By which my friend Eleutherios assures me is the Kabbalistic (and poetic) equivalent of Steve Pavlina’s three principles of personal growth; truth (wisdom), love (beauty) and power (strength). This post has been a long time in coming, and in it I’ll explain why in order for me to move towards truth, love and power, I’ve [...]
Link: God's Debris
Just in case my posts last week on quantum physics and NLP, with the psychic development, intention and manifestation links to Steve Pavlina weren’t weird enough, here’s more thought-provoking strangeness to stretch your mind. Scott Adams, of Dilbert fame, has a free ‘thought experiment’ ebook for download, called ‘God’s Debris’: Imagine that you meet a [...]
When Heroes Get Stuck: Workshop Junkies
When I was coaching motivational workshops, I saw a lot of people who were ‘workshop junkies’; they’d be landing from workshop to workshop, seemingly learning loads, but never really producing fantastic results in their own lives. While my fellow coaches and I discussed many reasons as to why, lately I realized another elegant way it [...]
Paiboon The Monk
Yesterday one of our Life Coaches Blog bloggers, and dear friend, Paiboon (known affectionately as Uncle Paiboon), flew back to his native Thailand, and in one month’s time he’ll embark on his new spiritual quest: becoming a Buddhist monk for the next 3 months. I can remember Paiboon mentioning this goal of his for the [...]
NLP 101: People are Always Making The Best Choices They Have
If I told you that one of the key presuppositions in Neuro-Linguistic Programming was: People are always making the best choices they have you might think I was off my rocker. “Alvin,” you might say, “what about people who abuse their bodies with drugs and alcohol, take it out on their kids, and listen to [...]
5 Beliefs of Highly Ineffective Presenters
As a half-time wrap up to our NLP 101 series, I thought I’d share with you my recent privilege of watching someone crash and burn on stage In a way, this presenter, I won’t name him so we’ll call him Professor Snuggles, violated every one of the NLP presuppositions I’ve talked about so far. I’ll [...]
Thank You
I’d just like to send a big ‘thank you’ to those of you who wrote me these last couple of days (you know who you are) in response to my email (it’s priviledged email ). Your various kind words and hearty encouragement brought very warm smiles to my face, and made my entire day. Thank [...]