Mark Shepard NLPT - Master Practitioner & Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis & Time Line Therapy (tm)
Not too long ago, Len Caiafa dropped by and I grabbed the opportunity to chat with him on camera about NLP and how he’s used some of the tools he learned at my Reluctant Sales Person Seminar and some thoughts in general about using nlp in business and as a sales professional. BTW len is the guy that said to me, “Mark this NLP stuff is kind of like Modern Jedi Mind Mastery!” So I owe Len a definite debt of gratitude for that.
This is Part 1 of a Question and Answer call about Mark Shepard’s Modern Jedi NLP Online Course (recorded 4/29/2009)
Introduction to the Modern Jedi NLP Online Course
Q: What is NLP?
A: Neuro Linguistic Programming is all about how you run your mind. How you interpret the external world and make sense of it internally. It’s also the study of excellence. It’s also all about how you communicate with other people.
NLP is partly modeled on the work of Dr. Milton Erickson, MD “the father of Modern Hypnosis” as well as some of best Therapists, athletes, business people, etc.
Your behavior, thoughts, reactions, interpretations of the world, etc are under our control…if we knew how to access the “programs”. People can make incredible improvements in their lives, relationships and work rapidly.
Q: Can NLP help with changes where a person knows they should eat more vegetables but just never does?
A: Yes. I give a short introduction to NLP submodalities on the recording.
Q: A question about Visual, Auditory, Kinesthetic channels of communication.
A: I give an example of making a quick change with a client using kinesthetic submodalities (over the phone while in the grocery store)
Q: How young can a client be and what intelligence level is needed for success with NLP?
A: Works great with kids. Works with all intelligence levels as long as a client can access their imagination.
Q: Can you explain about how your unconscious mind doesn’t recognize the difference between what is real and what is a memory or an imagined event?
A: Explained with example
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Q: Does NLP help with physical illness?
Q: How will the class process work?
Course material will be delivered on Fridays through a web-based program called Basecamp in the following multi-media formats:
Every Monday we will meet via tele-conference to cover that week’s lesson and answer any questions as well as to share stories and experiences of using the techniques
At the end of the course we will have a “boot-camp”
Q: What does the course Cover?
Q: What are the payment details?
Q: Does the course include Ericksonian Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy™ Techniques?
A: Yes. They may be separate trainings in the future. But for this release they are included at no extra charge.
Q: When does the course begin?
Updated answer posted 09/22/09
A: The first version of the new On-Line/Hands-On format began May 8th, 2009. You can now begin the course at anytime and have 2 years to complete it. I’m continually adding videos and other materials to the course as well as improving the format and deliverability of the info.
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Watch this video and let me know!
I need to know because I’ve re-invented my Modern Jedi NLP Certification Training. I’ve redesigned it so that you can get the massive benefits of applying Modern Jedi Mind mastery to the challenges in your life or work without having to invest a huge chunk of time or a huge chunk of money.
The new multi-media online course will be delivered to you in easily digestible bites each week so you can learn from the comfort of your own home.
And right now you can’t even sign up yet.
I just need a show of hands so I have an idea of how many of you are interested in defeating the dark side in your life or work and mastering your mind for a change
I’m still working out the logistics so I just need to know if you’re interested.
So if you’re interested just leave a comment below or e-mail me at modernjedi[at]gmail.com you can even call me personally at 203-495-8808.
I know you’re wondering what the details are and that’s a good thing!
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The Biggest, Huge-est, Most GIGANTIC Mistake Business Owners Make is simply this:
Trying to do everything. Not knowing how to delegate. Not having systems in place so that other people can do the things you are not good at. Spending precious time on tasks and projects that could be delegated instead of focusing your energy on what you do best and on what brings in the money.
When you try to do everything in your business you are bound to fail. Even the smallest business is a ravenous, many headed serpent that one person can never hope to keep fed.
Note: Even though a key concept of NLP is that “there is no failure only feedback”. In Business, the “feedback” of less money coming in than going out or of the owner rushing around from dawn until the “wee hours” can only go on for so long until something has to change. Either
We also have a saying in NLP: “The most flexible communicator controls the system.” As the owner of a business (even if you are a Reiki master if you are working with clients you are a business owner), it is your communication to yourself, your clients and the people who work in and with your business that must lead and control the direction of your enterprise…(beam me up Scotty! I just wanted to help people!)
Here’s the catch 22!
When you are starting a business on a shoestring and a prayer, how do you get the kind of help that can enable you to grow your business if you have no extra wads of cash laying around?
You need the help to grow your business but you can’t pay for the help until your business grows! Talk about being stuck between a rock and a hard place! (In NLP We call it a “double bind”)
Can i share a personal example?
Last year. September of 2007 this idea hit me really hard between the eyes and it wasn’t pretty. For 25 years I’ve been self employed and always struggling. In retrospect I was close to major success and breakthroughs several times but I literally got worn out and burned out to the point where I just couldn’t personally sustain things and then it would all fall apart. Then I would give up in disgust and go start a different business from scratch and make the same mistake all over again.
