Motivation and Self Improvement - Discover the Basics of Motivation

The Basic Problem

Whether you're looking for the motivation to get up and exercise, stop smoking or find a job, there are two basic strategies people use to motivate themselves. Most people never learned both of them equally. One strategy is Towards Pleasure. The more popular strategy is Away From Pain. Nearly everyone has these in their neurology, but most of us resist or fear change because we habitually move away from what we don't enjoy. The trouble is that Away From strategy is short term, reacting to events and not sustainable.

Pain is often the first reason why people choose to change. Unfortunately they don't often keep motivated because they don't add the durable, sustainable motivation of focusing on a rewarding goal or outcome. The don't make plans nor establish habits for taking action on a plan. They continue to suffer and focus mainly on the problems in their lives, not the solution.

So what do you need to do? Utilize your brain, start to change and learn the habit of moving toward a goal. Link pleasure and reward with your goal and the steps required to reach it. This is really the long term, sustainable strategy. Successful people use this strategy and achieve great things.

What is the obstacle? Negativity in the messages we receive or pay attention to. Protect your mind from these negative messages.

The Basic Solution

With the endless negativity in the world about us, how do we keep motivated? Begin with the basics:

• Know your outcome. What specifically you want to achieve. Avoid negative people, things and places. These distract from your motivation and achieving your goals.
• Overcome past conditioning that trained you to interpret experiences as "bad." It's a good day or a bad day depending on whether you think so.
• Believe in your self, in your outcome and in what you can do. Avoid negative people, things and places. These distract from your motivation and achieving your goals.
• Make a plan to achieve your goals. Break it down into achievable steps.
• - Commit to achieving your goals in a reasonable time. Motivation comes from determination. To be able to succeed, you simply take actions every day. Keep doing that until you know you've made a habit of it.

Sometimes people need help to do these basic steps. A good Master Practitioner of NLP can help you.

Finally, no one else can achieve your goals for you. Only you can. The most important way to keep motivated is keep your goals in view. Remind yourself what to do then do it. Feel good about that. If you know the rewards for reaching your goals, then you know it's worth it to do what it takes to succeed.

How to Improve Sales in The Uncertain Economy

Sales Tanking in This Uncertain Economy?

Discover How to Improve Your Sales Right Now

You're going to appreciate this sales tip even if you've heard it before. It will work even during this uncertain economy. Why? The reason is I've added a major way to create consumer confidence to the process.

First, when you sit down with a prospective client or customer, your job is to experience what they need and want. Then shift into a particular mindset: the belief that the death of the US economy has been greatly exaggerated, and in fact it's still going along great.

Just turn off your rational, left brain thinking about what happened in the past. Seriously. Then become completely certain that consumers are buying expensive toys and cars today as they did before.

How do you know? Start paying attention to all the new luxury cars (Mercedes, Jaguars, BMWs, Hummers, Lexus) that you see on the road. Notice on your next trip to CostCo or Sam's Club how few if any game consoles are in stock. They have a hard time keeping up with the demand.

How fast is the iPhone selling? Apple has had a hard time during 2008 keeping up with the demand.

People are buying things, both products and services. Not those with poor credit, just the people you want as clients or customers...those with money.

If you have trouble convincing yourself and having your own certainty of the correct beliefs, I can show you how either one-on-one or in a group training.

"But Michael, what do I actually do?"

Now as you talk to your prospect, holding the above beliefs to be certain, present to them the solutions and the proof. Always give them two options now a days because you want to increase certainty and minimize confusion. Never give the prospect a Yes or No choice (except in certain special situations.) And then after you ask them to choose, shut up and don't care which they choose.

If you've held your belief correctly and with certainty, the person with the most certainty wins. You can notice your sales increase by following this method.

And by now you can easily see the obvious: I've given away a valuable secret to sales success in today's and any economy. If you can spot the difference that you need to learn to make the difference in your income, I'm glad. If you want to learn more of these secrets, even the more powerful secrets to success in sales, you can relax. Just contact me at my sales consulting office for further assistance.

Quit Smoking Easily With Hypnosis System

By Michael Glowacki

Each day, smokers everywhere vow to quit smoking and never smoke again. And although they have the best intentions to quit smoking, many quickly fail. Smoking is one of the hardest habits to try to break. The reasons are the limiting belief in a chemical model for "cigarette addiction" and smoking cessation and the false claims that nicotine is more addictive than heroin and cocaine. What an destructive myth so many people have been hypnotized to believe by the very public and private institutions that are taking advantage of them.

