communication in general!
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