When I first started blogging I was attending the Master NLP Practitioner Course run by Paul McKenna training.  I thought it was great opportunity to share the journey, the insights and to re-enforce the learning by presenting the information.  One of the fascinating areas of NLP for me is something called decision strategies.  Simplistically, they are the things that happen inside our mind that cause us to take action.

I never cease to be fascinated and amazed by things that come up in my client sessions.  For example, I come across people who take on a whole new persona in the workplace.  They get stuff done, shifted, dealt with, complete...........yet in their personal lives, things don't happen.  They apply a whole new set of strategies to the things they do outside of work.  Looking at this logically, sometimes it is merely a case of some people being more motivated to do things for others, rather than for themselves, or it may be pure competition.  You want to do better than somebody else.  You want to look better than somebody else.  That is absolutely fine in my book.  You see the truth is, most people get a little uncomfortable when they disclose their egoic ambitions.  They think it is wrong or unattractive to display such traits.  I always remind my clients that I am not here to judge, I am fascinated to discover how they do what they do, i.e. the stuff that works.  For example, take a strategy that works for you in the workplace.  There is always a moment, a point, a place at which you decide to take action.  Something clicks doesn't it?  You get a green light somewhere in your mind and then comes certainty.

Examine your decision strategies.  Notice what happens when you decide to do something.  What sequence of events occur that lead up to you making the decision and then actually taking action.  Everybody can find a place in their lives where they have a decision strategy that works when stuff gets done.  All you have to do is to sift through your experience and remember what worked for you.  When the penny drops, you will discover that there are now a whole raft of things that you can handle with ease.