Proving the Myth is False

Some doctors erroneously believe or falsely claim that "nicotine is more addictive than cocaine or heroin." The proof that claim is false is very easy. If you are one of the over 47 million people who want to quit smoking in the USA, and you've tried to quit smoking before, you probably were irritable and cranky, craved cigarettes and possibly felt shaky. It was uncomfortable, but didn't last a long time, only about 2-4 days. While even if you don't know anyone who overcame an addiction to narcotics or cocaine, you probably know that physical withdrawal from those drugs is severe and painful. The symptoms of withdrawal from narcotics include vomiting, severe abdominal pains and often hallucinations. They lock people up in rehab facilities for 21 days or more to ensure they have the drugs out of their system.

The Problem With Efforts to Quit Smoking

Many smokers have smoked for years and years. To quit smoking cold turkey leaves people suffering from withdrawal symptoms and nicotine cravings. Even with all of the research about smoking, it is still one of the leading causes of preventable deaths and diseases. Smoking has been linked to many various fatal illnesses, including cancer and emphysema. Reports show that people who continue to smoke can drastically shorten their lives by up to 15 years.

Depending on how much you smoke per day, you're spending from $1730 to $5190 per year on cigarettes.

If the difficulty of quitting smoking is keeping you from actually stopping, why not try something to make it simpler? Since smoking is thought to be a 90% emotional addiction and a 10% physical addiction, why not try to conquer the emotional addiction of smoking to relax when you're stressed? This is where hypnosis for stopping smoking can help.

The Solution: Hypnosis to Quit Smoking

Although the word hypnosis is often linked to unsuspecting participants who are made to bark like a dog or do some other silly action, hypnosis for stopping smoking is serious. It helps to conquer the cravings and to support sincere desire to quit smoking and to start living a healthier life.

The power of suggestion is a useful tool. To prove this, think of how much money is spent each year on tobacco advertising. Although advertising is not hypnosis in its purest form, advertising works simply because people are open to suggestion.

In order for hypnosis for quitting smoking to work, you must first believe that it will work. Hypnosis reaches the inner core of the problem, your mind. Learning to live without cigarettes can be easy. Hypnosis works to reinforce your desire and motivation to quit smoking. It helps to lesson the anxiety associated with quitting smoking and helps to build self confidence when around others who continue to smoke.

How to Find a Hypnosis Clinic to Quit Smoking

Hypnosis to quit smoking is very successful. In fact, studies show that individualized hypnosis programs are the most effective method to quit smoking. There are people who report that they never feel the need to pick up another cigarette.

When you seek a hypnosis clinic to help you quit smoking, be certain to look for these elements of a successful hypnosis clinic where you can expect to get good results:

1. Is the hypnosis clinic in a professional office and do you feel comfortable in the facilities? You should have a professional hypnotist with in depth experience with hypnosis and quit smoking success.

2. Do you get a free hypnosis screening session to determine if you can be hypnotized and will benefit from hypnosis? If the hypnotist or hypnotherapis doesn't bother to determine if he can accept you as a client, how can you assume that it will work for you? Look for a hypnotist that offers a written service guarantee and a free hypnosis screening because while you want a professional who is confident enough to guarantee his services, you do need to qualify for the program.

3. Do you get to see the first person reports of results from the hypnosis quit smoking system used there at the clinic? Read the results that other people like you got using hypnosis. You should see at written evidence of real clients who quit using hypnosis.

Although individual results may vary, you can feel confident when you find a hypnosis clinic that offers you proof such as this that the clients get results and a written service guarantee. These endorsements are from clinics using the McFall method of hypnosis training

With the detrimental impact smoking can cause to your health and your wallet and the unbelievable impact of quitting smoking, isn't it time you gave hypnosis to help quit smoking a chance? Look for a hypnosis clinic that provides custom hypnosis programs to quit smoking with individualized sessions. With a written service guarantee and a free hypnosis screening, what do you have to lose, except the embarrassment of having cigarettes in control of you?

Michael Glowacki of Capital Hypnosis is a Professional Hypnotist with in-depth experience in hypnosis. He provides custom programs with individualized sessions. His clinic offers a Written Service Guarantee. He specializes at his locally owned hypnosis clinic in Madison, Wis. in training people use hypnosis and neuro-linguistic programming. Clients are using hypnosis smoking cessation, hypnosis for weight loss and building self confidence. You can learn more about quitting smoking by visiting Capital Hypnosis in Madison, Wisconsin.

