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Hi Christine,
I am so thrilled to re-connect with you here. You were one, unforgettable soul who was very generous and respectful of your teaching when I was enrolled in Trainers in Las Vegas nearly two years ago. You made such an impact with your gentle, yet assertive advice, all very constructive, all made to stretch. When I read your introduction, I felt uplifted indeed. I feel a bit lost here and there with continuing on my journey but reading your story that you have invested 11 years in your business tells me I just need to re-focus and not be upset with the time (or myself). Now i’m reflecting that I have invested my 12 years in Immigration and do run a respectable business in that field…and branching out to a new but not-so-new field requires the same level of respect (of investment of self). As I have boldly told Adriana that I want to be like her, and I know it is possible but I also want to be like you. I look forward to having an insight on the hows of your journey. I’m respectfully inspired.
Thank you for showing me, like Adriana has on every learning event that I have been fortunate to attend, that one can be very successful yet remain rooted in humility and kindness.
Sincerely,
Margie Dizon
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Thanks for sharing that, Bogdan! I must admit that I have an unfair advantage. We travelled six weeks by motorboat from the top of the Northern Territory to Cape Leveque, 150 km from Broome by boat and with no phone signals, emails by satellite only…it was a great challenge to fully immerse only in nature! This also meant taking photos of every possible moving creature on the sand…watching snails, turtles, bugs….you name it, I’ve done it! I survived the video…whoopee! However, my mind did wander off to my trip on the Kimberley coast and it is so lovely indeed to be in Position #4 feeling so happy and lost in nature.
*you can truly switch off -if you decide to!*
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Dear Vasso,
Thank you for sharing. Like you, I learned so much more than what I bargained for and there is such an encouraging environment amongst like-minded people who are keen to continue to grow and share resources with the leaders Adriana and Tad really supervising our journeys!!!
I look forward to your posts.
Welcoming thoughts from the Top End, Australia,
Margie
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I must also credit swish patterns for turning off my procrastination to moving from my stuck state and getting stared. For some reason, the anchors I have installed is “visual” whilst the V-K synesthesia appears to be stronger and positively affecting me with using the swish pattern. Is this just a matter of preference and going with what works a la modelling excellence?
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I find that if I plan too much, nothing happens and everything gets in the way. However, when I just take a huge leap and truly focus on just “getting started”, i actually finish off a lot that I wasn’t “planning” to do. This strategy seems to be working very well so I will keep doing it! I have listed my items to do on my diary and items I cannot finish will be moved onto the next day. I do have to constantly juggle priorities so when a task comes up, I would decide which task that requires me getting back to the client would need doing first, second and third. It’s a constant game I have to play but I do find that if I did switch off my phone and put it on airplane mode, turned off notifications for social media posts and focussed on enjoying the cognitive stretches of the tasks before me, that I achieve a lot of things quickly and efficiently. You are right, Adriana. It is wonderful to cut out all the electronics and the distractions! I haven’t invested a lot of money yet on promoting my NLP trainings but i have certainly invested time (which, I suppose can equate to a considerable sum). I do a lot of ongoing promotions for my profit centre business (being) in immigration but I feel not enough of TLT, Hypnosis, NLP. It appears that my clients all feel very empowered after consulting with me about their immigration problems. One client said he feels like he has wings each time he visits so he loves making an appointment to see me; another said that if he needed a boost in energy and confidence, all he had to do was book in to see me. It is amazing when I switched on the Rapport button and the invisible energy that flows all around, through and out. My energy is overflowing and never ending. One client commented she thought I was overacting each time I visited the cafe. It wasn’t until she actually did TLT with me that she realised where the centre of energy was coming from. I think I would have to accept that I won’t be purely working in a clinical psychology setting and if I already have a following in immigration clients, then so be it. I will be the best NLP/TLT and Hypnosis trainer in my field! I won’t look at it as a dichotomy anymore but more a creative marriage. Reading through the many posts really helps and having a group of like-minded people that are open to learnings is a great place to be. Thanks for sharing, everyone and thanks, Adriana for leading our way. I’m blessed to be taught by the best.
