Product Description

Do you yearn for change in your life? Perhaps you wish your life was better organised, more fulfilling, happier and more contented. Do you put off making the changes you dream of because you’ve tried in the past, and failed? Break free from the fear of failure; fire-up your motivation, your confidence and your self-esteem; understand that you have everything you need to succeed and believe that the secret to your success lies within you. Change Your Life with NLP will show you how you can make the changes to your life that you want – with amazing results.

This easy-to-follow, realistic guide draws extensively on powerful NLP techniques and, combined with practical exercises, takes you step-by-step through everything you need to do to change your life.

- Identify your goals and what they mean to you

- Find out how ready you really are for change

- Discover how NLP can help you take control of your moods, your state of mind and your life

- Learn how to face your fears and use negative experiences to your advantage...and much more.

Success is only limited to what you believe is possible. Your new life is waiting, and it’s only one book away!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #31320 in Books
• Published on: 2008-05-15
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 184 pages

From the Back Cover

There is a brighter future ahead of you – and it starts right here, right now.

It doesn’t matter how your life has been so far. It doesn’t matter what’s happened in the past. All that matters is now. Change can happen in an instant and making changes, even really big ones, can be much less scary than you might imagine. All you need is to change your thinking - and this book explains how.

Change Your Life with NLP uses powerful tools and techniques from the tried and tested field of neuro linguistic programming to reveal how you’ve got to where you are and what might be holding you back or stopping good things happening.

You can use NLP to:

-         determine what you want in life

-         find the perfect partner or career

-         boost your confidence

-         increase your happiness

-         banish anxiety

-         drop bad habits

-         lose weight (and keep it off)

-         get out of debt

-         improve your relationships with everybody

and much, much more. In fact, once you understand what’s going on in your unconscious mind, and have shifted your thinking, every area of your life will start to benefit!

About the Author
Lindsey Agness is head of The Change Corporation (www.thechangecorporation.com). She runs courses and seminars for companies and day and weekly seminars for individuals from all walks of life. Formerly a corporate change management consultant at one of the top global firms, Lindsey is able to bridge both the business and personal development market. She is one of the first female NLP masters.

Customer Reviews

Poor
If you've read any other book on NLP, or even any more basic "self-help" book, then the contents of this book will be no surprise. Badly dlivered, formulaic, and there is nothing to make this book stand out from anything else on the shelf. (it only got 1 star because I couldn't give a 0).

Try SUMO by Paul McGee, or even Paul McKenna's Change Your Life in 7 days for the same stuff done much, much better

Definitely NOT what it says on the cover
Two books were published last year (2008) on pretty much the same subject - improving your life through the use of NLP.

One was written by two of the foremost trainers of NLP, one of who has been working with NLP even before it became known as NLP. The other was written by someone whom I've never heard of and who, it is claimed, is "a highly qualified and experienced NLP trainer" and supposedly knows all about NLP.

One is packed with genuine NLP techniques described by their creator/co-creator, Richard Bandler. The other is noteable for it's almost total lack of genuine NLP.

One is well-written, and the techniques are easy to implement. The other is written in the kind of rushing, breathless style so often associated with utterly forgettable New Age tracts.

One of these books is "Get the Life You Want" - highly recommended.
The other is this seriously mistitled offering - "Change Your Life With NLP."

The real problem with this book is that it is what I call a "gravy-trainer" - a book that tries to increase its saleability by putting the letters "NLP" in the title when its connections with authentic NLP are virtually non-existent.

In this case the text is full of New Age favourites such as "Kundaluni", "Chakras", "the power of energy", etc., and something called "the grey zone" that I've never come across in any of the other 150+ NLP-related books that I've read and reviewed.

There's the usual smattering of technical misinformation - including the almost inevitable misrepresentation of Mehrabian's research on the significance of non-verbal language, voice characteristics and content in communication (Mehrabian was only talking about very specific circumstances); and numerous (inaccurate) claims and statements about the RAS (the Reticular Activating System) which demonstrates a "knowledge" of neurology that is something like 40 years out-of-date.
And there's some stuff on page 56 about how many "bits" or "chunks" of data we cann take in at a time that, again, I've never seen in any other NLP-related book and which look like pure fantasy:

"We can only digest 126 bits of ... data, which boils down to 7 (plus or minus 2) manageable chunks per second."

Even the basic psychology is flawed. Thus on page 50, we are told that:

"We've all experienced unhelpful moods such as anger, fear and sadness."

Which is fine - except that anger, fear and sadness are generally understood to be emotions, not moods. (Emotions tend to be more intense than moods, but moods tend to be a lot longer lasting.)

On the subject of NLP, the information, even when it does appear, is usually too brief or incomplete to be much use. On page 148, for instance, we read:

"Some relationships may feel uncomfortable and this is because not enough rapport has been built at the start of the process."

Which may well be true. But whilst there are several NLP-related rapport-building techniques, they seem to have been missed out of this book, So knowing that they may be absent is of no practical use at all.

Having said all that, it the book seems to be about par for the course for a book of this kind, and if it were accurately labelled as, say: "Change Your Life with New Age Beliefs and Techniques" I would have passed it by without a second look. I'm sure that people who like this kind of book will like this book, too, and it isn't for me to rain on their parade. But when a book like this is presented as being representative of NLP then it really is not what it says on the cover. And readers are entitled to know that BEFORE they decide whether to purchase it.

If you want a book on NLP, no matter what your current level of knowledge/expertise may be - this certainly isn't it.

Sorry, but this is a poor book!
I was hoping for a good introduction to NLP, and I suppose to complete newcomers to the personal development idiom this book would be an interesting and stimulating read.

But NLP? Not really... it's a very confused text, glossing over the fundamentals of NLP and introducing extraneous mysticism (chakras?) and other unwelcome self-help tosh, which is exactly what I was hoping to avoid. The author also seems a little confused as to her audience. The main part of the book is clearly aimed at personal (i.e. private) development, but then suddenly a chapter appears on feedback, which is very clearly business-focused.

I found the general thread of the book to be confused, slightly patronising, and full of the sort of fluffy and ill-explained language which plagues the majority of personal development books.

Or am I just in the "Grey Zone"??