He will give readers a Free 30-40 minute Hypnosis Screening. It's both informative and fun. To reach Mr. Glowacki or to schedule your free hypnosis screening, call his office today at (608)288-9800.

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Hypnosis Life Mastery Training

How did people like Andrew Carnegie and Charles Schwab amass all that money and power? By using hypnosis techniques on themselves and their employees.

How do some people transform their lives from loneliness to having fun like they see other people have? By applying the hypnosis techniques we teach in a fun way, like giving someone an extra cherry on an ice cream sundae.

Let me tell you a story. It happened to me one summer in college.

I went to the student Union to buy an ice cream cone (some of the best ice cream in the world). Other students worked there, including one cute coed named Kelly. She was always happy and had the cutest smile and hair.

SOMEHOW we quickly became flirting friends, and then Kelly gave me an extra scoop of ice cream on my cone. I mentioned that, and she just ALWAYS gave me MORE every time. I mean I'd order and get charged for a single cone, and Kelly'd give me a double or a triple scoop cone!

Weird, huh?

And I wasn't even trying, I hadn't even started learning hypnosis yet. SHE was the one HYPNOTIZING me!

What happened next? Let me simply say that was a special summer.

This little story just shows how hypnosis really works slick and easy. (Not to mention the fact that women are naturally better at this than men are.) Some people need all the help they can get!

If you register now, before Monday, June 23rd, you can still get the discounted price.

Visit this page for more details on the Hypnosis Training Weekend.

How to Sleep and Grow Rich Case Study

Today I read an extremely interesting article about how to get a good night's sleep on Ken McCarthy's blog that began with a case study of how to sleep better and grow richer. This article talked about Warren Buffet and Salomon Brothers. Also, it discussed the results of a study from the Harvard Medical School and the University of California at Berkeley. That study showed that people who got less sleep "dramatically overreacted" in the brain to negative events.

Not only did I learn some immediately useful tips on sleeping better, I learned another reason why it's so important for entrepreneurs and business people to get a good night's sleep. I know a woman who is a living example that proves this fact.

She regularly stays up to 3:00 AM, and she has been struggling with getting her hypnosis practice going. It was as if she didn't notice the urgent matters that needed her attention. She could have been sleep walking through life. Well her businesses sort of peaked and then fell apart. It was easy to blame other people for their errors, but as Harry Truman said: "The buck stops here." Taking personal responsibility for your actions and their results is the only way one can get accurate feedback and correct course towards success.

Complete Hypnotism Business Training

I just returned from a 4-day boot camp about the hypnotism profession in Minneapolis, MN. It's the third time I've personally attended this training from Scott McFall. One of my students attended because he's planning to launch his professional hypnosis practice soon.

This was a remarkable and amazing experience. Not because of the presenter or any hype. In fact, extreme efforts were made to be transparent and to remove the hype from the room. Even the environment contributed with a malfunctioning fire alarm (it was annoying). It was amazing because of the proof of the success of the system and the methods.

People kept wanting to know more and more. We successful clinic owners kept answering questions and generously gave of our time. We're supportive of each other and the people accepted into the mentorship program for this system.

Intriguingly there were people there trying to figure it out, "steal" everything and duplicate it. That's impossible. It's been tried before and everyone failed spectacularly. The volume and quality of the information was like drinking out of a firehose: most of the water landed on the ground.

The value of the training could only be realized by people with the right intentions, the right morals and ethics, the right values and integrity and personal resources.

This might have been the last time such training would be presented in this form. The opportunity for learning this material will shift.

Hypnosis in Japan Does PR Right

Hypnosis in Japan

Erik Bragg from Hypnosis Japan in Tokyo has been extensively profiled in the press and does PR right. I understand that he's getting great results from PR and marketing in a niche market: the expat community in Japan. I've met him and believe he's very skilled and compassionate in his work.

Not only that, he's a fun guy to know. He uses a method that has been used extensively in North America and offers to my readers a free hypnosis screening to evaluate your situation. If he doesn't feel that hypnosis will benefit you, he will tell you so. He also provides his clients a written service guarantee.

Why PR Doesn't Work For Hypnotists

Why PR Doesn't Work For Hypnotists Because They Do It Wrong

As Sherman Hu pointed out on his facebook profile, Guy Kawasaki posted the top 10 reasons PR doesn't work. He's right because he's obviously very experienced and has been effective.

What needs to be added are the reasons why public relations doesn't work in most cases for hypnotists. It can work very well for hypnotists in the entertainment field. It doesn't work as well and usually harms hypnotists in their practices.

