It's important to watch your words, because your words are creative. Now, when I talk about watching your words I not only mean the words that you speak out loud, but also the words that you speak to yourself internally.

And just as important is our focus, because depending on it is how we formulate our language. Are you putting your focus on what you want, or in stuff you don't really care about?

We tend to put our focus in one of two places: Either in what we want to be or what we don't want. How many times have you heard people say "I don't want this"? And then there are others who repeat to themselves "I want THIS", I want to make this much money", "I want to make this impact". You've probably heard examples of both of these, haven't you? Well, for the latter, their vision is forward facing.. that is they are focusing on the future. For the first group, their vision is on the rear view… meaning they are focusing on what they are running away from.

Our mind works in layers. There's always something underneath, and the ultimate layer - the unconscious mind - is what actually runs us at the core. We come up with decisions and actions based on conversations, thoughts, beliefs, and things that we probably don't remember but have been stored in our unconscious mind.

NLP is what helps us access that basic level of our mind. If we have reoccurring problems, with NLP, you can find the root cause and eliminate them at their origin. If we feel like our judgement is clouded by previous experiences, or trauma, you can use NLP to heal those traumas and make decisions based on who we are now.

I've been semi-retired of clinical medicine for almost 4 years now.Initially, I found myself coaching burned out physicians… helping them to recover, find careers they love, and even start their own businesses outside the box. However, as I listened to my inner voice, I was led back to my healing roots, and that opened up a career opportunity I would have never imagined to have.

Let me back up a bit. I'm a regular old family doc by training. Well, that's the way things began, anyway.I remember choosing the specialty the summer after first year. I worked with a rural family doc who was a full spectrum doc. For those of you who are Family Medicine like me, you know what this means.He did everything!For me that was fascinating. However, as you know, what we see as med students is often a sliver of the real world as it pertains to practice.As I progressed I discovered integrative & functional medicine, and that is where my real love settled as a family physician. However, after 7 years of having a private practice (even one where I set my own hours, and ran my own ship) became less than fulfilling after awhile.I felt like I had outgrown that purpose.