Do you realise that every time we speak to ourselves we are actually coaching ourselves? Are you empowering yourself through your own internal communication or beating yourself up? Is that little voice inside of you your best friend or a saboteur? How would you like to be able to train your internal coach for business and personal success? So that it keeps you focused and motivated, especially during challenges?

Master your thoughts, master your results

Because 80% of our results depend on our mindset, the key to mastering our results in business and in life is to master our thoughts. Our thoughts comprise things we imagine, hear, feel, smell, taste and our internal communication with ourselves. Every thought we think and/or speak acts as a suggestion to our unconscious mind. And regardless of whether we are speaking internally to ourselves or externally to others, our mind will actualise it for us. So if we tell ourselves “I can’t do it” often enough, after a while we will condition ourselves to believe this.

In NLP we believe that the meaning of your communication is the response you get. So if in your life you are getting results other than what you want, get in touch with your own internal communication and ask yourself “How do I want to change my internal communication so I achieve the results I desire?” Having the flexibility to adapt our communication is the key to producing our desired results.

Training your internal coach

There are many techniques available to help you to train your internal coach for business and personal success. Here are a couple of very simple and effective techniques that you can begin applying to your business and life immediately.

Any time you are faced with a challenge ask yourself the question “How?”. “How?” is a very powerful question because it allows us to come up with the solutions, opportunities and options rather than dwelling on or being stuck in the problem.

Start giving yourself daily or weekly feedback on the actions you are taking. Instead of beating yourself up when faced with challenges, telling yourself all the things you could have or should have done, give yourself some constructive feedback. Sit down at the end of each day or week and write down the answers to four questions:

What did I do well today/this week?
What can I improve?
What can I learn from this?
Overall, how was my day/week? (end on a positive)

This will assist you to learn and grow from your actions and help you move to the next level of your personal and professional performance! Used consistently, this becomes an extremely powerful process for training your internal coach for success.

Make room for the new

You have probably heard of the expression - empty out the old to make room for the new. Before we can achieve total mastery of our thoughts and internal communication, we first need to let go of old thought patterns ie. declutter our mind from negative emotions, limiting beliefs, internal confusion, negative self talk and disempowering behaviours. Because to the extent that we still have old thought patterns, these will come in and distract, confuse or compromise our thinking and, therefore, our results.

By letting go of the old thought patterns, we will make room for the new. In turn, we can coach ourselves to great business and personal success and truly become masters of our results and our destiny!

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Vesna Grubacevic is a Performance Transformation Expert™ with Qt, an internationally recognised and certified NLP Trainer, holds a BEc, has over 25 years’ business experience and is currently studying towards her PhD. Vesna has a proven track record of assisting clients to achieve their personal and professional goals, dreams and desires… and fast! For more techniques on how to train your internal coach for success and for your FREE gifts, visit www.qttransformation.com today or call Vesna on (03) 9653-9288.

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