July of 2007 I taught my first full blown NLP practitioner certification training to a small group of students. It was great! I loved teaching the class. I loved sharing the powerful life changing concepts of NLP and Hypnosis and Time Line Therapy™ but the gargantuan effort of preparing for the class, creating workbooks, cd sets and ordering all the other supplies and finding a place to have the training and getting the students in the seats and all the registration procedures and then correcting the exams and creating certifications and sending them out and then preparing the Master Practitioner level program and teaching that one weekend a month in addition to performing and booking all my own gigs and cleaning my house and seeing private clients and going to networking meetings and taking courses on how to do all this stuff better…
left me…
totally…
and…
completely…
exhausted…
and while I was so busy doing all of that stuff. I didn’t always have time to keep an eye on the bottom line and so all of a sudden even though I was working my brains out…I was out of cash flow….oops! 
(
Does any of this ring a bell with any of you out there? Are you getting the picture? Can you grasp my concept here?
I mean you can have all the Modern Jedi Mind Mastery training in the world, but if you try to run a business, any business, all by yourself you will eventually crash and burn….
Yup. I know what I’m tawking about…uh huh and it ain’t pretty…
Now, there is no failure. There really is only feedback and so we “passionate ones” pick our selves up off the ground and dust our selves off and start asking ourselves some really good (if hard) questions.
Like “What is the weakest link in my business?”
“Oh… Shit.
It’s………………
…………………………………………….ME!”
Now stay with me here because I will get you to a powerful solution and it’s going to solve a bunch of your challenges all at once.
So last year, I started a master mind group. Michael Guerin and Rob Bronson were the charter members and we began meeting every Monday just to run ideas by each other and to challenge and support each other and to learn with each other and to help each other see the stuff that we were too close to see in our own businesses.
And it made a huge difference. It was the first time in 25 years that I wasn’t alone trying to figure stuff out. I had a team.
For example: At one point Rob Bronson “pushed” me kicking and whining and complaining to move all of my websites to GoDaddy.com and saved me $6,000 per year. At one point I pushed Michael Guerin repeatedly until he fired his web designer and started taking charge of his online marketing. Mike and I “pushed” Rob Bronson to get his butt out of a really negative situation in his life and business and on and on and on…
So at some point you must form your own Jedi Council or Master Mind Group.
This was so cool that I started inviting some other people to join us and one of them was this amazing woman named Julie Braun, she calls herself the “Marketing Guru”. www.juliebraundesign.com
Julie was doing huge, major, multiple marketing projects on a scale that made my head spin. She was doing events and PR and entire marketing campaigns for small to medium sized businesses. She was providing services that would have cost hundreds of thousands of dollars. But she wasn’t working with Fortune 500 budgets. She was affordable. How did she do it?
It turns out that years ago Julie mastered the art of engaging INTERNS. UNPAID INTERNS.
Now these are not slaves. These are not college kids who come to your business to do all the yucky work like filing and photo copying (you just may have to pay for that kind of stuff. Do not even think about doing that crap yourself. You can’t afford it any more).
Julie was setting up specific projects, real honest to goodness projects and allowing students to truly get hands on experience. So she was able to do often times 10 times the work that she would be able to do alone.
She had learned a way to not only leverage her knowledge and expertise but her time and resources in a way that enabled her to Work “on” her business as well as “in” her business. Her only investment was her time and attention and she developed exactly the skills working with interns that all of us entrepreneurs MUST develop any way if we want our businesses to succeed. The ability to delegate intelligently. The ability to manage other people. The ability to lead. The ability to generate and incorporate intelligent feedback.
All without a huge financial risk putting pressure on your learning curve.
I got so inspired by that I immediately found a Yale student who wanted to learn NLP, he ended up editing my first year’s NLP training audio series. He got to expand his knowledge base and I got a project accomplished that I just didn’t have time to do. That was my “big toe in the water experience”
Now over the years, Julie has really fine tuned all of the details and concepts of using unpaid interns in her business to the point where it was just obvious she had to share the goods with those of us who were struggling with this whole “solopreneur” thing.
So Last summer she and her business partner Michelle Demers www.totalbusinessfitness.com created SuperInterns.com it’s what I call a “Turbo Booster Zoooom course” designed to get you up and running with unpaid interns fast.
To be honest, I signed up for the first one but because I was too “burned” out from teaching my 2nd NLP training and some personal stuff going on in my life, I never got to class. BUT they recorded every call and I finished the course later while driving in the car. My point is you can learn this no matter how busy you are.
(BTW Michelle met Julie in a different Mastermind group – are you getting that you need to “mastermind”?)
The Super Interns Crash Course will be offered again in a few weeks and if you are in business for yourself (or if your employer doesn’t have the budget to hire the help you need to do your job right) THIS IS REQUIRED. You owe it to yourself to take this.
Are you with me on this? I know we all have the attention spans of 2 year olds these days but this is vital so PAY ATTENTION:
Whether you take the course or not this is so important that you MUST at the very least know about it. I could not live with myself if I didn’t share this information with you. It’s that important to your success and sanity.
