All our articles and blogposts about Personal Development

Personal Development is an evolving study that becomes more and more accepted.It is no longer a ‘dirty’ word to develop yourself. Developing yourself by coaching, smarter strategies in sales and, improving your day-to-day life. Mind Tools continuously updates its knowledge by attending training with Dr. Richard Bandler and the Society of NLP.

Below you find our archives of articles and blogposts about Personal Development. As Personal Development evolves, so do the articles which we update frequently with the latest findings and the newest approaches.

Influence

The Power of Influence and Seduction

In our coaching practice we receive a lot of questions about the power of influence and seduction. Well, let me be clear about that, the power of influence and seduction is never to be about to underestimate. From birth on we start to flirt around the world and influence by yelling and screaming when we need food, drink or other things. At that very moment we are not aware how we do it, but we manage to do it. We do know precisely how to tune in to mom and dad to get the things done at the frequency they act the fastest. At a sudden, as a grown up, we start to think all kinds of things with the goal we want to achieve. Troubling the outcome big-time. This article is about the twofold, influencing and seducing from the power within.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 13, 2025 6:00 am

NLP Coaching

NLP Coaching

The behaviours below are based on what I have learnt during my 20+ years career in business and during my career as an executive coach and agent of change and progress. When coaching anybody the below coaching behaviours, applied consistently and with integrity, will help you to gain rapport, to explore and understand “the model of the world” of your interlocutor. We like to be acknowledged and understood.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 13, 2025 6:00 am

NLP Deletion

NLP Deletion

The first part of the NLP Meta Model is Deletion. In NLP Deletion occurs when we selectively pay attention to certain aspects of your experience and not others. In NLP, Deletion means we overlook or omit certain sensory information. Without deletion, we would be faced with much too much information to handle in our conscious minds.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 12, 2025 12:00 pm

Generalisation

NLP Universal Quantifiers

What are in NLP Universal Quantifiers?
Generalizations that preclude exceptions or alternative choices are in NLP Universal Quantifiers. NLP suggests that these are virtually never an accurate representation of the objective state of things. There are almost always exceptions to any rules. You use Universal quantifiers to eliminate objections and therefore, perhaps, objectivity.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 12, 2025 12:00 pm

Ambiguity

NLP Ambiguities

In NLP Ambiguities come in a variety of flavors. Phonological Ambiguity, Syntactic Ambiguity, Scope Ambiguity and Punctuation Ambiguity. Ambiguity or vague usage of language, literally means lack of specificity. You can utilize these patterns by taking advantage of everything in the listeners experience. You can use both internal and external environments to support the intention of the speaker. While working with a client, the door to your working room mistakenly opens. Instead of getting frustrated and annoyed, you start to utilize your environment.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 12, 2025 12:00 pm

Awareness Predicates

Awareness Predicates

Did you realize that your unconscious mind already has begun learning about Awareness Predicates? Sounds silly right? Yet your unconscious mind does. Now it is only the trick to continue these learnings and incorporate it in your knowledge of presuppositions and the Milton Model. Do you realize consciously now that you are reading this? Awareness Predicates are used to provide an ‘instruction’ to the listener. Have you noticed the attractive writing style in this article to keep you reading and learning at the same time?

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 12, 2025 12:00 pm

Indirect Elicitation Patterns

NLP Negative Commands

Do not think you are going to learn more in this great blogpost about NLP Negative Commands. Negative Commands are commands given in negative form. The positive instruction is generally what is responded to. A little example for starters to warm up. “Don’t think of pink elephants.” In this example you have to think about the color pink or an elephant, or both to understand what is being told. The explanation of what is happening here is fairly simple. Negation does not exist in the primary experience of sights, sounds and feelings.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 12, 2025 12:00 pm

NLP Deletion

NLP Lack of Referential Index

What is NLP Lack of Referential Index?
Any unspecified noun, where it is impossible to identify the representative entity from the immediate context of its usage is called in NLP Lack of Referential Index. I.e., it is unclear as to whom or what the noun makes reference to. Unspecified nouns are nouns (the person/being or thing part) where you don’t know who or what they are specifically talking about. NLP calls this a lack of referential index. Don’t you love these terms? Not knowing who or what the person is talking about can result in misunderstanding. You (or they) tend to fill in the gaps with your (or their) own ideas and will walk into a mind read. In other words we have to guess and then act on that guess.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 12, 2025 11:00 am

Generalisation

NLP Presuppositions

What are NLP Presuppositions?
Simple! In NLP Presuppositions are basically – “What is the person assuming to be true, underneath what they are actually telling me?”. Presuppositions are not necessarily true, but even if the are not, by holding something not-yet-true as being true, we can help to bring that to fruition.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 12, 2025 11:00 am

NLP Deletion

NLP Unspecified Verb

What is the NLP Unspecified Verb?
A verb that deletes specific information in any way as to how, when or where is called in NLP Unspecified Verb. Unspecified Verbs are verbs (the doing part) in a sentence that don’t fully describe the action taking place. They don’t give enough information to let you know what is going on for them. People usually fill in the gap with their own experience – called Mind Reading. When people use unspecified verbs, all it means is that they do not have the descriptive way of representing what they mean and/or understand.

Mind Tools Co., Ltd. May 12, 2025 11:00 am

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