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Dear Adriana,
Thank you. I had to read and re-read your comments as they were in very full detail and I had to digest it all and it does not matter how many times I have ready it already, any replies I have drafted is not going to be good enough so who cares, here goes:
1. I do thoroughly enjoy the one-on-one transformations. I will hold them dearly to my heart. I just had a phone call from a client who have been keeping my business card given to her by a mutual friend and she finally summoned up the courage to call me twice and email me once all in one day! Finally, she is ready to heal.
2. I am flying overseas for a wedding and managed to capture two confirmed TLT bookings with two clients – just because I was bothered enough to let the clinic know I was doing to be in the same country not for work but for fun. I have emailed the client that I missed out on and letting go of the need to make it happen but keeping the want. Adriana, you really have such a way with words!!!! It is amazing where it takes me.
3. At the same overseas trip, I’m catching up with my doctor friend for dinner, talking about future business together and working on how I can meet his needs. Thank you for the reminder that it’s not what i can offer him or what i know but how i can meet his needs.
4. Four weeks ago, I set myself a goal of an amount I would make in a month and when I put it in my time line, my UM interpreted it as if it was immigration law so voila! i astounded myself with how congruent I was in my future goals that i made the amount I set in a week, rather than a month! I’m not complaining! It also helped that I aligned the values of my receptionist with mine. Now that he has gone for a holiday, I would invest the time to align the values of the person filling in for two weeks as the transformation has made amazing results in such a short time. Smart goals + values alignment = phenomenal!
I may be slow in my development but I am eager to get there. Thank you heaps, Adriana. It did not just help me a little, it helped me a lot. I just needed to get back ‘on track’.
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Before I enrolled in this Master Training program, I thought that ideally, I would like to sell Hypnosis training to health professionals only. However, after completing Master Prac, I was so motivated that I aligned myself with a Medical doctor who I went to High school with many moons ago and he now runs his own practice overseas. I have found myself doing one-on-one personal breakthroughs with 3 of his patients, everyday, for two straight weeks at a time. The patients are VVIPs, government officials, celebrities, and people who pay top money for top service. I thought to myself – oh my! how good was this find? I thoroughly enjoyed the three clients a day and knowing what I knew then, I was superbly happy of transforming three people a day. However, I started getting frustrated as I really want to transform more people. I have tried to promote group training to my doctor friend’s niche market (who are more than willing to pay good money) but unfortunately, this particular target group that I am currently dealing with prefer to do the sessions on their own. Some bring in their partners and I am privileged to deliver training to both. I have to “give in” to advertising at least a year ahead of time, to work with through time and in time people. I advertised two months in advance for a December 2-day introductory workshop and despite I had about 6 confirm, only 3 ended up paying and attending. I am learning that I need to be patient and understand that nothing happens in an instant and that results would be achieved with proper planning. It is quite a challenge for me having grown up in an Asian culture, with people respect being present for an event, rather than being on time for any event. Therefore, this affects my lead-in for promotions. The clinic manager I am dealing with prefers to only advertise my presence at the clinic one month before any of my scheduled trips and it is hard to plan forward as I would have to leave it at the very last week to book flights, accommodation and so forth. I would need to tweak this more and find out how I can branch out further into group trainings.
One of the patients who was keen to get me to deliver values alignment with her core staff only wanted a specific time that did not coincide with my availability. As I couldn’t service her at the time she wanted, I lost traction and have not been able to follow it up with her. After doing a lot of thinking through my enrolment in this program, I have found the initiative once again of picking up where I left off. I have sent her a follow up email, regardless how late it is in the scheme of things but if we don’t ask, how do we know where it can lead us to? Now I am awaiting a response to pursue it further.
I read about what Shaye and Stephane have shared and I agree that saying “yes” to opportunities is a great way to go. Who am I to say “no” to life and opportunities? Each time I said “yes” to invitations to stretch and become better, I happen to end more richer in terms of experience (and bank balance). And I have not even really given it 100%!!!
