After weeks, months of working on my improvement, I started looking for a helping hand: a coach, a mentor or whomever could help me get over my limiting beliefs. My focus has constantly been to improve my shortcomings, my deficiencies, whatever I thought was not optimal about me. This week, I met with a candidate …
Author: marijntulp
Losing focus
Keeping yourself motivated to reach a goal can be challenging from time to time. When starting to work towards your goal, you enthusiastically dive into it, with complete focus on your goal. Later on in the process, however, the novelty wears of, other things come along, once in a while you fail to accomplish whatever …
Where you least expect it…
While continuing my soft skill development, NLP showed its strength to me in an area where I least expected it. I am a fanatic runner and, as many runners, occasionally I have injuries here and there. Since a while now, I happen have a running injury in my right hip and a couple of week …
The next step…
I'm driving on a long road. I have been driving for hours, days, weeks... I know where I am going, but when will I be there? The navigation in the car doesn't work, I don't have a map and once in a while I pass a crossroads. But not knowing how to get where I …
Diving into the deep
After a week of playing the Communication Game, I can conclude that I am on the right track here. I start the day by checking the available challenges and picking some of them to focus on. This really motivates me to do things I would otherwise procrastinate. Besides, I often encounter unexpected situations where I …
The Communication Game
After writing my previous post, I kept contemplating about last year's eye-opener: 'communication is difficult' can also be 'communication is fun.' I came to conclude that, even though it opened my eyes, I still hadn't adopted this new belief. So this week, I dove into the limiting beliefs and how to turn them into empowering …
I’m not the center of the universe
There I was, sitting at the table at the start of my first NLP training. I really wanted to do this, because communication is so difficult! Like many training courses, we started with an introduction round: Who are you? Where are you from? And why this training? The closer we came to my turn to …
Losing the flow
I was doing so well the last couple of weeks: I knew my outcome, I knew what I had to do to get there and I was doing exactly that! I was in a real flow going towards my final goal. And then suddenly... this week, for some reason, it felt like I lost it …
The Circle of Trust
I have been practicing building rapport for several weeks now and the more experience I get, the more I try to expand this skill. I started with matching and mirroring. Next, I focused on the representational systems by listening to predicates and only recently I also included learning to recognize representational systems from body posture. …
The Gumpian Technique
I was hoping to continue practicing my sensory acuity this week and I had already set my weekly goals when I got struck by the flu. Not being able to leave the bed, I had Netflix to accompany me. This first movie that caught my eye was Forrest Gump. I have seen this movie several …