Creativity and innovation are core skills for business and personal success.   Unleash your creative potentials and start to create your better future! This three-day intensive workshop will help.

Learn to unleash your creative potentials and move toward becoming the innovator you can be. Creativity and innovation are core competencies for business and personal success. This workshop is about unleashing your innate creativity. The focus is on developing the skills of creative problem-solving and getting out of your own way, so you can easily dissolve, solve, and transform challenges! There is no better way to increase your opportunities for success.

To read more go to this page: READ MORE ON THIS PAGE

Celebrating 365 Days of Gratitude is a great way to remember to count our blessings every day of the year and is a testimony to the life changing power of doing so.

I’m very excited to be a part of this book! Gratitude is so critical to well-being, motivation, happiness, and discovering the full meanings in life. This book will encourage you to remind yourself about what you are grateful for every day.

My entry is about Precious Moments and the life embracing choice to notice and appreciate the precious moments in daily life.

This book is full of inspirational stories and appreciation, not only for the things and people we sometimes take for granted, but for challenging circumstances and often less than desirable events.

Expressing appreciation for the good things in our lives, though sometimes overlooked, is fairly easy. But imagine expressing your gratitude for things such as not fitting in, Muscular Dystrophy, bankruptcy, or the loss of a job or a loved one. That’s when the practice of gratitude really starts to take on a life changing power!

Net proceeds from all books in The Gratitude Book Project® series are proudly donated to the following charities:

• Feeding America
• Women for Women International
• American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (A.S.P.C.A.)

These books make great holiday gifts for friends and family and the book is a wonderful way to remember to count our daily blessings. I hope you will join me in supporting these organizations and in keeping gratitude in motion throughout the year.

Pick up your copies at Amazon, “The Gratitude Book Project: Celebrating 365 Days of Gratitude.”

Sweet Fruit from the Bitter Tree: 61 Stories of Creative & Compassionate Ways out of Conflict by Mark Andreas!

Rosemary’s story from the book was featured on Steve Andreas’ Blog.

About the story he said:

This is a passionate and moving story of courage and the influence of language. It’s a great example of entering another person’s world through mirroring — and much more — in an extremely dangerous situation.

We think you’ll enjoy this story, from Rosemary Lake-Liotta, sharing her experience working as an EMT in tough neighborhoods.

Her response was the opposite of the classic instructions in such situations. You are usually told to respond to conflict with placating words like “let’s all calm down and discuss this rationally.” I think you can easily imagine how that would have worked here.

You can read Words Save Lives here. Steve Andreas posted it on his blog.

The book is full of valuable stories! You can read more about the book at this website, SweetFruitBook.com.

You can also purchase it on Amazon.

Rosemary added the following comment to clarify a few points about her story:

You can read Words Save Lives here. Steve Andreas posted it on his blog.

The book is full of valuable stories! You can read more about the book at this website, SweetFruitBook.com.

You can also purchase it on Amazon.

All the proceeds from the sale of the book are being donated to the NLP Research and Recognition Project.

Frank Bourke and myself authored the chapter in the book on the NLP Research and Recognition Project.

The book is already been released in the UK, and will be out shortly in the USA. Amazon.com in the UK has the following description of the book:

This long awaited book brings together some of the most recent innovations and applications of the traditional NLP model. Each chapter describes a new model or application and contains step by step instructions or a case study on how and when to apply it. For NLP Practitioners it provides an outstanding collection of new tools and ideas to take their practice forward. Contributors include: Shelle Rose Charvet -LAB Profile: Decoding Language and Behaviour to Improve Communication; Ian McDermott -NLP Coaching: How to Develop a Coaching Mindset; L Michael Hall -Meta States: Modelling Self-Reflexive Consciousness; John McWhirter -Behavioural Remodelling: Advancing NLP s Linguistic Model; Charles Faulkner -Modeling Market Wizards: Revealing the Methods of Outstanding Traders and Investors; Nick Kemp -Provocative Change Works: Improvisation and Humour in Therapy and Coaching; Bob Bodenhamer -What Triggers Stuttering?: A Model for Achieving Fluency; Robert Dilts -Success Factor Modelling: The Secrets of Entrepreneurial Leadership; Martin Roberts -The Well Formed Problem: A New Model for Managing Change in Business. The book also includes chapters on some of the most innovative IT projects and communities where developments and advances continue to be made, including the Clean Language community and the NLP Research and Recognition Project. More than anything, this book represents a collaboration of some of the best innovators in the field of NLP to push the boundaries of the traditional NLP model and create some solutions for the problems created by the increasingly troubled world in which we live.

