NLP Made Easy! Episode #12: NLP is the study of 'human excellence!

Hi my friends! 

The other day I met a mason who is much wanted in the building industry. He is paid more than any other mason. I saw his brick work and it was so neat. I asked him how he is able to do such an excellent work. He gave a simple reply: 'I don't understand what you ask sir....but let me tell you this much...I place a brick and look at it....unless I am fully satisfied that I done it to my entire satisfaction, I will not pick up the next brick....'

That's why he is an excellent mason! 

I am sure you use the word 'excellent'. The dictionary meaning of the word is:extremely good; outstanding, very good, outstanding, magnificent, marvelous, superior etc. Almost all of us want to be excellent in doing what we do. We admire who are excellent. 

But have you pondered over the question what happens in your mind before you do something excellent outside? Why some people are excellent by nature and some others have to strain to become excellent? 

Its all in the mental programme! 

See this episode in which I have discussed this simple frame of mind called excellence! 

NC Sridharan

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NLP Made Easy! Episode 11: There is always a strong link between your mind and body!

Hi friends! 

Next time you meet a person who comes to you in a confused frame of mind and discusses his problem, notice his body posture and body language. You will notice something different in his facial expression, eyebrows, jaws etc. You may even notice a slight couch in his body posture. If you are able to clear his confusion to his satisfaction, once again notice how he looks. 

You will notice a difference. His looks will be different, his eyebrows will not be raised, you will see a different facial expression altogether. 

Next time when you wear a new suit or an apparel  which you like most, notice how you feel inside your mind! 

There is always a link between your mind and body! 

See this episode and do the exercise suggested and you will be amazed about this simple but powerful NLP principle! 

NC Sridharan
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NLP Made Easy! Episode # 10: There is always a connection between 'inside' and 'outside'!

Hi My Friends! 

Next time you watch a TV Show, try to become inquisitive to understand what is happening inside the TV set to get the images on the monitor. The same thing applies to a computer, a washing machine, a rice cooker etc. Unless you understand the technology which produces certain outputs from these gadgets, you cannot trouble shoot if there is a problem.

In the same way, a behaviour that you see outside a person has connection with the thoughts, feelings, emotions, attitude etc of the person displaying the behaviour. It applies to your behaviours also.

You have a choice of seeing things happening or making things happen! You can make things happen if you understand the mind - body connection. Else you have to accept what you see happening! This is where knowledge of NLP will be useful. 

In this episode I have discussed some common examples. 

NC sridharan
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NLP Made Easy! Episode # 9: Without Self-introspection We Cannot Change!

Hi Friends! 

If you want to change, you have to introspect asking the following questions:

• What am I doing now?
• How what I am doing will influence my life?
• What will happen if continue this without change?
• What change I should bring about in my life and what will it do for me? 
• What will happen to me if I don't change?

For bringing about personal changes, we should be personally convinced and personally determined. Others' conviction and determination will be useless in the absence of our own.

NLP will help us to understand why we change and we do not change.

See this episode where I have discussed a very important case study.

NC Sridharan

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NLP Made Easy! Episode # 8: Understand the link between mind - thought - feeling - behaviour - habit!

Hi my friends! 

The other day I met an interesting person in my personal one to one counselling: an alcohol addict. His problem is he is so much addicted to drinking that we has to work very hard to earn - to drink! 

He was very clear: he needs money to drink and he needs work to earn money! But in the process he's losing his health and his wife is very worried, not because he is working to earn, but because, he is working to drink and ultimately die! 

I explained the issue of his alcohol addiction to his wife. I explained that as long as we do not arrest the 'thought' of having a drink entering his mind, we cannot wean him out from drinking. 

There is a close connection and link between mind - thought - feeling - behaviour - and habit. You need to understand how these are interconnected and how this connection make us who we are! 

See this episode....

NC Sridharan
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NLP Made Simple! Episode # 7: Understand the 'programme' to change the output!

Hi my friends! 

The other day I was playing a song from my iPhone. After a song another song started playing and I did not want to hear it at that time. After sometime I realised that I have created a 'playlist' and queued up the songs in that sequence and whether I like that sequence or not! If I want to change the song sequence I have to go back to the playlist and delete the queue. Unless and until I do this, the sequence will continue. I may not know how to change the playlist queue, but the iPhone will not be able to help my predicament.

The same thing happens when it comes to change human behaviours and habit.

This is where understanding the NLP principles will help us to get rid of hindering behaviours and habit.

See this episode....

NC Sridharan
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NLP Made Easy! Episode # 6: Our External Behaviours Are Not External!

