“You’ve got to ac-cen-tuate the positive,
E-lim-inate the negative,
Latch on to the affirmative,
Don’t mess with Mister In-Between.”
Lyrics by Johnny Mercer (1944)
From time to time we need to sort through an accumulation of things in order to make space for what we want to keep. However, many people have great difficulty doing this. Would you like to [...]

A Few Favorite Quotations About Living
It is a busy time of year for most of us, and for many it can be a curious mixture of good times and more stressful ones. I offer you a few of my favorite quotations to guide you and sustain you through the holiday season:
“Be yourself; everyone else is [...]

This article (The New Yorker, May 18, 2009, pp. 26-32.) summarizes research on self-control in children and how that tends to predict success later in life. In the late 1960s, researchers showed four-year-old kids a marshmallow, and told them that they “could eat one marshmallow right away, or if they were willing to wait while [...]

Case Report: NLP in Action*
Steve Andreas
© 2007

Cathy was a 55–year-old single client of a colleague. Her initial complaint was that although she was very competent in her work, she repeatedly raged at her boss and at co-workers. It soon emerged that she had a history of sexual abuse from her father, and had a very [...]

Steve Andreas has reviewed Richard Bandler’s new book, Get the Life You Want: the Secrets to Quick and Lasting Life Change with Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

The review is quite extensive, detailed, and often critical, because the book presents only a crude caricature of NLP methods. The book omits most of the careful distinctions, detailed methods, attention to precise language, verb tense, and careful ecology that Bandler himself developed, emphasized, and taught over twenty years ago. There are many serious omissions, confusions, ambiguities, contradictions, and outright errors. Unfortunately, this kind of sloppy, shoddy presentation of NLP is also typical of much of the training in the “field” as a whole.

The review concludes with a call to action to move NLP from a random collection of personal opinions toward becoming a practical and comprehensive science.

The entire review is posted on Steve’s blog:
http://realpeoplepress.com/blog/nlp-book-review-get-the-life-you-want-richard-bandler

For easy printing and offline reading, there is a link to a PDF copy on the blog.