The Seven Secrets of Setting Goals With NLP

By Damian Hamill

In this eBook, the reader is taken through a powerful interactive process for creating compelling goals. Damian Hamill identifies and elaborates upon Seven Secrets, the NLP criteria that make the difference between achievable, ecological outcomes and those goals that are destined for failure.

The eBook is structured in such a way that allows the reader to shape his or her own outcome as the process unfolds, developing a personal goal that is expressed in a way that maximizes the likelihood of it being successfully achieved.

The Seven Secrets can be used effectively to empower both individuals and groups to create the futures that are right for them.

• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookIt.com
• Release date: Apr 26, 2016
• ISBN: 9781456609320

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Introduction

Hello and welcome to this eBook, The Seven Secrets of Setting Goals with NLP. In this eBook I will be taking you through the stages of one of the most useful processes in Neuro-linguistic Programming (NLP) – a process that can be really effective when it comes to setting goals.

NLP is a highly flexible approach to effective communication, creating productive relationships and generating change that has developed through ‘modelling’ the achievements of particularly skilful people. NLP, from its earliest origins, has appreciated the importance of setting effective goals in order to get what you want in life and has studied and distilled the most useful patterns of effective goal-setters and achievers. By applying the principles described in this eBook in your life you will be borrowing from the brains of some of the most successful people in history.

At one time or another everyone engages in some sort of goal setting activity – either personally or as part of a group - and some people tend to do it in ways that increase the chances that their goal will actually be achieved. In NLP we tend to talk about ‘Outcomes’ rather than goals and we use the term ‘Well-formed Outcomes’ to describe goals that have been designed in a way that maximises the likelihood that they will be realised.

We can fairly confidently say that there are certain criteria that are required for really well-formed outcomes. In this eBook we will be exploring what those criteria are and giving you an opportunity to design a well-formed outcome as we progress, so you can put your new learning into action immediately through a personal example.

During this process I will suggest that you pause from time to time to carry out a particular task or activity. This will help you to apply what you learn in the context of an example that is meaningful to you. If you prefer to read right the way through first time that is okay as well, but we recommend that you go through this process again at a later date to complete the activities as described. When we do suggest a pause it will be useful for you to have some writing materials to hand to jot down some thoughts and information as you progress.

So, let’s begin.

Secret Number 1 – State your Goal in the Positive

What I would like you to do to start off is to think about a goal you have in mind – something you want to achieve. This will give us the raw ingredients that we can shape into a Well-formed Outcome together. The goal that you bring to mind may be a major one or it might be something comparatively trivial. It doesn’t really matter. Whatever your goal is just write