“A single arrow is easily broken,
but not ten in a bundle.” – Japanese proverb
Dear Friends,
Have you ever found yourself
helped and supported by your friends in your career, dreams, visions? We hope
you have, if not perhaps you should upgrade your friends … J
Wow, what a couple of weeks this
has been! Hectic days in Greece searching for a location for our upcoming NLP
on the beach seminar (www.nlponthebeach.com) in October. Visiting different
beaches, looking at different hotels, testing different restaurants – not a
holiday; real work – enjoyable, yes. But real work. And finally we found a very
good location with crystal blue water just beside the green lush nature, in a
five star resort at two star prices for our participantsJ!
And then, immediately following
Greece delivering a couple of lectures at the Medical Faculty in Nis, Serbia,
during the conference ‘New trends in nephrology’. It is an interesting
experience to talk about NLP strategies and how it can help in curing
psychosomatic illnesses, to doctors, in an environment where every other
presentation is made on powerpoint with graphs and statistics. We are proud to
report that our lectures got a great reception and were even more pleased when doctors
expressed interest in attending our training seminars.
But what really impressed us
during the conference was the psychology of the person who organized the event
and who invited us to speak – a noted academic and professor Spira Strahinjic.
A living legend. An 88 year old visionary with the energy, ideas and attitude
of a 25 year old! What a role model! He has
made, and is still making, a great and lasting impact on medical practice
worldwide!
How did he manage to do all he
did, was simple, as he puts it – he choose the right team of people, yet before
that he had a good internal team! Now that is where the trick is ;-).
You see, some people choose a
career, a field of interest and work work work … And occasionally they accomplish
something … Some more than others, yet very often you hear how some of them
would complain that they do all the work, and that their team sucks … That is
largely true, as choosing a team is very close to an art form. It requires a
special skill.
In order to make our dreams a
reality, having an inner team is very important, as it largely decides on how
we choose the external one. When we know what our values are, what our
standards are, what our intentions are, for ourselves and within ourselves,
then choosing a team and making the right selection is very easy.
Many of us like to be self-sufficient.
We like to do things on our own. But consider how much more Rembrandt
accomplished by having a team of assistants. Where would Henry Ford be without
the right team, or Steve Jobs, or
Richard Branson …
But often the team is invisible to
the external world. Whether it is an institutional team – it is common that
people who have made a name for themselves work at the same place as others who
have made a name for themselves – or it is a home team; there is an old joke
which illustrates this point: Hilary and Bill Clinton were driving on some
presidential errand when they stopped to get gas for their vehicle. Hilary went
inside the gas station and stayed for a long time, speaking smilingly with the
manager, every once in a while tossing her hair back. When she came back to the
car president Clinton asked her – who was that? – Oh, that was Mr So-and-so,
and old flame of mine… The president thought about it for while, then he said
with a smile - So, imagine that Hilary, if you had married him you would had
been married to a gas petrol station manager. Hilary however simply answered –
No, Bill. If I had married him, I would be married to the President of the
United States.
So with this in mind, may we
invite you to consider this critical factor that is the key to any success –
the team within. How is your inner team? Take some time this week to check in
and see what is the state of your value system, are standards constantly met,
are your intentions clear, is there a good communication flow between the
Conscious and Unconscious? Do all the members of your inner team pull in the
same direction? Or do they pull you in different directions? Are they
attempting to pull you in the same direction, but do so in an uncoordinated fashion,
so that they sabotage each other?
What would it be like if they were able to
cooperate seamlessly? And find a way to spend some time considering the state
of your external team? Who do you surround yourself with? Does your external
team inspire you? Move you? Motivate you?
If you want to spend some time
with a great group of people and explore how to get your inner team in order
you are welcome to join us in Greece for our NLP practitioner on the beach (www.nlponthebeach.com) – or if you simply cannot wait until October, join us
already this weekend in Belgrade for our Momentum NLP diploma.
Wishing you a wonderful week and
sending you oceans of love,
Your playing-for-the-team
trainers,
Thomas and Lidija
Lidija Markovic– NLP Trainer
(Classic & New Code), NLP Coach
Thomas Björge– NLP Trainer
(Classic & New Code), NLP Coach
© Momentum Strategies 2013
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