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- Visualize the Life You Really Want Using Your Imagination - by Submitted on Jul 09, 2009 from Mark HollandGuided visualization is perhaps the most powerful form available. In this method, you act as the captain of your visionary ship, guiding yourself through the images you conceive as though they were actually happening. When using guided visualization, it is especially important to set your timer, ...
Views: 3396(6 votes) - Finding Your Happy Place - Mark J Holland NLP Mind Coaching - by Submitted on Jul 26, 2009 from Mark Holland“Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present.” - Jim Rohn Perhaps you are one of those people who are thinking just now, “You can’t tell me to be happy. I don’t have to be happy if I don’t want to be. Isn’t this supposed to help me find ...
Views: 3074(8 votes) - The Blame Game: Whose Fault Is It, Anyway? - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2008 from Mark Holland“The reason people blame things on the previous generation is that there’s only one other choice.” - Doug Larson We are a society driven by blame. We blame the government for running our lives, and our parents for ruining it. We blame the fast food industry for making us fat, ...
Views: 2459 - Drop That Horseshoe: There’s No Such Thing As Bad Luck - by Submitted on Jul 24, 2008 from Mark Holland“Depend on the rabbit’s foot if you will, but remember it didn’t work for the rabbit.” - R. E. Shay Have you broken a mirror in the past seven years? Any black cats crossed your path lately? In nearly every culture, in every part of the world, there are some things attributed to luck: the ...
Views: 2396 - Can People Move Beyond Behaving Badly? - by Submitted on Aug 10, 2009 from Mark Holland“Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly, and they will show themselves great.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson The way you treat other people is a reflection of your own attitude. You cannot expect to sustain a positive attitude by acting negatively toward others. Even if your ...
Views: 2158(9 votes) - Making Your Omelette: How to Learn From Your Mistakes - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2008 from Mark Holland“Remember: you only have to succeed the last time.” - Brian Tracy Everyone makes mistakes. The good news is: failure can actually be good for you! Imagine for a moment that you consider taking on this belief “There is no failure only feedback”. The best way- and ...
Views: 2132 - Are You Dreaming Bigger than you are now? Mark J Holland NLP Business Mind Coach - by Submitted on Nov 02, 2010 from Mark HollandGadday Mark Holland here, I was having lunch with some friends the other day and it occurred to me how focused we can get on what's not working in our lives and loose sight of the dreams we once dreamed. One of my friends is turning 40 and he treats it like the plague, he's really not looking ...
Views: 1846 - Breaking The Chains Of Trauma Pt 1 - by Submitted on Jul 07, 2008 from Mark HollandThe suggestions in this section, once again, are not substitutes for professional psychiatric care. However, many people have found self-help effective for relieving the stress of trauma and taking control of themselves. Whether you choose to seek professional help or embark on a healing path ...
Views: 1820(1 vote) - Does Your Attitude Create Pleasure or Pain? - by Submitted on Jul 19, 2009 from Mark Holland“Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.” - Tom Blandi Perhaps as important as what you believe is the manner in which you believe ...
Views: 1779(2 votes) - There's Always Tomorrow: Eradicate Procrastination - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2008 from Mark Holland“To be always intending to make a new and better life but never find time to set about it is as... to put off eating and drinking and sleeping from one day to the next until you’re dead.” - Og Mandino Procrastination is the easiest thing in the world to perfect- and one of the ...
Views: 1738(2 votes) - Believe in Yourself - by Submitted on Jul 13, 2009 from Mark Holland“Sooner or later, those who win are those who think they can.” - Richard Bach Believing in yourself and your abilities is absolutely the most important thing you can do on your journey to positive thinking. It is critical to develop the self-confidence you need to carry you through to the ...
Views: 1629(2 votes) - Take Me As I Am: Kicking the Approval Habit - Mark J Holland - by Submitted on Dec 10, 2008 from Mark Holland“You cannot be lonely if you like the person you’re alone with.” - Dr. Wayne Dyer Everyone wants approval and acceptance from those we care about. However, too often we depend on approval so much that we lose sight of the most important approval of all: our own. Do you find ...
