Archive for life’s purpose
Have You Met Salka?
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I’d like to take a moment to introduce Salka, our Alaskan Malamute. In Quechua his name means “wild energy” as opposed to domesticated energy. In traditional Andean culture, the role of a healer is to work with wild energy: passion, creative energy, uncensored energy and life force. He’s named for that. I look for that in people, places and things, and he’s a reminder of that.
As someone who lives in the moment and knows how to immediately take advantage of fun opportunities, Salka is a great role model. He will be making regular appearances on this blog to share his reflections on living a positive life. He also plans to star in video clips in which he will comment on aspects of the coaching business and important life issues.
Salka is meditating in his office in this photo.
Need a Motivation Booster?
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If you want to create a more powerful motivation, try the following exercise.
Picture what you want in front of you. Mentally describe what you want as if you are seeing the actual event. Make sure the image is a large, compelling, juicy picture with lots of color. It should be close to you. Move it around, focusing on different details until it optimizes your motivation. When you have formed a vision of what you really want, you should feel it in your body.
All right. Now step into the image.
You can almost always improve your motivation with this exercise. To maximize the experience, make sure that the image you visualize is large and compelling, including details and color.
This exercise helped a coach in California who was having trouble with motivation. It turns out that she only saw her vision in the future. By moving it closer, she felt compelled to take action. With her increased motivation, she found that she could accomplish a week’s worth of work in just a few days!
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About Terry: Terry Hickey, M.S., is a Certified NLP Professional Coach, Business Trainer and Consultant, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the co-owner of NLP Advantage Group. Originator of the Belief Breakthrough Method™, Terry specializes in teaching coaches and entrepreneurs how to rapidly resolve limiting beliefs about wealth and success. His tips and strategies can help you launch yourself into the future you want… NOW. http://terryhickey.com/
Are You Living Your Dreams?
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Thierry Henry photo courtesy Wikipedia
While Beth and I were at a professional soccer game last Saturday night featuring the New York Red Bulls and Sporting Kansas City, we noticed that the Red Bulls’ featured player (star) was Thierry Henry. We then realized that it was exactly 10 years ago to the day that Beth and I saw him play in London when he was new to Arsenal Soccer.
We got to meet Thierry back then because we were working for Tony Adams, who was the captain of the team at that time. We had been hired to set up an addiction clinic for professional athletes, which also included a peak performance aspect. As part of working for Tony, we went to several Arsenal games and sat in his box. Afterwards we were invited to the post-game party in the club. It was there that we met Thierry.
Working in London for Tony Adams was a dream job, not only because I love soccer—and still play—but also because I had the chance to work for one of the world’s best soccer stars.
I truly believe that experience was the result of setting two different goals: one to work internationally and another to work with professional athletes. I just didn’t know that I would get to do both at once.
What important dreams are you setting in place? Do you have the beliefs to support those dreams? Search your memory and see if you have had an experience like mine—one that was the result of setting a big goal and then going for it.
Tune In for Money Belief Breakthroughs
Posted by: | CommentsLast week I was a guest on Diane Helbig’s Accelerate Your Business Growth Radio Show. Diane is a good interviewer, and she made it easy to describe what I do, quickly getting to the heart of my work. Speaking on her show was fun, and it also turned out to be useful; a listener contacted me the next day and asked to receive coaching.
You can listen to a recording of our discussion by clicking on the following link: Money and Health Belief Breakthroughs. Tune in, and let me know what you think!
Want to Try an Easy Technique for Getting Things Done Quickly?
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Here’s an interesting tip I picked up in a recent message from Simpleology. It involves one simple thing you can do right now to get 2 hours worth of work done in just 30 minutes. Try it, and see what happens.
Ready? All right. Here’s what you do…
Pick a task.
That’s the first part. The second is to…
Set a deadline—give yourself only 30 minutes to get the task done.
Once you do this, your brain will take over and figure out how to get the job done quickly.
That’s it. It’s that simple. Really.
This has been referred to as the “time compression phenomenon.” Give it a try, and see if it works for you. Just keep in mind that you have to take the deadline seriously. If you don’t focus your attention on the task at hand and give it all you’ve got, this won’t work.
As always, let me know if this tip makes a difference for you.
