Five NLP Principles for Success

Take a moment to ask yourself an important question. How can your emotions help you to withstand temptation when it flares up? How can you grow emotional intelligence to allow yourself to become more engaged in life? You do that with the following principles of success. With them you have better control over impulse, self-regard, tolerance, optimism and flexibility.

1. Know your outcome
2. Take action
3. Have sensory acuity
4. Adopt a practice of behavioral flexibility
5. Operate from a physiology and psychology of excellence

In life, the most successful people live a life that most people only dream of having. The reason is they understand there is a power in each of us to transform ourselves and to live the life we dream of. They realize, with our mind we create the experience with our thoughts, our actions, our words and combined they help us to achieve those results.

But how does a person take the first step to reach those goals? It begins by programming them to help us become more successful in entertainment, business, communications and other areas. This is with Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP). In NLP, we use a number of techniques that allow us to help our customers to reach their own goals. When it comes to our success, we need to keep the five principles for success in mind. We can then follow these steps to help us take control of our destiny and to achieve what we want in life.

NLP focused on behavior. It is a set of guidelines that touch on attitudes, principles and techniques and they empower you to change and adapt your life. You can choose to follow in emotional, mental or physical states that will allow you to reach a positive outcome.

Here is a breakdown on all five of the NLP principles for success.

1. Know your outcome

In order to achieve any degree of success, you need to know what you want to achieve, or what the desire outcome is for you. Too often, people drift aimlessly trying to figure this out. The reason, is they have no idea what they truly want and how it should look? Should they change their career? Should they stay in the relationship they are in? Make a list of what you want and what you don’t want in your life.

2. Take action

As you discover what you want in life, you can begin to take action. This is simple, but too often, people scratch their head here. They believe they need to do it all at once and grow confused when they need to get off the stumbling block. If you want to change careers, start to look for a job or get the education you need. If you are in a relationship and feel it needs to end, talk to your partner. You’ll never make any changes if you never begin to make the changes in your life.

3. Have sensory acuity

This is an area so many people are oblivious in and it is perhaps one of the most important. When people see you, what do they truly see? Let’s go back to the relationship we touched on earlier. When you kiss your partner, what happens? Do they turn their face so you can kiss their cheek? Do they begin to turn red and annoyed when you kiss them? If they do and this has been going on for some time, you need to address this situation. This isn’t normal love at all.

There are often issues in place when this happens that you need to address. It can be a good idea to sit down with them and have a heart to heart. In some cases, you might find that you’ve just grown apart and that’s okay. But to be fair to each other, you should move on with your lives and not tough out the relationship because it’s all you know. If you both want to fight for the relationship, that’s okay too. But you need to be proactive and change what’s broken. A counselor can help you to discover new ways to do this.

4. Have behavioral flexibility

You’ll find this is actually a fascinating idea. Imagine you are having a romantic dinner and waiter brings you a plate of food, but it is ice cold. What would you do in this scenario?

A) You begin to moan and scream for the waiter to get back over here. You’ve embarrassed your partner and they are upset about your behavior. The waiter has already had a tough evening because the heating drawer apparently went out, and that is why the food has become cold.

B) You decide to approach the waiter quietly and politely. You explain to them your food is cold. They apologize to you and explain the situation with the warmer drawer is broken. He says since you were so polite he’ll speak to the manager who agrees you handled it well and your meal is on the house, because you didn’t act like a jerk.

The thing to take away from this, is that how you act actually impacts how others react to you. When you are nice and kind, people will act the same towards you. In a relationship, this is the same thing. If you are loving and nurturing, gentle with them and show them love after a hard day, they will be more receptive than if you are on the verge of exploding at them.

5. Operate from a physiology and psychology of excellence

In the realm of NLP what does it mean to have a a physiology and psychology of excellence in NLP? Look at how you stand and how you carry yourself. What kind of thoughts are going through your mind at any given time and how do you act? What goes through your mind should be what you want to achieve. If your thoughts are conductive to the results you want, it is time to make a change. You wouldn’t go to an interview in dirty ripped jeans, chewing gum and spewing offensive things. Think about that in life. Should you walk around without a care in the world? No matter what you do in life, even something as simple as going to the store, you need to do your very best. When you put your best out there, you get the best back from the world. This is an excellent way to prep yourself for the life you want to live and should be incorporated along with the other principles for success in your life.

As you make these changes, keep in mind that the principles for success can be started this very minute. You don’t have to wait for the start of a week or New Year’s Day to renew your life. This moment you are in, is a chance for you to change your life.

When you realize that, you can make the first of the many changes you need to make. You’re worth it and when you realize that and get behind this idea both physically and mentally, you’ll be an unstoppable force who is able to transform your life. After all, the only thing that is truly holding you back at this point, is you.

Gregg Swanson is a human potential and peak performance coach and owns Warrior Mind Coach. He specializes in the development of mental strength and focus to achieve a flow state for maximum performance.  You can grab his complementary mini eBook, “How To Make Change Easy” by going HERE.