The full contents can also be viewed on Amazon.com in the UK.

The book can be pre-ordered on Amazon.com in the USA; the USA release is scheduled for December 20th.

Take control of your life – and your success – and raise it to the next level with this three-day intensive workshop. You will learn about your patterns of thought and the power of meaning-making to improve your performance and increase your opportunities for success. This training is built around hands-on tools that will help you access deeper focus, design effective thought strategies, and leverage both to enhance and support better living – in both your professional and personal life.

Transformative Self-Leadership is about accessing your personal genius and bringing out your best!

See full description here: Tranformative Self-Leadership

In this clip I discuss how appreciating and doing in combination create the energy to make positive manifestations more likely to happen. Indeed the lack of focus on taking action is one flaw in the law of attraction notions. In short, the synergy of appreciation and taking action is likely to attract more good things to you.

Video Transcript:

The idea of the whole thing is that all of these processes [Reflecting, Appreciating, and Creating] facilitate Doing and also facilitate Abundance.

We feel that appreciation is really an energizer. Appreciating yourself, appreciating other people, appreciating various things in your life is really appreciating some of the abundance that exists out there; and that appreciation creates energy, which is going to help bring more positive things to you in your life.

Not necessarily in a purely law of attraction type of way because I think, at least by my way of thinking, one of the things missing from the law of attraction, though it has a lot to offer and a lot of good messages, is okay – what about the doing?

Is all this going to be, if you just believe it strong enough it’s going to manifest? Well maybe, but generally it’s really difficult to believe something that purely; and second, it’s often doing that is going to bring more opportunities to you. Both in a practical way, whether you think about it in terms of the higher energy of the universe way of thinking about it, but just practically if you’re out there doing things and interacting with the world it is more likely that things are going to come to you!

Part of having that happen is appreciating what is out there. If you like people you’re going to interact with them more. It just creates an energy about you if you’re in a state of appreciation, if you’re appreciating, if that’s part of the eyes with which you look at the world…

To read more see the article on the 4 Practices Necessary to Achieve Abundance and explore other articles on this site and on Change Paths Blog.

The conference was held in Grand Junction, Colorado (the home of L. Michael Hall, an originator of Neuro-Semantics) July 1 through July 3, 2011. Representatives from 14 countries attended: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, France, Hong Kong-China, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, Switzerland, and the United States. Seventeen presenters delivered 20 workshops on the themes of Business, Coaching, and Personal Development along with 3 keynote presentations.

Dr. Hall commented that “…the passion and energy at the Conference was incredible! It was exciting. It often felt like a burning fire of passion and care for what we have and what it can do in the world…” I agree wholeheartedly Michael! The conference was lively, inspirational, and practical. The collective wisdom, optimism, and hope expressed by the presenters and participants was amazing. This gathering of diverse people, a global community, with the common mission of promoting excellence and self-actualization to change the world for the better – one person at a time – was something to behold!

My contribution was a workshop entitled “How to Make Meta-States Stick.” Meta-States in Neuro-Semantics are the frames we create, the meanings we create, about ourselves, our possibilities and potentials. Our frames limit us or they can unleash us toward growth and transformation. While it can be relatively easy to visit useful frames, the challenge is making them home, making them stick, for lasting change.

I presented a framework for understanding what makes changes become integrated into who we are for lasting and robust change.

The audience offered a lot from their own extensive experiences helping people sustain positive frames to improve their lives. This all made for a lively, stimulating, and thought provoking 75 minutes! As I had hoped, participants left with new ideas, practical strategies, and inspiration regarding how to make changes that last – and how to assist others to achieve their goals.

For me a successful workshop is one where I have the opportunity to teach and share useful ideas AND where I learn from the knowledge and creativity of the participants! This workshop met both criteria.

Indeed the whole conference was characterized by learning, sharing, and exploring possibilities.

The next International Neuro-Semantics conference will be help in Malaysia is 2013. To learn more about Neuro-Semantics you can visit http://www.neurosemantics.com ; and look for more articles here, coming soon.