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About Terry: Terry Hickey, M.S., is a Certified NLP Professional Coach, Business Trainer and Consultant, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the co-owner of NLP Advantage Group. Originator of the Belief Breakthrough Method™, Terry specializes in teaching coaches and entrepreneurs how to rapidly resolve limiting beliefs about wealth and success. His tips and strategies can help you launch yourself into the future you want… NOW. http://www.terryhickey.com
by Jenna Avery
(posted on her blog, February 15, 2011)
Terry Hickey is a talented NLP practitioner who specializes in belief change work with high end coaches, entrepreneurs, visionaries, leaders, and athletes. Many of the visionaries he works with are in the film industry, including actors, directors, producers, and dialog coaches. He also works with financial visionaries and professional athletes. I interviewed Terry last year as part of my Creative Visionaries Interview Series to see what he can teach us about why some visionaries succeed and others do not.
Visionary Guiding Principles
Here are some of the brilliant pieces of wisdom I gleaned from my conversation with Terry (you can listen to the full interview below):
1. Visionaries have a higher purpose that is the underpinning of the vision they create. They also have a sense of mission — a joy and passion for what they do. They don’t see it as a struggle, but rather as a joy and a privilege, to create what they are here to create.
2. Visionaries face the same sorts of challenges and opportunities the rest of us do, but they see them as opportunities. In other words, don’t think of a lack of success as failure, think of it as feedback. For example, try on this thought, “I haven’t yet employed the right strategies.” Ask, “How is this an opportunity? What’s the learning?”
3. Successful visionaries have a mentor or coach to turn to for help reframing or thinking about things differently. Even Bill Gates and Walt Disney have had mentors. Choose mentors that are as competent as or more competent than you are — don’t be afraid of competition. Choose to learn from people who know more than you do.
4. As a visionary, your role is to create such a powerful vision that others want to create it with you. Terry notes, “Leaders have followers, managers have conscripts.”
5. Visionaries hold what they are doing as so important that they simply can’t NOT do it. They are driven by something larger than themselves. They always go back to their dream — even when challenges come up that keep them awake at night and even when they might lose people they love over it — it’s so powerful they always come back to it.
6. A quality that sets visionaries apart is clarity. They know what they are doing and why they are doing it.
7. Visionaries are so committed that they are willing to get through any stuckness that may come up. They know they must manage things like writer’s block or athelete’s slumps so it doesn’t become their overriding experience.
8. Successful visionaries recognize their own limitations and bring someone on board to help fill in the gaps. Warren Buffet, Oprah, Bill Gates all have in common that they have brought people on board to help them with their problem areas.
9. Visionaries must learn the distinctions between each part of the process of bringing an idea to fruition in order to be successful. This includes creative phase (brainstorming), the evaluative phase (feasibility), and the project management phase (procedural and systematic). Walt Disney used three different rooms for each of these processes — each had its own time and place.
Books Terry mentioned when speaking with Jenna:
• Magic In Practice
• The Speed of Trust
• From Coach to Awakener
• Changing Belief Systems with NLP
• Beliefs: Pathways to Health & Well-Being
• The Strategies of Genius
Note: You can learn more about Jenna Avery by visiting her website at www.JennaAvery.com.
About Terry: Terry Hickey, M.S., is a Certified NLP Professional Coach, Business Trainer and Consultant, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the co-owner of NLP Advantage Group. Originator of the Belief Breakthrough Method™, Terry specializes in teaching coaches and entrepreneurs how to rapidly resolve limiting beliefs about wealth and success. His tips and strategies can help you launch yourself into the future you want… NOW.
Does Perfectionism Lead to Success, or Does Perfectionism Slow You Down?
Posted by: | Comments“It’s more important to be out there than to be perfect.” – James Malinchak
As I mentioned in my last post, one of the coaches I know values doing things well but is not hampered by having to be “perfect.” I’ve seen people paralyzed by perfectionism. If you need to make decisions and take action, this almost always stops you, particularly if your perfect comparative is with really high-end, absolutely-no-mistake products. How long do you think it took them to become perfect?
A better example of an approach that will allow you to take action is James Malinchak’s “get stuff done fast” method in which you allow yourself to correct things later, making sure you arrange for feedback. He believes it’s more important to be out there than to be perfect. He’s learned to take the feedback he gets and tailor what he’s doing to fit with what he’s learned from people like Bill Glazer.
Is perfectionism standing in the way of your success?
Are your beliefs about being perfect holding you back?
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About Terry: Terry Hickey, M.S., is a Certified NLP Professional Coach, Business Trainer and Consultant, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the co-owner of NLP Advantage Group. Originator of the Belief Breakthrough Method™, Terry specializes in teaching coaches and entrepreneurs how to rapidly resolve limiting beliefs about wealth and success. His tips and strategies can help you launch yourself into the future you want… NOW. http://www.terryhickey.com
Are Your Beliefs Limiting Your Income?
