August 2007 Newsletter
Keys to an Achievable Outcome Using NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)

In this Issue:
- FREE Monthly MP3 Download
- Why do you want to create outcomes and goals using NLP
- Definition of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
- Four Principals for Success
- What is State vs. Goal?
- 9 Keys in Creating an Achievable Outcome
- 7 Ways to create well formed conditions for your outcomes and goals
- Some final important words in the way we learn to enhance your goals

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Title: NLP Goals (18 minutes, 5KB)

Why do you want to create outcomes and goals using NLP
When you utilize the techniques and principals below, you will quickly discover your goal setting should be magnificent. Here is an example: Let's say you want to go sailing. You get into your boat, but you have not clue where you want to go. When you have no idea where you are going, you will create a behavior that is undirected. You will end up just floating where you float. Why NLP is so important in setting goals is that you will produce a behavior that will be the most effective and efficient. You can produce the best possible results for your desired outcomes when using these NLP techniques.

So let's say you want to make more money. You do not want to write a goal saying, "I want to make more money". Instead you want to write the goal in the present tense, "I now make $___________." You want to specifically state your goal and your goal should be descriptive. The goal should be the description of the end state you have accomplished.You want to include what will that goal look like, feel like, hear like, etc. Be VERY specific about it.

Definition of NLP (Neuro Linguistic Programming)
NLP is how to use the language of the mind to consistently achieve our specific and desired outcomes. For many people, NLP is considered the discovery of personal excellence. Below is a more specific detail of NLP.

Neuro: The nervous system (the mind), through which our experience is processed via our five senses (visual, auditory, kinesthetic, olfactory, and gustatory).

Linguistic: Language and other nonverbal communication systems through which our neural representations are coded, ordered and given meaning. This would include pictures, sounds, feelings, tastes, smells, and words (self talk).

Programming: The ability to discover and utilize the programs that we run. It's our communication to ourselves and others in our neurological systems to achieve our specific and desired outcomes.

Four Principals for Success
When using NLP to create a positive outcome, it is best to use these following principals.

1. Know your outcome. When you are doing something you want to have an outcome or idea. Ask yourself, "What is it I am trying to accomplish here? What is it that I want to do?"

2. Take action. Create the steps needed to get to your end result.

3. Have behavioral flexibility. When you are flexible, you allow yourself to have more opportunities for success.

4. Operate from a physiology and psychology of excellence! This means to review the thoughts you hold in your head. If you have any nibbling doubts such as, "You can't have that. You shouldn't have it", you will not succeed. You have to be congruent with your outcome inside yourself. You want to be totally aligned inside yourself. When you are congruent, it means that all your systems are at GO. Therefore, when all systems

What is State vs. Goal?
When utilizing NLP, it is important to write your goal with a "state" in it. Here is a good example. Let's say you write down, "I'll be happy six months from now". From a NLP perspective, you could be happy now. To assist you in activating that "state" all you have to do is remember a time when you were totally happy. You can feel those feelings of being totally happy and then see how you feel. Here is the difference in more details.

Value or State: you can have it now, stated ambiguously, there are no steps involved, it's infinite, and usually stated for self and/or others.

Goal or Outcome: time is involved, it's stated specifically, there are steps needed to get there (get final step and work backwards), it's measurable, and mostly stated for self only.

9 Keys in Creating an Achievable Outcome
When you begin this process of creating a positive outcome and/or goal for yourself, notice what happens inside you when you fully consider each of the questions.

1. What specifically do you want to have happen by creating this outcome for yourself? (must be stated in the positive)

2. Where are you now associated to your specific present situation?

3. What will you see, hear, feel, etc., when you have accomplished this outcome? You want to write it "as if now", make it compelling and insert it into the future.

4. How will you know when you have it or what is gonna happen when you go, "Yes, I have it" ?

5. What will this outcome get for you or allow you to do? (this question will assist you in seeing if you are congruent with the desired outcome)

6. Is it self-intiated and self-maintained? (meaning, is it only for you or are there others involved)

7. Where, when, how, and with whom do you want it? (this will help you see if it is appropriately contextualized)

8. What resources are needed to get this outcome? What do you have now, and what do you need to get to achieve your outcome? Do you know anyone who has it?

9. It this outcome ecological? For what purpose do you want this? What will you gain or lose if you have it? What will happen if you get it? What won't happen if you get it? What will happen if you don't get it? What won't happen if you don't get it?

7 Ways to create well formed conditions for your outcomes and goals
When you are creating your goals, you want to make sure they are well formed. Here are some tips.

1. Your goals should be stated in a positive term.

2. Make sure you are in charge of your goals.

3. Create a specific sensory-based description of your outcome and the steps needed to get there. You can ask yourself, "What will I need to do to get to that place?"

4. You want to have an ecological goal to be 100% congruent inside yourself.

5. Pay attention to having other ways to achieve your outcome. Remember there are more than one way to get this outcome.

6. When writing your goals and outcomes, make sure the first step is specified and achievable.

7. As yourself if the outcome or goal increases your choice and does it make it easy to achieve? If your outcome decreases your choices, it is not well specified.

Some final important words in the way we learn to enhance your goals
A few months ago I worked a good friend of mine in creating my own personal and professional goals. I wrote them out, created a vision board and would visualize the positive end results. After a while, it seems like some things were not right. I started to remember about my learning style and it made all the difference for me.

Since my dominant learning style is auditory, I decided to record one specific written goal. When I recorded it, I expressed with my voice the joy, passion, excitement, and positive expectations. At night I would listen to my personalized CD before falling asleep. I would visualize and feel those wonderful emotions within. Within 1 week, my desires manifested into my physical reality.

Now you may be asking yourself, "WHY this is important to you"? Your mind takes in all information through the five senses (sight, touch, hearing, tastes, and smells). It is essential that you discover your own individual style for gathering and communicating information. Below is a link to assist you in discovering if your dominate learning style is visual, auditory or kinesthetic.

To take the suggestibility test, click here.