Archive for the 'Choice' Category
Sure Thing As I sat there, I wondered how in the world I had gotten into that situation. What had seemed like such a good idea had rapidly turned into a nightmare, and I was starting to become extremely desperate. At the very least I was going to end up in jail. My only question [...]
April 26th, 2010 | Posted in Choice, Metaphor, Stories | No Comments
Remember Who You Are Once there was this guy who lived in the sewer. He didn’t really mind living in the sewer, as it allowed him to live a life free from the worries of most day-to-day frustrations and anxieties. He didn’t have much money, but he didn’t really need anything. This particular sewer that [...]
April 20th, 2010 | Posted in Charisma, Choice, Fears, Metaphor, Model of the World, Mythology | No Comments
What’s The Meaning Behind That? I remember several years ago I was driving down the freeway, in a hurry to get someplace. I forget where, so obviously it couldn’t have been very important. I was zipping in and out of traffic, checking for cops behind me every few minutes. Just as I was about to [...]
April 8th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Choice, Evolution, Flirting, Metaphor, Perception | No Comments
Horizons Once a long time ago I took a drive with a friend of mine. We started in Los Angeles, and our only goal was to make it to some city in New Jersey within a certain amount of time. I think it was something like five days. That’s about three thousand miles over five [...]
April 3rd, 2010 | Posted in Choice, Confidence, Focus, Goals, Metaphor, how to | No Comments
You Are Hunter I was sorting through this old stack of books I have, in order to see which ones I want to keep, and which ones I want to get rid of. I’m getting ready to move in a few days, and I don’t want to bring too much extra junk with me. I [...]
March 24th, 2010 | Posted in Choice, Evolution, Focus, Goals, Metaphor | No Comments
Right, Or Left? I remember when I was a kid I played little league basketball. I pretty much sucked at it, which is why I only played once. We played on these courts with short baskets, or low baskets. I think maybe they were eight feet, but I’m not sure. I’m much better at playing [...]
March 22nd, 2010 | Posted in Choice, Decisions, Metaphor, Model of the World | No Comments
Answers That’s what she wanted. She had been waiting for me for almost two hours, when I came wandering up. Where was I? Why didn’t I call? How could I do this to her, didn’t I know that she felt like a fool standing there all alone like that for so long? What must people [...]
March 13th, 2010 | Posted in Beliefs, Choice, Decisions, Metaphor, Stories | No Comments
What Is Your Reference Point? I remember this story I read once in a book on communication. The story goes like this: And old guy was sitting at edge of a small town out in the old west. He saw a horse and wagon, pulling a family of four. They stopped, and greeted the stranger. [...]
February 14th, 2010 | Posted in Brain Power, Choice, Hypnosis, Memories | No Comments
Change Perspective The other day I was talking to one of my neighbors, one of them that I don’t talk to very often. It seems that there is a local festival happening this weekend, and she was trying to explain its significance. Something to do with the lunar New Year. Every year the lunar New [...]
February 6th, 2010 | Posted in Charisma, Choice, Conversation Skills, Flexibility, Focus | No Comments
Come Together I remember once I went to see a movie a while back with this girl I was dating. It was this particularly large multi plex with around thirty screens or so. When we went, we didn’t really have any specific movie that we wanted to see, just that we’d decided to see a [...]
January 27th, 2010 | Posted in Choice, Goals, NLP Tips, Techniques | No Comments