“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 [...]

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 [...]

(Nick Kemp is a great new colleague, whom I met through Andy Austin, author of The Rainbow Machine.)
Nick Kemp © 2008
Introduction
In 2006 I was a guest on BBC Radio talking about my work with curing phobics, and curing them live on the air. In most instances I had an hour or less to finish and [...]