At the same time, I was introduced by one of the patients to another clinic owner who is in direct competition in some (but not all services) with my doctor friend. If I aligned myself with her, she may be able to get my foot in the door with training doctors and health professionals. I am in two minds in pursuing this further as it may prove to be a direct conflict of interest and I may lose the support of my doctor friend. The work that I have generated from the one-on-ones, flying 2-3 times a year in the last 1.5 was so profitable but it can be more. I’m thinking whether I approach my doctor friend and offer him first choice of aligning with my project of offering training to health professionals in his vicinity and if he says he is not interested, or that he does not have resources (time) to do with me, then it would put me in the position to offer it to another organisation.
I am also registered to practice Migration Law and this is primarily and currently what “pays the bills”. I practice Psychology part time and Migration Law more full-time. Interestingly, after I employed the techniques of Rapport and trained my reception staff, we have managed to convert all, if not all of our consultation clients to sign ups! I also managed to pitch an idea of presenting to Migration Lawyers and practitioners in a national conference and I successfully presented to the national conference delegates on dealing with stress and anxiety using NLP-techniques. Adriana, you are so right. I called it something else (i.e., Saving the Saviours: Dealing with Stress, Anxiety and Immigration) but it was really just NLP-based principles tweaked into a presentation. My WHYs were written specifically for the group I was presenting to; consciously stayed at “up-time” despite the fact that the two other panel presenters went over their time and spilled over onto mine, I managed deliver my presentation unperturbed. My metaphors at the start and finish was the icing on the cake with practitioners congratulating me at the end. I felt like I had wings!!! The other presenter even wrote me a personal email afterwards congratulating me and that she had “thoroughly enjoyed watching an NLP Master Practitioner in action.” She got it slightly wrong. I completed Trainer’s level which is why I had the resources to present the way I did. Now I’m thinking I should pitch my attention more onto the migration practitioners and hopefully get my foot in the door with corporate values alignment that could also lead to personal and couple break throughs.
I have so many buzzing ideas in my head but I need to get them all out, instead of feeling so overwhelmed as I have been containing them successfully in my head so far.
I am really keen to hear from others and learn from you all. I look forward to any ideas you may be willing to share!
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My biggest goal is making positive mental health accessible to everyone. How best to do this by educating the masses? Why is it that if we cut ourselves or have the flu or broken a bone, we have no hesitation but rush to the doctors? Why is that if we have something broken inside our minds, we do not seek help? Is it the cost or is it not admitting that we need help? And why must most people wait until their minds are so broken before they seek help (or education)? I imagine a world where it is OK to seek help to become a better version of ourselves. I imagine a world, rich or poor can access psychoeducation about thinking critically and how to use the powers of their mind to achieve goals and how to live healthier and happier lives. We have Maths, Chemistry, Biology and so forth as part of our curriculum but why is critical thinking and how to use the powers of our mind not taught, unless we pursue it for ourselves as personal development? I have a big dream indeed but I also know that big dreams need to start with big and small steps. I welcome everyone’s input in making the essential steps. I’m also superbly excited I can be supervised by Adriana to turn this dream into reality.
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Conor, I agree. It was an amazing webinar indeed, Adriana! It was just the right input that I needed to re-connect those neurological connections that I thought I had lost (or thought I couldn’t find). The information that was reinforced from Prac to Master Prac to Trainer’s and then finally to the first Zoom webinar are all so elegantly connected. After all, what Adriana has discussed isn’t new to us. Tad and Adriana have talked about them all from our previous trainings. And yet the repetition is indeed significant as it ties in the mapping across technique: the success in the other areas of our lives onto working with ourselves successfully (for our business). It has really made me dig deep and self-reflect. What an effective method of learning. Thanks, Adriana. I’m looking forward to the next one.
Will the youtube link/recording still be available to listen to after the “72 hours” is up? I am unsure how to download a copy of it as such (I have downloaded the transcript). Any tips, anyone?
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