Views: 1602 - Step Away from the Panic Button: Conquering Fear - by Submitted on Jun 23, 2008 from Mark Holland“All of us are born with a set of instinctive fears- of falling, of the dark, of lobsters, of falling on lobsters in the dark or speaking before the Rotary Club, and of the words “Some Assembly Required.” - Dave Barry Where all else fails to stop us from achieving what we want from life, fear ...
Views: 1519 - Breaking the Chains of Trauma Pt 2 - by Submitted on Jul 14, 2008 from Mark HollandMeditation: Connecting Above Pain Meditation is a time-honoured relaxation technique that has been used successfully in Eastern cultures for centuries to alleviate stress and focus the mind. This technique has recently gained popularity in Australia, England and the United States as millions ...
Views: 1512(4 votes) - Discover Something that will Help Get you MASSIVE Success in Small Business! - by Submitted on Aug 24, 2010 from Mark HollandHi Mark here NLP Business Coach in this post I want to discuss how helping other people get what they want, helps you get what you want. As we grow older and wiser you may or may not notice that there is much more to life than just ourselves. For some this aha moment comes at a very young ...
Views: 1496 - Opening Your Opportunities - by Submitted on Jan 16, 2009 from Mark Holland“Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity’s door if you ardently wish to enter.” - Charles Forbes Now that your new positive mindset is firmly rooted in your mental garden, you will start to see the buds of possibility appearing everywhere in your life. You can learn ...
Views: 1354 - Getting Back On The Horse - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2008 from Mark Holland“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” - Mary Pickford Beyond childhood, you may have experienced setbacks or letdowns for which you clearly recall the reasoning. Often we are so ...
Views: 1235 - Getting Back on the Horse - by Submitted on Jun 15, 2008 from Mark Holland“If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.” - Mary Pickford Beyond childhood, you may have experienced setbacks or letdowns for which you clearly recall the reasoning. ...
Views: 1110 - Change Your Mind, Change Your Life - Mark J Holland - by Submitted on Aug 11, 2008 from Mark Holland“Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.” - Abraham Lincoln When tapping in to the power of positive thinking, the most important step is to create a mindset that allows you to think positively. Once you have pulled the weeds from your mental garden, you can begin to ...
Views: 1088 - Catching The I-Love-Me Disease - by Submitted on May 20, 2008 from Mark HollandFor most of human existence, self-esteem was an unheard-of notion akin to the theories of those heretics who believed the world was round. The term “self-esteem” - defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “pride in oneself; self-respect” - made its way into the common public awareness during the ...
Views: 1084 - Just Say No: How Not To Take On Too Much - by Submitted on Oct 31, 2008 from Mark Holland“The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” - Theodore Roosevelt People are always going to ask you to do things for them. That’s life. Often we are asked to make ...
Views: 1052 - Conspiracy Theory: The Biggest Threat To The New You - by Submitted on Oct 06, 2008 from Mark Holland“When a man points a finger at someone else, he should remember that four of his fingers are pointing at himself.” - Louis Nizer Every path has its obstacles. Along the road to positive thinking, you will find only one: yourself. Human beings have a tendency to create conspiracies against ...
Views: 1051 - The Dark Ages: Childhood Programming And Past Letdowns - by Submitted on May 20, 2008 from Mark Holland“Upon our children, how they are taught, rests the fate- or fortune- of tomorrow’s world.” - B. C. Forbes The things we learn in childhood aren’t easy to forget- mostly because we don’t actively remember them. It is far harder to dislodge subconscious thought. When we are unaware not only of ...
Views: 1048 - Self-Esteem: Catching The I-Love-Me Disease - by Submitted on Jun 09, 2008 from Mark HollandFor most of human existence, self-esteem was an unheard-of notion akin to the theories of those heretics who believed the world was round. The term “self-esteem” - defined by Webster’s Dictionary as “pride in oneself; self-respect” - made its way into the common public awareness during the ...
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