Improve Your Writing with NLP

Failure is feedback. Failure doesn’t mean you’re

We all do things we find inappropriate or stupid and then wonder why. It’s often because we are trying, unconsciously, to fulfill a positive intention—an underlying need or desire. History and biography are replete with complex individuals who made massive blunders based on good intentions. The road to hell is … well, you know the rest. When we let our positive intentions rise to awareness, we can temper them or satisfy them in appropriate ways. You’ll learn more about this in Chapter 5; a chapter on blasting through writer’s block.

Your state determines your effectiveness. We accomplish our best results when we are in the right “state” of mind, body, and spirit. If you bound out of bed every mo

Experience has structure.

Principles for Writing

we have a continual and reciprocal interplay between experience and our interpretations and representations of that experience.

Problem-solving: If we can observe and understand how people organize their thoughts when faced with a problem, then we can teach them how to get a better result—a solution. With NLP strategies, you can solve self-imposed problems that have gotten in the way of your best writing.

s a way to model excellence, solve problems, and improve communication.

POWER Process: An NLP Approach to Writing published in 1997 by Dixie Elise Hickman and Sid Jacobson.

communication influences thinking and behavior.