Using NLP to get closer to your goals

1. Goals!
How close are you to yours?
Gamaka Perera - Wellness Practitioner
Reiki Practitioner and NLP Master Practitioner

2. Plan for next hour
NLP – light definition
Are goals important?
Setting an achievable goal

3. What is NLP

4. Word by word
NLP = N.L.P. = Neuro Linguistic Programming
Neuro Linguistic = Mind-body system
Programming = We are in control

5. What NLP really is?
Study of human excellence
Intent: modeling human excellence and transferring it
to others as a skill

6. What has been modeled so far?
Setting achievable goals
Being creative – Walt Disney way
Rapidly moving to empowered states
Building better relationships
Precise communications
Clearing past by traversing time-line
Breaking limiting beliefs

7. What has been modeled so far?
Resolution of the internal conflicts
Adopting new behaviors that supports you
Having a new and fruitful perspectives in life
Building rapport fast
Curing phobia and deep fears
Building a new identify
And many more…

8. Are Goals Important?

9. 2nd Habits
“7 Habits of Highly Effective People”, by Dr Covey
2nd Habit: Begin with the End in Mind

10. Alice in Wonderland
“Would you tell me, please,
which way I ought to go from here?” (Alice)
“That depends a good deal
on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.
“I don’t much care where—” said Alice.
“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,”
said the Cat.

11. Goal Blockers

12. Usual suspects
You may not have lot of buy-in to the goal
You or others you love/ like may be negatively
affected if you achieve the goal
You might not realize all the resources you already
have to achieve the goal

13. Failing PAW
Possibility
You can never prove something is impossible, just that
you don’t know how to do that, yet
Ability
You have not reached the upper bounds of you
capabilities
Worthiness
You are worthy of all your dream

14. Many are closer to the goals
than they think, sometime they
give up near the end 

15. Your Goals

16. What are your three most important
goals for…
Health
Relationships
Career
Personal Development
Finance and Money
Education
Any other

17. Step 1: Specific and Positive
Are the goals positive?
I hate travelling in bus every morning (Negative)
I want to have a car (Positive)
Are the goals specific?
I want to have a car (Vague)
I want to have a Honda Hybrid in three months
(Specific)

18. Clean up the goals…
Make them positive and specific
Where possible make them HUGG
Huge, Unbelievably Great Goals

19. Pick the most important Goal
There are many ways to find the most important goal,
for now, go with your gut feeling

20. Step 2: Create a new memory of the
goal
See what you would see, hear what you would hear
and feel what you would feel when you have
achieved the goal (Associated)
Does this feel right for you? If not make the necessary
changes to the goal, till you feel its right

21. Step 3: Check for ecology
Make memories with your loved ones after you
achieved your goal, if needed please feel free to
changes the goal

22. Step 4: Make the goal appealing
Change the brightness, location, tempo, pitch, feeling
etc. to make the goal more appealing
Step out of the memory and see yourself in the
memory (Dissociated)

23. Step 5: Evidence criteria
How will you know when you have reached your goal?

24. Step 6: Current resources
Where are you with this goal?
Have you achieved a similar or same goal before?
Do you know someone who has achieved the goal?
What are the resources you already have to achieve
the goal?

25. Step 7: Resources needed
What else do you need to achieve this goal?

26. Step 8: Break it down
Break down the goal to doable sub goals
Remember, there is more than one way to skin a cat

27. Step 9: Action!