Hi Friends!

Take a rubber band and pull. Then leave it....you will see the rubber band going back to its original shape. If it does not, then it is not a rubber band which can be used because it does not have the functionality of a rubber band! 
The same thing is true of human beings. If we take the natural instinct of resistance from human beings, we will cease to be human beings. We are not robots to be manipulated by commands....

You see a person indulging in some activities. You may like it or may not like it. Just because you don't like it you cannot change it. Because he is 'programmed' to display that behaviour. 

What you see outside a person is not just an 'extra fitting'! But what is inside is projecting

outside. This principle applies to human behaviours and habits. We cannot remove a behaviour or habit by applying the 'Alt+Cont+Del' Key! 

We cannot remove a behaviour by force, nor can we introduce a new behaviour by force. That will amount to 'manipulation'. 

Manipulation is temporary, but modification is permanent. Modification calls for convincing the mind and intellect of the person. NLP will be useful to achieve this. Human beings are not puppets nor you are a puppeteer! 

See this episode.
NC Sridharan
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NLP Made Simple: Episode 5 : 'Human Beings and Meaning Making People'!

Hi my friends!

Human beings and meaning making beings and thinking beings! They think what they are doing and what they have to do before doing what they do. Unless it makes some meaning to them, they will not be committed to what they have to do.
If we understand this simple principle, we will understand why people work so hard. 

People who suffer to achieve something great enjoy that suffering.

Before doing anything they ask the question: 'what will it do for me and how is this important to me?'
Unless this question is addressed and answered, we will not be consistent in what we do, especially when it involves high order of discipline and pain!
See this episode, share and subscribe....
NC Sridharan
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NLP Made simple 4: The founders of NLP. The basic principle behind NLP

Dear reader,

What causes a behaviour? ‘Methodology’ and ‘Technology’ – the difference. NLP is about the ‘technology’ behind human behaviour.

'Methodology' is what to do to get an outcome. It is about the steps. But 'technology' makes you understand 'why' something happens. If methodology fails to produce a result, you should know the technology to fix the problem. NLP is about the technology of the human mind and behaviour.

See this....

NCS

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NLP Made Simple 3 : Who controls the 'mind'?

Dear readers,

If the mind is sending commands to the brain and the brain directs the five senses, the question is who controls and directs the mind? The answer is 'intellect' or 'buddhi'. Our intellect gives us logical

inputs as to what we should do and what we should not do. We should appreciate the intellect - mind - brain link and how they interact with each other to understand the NLP principles and how we can use the same to enhance the quality of our life. 
See this episode.
NC Sridharan
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NLP Made Simple! Episode 2: NLP and Relationship Management - the Mind - Brain Connection!

Hi my friends!

Have you ever wondered why sometime people are not 'connecting' with you! Have you ever noticed an 'emotional gap' between you and someone else? This can be explained by understanding how the brain controls the five senses and how the mind is the 'master' of the brain!
See this episode, like and share....
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N C Sridharan
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NLP Made Simple 1

My dear friends,

Before we understand what is NLP, we should understand three other issues: the brain, the mind and the intellect. Just think for a few minutes....what is the difference....is brain different from mind? Is mind different from intellect? If there are different, how are they interconnected?

See this episode.....
Please send your queries to my email id: ncs_sridharan@yahoo.com
NC Sridharan
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Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) Made Simple! Video episodes...

My dear friends,

I underwent my first Advanced Practitioner's Programme in NLP with NLP Comprehensive, Colorado, USA in 1997 and then I did Master Practitioner's Programme twice in the same great NLP Institute receiving my intensive training from world class NLP Trainers such as Charles Faulkner, David Gordon, Steve Andreas, Connirae Andreas, Judith DeLozier, Shelle Rose Charvet, Robert Mc Donald, Tamara Andreas, Lara Ewing, Garry Faris, Lynda Fudold, Tom Best, Joseph O' Connor, Kelly Gerling, Tim Hallbom, Gerry Schmidt, Suzi Smith, Chris Freeman,. I also served as a Coach for the Master Practitioner Students. For the past more than 20 years I have been handling NLP based interventions as part of my Change Management Initiative in a wide cross section of organisations. I also do personal counselling as part of my life's mission 'To Make a Difference in Others' Life'. I help executives, managers and students in career guidance using NLP as the platform and tool. NLP is a

simple but powerful tool to bring about changes in oneself and in organisations.

In this series of short episodes, I will be sharing with you important ideas and information about NLP and how the same can be applied to our daily life. I will also be sharing with you my videos.

I do hope that you will find my postings useful and relevant.

