Change Your Thoughts Change Your Performance

Click here toSylvia was Sandy’s NLP trainer. An ex-banker who had reinvented herself she soul searched over five years to find something that would have meaning in her life. As she meandered through her journey she changed people around her, language she used and even the career she had been accustomed to.


Her posture and outlook transformed. Beginning to realise she was also attracting different types of people like Sandy, John and Sara who were also on that same path. Intuitively they knew she would be able to help as everything she said was like music to their ears. They needed guidance from someone like her who had been there done that!
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Sylvia was Sandy’s NLP trainer. An ex-banker who had reinvented herself she soul searched over five years to find something that would have meaning in her life. As she meandered through her journey she changed people around her, language she used and even the career she had been accustomed to.


Her posture and outlook transformed. Beginning to realise she was also attracting different types of people like Sandy, John and Sara who were also on that same path. Intuitively they knew she would be able to help as everything she said was like music to their ears. They needed guidance from someone like her who had been there done that!


And so they signed up for her NLP Practitioner program which had attached to it, an international certification. Sandy and Sara wanted to start their own business and needed coaching skills. John was a corporate man who managed a team and his desire was to transfer coaching skills to them. 


Each of them related their excitement to their circle of influence about the first day of the Program. Sylvia began with an opener “it was Norman Vincent Peale who said change your thoughts and you change your world.” There was no shortage of advice on the benefits of this on the internet, in books, seminars, courses and workshops.  


Sylvia went on to add that she was going to share the HOW TO make that change. Change had to come from within, anything otherwise was considered coercion. Thoughts were the result of a constant ebb and flow between the conscious and unconscious mind.  They gave rise to emotions which dictated how we felt. They were powerful beyond measure. 


Even long after an upsetting event or situation, there were times when these thoughts still took precedence. It was so important to be aware of thoughts that drove us so that they could be changed if needed. This was the first step to change yet Sylvia found in her experience, many people allowed their thoughts to control them. 


This is where she played. Bringing thoughts to awareness for people who wanted change in their performance. Re-directing the brain to achieve something different to what they were doing. The best part about all this was that it was easy to make that change. As long as the individual identified where their thoughts were coming from. Was it their ego or voices from the past? Voices of parents, authority figures, siblings or friends?  Were they stored neatly away in compartments or scattered any which way? 


In the course of one of her programs Sylvia related how she met a lady who was in her 40’s. She had everything going for her but she said she always sabotaged herself only to eventually not achieve her goals. Through the course Sylvia discovered that she did all the right things but sabotaged herself only at the end. 


In the course of questioning her it came to the fore that it was a voice in her head that was stopping her. When asked whose voice it was, she revealed in horror “oh my God it’s my mother’s voice”. Her mother had put her down from childhood and told her she would amount to nothing. 


As soon as she realized that same voice was playing in her mind she wondered why she had not picked this simple point up herself.  This was often the case in Sylvia’s experience. Like a carpenter who knew where to cut wood and how to piece it together, Sylvia was a master of the mind. She knew where the internal knots were and how to untie them so the person felt free. 


People who wanted change could have it fast if they identified what stopped them like beliefs that limited them or negative emotions.  Reciting positive affirmations or reading inspiring quotes took a lot of effort and commitment with not much result. In the NLP program Sylvia worked with the strategy of what was not working and blew it out via the unconscious mind. 


Understanding behavior patterns were crucial as the source of that thought pattern is what needed to be eradicated. 


However successful a person may be, there was definitely something that they could clean out internally to make life even more empowering. Best of all these change processes were easy to transfer across to others, so they could replicate talent. 


Sylvia had observed that most people were on autopilot which did not augur well for introspection. On the other side of the coin those who were unleashing their full potential via changing mindsets, were doing so successfully just from a simple thing like identifying their driver thought patterns. 


Ultimately it was important to take that first step and just do it!
    
Sylvia Fernandes is the Founder & CEO of VIA Frontiers established in Sydney in 2002. She is a corporate NLP trainer and consults in creating effective people in the Asia Pacific Region.

She is also the author of Bye Bye Black Cat – Turn Your Luck Around to Realise Opportunities – launched on the 23rd October 2014 on www.amazon.com. Go to www.viafrontiers.com or email [email protected] for more information.