Do you want to gain clarity on your past, present and future, understand exactly how you’re going to achieve your goals and have the ability to walk through your very own business timeline? In today’s episode of The Tutor Podcast, Neil shares with you an NLP (Neuro-linguistic programming) mind exercise that will help you visualise your future, make better and more informed decisions and gift you with the position of perspective from both outside of time and inside of time.

 

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KEY TAKEAWAYS

 

• Start by visualising your life from an outsider’s perspective. Aim to be like an onlooker of your own life and ask yourself how is it for you? This position is the view from OUTSIDE OF TIME. From this position, you can look on and imagine future events and changes in your life.
  
  

The Outside of Time position is dispassionate and gives you a good overview of your business in the future and view the people you’ll need, operational changes and financial levels that will be necessary to achieve what you want from your business.

NLP Exercise

1. Find a space where you can imagine your future timeline. Go and stand off to one side of your imagined timeline – this is you OUTSIDE OF TIME. Stand about halfway along it and visualise 7 or 8 years to your left, The Past, visualise 7 or 8 years in the future to your right and visualise the present in front of you. Now imagine what happens in those 15 years and notice what you might want to have in place over the course of those years.
   
   

Write all of your goals down on index cards, post-its or pages from a note pad, and place them on your timeline at around about where you think they should be.”

You’re now standing alongside the imaginary line of time, OUTSIDE OF TIME, looking at what you want to achieve, now it’s time to move – to shift your perspective and to go INSIDE OF TIME – and check a few things out.

When you are INSIDE OF TIME you move position and stand in your present. Start to move along the timeline, slowly, until you reach your first index card - pick up the card, read it and put it back in place, making a note of its position or placing a marker next to it. If it’s wrong, move the card, then return to the today position and check how it feels. If there’s something missing, write a new card and insert it, do another round of check & move. If you don’t actually want that thing, eliminate it.

Completing this process will give you clarity on your timeline and enable you to check your estimations and assessments of what you’re looking to achieve.

BEST MOMENTS
“When you’re done, you’ll have a powerful and compelling vision of the next decade or more for your business and for yourself, outside of business.”
“This position is the view from OUTSIDE OF TIME. From this position, you can look on and imagine future events and changes in your life.”

 

VALUABLE RESOURCES

• Listen to The Tutor Podcast on the Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-tutor-podcast/id1369191372)!
  • Build Your Online Course Week 1: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-online-course/id1369191372?i=1000477109724

Course Planning Week 2: Who Am I?: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/build-your-online-course/id1369191372?i=1000477109724

Who are They? (Know Your Punters): https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/who-are-they-know-your-punters/id1369191372?i=1000478984529

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ABOUT THE HOST

Neil Cowmeadow is a maverick peripatetic guitar teacher from Telford with over 19 years’ experience in the business of helping people. Learn how to start, grow and love your business with Neil’s invaluable advice and tips without the buzzwords and BS!

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