8 years ago · Stuart Downing · 0 comments

How NLP Can Help In Your Career

NLP teaches that our mind-body (neuro), what we say (language) interact to form our perception of the world (programming), which then determine our feelings and behaviours.

The therapy focuses on discovering how we currently perceive the world (or what NLP would deem our “internal map”) and looking to re-create these patterns into more productive and efficient models, working on the pretence that anyone can learn the skills needed to be successful.

That means that we can study the people who have achieved success in their lives – and anyone can learn those same skills and apply them to their lives.

According to NLP, our internal maps are the things that predicate how we perceive the world and how we interact with the world. The assumption is that we only have certain resources within our perception, we can only perceive the world from one angle and hold one set of beliefs.

How can it help you in your career?

What is it that makes the successful become so successful? Practitioners of NLP look at the behavioural habits of those who achieve great success in life and look to instil that into patients, or themselves using affirmative thoughts and behaviours and replacing the thoughts patterns and hence altering their entire perception of the world.

As we navigate through our lives, we pick up belief systems and thought patterns that are instilled to us from society. Our families, the educational system, religion, your culture. Thousands of years in the making, all of which have had effects on your beliefs systems and the way you perceive yourself than you ever know.

Look at the successful people in your industry. Look at those who are successful in the company you work at. What are they doing differently to others? More importantly, how do they perceive the world? Are they limiting themselves in their thoughts and what they say, or do they seem to be positive and open to opportunity? By understanding how those who are successful have become so, we can use those same attributes within ourselves and learn the skills needed in order to replicate their behaviour.

NLP can help you in your career if you take the following three steps:

• Understand how you perceive the world determines how the world will present itself to you and therefore how you react to opportunity
• Choose a “model” whose life and behaviour resembles what you would deem the ideal
• Work to conceptualise the world as your chosen model would think; working towards having the same attitude, belief, thought patterns and behavioural habits.

The way you perceive the world will determine how you react with the world. The truth exists that we are not capable of perceiving everything, nor are we capable of holding two sets of beliefs are the same time. We must choose not only how we perceive the world but what we perceive in the world. Will it be one full of scarcity and fear or one full of opportunity and freedom?

Can I help you replace your internal map with my NLP Coaching? Get in touch today on 07825599340.