How to Take Charge of Your Life: The User’s Guide to NLP

How to Take Charge of Your Life: The User’s Guide to NLP
Richard Bandler

Owen Fitzpatrick

Alessio Roberti

Richard Bandler, co-creator of NLP and the man who taught and trained Paul McKenna, joins forces with Alessio Roberti and Owen Fitzpatrick once again to give you the tools to change your life.Richard Bandler – the world-renowned co-creator of NLP who has helped millions around the world change their lives for the better – has teamed up once again with Italian NLP Master Trainer Alessio and co-founder of the Irish Institute of NLP Owen, to offer a simple yet engaging introduction to the groundbreaking ideas of NLP.Written in the form of a fable, How To Take Charge Of Your Life is the prequel to The Ultimate Introduction to NLP. Once again Bandler invites readers into his workshops and illustrates the theories and techniques he has spent years developing.Based around a three-day introductory course, this book will give you the tools you need to start making an effective change today. From explaining the importance of self-belief and how to change beliefs, to how to control your emotions and negative thinking, and how to create the life you want.This is an easy-to-read and inspiring account that readers can turn to time and again.‘The must have self-help book!’ Paul McKenna

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CONTENTS

Cover (#ubca659ac-a923-556e-a5bb-1cf23bf24cf9)

Title Page (#ulink_f2c0fe12-9219-5e6d-8522-6719d64291cf)

Dedication (#ulink_ea0e638b-c7dd-5508-adbb-640bfe6beb27)

Acknowledgements (#ulink_3172c455-4cc1-5241-a46d-abed17097cf3)

Introduction (#ulink_1371cd21-7fa9-5792-b49f-7cd72e8663c0)

1: A Three-Day Course in Personal Freedom (#ulink_368dabf0-948b-54a0-bbcc-20e69f3fc19a)

2: Day One: How to Change Negative Thinking (#ulink_08b003d7-cbf7-5c24-8bf5-60eec5de3841)

3: Day Two: How to Change Limiting Beliefs (#litres_trial_promo)

4: Day Three: How to Create the Life You Want (#litres_trial_promo)

5: After the Workshop: The Most Important Question (#litres_trial_promo)

6: Joe’s Journal (#litres_trial_promo)

Epilogue: Share the Message, Share Your Story (#litres_trial_promo)

Resources (#litres_trial_promo)

NLP Techniques

Recommended Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

DVD and CD Products (#litres_trial_promo)

Websites (#litres_trial_promo)

The Society of Neuro-Linguistic Programming™ (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Authors (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

DEDICATION (#uca21d5ed-e275-528d-b15e-ef3fd00a18f7)

This book is dedicated to our families and friends for their advice, support, love and encouragement. They make our freedom worth while.

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS (#uca21d5ed-e275-528d-b15e-ef3fd00a18f7)

This book would have never seen the light of day were it not for the amazing help from the following people. We send out a huge thank you to all of them for their support, suggestions and hard work in making this book possible.

First to our agent, Robert Kirby, for his wonderful support, dedication and belief in this book. Robert is a terrific professional, and his insights, guidance and ideas proved incredibly useful.

Thanks to the wonderful team at HarperCollins, especially Carole Tonkinson and Victoria Eribo, who have been really great in their belief in the book.

Next, we thank John and Kathleen La Valle for their friendship and ongoing assistance and encouragement.

And last but not least, we thank all of our colleagues, the seminar attendees, support staff and Society of NLP trainers all over the world. Without you there would be no life-changing seminars.

From Richard

I would like thank my wife Glenda for her help, her support and her magical smile.

Also my thanks go to forty years of clients who faced the worst and taught me so much.

From Alessio

I would like to thank Cinzia and Damiamo, my world of love.

From Owen

I would like to thank the following:

My parents Marjorie and Brian Fitzpatrick. I would be lost without you both. Thanks so much for everything. You are amazing role models and the reason I am who I am.

My goddaughters Lucy and Aoife, who make me smile continuously.

My cousin Breandan Kearney, a true wordsmith, for his invaluable help with the book. My fantastic friends Brian and Theresa Colbert, Gillian McNamara, Cristina Granizo, Robert and Michelle Orr, Michael Connolly, Paul Kiernan, John and Anna O’Connell, Elena Martelli, Joe Higgins, Lauren Wickel, Sandra pou Van Biezen, Lauren Inkster, Olivia Lavelle and Lynda Morrissey for their honest feedback on the book, love and never-ending encouragement.

INTRODUCTION (#uca21d5ed-e275-528d-b15e-ef3fd00a18f7)

There are hundreds of books published on NLP but this, and its sequel The Ultimate Introduction to NLP, are the only ones that give you the chance to experience what it’s like to be a fly on the wall at one of Dr Richard Bandler’s seminars. This book is a workshop between the covers.

We called this book The User’s Guide to NLP because through the story you get a really clear understanding of how you can use NLP to take charge of your life.

As the characters apply the skills, so can you. The story is of a man named Joe who wants to break the chains of problems that he has in his life. His story is a story that many of us can relate to. The lessons he learns we can apply ourselves to live the life we desire. These lessons are from a workshop that Joe attends given by a man known around the world as ‘The Einstein of the Mind’: Dr Richard Bandler.

In the early 1970s Richard Bandler co-created the field of NLP, or Neuro-Linguistic Programming. By studying the most effective therapists at the time, it was possible to identify what made them effective at producing change in other people.