If you have any queries please send me an e mail to my e mail: ncs_sridharan@yahoo.com and please do visit my website www.thetimefoundation.com

Thanks
NC Sridharan
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'365 Exciting Ways to Live!' Excitement # 110 : Necessity—the Mother of Not Only Invention, but also Speed

'Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity"

Jean Toomer

When we have to, we will and that is the beauty of the human nature. Like an iceberg, what remains hidden inside us is much more than what is seen outside. Unless and until we want, we will not improve our productivity. At the same time, life is not just speed and pace of work.

The only question is: do we want to be faster and even more effective? Couple of years ago, I was a part of an Indian delegation to the Asian Productivity Organization, Tokyo, Japan to attend a seminar on Motivation for Productivity. We went to a pet food company, called Shin Nippon Pet Food Company. There I noticed the symbol for quality circles as “S”. Normally companies use the letter “Q” as the symbol to refer to their quality improvement drives. Interested to know why this company used the letter “S”, I asked the Managing Director of the company. He said that the letter “S” represents “Survival” and he said that the survival of the company depends on the quality of the product and services and hence the symbol “S”!

I was quite impressed with the logic!

(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')

NC Sridharan

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365 Exciting Ways to Live: Excitement # 106. You Will, When You Have To!

You Will, When You Have To

In the struggle for survival, the fittest win out at the expense of their rivals because they succeed in adapting themselves best to their environment.

Charles Darwin

We have to enhance our productivity, and not our working hours! This means that we should work less and produce more results in less time. This is the only way we can get excited in living. Many of us think that if we have to enjoy living, we have to work very hard. Nothing can be far from truth. Increasing the pace of work is different from increasing the work load. We have to find out how we can do this. We may have to use technology, motivate and empower people, think differently, learn new skills etc. All these things are difficult to practice. But the alternative is to work more and enjoy less. We will have no leisure, we will have more stress, no social life etc.

But we have to enjoy the process of productivity improvement.  

I recall a story. There was a rabbit which was chased by a cheetah. The rabbit outran the cheetah and the cheetah gave up. But before giving up, the cheetah asked the rabbit how he was able to run faster than the cheetah, which was supposed to be the fastest animal. The rabbit said it was simple: `you run for food, and I run for my life!'

You will work faster, if you want to and you will like that speed!

(From my book '365 Excitement to Live')

NC Sridharan
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365 Exciting Ways to Live: Excitement # 107. Time, technology & money connection

Time, technology & money connection

 There are no speed limits on the road to excellence.

Unknown

Time is not everything and money is not everything. But the combination of time and money makes many things! We are judged by our performance and performance has to be a time bound result. Since time is a scarce resource, anything that saves time will be a marketable commodity. If we understand this simple common sense point, we would have understood a universal marketing strategy – convince your client that your product or service will save his time and you will have his order!

If you think for a while why do we need technology, you will realise that technology saves time. That is the difference between an automobile and a bullock cart. A product or service is judged how they enrich the quality of your time and thus your life style. The more a product improves the quality of your life, the more the product is valued. That's why we pay more for an air ticket than a bus ticket!

The other day, I was in a road side car mechanic shed and I was thinking about the mechanics that form the pit crew in a Formula One or Indy Car race.

I have something to share with you on this. Wait…

(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')

NC Sridharan

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365 Exciting Ways to Live: Excitement # 108. Seconds count when it comes to international sports!

Seconds count when it comes to international sports!

But to be fair, if you take players from my era to now, the game has changed and the players have many more shots. They use them differently than we did.

The speed of the game has changed.
- Ivan Lendl

Speed is the cutting edge for succeeding globally.

In car racing, a car may meet with some problem like a flat tyre. Depending on the type of racing, the size of the pit crew will differ.  In Formula One Series, 19 trained mechanics will make the pit crew working as a team with perfect delegation of responsibilities.

Each tyre will be attended by three mechanics – one to use the pneumatic wrench to remove the wheel's lug; one to take off the used tyre; and the third to reinstall the new tyre. Two mechanics will be lifting the car, one in the front and the other at the rear. One mechanic will function as the starter man and another as the fuel man. While these mechanics are allotted specific and precise jobs, a `lollipop man' will be guiding the driver to slow down, to brake, to stop etc. The balance mechanics will be deployed with very specific responsibilities to save every millisecond of the tyre changing and the refueling process!

You've heard the proverb `too many cooks spoil the broth'? Not when they are trained well as to what and how to do their jobs!

(From my book '365 Exciting Ways to Live')

NC Sridharan

www.thetimefoundation.com

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