The NLP Swish Pattern

Tony Robbin’s Personal Power II helped me a lot to re-program myself and my life. One technique that particularly got my attention is the Swish Pattern. Here is an example from this post about anchoring in PPII. Finally, how about another great way to change a pattern? This is called a Swish Pattern. 1).   … Read more

Love of learning can be useful

Mark Cuban loves to learn. He just enjoys learning new things. He likes to build a foundation of knowledge which he then can use to build businesses. The premise is, you have to have a basic understanding of what you are going to do business with. In an interview, he talks about how he is … Read more

Elon Musk’s Business Advice

Yesterday I sat down to enjoy Elon’s interview at Air Force Space Pitch Day and wrote down some notes. Elon is brilliant at distilling business to the core principles. It’s his way of applying first-principles thinking. Make something that print’s money At the 2019 Earnings Call Elon explained his business model for Tesla’s Solar Energy. … Read more

Neuro-Associative Conditioning

Today I’ll finally share the gist of Neuro-Associative Conditioning or NAC. NAC is a form of (re) programming habits. I learned about NAC in Tony Robbin’s Personal Power ll which according to Wikipedia “is the best-selling personal improvement program of all time with more than 35 million tapes distributed worldwide.“ The audio program is really … Read more

A simple technique to make change

Have you ever read a book that gave you the impression that the author held nothing back? That she gave her all? That’s how I felt while listening to Tony Robbins’ Personal Power. I listened to his program because I felt that there was something important to learn from Tony for me. My instinct turned … Read more

Hacking Willpower, Optimizing the Defaults

A while back, all the craze about productivity seemed to reside on Willpower. There are several good books about that topic. But what if willpower is overrated? I started to think more about the alternative when I saw a video about Optimizing the defaults. But actually, where I learned about this principle for the first … Read more

Tim Ferris on how to find a Mentor

In a recent Tea Time with Tim, he got asked how to find a Mentor. I made some notes because his advice was the best I’ve encountered on this. First, let’s re-frame the question “The question is “How can I encourage people I aspire to be like, who are 10, 20, 30 years ahead of … Read more

What to do if you feel stagnant — Tim Ferris’ Podcast

I want to share this gold nugget from the Tim Ferris podcast. The episode is about Q&A and the question someone asks Tim is if he has ever felt like he was stagnant. Tim’s response from the transcript:Tim Ferriss: I’ve had that feeling at many points in my life. So the first thing I would … Read more

Get your intent right

…intent is the only thing that matters the reason I’m not scared of anything is I know where my intent is GaryVee Why is this so powerful? That’s what I asked me when I first head Gary talk about intent. Then I realised, our actions are flawed, we make mistakes, lots of them. So if … Read more

The ability to take action = Confidence

Mel Robbins’ perspective on confidence rings so true with me. In her interview on Impact Theory, she explains that confidence isn’t a personality trait as many people think. I used to think that confident people were outgoing, extroverted, in other words, it is their personality. But Mel’s explanation makes much more sense. But then why … Read more

Rather being born with nothing

At that point of the video I paused the video, stand up walking and smiling, that’s how strong it clicked with me. Difficulties, challenges, even tragedies can lead to great growth. That’s why GaryVee sees being born with nothing as an advantage. Psychologists call it post-traumatic growth. So maybe instead of wishing we were born … Read more

Accountability for Happiness

Thinking that something is your fault isn’t fun per se. But the byproduct it brings gives you choice. If you are responsible for something, the implication is that you can change it, that the circumstance is at least in part under your control. “You put accountability on a pedestal, your life will change. Do you … Read more

Perspective changes the game

Absolutely sure that one of the most important things I learned about lately is perspective. Let me clarify that statement, I didn’t experience perspective the first time, already did that years ago through difficult experiences, but it wasn’t until listening to GaryVee that I understood perspective is really a big, huge thing. “If you can … Read more

Lazy meditation

Sometimes my meditation consists of just sitting and thinking, often while listening to music. Yes meditating with music is awesome, heck, I can meditate even with Heavy Metal. This is unlike most people think about meditation, most think about it as calming thoughts, and that is certainly a byproduct of this activity too, but not … Read more

GaryVee on meditation

With the level of self-awareness, confidence, kindness, and practicality of Gary Vaynerchuk exudes, and his great ability to teach, have made me a big fan of him. I absorb his content like a sponge. But how did he become that way? He says that he got lucky and has good DNA. Besides that, he put … Read more

Patience is the new cool

If you are in a situation where you feel stuck and bad because it seems like you can’t get where you want to be while other people seem to easily make it, highly recommend you go watch this interview with Gary V. and a 22 yo girl called How One Video Can Change Your Life. … Read more