It’s that time of year. When we turn the page from December to January, most of us give at least a little thought to “New Year’s Resolutions.” It’s hard not to. Virtually every publication—both traditional and electronic—has at least one article on how to make and keep resolutions, what resolutions are being made by famous people, and how quickly resolutions can be broken. We tend to forget that we can leave old behaviors behind and/or begin new ones at any time, but birthdays and the start of a new year tend to amplify the sense of leaving the old behind . . . → Read More: Resolutions Revolution
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 Comments are closed  Blog  alcohol, Anchoring, change, change behaviors, cold turkey, conditioning, control, courage, decision, decision-making, direction, Erickson, fiscal cliff, habits, learning, losing weight, Milton Erickson, muscle soreness, muscles, New Year, nonsmoker, physical fitness, problems, quitting smoking, resolutions, resolve, reward, smoking, stimulus-response, U.S. Congress One of the concepts of NLP that tends to be overlooked is the way thresholds influence human behavior. Everyone is, of course, familiar with the idea of the last straw that broke the proverbial camel’s back. It wasn’t, of course, the final straw that did the breaking—it was rather the accumulation of straws over time. A camel, after all, can carry only so much weight before giving up in one way or another. The concept of thresholds has a long history in Western culture, and—I would assume—in other cultures as well. Most Westerns, for example, are familiar with the . . . → Read More: Thresholds Comments are closed Blog Caesar, compulsion blowout, compusive, divorce, last straw, Mark Twain, never again, NLP, OCD, Rubicon, separation, smoking, submodalities, submodality, thresholds, weight, weight control |
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