Posted by: | CommentsI recently completed the project Healing Your Money Beliefs, which is my current download of the month. During the process I discovered how common longstanding beliefs about money interfere with current success.
I do a lot of work with healing limiting beliefs, and the majority of those beliefs are about money. They tend to fall into one of the following areas:
- Feeling that you do not deserve to really earn large amounts of money;
- Confusion about asking for money when it seems to interfere with a larger purpose, like helping people; and
- Beliefs about asking for what you’re worth—not being willing to promote yourself because that’s not what “good people” do.
As you can guess, most of these beliefs were formed when we were very young, and they’ve been operating in the background, affecting our behavior.
If you’re not making the kind of money that you intellectually know you’re capable of, it’s worth considering an evaluation of potentially limiting beliefs that are keeping you from moving forward.
Would you like to learn more? I’m a specialist in this area, and here are four easy ways to find out more.
- Check out my Belief Breakthrough Series™ 2011 Download of the Month Club.
- Subscribe to my FREE newsletter, Belief Change Alchemy, which often includes articles on this topic.
- Read some of my other posts on this topic:
If this post has been helpful or you have any questions, please share your comments below.
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About Terry: Terry Hickey, M.S., is a Certified NLP Professional Coach, Business Trainer and Consultant, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the co-owner of NLP Advantage Group. Originator of the Belief Breakthrough Method™, Terry specializes in teaching coaches and entrepreneurs how to rapidly resolve limiting beliefs about wealth and success. His tips and strategies can help you launch yourself into the future you want… NOW. http://www.terryhickey.com
Who Are You Taking for Granted?
Posted by: | CommentsI just came from a lunch with a friend and was struck with the need to comment on what happened.
My friend had invited me to lunch because she is on my mailing list and had just received my newsletter. She considers receipt of my newsletter—and all others—as verification of a relationship. For her reading my newsletter is equivalent to having me talk to her. She believes that relationships are so important that you must work to keep them in place and functioning. Because of the powerful meaning she sees in relationships, she wasn’t comfortable continuing to receive my newsletter until we addressed an “elephant in the room” of sorts. I am happy to say that our talk went well.
I came away from lunch with a new awareness of two important issues. First, if you want to keep relationships working in your life, you must take the time to evaluate how they are doing. Second, if a relationship needs your attention and you need to right a wrong or have an important talk, then do it.
If business relationships are worth forming in the first place, then they are worthy of the same kind of consideration. What can you say about the relationships that you have formed in your business? Do you take them for granted, or do you do the work necessary to keep them going?
Whatever the answer, I’d love to hear about it. Please share your comments and feedback below.
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About Terry: Terry Hickey, M.S., is a Certified NLP Professional Coach, Business Trainer and Consultant, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the co-owner of NLP Advantage Group. Originator of the Belief Breakthrough Method™, Terry specializes in teaching coaches and entrepreneurs how to rapidly resolve limiting beliefs about wealth and success. His tips and strategies can help you launch yourself into the future you want… NOW. http://www.terryhickey.com
Are You Getting the Input You Need?
Posted by: | CommentsI recently returned from my Mastermind group with James Malinchak. This was my second Mastermind with him, and it made me consider what factors make these groups effective. Capitalizing on the power of the group, they tap into a collective mind.
What is most interesting is how much of my learning came from listening to the feedback that was given to other members. I think that being in the observer role makes it possible to learn because you can be less involved personally and consider things from a different viewpoint.
The other benefit I immediately noticed was that ideas could be examined critically. A number of participants heard that their ideas were lacking in some way or possibly based on false or shaky assumptions. Because the feedback is from someone more distant, somehow it made it easier to listen. They were able to change direction.
I also learned that “because I think it’s a good idea” is not a business strategy. Sound strategies and decisions in business need more than an idea. “It’s a good idea” requires evaluation or testing. This Mastermind group provided some of that experience.
At a minimum, learn to run your ideas by objective sources that you trust. Assemble your own group or participate in others to increase your effectiveness.
Who is your best sounding board?
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About Terry: Terry Hickey, M.S., is a Certified NLP Professional Coach, Business Trainer and Consultant, a Certified Master Practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the co-owner of NLP Advantage Group. Originator of the Belief Breakthrough Method™, Terry specializes in teaching coaches and entrepreneurs how to rapidly resolve limiting beliefs about wealth and success. His tips and strategies can help you launch yourself into the future you want… NOW. http://www.terryhickey.com
