NLP Coaching - Time Management
Making time
Have you ever experienced time flying by? Or do you remember an occasion when you kept looking at the clock and time was really dragging?
These are great examples of the difference between actual time passing and your perception of time passing.
Up to now your experience of time passing might have seemed out of your control. How often have you said "if only I had more time." Maybe you have been frustrated when you have "run out of time" whilst doing something important.
In actual fact, the way you perceive time is much more within your control than you might have imagined. You can learn skills to slow down time when you need to get something done. And you can also speed time up to overcome boredom or frustration.
Filling time
You can also use your mind more efficiently.
Often, if you are busy, rushing or worrying about a task, you are probably doing the opposite to what is needed i.e. you fill time with distracting thoughts, negative internal dialogue and imaginations about failure. Doing that kind of stuff actually takes up time, a lot of time. And it is exhausting too, which means you were doing things with less energy and more slowly.
Saving time
You can learn to stop distracting thoughts, silence internal dialogue and change the way you imagine things, so the old patterns of worry and anxiety are replaced with easy natural focus and an ability to do things calmly and efficiently. You will suddenly feel there is so much more time to do everything. Because you are using your mind efficiently and at full capacity. And the old feelings of tireness will give way to energy and vitality.
Being organised
And another way to get more time is by being more organised.
Some people are deterred from learning to be more organised because they think it involves going on fancy courses or reading tons of books - and that just requires more time doesn't it.
Well I like to tell you about genuine natural organisational skills - no gimmics, no complicated ideas or silly theories. You don't even need books, notepads, lists, software or apps to be more organised. The only software you need is inside your own mind. You can learn to reprogramme your mind, to re-organise your thoughts. When you organise your thoughts, beliefs and understandings you naturally become more organised in what you do.
It is actually much easier to do things in an organised way than not, and it feels better. This is why really organised people not only get more done but also seem much happier too. In fact the reason organised people make it look effortless is because it requires much less effort than rushing around being disorganised.
There is more information about coaching and NLP for organisational skills on the following webpage: Organisational Skills
Using your brain for a change
"Using your brain for a change" is the title of one of the early books written by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, the creators of NLP. The title of the book seems to be a neat play on words. Using your brain to create a change in your thinking is a big opportunity for you, the opportunity to be more organised inside out, starting from the inside and effecting the outside.
What now
Send me some questions by e-mail, give me a ring or meet me for a free initial consultation. If you contact me immediately it will be one less thought to do later. How's that for an idea.
You have the reassurance of knowing I am a certified Advanced Therapeutic NLP Specialist and NLP Trainer, trained by Richard Bandler (co-creator of NLP) and licenced by the Society of NLP
Secrets of managing time
Good time management arises when you:
Control your preception of time
Slow down time to get things done
Use relaxation to be more efficient
Overcome distracting thoughts and worries
Make your internal dialogue help you
Create solutions with your imagination
Organise your thoughts and ideas
Manage your beliefs to generate more choices
Maintain an effortless focus on the task
Create energy and vitality
What next
If you are interested in what you have read here, would like to explore how coaching and NLP might help you, or if you feel you would like more information you might like to do the following:
1) E-mail me - info@springtomind.co.uk, ask me some questions, explain your requirements or request a free initial consultation.
2) Telephone me on +44 (0) 7771 823651 to get some immediate answers, have a more detailed chat about my work, get an overview to see if you like the sound of what I do or just get a feel for NLP.
3) Arrange a free initial consultation by e-mail or phone. Meet me face to face for some concrete ideas about the way forward, ask me for some suggestions or to see how NLP and coaching might fit with the big picture for you.
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