Barney Wee is one of Singapore’s most innovative Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) trainers and founder of Mindtransformations. His engagement sessions are known for their energy, openness, originality and positive provocation, coupled with measurable roadmaps and processes to implement successful changes. He brings with him his rich experience from ‘foot soldier’ to ‘manager of managers’ in the service, training, sales and financial planning industries. Barney has been featured in local and international media.
His main points are:
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In order to discover your passion it’s important to be more self aware especially aware of your thoughts. This will usually involve taking time out – turn off your phone and computer and spend some time alone. It’s important to develop rapport between your conscious and subconscious mind.
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What do you believe in and value highly? These will give you the clues to what your immediate needs are.
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The Power of Pause is something that he believes in – the idea is to notice more gaps between your thoughts. This allows you to be more conscious of your thoughts and to be better able to control your emotions. The first thought will usually pop into our heads. If we practice pausing then we always have choice in our second thought.
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People wait for the light bulb moment that will reveal the perfect job for them (I know that is what I originally thought would happen) but it’s usually a more organic than that.
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He transitioned from being an employee to a business owner when his mother died and he started to ask himself hard questions over the next few months about what he wanted from his life. His transition took about 3 years. NLP helped him through this period of change as it allowed him to look at himself clearly and manage change, control emotions and turn thoughts into strategies.
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Simplify your business – if you stretch yourself too thin you can lose your vision. He fell into this trap and to get his vision back he delegated the things that weren’t exciting him or simply refused to do them. He refocused on the key projects he wanted to achieve and drafted his mission statement in life. He said its important to remember that the first few steps of any change are going to be uncomfortable and unless you are willing to be uncomfortable at first you will never reach a higher level of comfort.
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NLP allows you to create more awareness about how you communicate non verbally e.g. tone of voice, facial expressions. Becoming more aware of this type of communication can greatly improve your relationships at work.
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Look inside and separate your needs and wants. I completely agree with this thought as over the last 18 months I have dramatically simplified my life; by getting rid of things and stuff I have gained a great deal of clarity about what is truly important to me. If you have less things you create more space in your mind; you have less to worry about.
For more information on Barney go to Mind Transformations.
The next speaker is Nick Williams. He is the UK’s leading coach and author for Inspired Entrepreneurs.
