PCI Reloaded

When Michelle Gass ran Starbucks, she helped the company move into 33 countries. When she first joined the coffee-based firm, she was asked to get behind a new drink. Starbucks had just launched the Frappucino, and Gass was ordered to develop a growth strategy to make the drink popular. What began as a side item now earns Starbucks more than $2 billion annually. That's the income from just one...

You know how they say you should love your family, your friends, and your neighbors? Well, guess what? You should also love yourself! Loving yourself is not selfish or vain. It's actually super important for many reasons. Let me tell you why you need to love yourself and how it can make your life better. Loving Yourself Helps You Love Others The first reason to love yourself is that it helps y...

5 Behaviors of Successful People 1. Spend Time With Other Successful People When you spend time with other successful people, you tend to adopt the behaviors and habits that they display. This often happens with friendships, which begin with a common trait and then expand to friends developing similar behaviors.  If you genuinely want to be successful, keep company with those who demonstrate the b...

How to Communicate More Confidently There are many ways we can demonstrate our confidence, but perhaps the most obvious example is when we are talking to an individual or a group. Those who have low self-esteem or confidence are likely to mutter, to stutter and to avoid eye contact. Those who are highly confident and sure of themselves will speak clearly and with conviction. So with that in mind,...

An empathetic person can identify with what someone else is experiencing. They may have had the same experience before. This isn't necessary to practice empathy. You might just be very good at putting yourself in another person's mindset. Someone tells you they lost their job. They're going through so many different negative emotions. They're concerned about their mortgage payment...

You can’t believe they did it. Of all people, turning on you this way. You want to react in kind, drawing on the anger flowing through you to lash out. Make the other person hurt every bit as much as you do right now. Wait a minute. You can’t. You’re not that person. You don’t want to BE that person. You’re better than this. But how do you stop anger in its tracks before it gets the best of you? T...

Do you ever feel like you're stuck in a rut, doing the same things over and over again, without really enjoying them? Do you ever wonder if there's more to life than following the rules and expectations of others? If so, you might be ready to challenge the status quo and live a more fulfilling life. The status quo is the way things are, the way things have always been done, the way things...

When you want to create a better day for yourself, you need to start out where you begin. This means having a morning routine at work as well as at home. Think about this for a moment. A morning routine at home will set you up for success by getting you out of bed and ready to transition into wakefulness. Likewise, a morning routine at work can get you settled into a mindset of getting work done a...

Using Challenges to Develop More Discipline One way you can develop more discipline is to use challenges. This makes it more like a game and less like a chore. Also there can be the element of competition with others and having others help hold you accountable which improves your odds of success.  Challenges are very popular and you can find them in many places. Or you can make up your own and sha...

Using NLP To Handle Criticism Before we get started, it's important for you to realize that there are two types of criticism. The first of these is constructive criticism which will assist you. You need to distinguish this from negative or bad criticism where the person criticizing is doing it with the intent of putting you down. The world is full of people that will pass judgment on you. So y...

In this episode, we will debunk some of the most common myths and misconceptions about NLP, such as that it is manipulative, that it doesn’t work, or that it is the same as therapy.

Here are 5 simple things you can start doing today to manage your time.

The Benefits Of A Positive Mindset You feed your physical body with "good food", you feed your car with "good fuel", so why not feed your mind with "good thoughts" as well. After research in the 1950s, it was concluded that having a positive mindset would help maintain good physical and mental health, increase longevity and promote success in personal and professional...

Here's part 3 for how to develop self-esteem through personal transformation.

Here's part 2 on how to develop self-esteem through personal transformation.

Here's the first part of a 3-part series on how to develop self-esteem through personal transformation.

Here are 5 valuable tips to help strengthen your integrity.

Here are a few reasons why integrity is so important.

Most people associate hypnosis as something that you do on other people. However, this is only half the story. You can perform hypnosis on yourself and reap massive benefits for your own personal wellbeing. In the case of self-hypnosis, you're both the subject and the hypnotist, which can seem a bit daunting at first. Like anything else, if you choose to practice it then you will get better at it,...

There are a lot of crazy, unfounded myths that surround Hypnosis. In today's episode, our goal is to dispel some of these claims and show you that hypnosis is perfectly safe and natural. There are 6 myths that we cover but my personal favorite is number 5.

If you were to ask 100 hypnotists how they would define "hypnosis", you would probably get 100 different answers, even if it's only slight variations. Our goal isn't simply to give you another definition of hypnosis to chew on but a general overview of what hypnosis is. You'll come to find out that you've been doing hypnosis practically your entire life.

Here are a few thoughts on Influence, inspired by the work of Joseph Riggio.

Here are a few thoughts on creativity.

Here are a few thoughts on power.

Here are 10 quotes by Fritz Perls.