It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas

December 24, 2015

At this time of the year one of the great linguistic truths of NLP emerges; the concept that words can be “semantically packed”.
What do we mean?
We mean they can be rich with intended and unintended meaning (and understanding that we all use words in this way is a gift NLP can give us)

Let us explain….well, for one person the word Christmas can mean warm fires, the smell of a roast in the oven and genuine feelings of joy – all in an instant.

Some others are not so lucky.
Hang on though.

If we are “meaning making machines” and all meaning is context dependent in a world where our reality is constructed by us – we can re-engineer what Christmas means for ourselves, heck anyone.
If you could look back in a year and laugh – why wait?
If you can pick up the ‘phone and say hello (or send an email if you’d rather) – why wait?
So whether you are with friends or family, volunteering at a shelter, out carolling for charity, or under the covers in your fleecy jim-jams on the big day, make it just right.

For you. Now.
Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year – we’ll be seeing you soon.

Thoughts

The clever Principal said “You are going to be fifty anyway”

On a holiday to the Philippines, I was lucky enough to see something both clever and stunning. I went to the north of the country to visit the one thing I really wanted to see there, the rice terraces. In the mountainous north, rice fields are just as required to grow the crop needed to feed the people as they are in the flatter lowlands. But with less flat land available, the population optimised what they had and created terraced fields to grow the rice. This is what clever, and in this case stunning, looks like. It embodies the mantra

Purpose – Start where you are; use what you have; do what you can.

If you could only have one of the following, which would you choose? £500k; or greater awareness to a cause close to your heart; or to inspire others to greatness? This week I read one of those ‘great-news-stories’ that pop up every once in a while. An 11-year-old boy slept in a tent in his back garden for 365 days, the purpose was to raise money for a hospice after fundraising events were cancelled due to covid. After he had done the entire year under canvas, he had raised £500k; he had raised awareness of the cause; and he has become

Commitment to your decision, yet flexible in your approach

Can I do commitment? Sure, I can. During lockdown, with gyms closed, I decided to do ‘Couch to 5K’, the running app. I loved it, I was really exhilarated by the continuing challenge and I completed the nine-week course by running three lots of 5K. I feel so much fitter for having done it – this is the value I gained by committing to the app. I run an internal strategy for pretty much most things that I do. I call it ‘the reward before the work’ strategy. Take my run for example, it is a ‘there-and-back circuit’. As I

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Thanks to Hayley Gelder and Dan Stevens.