Posts Tagged ‘self belief’
‘I’ll try…’
It’s only a tiny word. Just 3 letters. But how a person uses the word ‘Try’ provides important clues to their beliefs and attitude.
This widely used and quite sneaky little word is generally used without much thought – almost as a figure of speech, in fact. But what lies beneath it is the attitude I don’t believe…as in ‘I don’t believe you can’ or ‘I don’t believe I can’. And like a lot of words and terms we use it so often that few of us listen to our use of it even though this is emotionally impacting ourselves and our listeners. Read the rest of this entry »
Tags: commitment, do or do not, NLP, nlp presuppositions, plain english, self belief, try, yoda | 
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The BBC launched a new series of The Apprentice last evening here in the UK and so, over the next three months, 12 precious hours of my life will be devoted to watching it. I did try to ignore it last year but succumbed after, I think, the third episode and was once again hooked. Read the rest of this entry »
