Enhance your Lifestyle with NLP+ © Series: Part 41

By: Shantanu Das Sharma, Sr. Associate Editor, ICN Group

Quick recap of what we have covered in Part 40

Making the Dream Possible and Real

Goals within One Year

Take On a 36-hour Challenge

Goals within Five Years

Goals within Ten Years

Goals within Fifteen Years

Seven-Step Goal Achievement Process

Seven-Step Goal Achievement Process Worksheet

The Power of Why

Charging Up Your Goals

WAY TO REPLICATE ANYONE’S SUCCESS BLUEPRINT

KOLKATA: I am sure by now; you would have experienced a major shift in your personal effectiveness. In this article, we will further explore the concept of modeling and how you can replicate the success blueprints of models of excellence. One of the reasons I have been able to achieve such exceptional results in such a short period of time is that I have learnt how to become a master modeler. I have identified fantastic role models in the area of learning, speaking, wealth creation, selling and business and have distilled their years of experience and accumulated expertise into a series of strategies that I have adopted within a few years.

Remember that we all have got basically the same neurology (one thousand billion neurons) available to us. If someone is more effective than you in a particular skill or behavior, it is because their neurology is running a more effective strategy. They may have taken years of trial and error to build in their ability to speak in a powerful manner, generate creative ideas or stay relaxed in stressful situations. As a result, their brains have formed an effective set of neural connections that generate the desired states, behaviors and results. In this article you will learn how to dissect a person’s success blueprint, replicate it and install it within yourself. When I modeled the top students and gifted children, I discovered that the reason they were superior learners was simply because they had a very effective strategy for generating ideas, understanding new facts, memorizing it and solving questions. 95% of the other students who were either average or below average were not stupid; they just had an ineffective strategy. Let me give you an example of how changing your mental strategy can significantly change the results you produce. Do you have a good memory? Most people I ask would say ‘no’ immediately. Well, again if you forget things easily, it is not because you do not have the ability to remember, you just have an ineffective memory strategy. Take a look at the list below and do your best to remember it in sequence. Give yourself a maximum of one minute.

Now, covering the list above (be honest!), do your best to write down as many words as you can remember in the blank spaces below.

So how many words did you manage to recall in sequence? Most people can only manage a maximum of seven to ten words.

Now, would you believe that it is possible to remember every single word in sequence, within 2 minutes, given the right strategy? Here is what I would like you to do. Using your imagination, make a visual image of each word and associate it to the next word in a humorous way. At the same time, say the word out loud! Follow the associations I have created below…

Use your mind and visualize an egg. (say ‘egg’ out loud) Now, imagine that the egg cracks and out pops a cow’s head. (say ‘cow’ out loud). See that the cow has forks on its head (say ‘fork’). Imagine that the fork is wearing a pink bikini. Suddenly, the bikini drops and bananas are exposed. Imagine that the skin of the banana peels off and becomes fan. The fan blows all your hair away. Your hairs flies and gets glued to a ghost (sound like ‘glucose’). The glue ghost (glucose) chases a policeman into the zoo. Inside the zoo, imagine seeing Michael Jackson wearing ear rings. He then takes the ear rings and throws it like a Frisbee. See the Frisbee spinning around the planet. A rainbow appears. Then see that there are numbers dancing on the rainbows. These numbers then join to make a crown. On the crown you see fish balls which contain small clocks. On the hand of the clock are claws.

Now, do your best to write down as many words as you can remember in the blank spaces below.

If you had followed the strategy, you would have no problem remembering all 20 words in sequence. Why were you able to remember so easily the second time? Well, simply because you used the strategy people with exceptional memories use. Most people try to remember by staring at the words and repeating it to themselves over and over again. This visual external & auditory digital (self talk) strategy is not effective at all.

Ineffective Memory Strategy

However, what I have found is that people with exceptional memories tend to make an image of the word in their mind (visual internal). They then associate the images together in an emotionally outstanding way (kinesthetic). In addition, they say the words out loud (auditory digital). Anyone who uses this strategy will find themselves being able to remember lists and list of words effortlessly. By adopting this memory strategy as well as other powerful learning strategies in reading and information processing, I managed to jump from a below average learner to among the top learners in my profession!

Effective Memory Strategy

You can model and replicate the strategies of literally any form of exceptional behavior.

Modeling the Success Blueprint

So how do you go about modeling a person’s success blueprint? In an earlier article, we talked about the power of modeling someone’s PHYSIOLOGY (external behavior). By modeling a person’s physiology, we can quickly tap into their optimum states and peak performance levels.

By observing and literally modeling the gestures, tonality, facial expressions, posture and mannerisms of top speakers, I managed to become extremely powerful communicators within a short period of time.

If we want to replicate a person’s success, we must also model their empowering BELIEF SYSTEMS.

Why? Remember that our beliefs are like the operating system to our brain. They determine how we filter and perceive what happens around us. They determine how we respond and how we take action. By observing and asking the role model questions, you can get a sense of the beliefs they have. Here are some examples of the empowering beliefs of effective communicators. It is these sets of beliefs that truly set them apart from the average communicators.

Beliefs of Highly Effective Communicators

_ Everyone has a different model of reality

_ The meaning of your communication is the response you get

_ Resistance is a sign of lack of rapport

_ There is no failure, only feedback

_ There are no resistant people, only inflexible communicators

Beliefs of Successful Entrepreneurs

_ Everything is possible. It is only a question of strategy

_ Every failure lays the foundation for progress towards success

_ Everything happens for a beneficial reason

_ For things to change, I must change first

_ Behind every crisis lies an opportunity

The other thing we must model from someone who is excellent in something is their VALUES STRUCTURE. You have learnt in this article series that the way we individually rank and define our values (towards and away from) also determines the decisions we make and what actions we take.

Again, is it necessary to know the person’s entire values structure? No! We just need to get a sense of what drives them towards what they do. We can simply do this by asking, ‘What’s important to you about what you do?’ The final thing we must model in a person’s success blueprint is their MENTAL PROCESSING STRATEGIES. Commonly known as STRATEGIES. Every behavior (positive or negative) we perform begins with a specific mental strategy that we run in our brain. In order to generate brilliant ideas, a person runs a specific ‘creative’ mental strategy in their neurology. Similarly, in order for us to feel ‘love’ or ‘depressed’, our neurology must run certain mental strategies that produce these states and behaviors.

I facilitate Thought Leaders, Change Makers; Professionals & Business Owners translate NLP concepts into actions to achieve and elicit personal excellence. I conduct NLP Lifestyle Coaching Certification programs for individuals, corporate and celebrity clients. In the next article, you will learn about Strategies – Our Mental Road Map . And after that you will come to know in subsequent articles, how you can utilize concepts of NLP+ in all walks of your life to replicate the success blueprint of a winner mindset to win through life.  So, stay tuned every Monday & Saturday and fasten your seat belt to ‘Enhance Your Lifestyle With NLP+’)

Shantanu Das Sharma, Creator of the concept NLP Lifestyle Coaching with NLP+ and Founder of Neuromind Leadership Academy is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author, NLP+ Lifestyle Master Trainer & Coach, C-Suite Advisor; First Certified Social Panorama Consultant in Eastern India directly trained under Dr. Lucas Derks, Clean Language Facilitator & Strategic Interventionist. To explore about NLP+ Lifestyle Coaching you may visit http://shantanudassharma.com/nlp-lifestyle-coaching/