Pattern Interrupted
Recently, I have heard many experts touting the benefits of forming routines. Having the routine of making your bed can be a great way to add structure to your mornings and give you a sense of control and accomplishment to start your day, and it’s nice to pull down the sheets and crawl into bed at the end of the day. Routines can help you stay organized, be more productive, and relieve stress. Breaking a routine, however, can be even more important.
Can You Make Someone Do Something Against Their Will?
This is the most common question that I get asked by far, and I thought I should answer it before you read further. It is not always phrased as “Can you make someone do something against their will?”.
How to Make a Great First Impression
You only have 7 seconds to make a first impression. This impression is not a fleeting thought either; it’s a solid impression of who you are as a human.
I Was a Different Person Then
Every day, I learn something that changes my beliefs, values, and the direction of my life. Much of the time, it’s a very small change… such as when I learned to juggle; and sometimes it’s profound… like the time I learned that I was going to be a father. Every experience that I have makes me a different human.
Every experience that you have makes you a different human.
6 Rules of Communication
Today, I had a phone conversation with a good friend of mine, and we got on the subject of how much name-calling and hatred is happening on social media as well as in real life (IRL for you acronym junkies).
I’ve always said that social media is like the worst bar you’ve ever been to, and politics and the pandemic have really taken the online circus and real-life communication to new levels.
During our conversation, my friend shared that he had been pondering if the arguing and fighting isn’t simply a battle over who was wrong and who was right but a symptom of not understanding one another.
Best Hypnosis for Self-Confidence — 3 Suggestions That WORK
Bill explains how self-confidence is not a skill... it’s a feeling.
Find out what you need to change to increase your self-confidence and how you can do it quickly.
The Real Secret of Hypnosis
When humans discover that I’m a hypnotist, I usually get asked one of two questions.
Is hypnosis real?
Does hypnosis exist?
My typical answer is… “All communication is hypnosis and there’s no such thing as hypnosis.”
Confused? Good, because that’s what I’m going for with that answer.
3 Tips for Having Better Conversations
Being an expert on hypnosis, influence, and persuasion, I am often asked to speak on how to have effective conversations. I am teaching a class on this very subject at a university beginning this week.
Can You Talk During Hypnotherapy? (Video)
Julia from New Zealand messaged me with a question… Can you talk during hypnotherapy?
Yes, you can talk during hypnotherapy. As a matter of fact, you’ve already been doing just that your entire life. Let me explain.
Down the Hypnosis Rabbit Hole
This process that your mind goes through when changing emotional states is hypnosis.
I know… Mind Blown!
Give Them “The Look”
Have you ever gotten “the look” from someone... say a parent... and you knew that they meant business? You felt that certain feeling rush through your body, and you did not really have control over it.
How to Be an Intelligent Human
You are not going to change someone’s mind via social media. If we could, then we would no longer have humans who believe that Earth is flat. What does need to happen is the education of humans in the areas of confirmation bias, proper research, cognitive dissonance, Occam’s Razor, and how adopting new beliefs is better than sticking to beliefs that have been disproven or had no basis in fact to begin with.
What Are Your Beliefs?
Personal Power is the ability that top leaders, celebrities, therapists, authority figures, and even con artists have developed.
Personal power is the ability to move humans (even yourself) to take action
How Ambiguous Can You Be?
In normal communication, it is often important to be specific. To be ambiguous causes confusion and misunderstanding… except when you purposefully want to build a trance within the human with whom you are speaking.
What Women Want
Men rarely take the time to discover what women really want, because they think they already know. When a woman doesn’t want to go out with them, pulls away from the relationship, or finally says “Bye!”, they blame it on the fact that “women are crazy”.
The Moment Between Stimulus and Response
Jumping on social media has always been like walking into the worst bar you can imagine. Humans are screaming at each other, name-calling, complaining, attempting to convince followers of this week’s conspiracy theory, and just being detestable. As of late, it is only getting worse. The boldness that humans have developed online is now spilling over into real life. (“IRL” for the humans who know the lingo.)
Unconscious Questions
Embedded questions allow you to give a command within a question… even though it is not a question!
Unconscious Conversations
The art of communicating with precision and purpose, and the results appear magical.
Indirect elicitation is the skill of getting a desired response from your conversation partner without their conscious awareness.
Not Feeling "Okay" Will Change Your Life
You don’t have to feel “okay”! Not everyone has to receive a trophy. Not everyone is good at everything. There are humans better than you, and you are better than others. That’s OKAY!