Description
About this book
This is a book for and about your everyday life. Its purpose is for you to make more of the exciting times, the joys, and the moments when everything turns out well. It is also for dealing with the frustrations, infuriating habits, and moments when things turn out wrong. They all come bundled together in our life and we can’t have the first group without being open the second.
This book uses some of the insights of Neuro Linguistic Programming or NLP to explore our experience. NLP has a complex name but is based on a simple idea. Our thoughts and feelings are not random. There have a structure; your experience makes sense. You can understand it. NLP is about how we put together our internal world with all its angels and devils, its welcome and unwelcome guests. This is not about controlling your mind and emotions but appreciating them, not about denying your experience, or trying to force it into a series of ‘shoulds’ but living out its richness.
Contents
Dedication 4
Introduction 6
Chapter One – Inside and Outside Thinking 9
Chapter Two – Time Travel 18
Chapter Three – Own Goals 28
Chapter Four – Self Talk 38
Chapter Five – Pieces of String 49
Further Reading 57
Biography 58
About the author
Joseph O’Connor is an international author, trainer, executive coach and consultant. He is a leading author and trainer in coaching and Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) and systemic thinking.
He is the author of eighteen books and three audiotapes on coaching, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, training, sales, communication skills, management and systemic thinking.
His books have been translated into twenty nine languages and have sold half a million copies worldwide.
He is co – author with Andrea Lages of two books on coaching.
Coaching with NLP (Thorsons 2004 – translated into nine languages)
How Coaching Works (AC Black 2007 – translated into six languages and nominated for Financial Times
best business book of the year 2007)
He is Co – Founder of the International Coaching Community (ICC)
Co-founder and director of ROI Coaching, specialist coaching for financial executives, and he is Visiting Professor of Coaching, ISCTE University Business School, Lisbon, Portugal.
He spent many years as a professional classical guitarist and has an L.R.A.M. from the Royal Academy of Music.
He lives in London now (2011) having spent eight years living in Sao Paulo Brazil.