Here are my additions to the list that apply to hypnotists:

• The major problem is that reporters and media relations pros don't have your best interests as a hypnotist at heart. They want to cover the story the way they want to. That is their right. There are ways to counter act this.


• Self-promotion needs to be done right. It's time consuming. The pay off can be minimal or disappointing for the effort invested. It requires good people skills. That's why I have studied it and judiciously tested techniques to discover what really works.


• Other serious problems with PR occur because the typical hypnotist puts out the wrong message overtly. She may just kill interest and desire by following the interviewer's lead and need to explain.


• As PR is becoming more multimedia, media efforts need to reflect that. Just as marketing moves where there is more response, so will PR move where more measurable response comes in.


• Hypnotists like to talk, usually too long and too much. This can be a real problem. PR needs to be handled differently by hypnotists than what the books say in general--and especially for hypnotists so the public responds well. That's what it's about, isn't it?

This acutely shows that PR and media relations are tricky and not obvious. The unique relationship between prospective clients, actual clients and hypnotists is important and can benefit by the proper use of media and PR. Learning and using PR appropriately and correctly as I teach my students how, actually produces better client and business outcomes than lame attempts to educate the public.

What IS Hypnosis, Really?

What Is Hypnosis?

Dear Friend,

What is hypnosis? Is it stage hypnotists getting people to jump around and do silly things? Not really, because all those people are volunteers following instructions under hypnosis. Makes you kind of nervous, doesn't it?

What is hypnosis? Is it someone in an office droning boring words in a monotone like "Relax...relax...relax..."? Gosh, I hope not because that's just a waste of everybody's time.

What is hypnosis? Does it have any relation to success stories like this woman's?

Hypnosis Works!

I smoked 24 years and never thought I'd be able to quit, but I have and it's great! This has been a wonderful experience. I feel like a completely different person. I am healthy and in control of my life. My attitude is so positive. It is so wonderful to be free of smoking. I can't understand why somebody wouldn't try this! Hypnosis works!

Tess Meisel, Red Cross Volunteer, Portage, Wisconsin


Hypnosis is a natural state of mind you probably have experienced before without even realizing it. Even if you have never been hypnotized by someone, you have experienced this state of mind many times in your life. Think of a time when you were driving your car and pulled into your driveway. You may think, "What have I been doing for the last few blocks? I don't remember getting off the freeway." During the period you were "daydreaming" your attention was focused so much that you get the impression of lost time. This experience is very similar to hypnosis. You arrived home safely because your subconscious mind was paying attention and keeping you safe. When you go to the movies and cry during the sad parts or get so into the plot that you are on the edge of your seat, you are emotionally hyper-suggestible at that time.

Another example of suggestion in every day life is the reaction called mob mentality. You will notice that people respond differently when chasing the approval of a group than they would by themselves on their own . This, of course, occurs because of the bypassing of critical thinking in the individual as he or she responds to the people in the environment.

All of these examples are times when you are unconsciously or consciously more responsive to suggestion than usual.

Hypnosis In History

Hypnosis is the use of relaxation, repetition and sensory images to create the acceptance of suggestion. James Braid, the man who came up with the term hypnosis or hypnotism, used the root Hypnos (the Greek God of Sleep) to describe this state of mind. Because hypnosis is not sleep he later wanted to call it Monoideism. The fact is that hypnosis is not sleep. It is the use of relaxation, concentration and focus.

Hypnosis can be used for help in learning new behavior. Hypnosis has been most frequently used to help people quit smoking, lose weight, relieve pain, ease childbirth, reduce stress, as well as improve sports and academic performance.

Modern Hypnotists

Modern hypnotists can use a wide range of techniques to enhance suggestion acceptance in their clients. The use of specifically targeted music can be very helpful. Most professional hypnotists now use strategies from hypnotherapy and Neuro-linguistic Programming when working with their clients.

Although some hypnosis applications like quitting smoking or stress reduction can be accepted directly by a hypnotist, others should be referred by your physician. Pain management clients should always be diagnosed by their medical doctor and then referred to the hypnotist if hypnotic pain management is indicated. This allows your doctor to make sure that you will not mask symptoms. We have special training in pain management and surgery preparation techniques and often work closely with clients' physicians.

If you have questions about hypnosis as a method or if you would like information on private sessions for custom programs in our office or training courses in the use of hypnosis, please call 608-288-7865.

Sincerely,

Michael Glowacki
Director, Capital Hypnosis