Quotes from Robert B. Dilts

a)What causes it to be desirable. b)What causes it to be possible. c)What causes this to be the appropriate path. d)What makes me/us capable. e)What makes me/us deserving.

Once we can directly experience something without the contamination of judgment or evaluation, our reflections on that experience are much richer and more meaningful.

According to Korzybski, differentiating orders of abstraction also included distinguishing between (a) descriptions of experiences and (b) inferences (conclusions drawn from our experiences and our descriptions of those experiences); and between descriptions about descriptions, inferences based upon other inferences, affect about affect (feelings about other feelings), and between one person's abstractions and another person's abstractions, etc.

A wise business executive once said that in order to "grow as a leader" a person must feel "a strong will to modify the environment to make it better, then create challenging situations that (he or she) can't get out of except by changing.

the most important feature of a map is the degree of correspondence between the elements in the map and the elements of the territory they represent.

The value of mapping is that it allows us to understand, plan, and communicate about some experience or phenomenon without having to actually "be there.

The NLP process of modeling, for example, involves making a map of a person's patterns of behavior, which may then be applied in various ways.

Awakening goes beyond coaching, teaching, mentoring and sponsorship to include the level of vision, mission and spirit.

You've got to want to change, know how to change, and give yourself the chance to change.1

this would involve moving incrementally from the negative state to another state which is only somewhat negative; confusion, for example. From the somewhat negative state, a small but significant step can be made to a state that is slightly positive; let's say curiosity about what might happen next. It is then relatively simple to take a step from the somewhat positive state to the desired state of motivation.

all problems can be reperceived as challenges, or "opportunities" to change, grow or learn.

By words one of us can give another the greatest happiness or bring about utter despair; by words the teacher imparts his knowledge to the student; by words the orator sweeps his audience with him and determines its judgments and decisions. Words call forth emotions and are universally the means by which we influence our fellow-creatures.