‘I’m having trouble with a situation I have in my relationship!’
‘I can’t find the motivation to move forward in my career’

Do you ever find yourself uttering phrases such as those above?  
In today’s podcast, Abi and Jess look at nominalisaions; one of NLP’s meta model patterns of language.  They explain what these ‘things’ are and tell the listeners how to spot them and then turn them into a more dynamic and active process.
When you do this, problems that we seem stuck with can begin to move again and more choice is generated.    The above phrases are challenged and changed to an active:
‘How do you situate yourself when you relate to this person?’
‘If you motivate yourself to work, what do you do?  What motivates you and what are you doing at the moment?’