So I’ve invited Julie and Michelle to share their stories with me on a telephone call next Wednesday, January 14th from noon to 1:00 PM eastern time.To Register Click Here
They are also doing an informational call of their own that evening, January 14th at 7:00 pm eastern time. to Register Click Here
The calls are free and whichever one you can make, it will be well worth your while to take an hour to find out how you can get some relief from the grind of being the sole practitioner or sole proprietor or solopreneur. It could save you hundreds if not thousands of dollars and possibly enable you to truly catapult your business to the moon. It’s also one very creative way to move forward even in spite of the dire economic forecast and the worst economy in 100 years.
It is also of interest if you have college age kids or know some college students of any age because many colleges require internships precisely because the right internship could make all the difference in whether your children get a dull, low paying, soul crushing job right out of school because they have no experience in the “real world” or get to work closely with the CEO of a growing international company.
I sat down one day and figured out that I need about 10 interns in my business right now.
so if you know anyone who is interested in or is actively studying these or related fields:
Call me! 203-495-8808 or e-mail me at mark [at] markshepard.com
Registration page for 12 to 1 pm call –
“How to Get Free Help for Your Business” hosted by Mark Shepard Click Here
Registration page for the 7 to 8 pm call – “Unpaid Interns to the Rescue!”
(Super Interns general call) Click Here
Just for registering for either/both calls you’ll get a free ebook “251 Great Internship Projects!” .
If You already “get” that you need the course you can click here to: Register for the Super Interns Crash Course: How To Put Unpaid Interns To Work For Your Business – early bird special ends Friday 1/9!
BTW when you do decide to take the course, be sure to mention my name and you will get $50 bucks off of the already too cheap price of the course.
Please leave a comment below and share this with as many people as you can
Thanks!
Mark
So what is is for you? The stick? Or the carrot? Or some combination of both? What gets you motivated?
Have you ever stopped to think about the process of motivation? How do you know it’s time to get motivated to do something? Have you ever felt a lack of motivation and then suddenly something shifted and you got a jolt of energy?
In NLP we do quite a bit of work with helping people to overcome procrastination and engage their motivation strategies. In fact the discovery that we actually have unconscious strategies (or programs) that we “run” in different situations to create behavior is one of the key distinctions that makes NLP so much fun. It’s also part of why we NLP’ers are considered “rogues” by traditional psychology.
Think about it this way. How do you know it’s time to be motivated? Or even better, when you are motivated how do you even know you are? Is it something you feel? See? Hear?
Can you remember a time when you were motivated? A specific time? As you recall that time, do you have a picture? What about a feeling somewhere in your body? Do you have any sounds or music that kick in? Are you saying something to yourself or can you remember someone else saying something to you?
Assuming you have a picture, what happens if you take that picture and shrink it down and push it far away and make it really dark and tiny out on the edge of the horizon?
Chances are you don’t feel so motivated any more do you?
Now bring that picture back in at 100 miles an hour and make it big and bright right in front of you. More motivated or less? Typically people feel more motivated by doing that.
The point of this short exercise is to demonstrate the power of your MIND and the ability each and every one of us has to affect our inner world.
So today think about that.
Tomorrow we’ll explore what the big deal is about “moving away from” vs. “moving towards”…
To see my new music video “Motivation” click this link
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Hey fellow Modern Jedis,
Just got an e-mail from Aaron in Ohio who’s been helping co-workers and a men’s group at his church using Modern Jedi NLP tools and techniques. Check out what he has to say:
Hi Mark,
I have been using your tools, mostly in talking to coworkers to help them with fear.
I have been studying NLP going on 3 years through books and cd’s. I love your Modern Jedi out look, because as a star wars fan thats exactly what it feels like. I tell everyone at my job to join your web site.
If I could I would like to tell you what I do with what I’ve learned. The church I attend has a mens drug & alcohol program. My pastor asked me if i would be interested in giving the guys weekly bible studies. I jumped on the chance, because i felt like I had something that these guys could use to overcome their addiction for good. The challenge I had was how to teach nlp (without anyone knowing) and make it look like bible study.
To make a long story short nlp is all through the bible because its about people, taking action or not taking action. The guys love what i teach because i answer the question of why they do what they do, and show them how they can change it.
Well thanks for reading, I really look forward to the e mails in the morning,
peace & grooviness,
Aaron.
P.S. sorry if this e mail seems a little run on, but honestly this is the first e mail i have EVER sent someone like yourself. I really just wanted you to know that your touching lives all the way in ohio. thanks again Mark. God bless.
For me, this kind of letter just charges me up and motivates me even more to do my utmost to get this powerful bag of tools and techniques I call “Modern Jedi Mind Mastery” out into the world. This week I’ve had letters from Armenia, Ohio and closer to home here in Connecticut.
I’ll be sharing more as they come in. Thanks so much Aaron for taking the time to share your experiences.
That’s it for today’s post. As always I’d love to hear from you as well. Join the conversation and make a comment here on the blog (see link or box below)
Mark
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