| NLP is a methodology that was created to model the | | | | you are doing to the big picture helps with motivation. |
| excellence of others. The basic idea was to be able to | | | | Even when writing the book Romilla was having ideas |
| replicate the skills and abilities of experts. Most of the | | | | and thoughts about the second book and all the other |
| time modeling is all about taking a small slice of ability | | | | things that she wanted to get done. This certainly |
| and working out how an expert does it. For example | | | | helped her to stay motivated and keeping this step, in |
| how a good sales professional opens the | | | | proportion. Another thing I noticed about Romilla was |
| conversation, how they handle objections or close | | | | that she took this as a learning experience. She was |
| deals. This article is about some ideas that I have | | | | constantly telling me about how much she was |
| about keeping going despite problems and pitfalls. It is | | | | learning about writing, NLP, publishing, marketing, and all |
| about maintaining focus, vision and motivation over long | | | | of this was coming through the experience of writing |
| periods of time. I have known Romilla Ready, the | | | | this book. This is a great attitude to have because it |
| co-author of NLP for Dummies for a long time, and I | | | | gives you the chance to ask questions, not to be |
| have learnt a lot from her just by watching her | | | | perfect, learned from mistakes and move on. Any |
| published her first book, Neurolinguistic Programming for | | | | new enterprise will contain setbacks, mistakes and |
| Dummies. It took Romilla over a year to get the | | | | frustrations. But having a learning attitude towards |
| publisher interested. During that period, she lost her | | | | what you're doing will allow you to gain experience and |
| original co-author. Once through these problems, she | | | | move on from any setbacks. Something else, I noticed |
| not only had to set about writing her first book. But she | | | | about Romilla, is that she was writing little, but very |
| also took it to be in the UK's best-selling Dummies | | | | often. This developed consistency and discipline, as |
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| NLP for dummies workbook, which will be on sale in | | | | blocking huge amount of time for a specific task. It |
| April 2008. The whole thing took a considerable | | | | stops you going in to overwhelm, it sets up a habit and |
| amount of time, there were many setbacks, and it | | | | keep your motivation going. NLP Modelling is really |
| was interesting to notice how Romilla maintained her | | | | about looking at what's underneath the behaviour of a |
| motivation to see the project through. Here are a few | | | | person. It is about their values, their beliefs and |
| of the things that I've learned through Romilla's | | | | strategies. In this way, we can find out what drives |
| experience. Having strong values and the big vision is | | | | them to be good at what they do. A good NLP |
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