I have just completed the pre-course test for my NLP Master Practitioner training. This test had to be returned by today at the latest, which I chose to interpret as by midnight, so I've just scraped in! It's been a mega-slog over the last few days, and there's no-one to blame for that but me. I've had the test for a couple of months, so why oh why did I leave it right till the last minute before cracking on? Just like I did with my Practitioner test. Just like I have for so many other things in my life. I could talk about all the challenges that I've had over the last few months, I could whine about how totally crap the last couple of weeks in particular have been... cancer scares, financial challenges, illness, big work decisions... hey, there are a ton of different "reasons" that I could cite, and all they would be is excuses. The truth is that I have had loads of time and opportunity to just get on with it, and I chose not to.
One of the major frames of NLP is to live in Cause versus Effect. What this means (and I know this - it's one of the questions in my test!), is living in your own personal power, empowered and taking responsibility for your actions, re-actions, behaviour and results, versus living in a dis-empowered state, blaming external factors and making excuses for your actions, re-actions, behaviour and results.
Cause = taking control over your life
Effect = giving away control
So I accept responsibility: I left it till the last minute, and I was stressed and had a tough job on my hands because of it. In NLP terms, I continue to run my pattern. When will I learn? At the Master Practitioner Training I hope!
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