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The 4 Cartesian Questions revisited

Peter April 4, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

One of my most popular articles on this blog is the one called “The 4 Cartesian Questions in NLP”, and which dates back to November 2009. In it I describe how one week I sprung the Cartesian Questions on the team I coach for rugby. This ...

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Beginners Luck

Peter April 2, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Ever had this? Of course – we’ve all had it, and we’ve all seen others have it too. It’s one of those “guaranteed givens” in pretty much everything we do, when starting out. Whenever we are doing something for the first time – and I ...

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Getting ‘Off the mark’!

Peter March 27, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Public Speaking “I’m off the mark – I’ve broken my duck”.Last week saw my very first venture into public speaking. Now I have to go back a very long way for my first public performance in any format – but just speaking, for donkey’s years ...

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Showcasing my “Bookshop”

Peter March 27, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

It’s another holiday time, so I thought I’d revisit and showcase the “bookshop”!   I actually do have another book building on the horizon, but it is going to be somewhat different from the first three that are mentioned below. These are all very much ...

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Finding Carols

Peter March 24, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Shopping List: Milk-Paper-Croissants Sometimes things just leap out at you by association. Years ago I was watching a bus reversing and as it did, it played a loud ‘warning’ jingle that musically reminded me of the passage in Mendelssohn’s Midsummer Night’s Dream overture that ...

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A Boswellian sense of franking?

Peter March 19, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Spam One of this morning’s emails was an invitation from an office machine company to try out a franking machine for free – which they billed as … “Free Franking Trial”  … and then off went my train of thought! A Franking Trial eh, which will ...

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Conjunctions

Peter March 17, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

The Paper Shop I went into our local paper shop yesterday to pick up the Saturday paper and a bag of sweets for my Dad. There was one lady serving on the counter and she was busy dealing with the person in front of me ...

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Another new audio series – “Mind How You Go”

Peter March 16, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

In this series there are readings of various chapters from “Mind How You Go”. This first one is called “And are you ready to make that change?” and explores steps we can take to notice how we currently describe the unfamiliar and how reframing and ...

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What needs to happen for you to … ?

Peter March 15, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

“When the student is ready the teacher will appear”  ~  Buddha The number of times each week I encounter the thoughts behind this famous quote must run into hundreds – from catching sounds of random conversations in the street, to comments made by family, friends, ...

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Prelude & Fugue (Getting results)

Peter March 7, 2013 Post Comment Uncategorised

Prelude A Friend wrote online … “Just picked up my exam results for January – so nervous but really happy with a C in tautology and a D in mental studies! Not the best but passes nonetheless.” My reply was … I’d invite you to ...

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