Gordon,
reading has become an insatiable habit for me these past ten years and I devour material rapidly.

Since I am approaching 40, I have been in some what of a dilemma. as you may or may not know, I love Emerson and Walden. Thoreau. I have often envisioned myself living in a secluded remote place such as Walden was.

I am finding more and more that I am becoming very much discontented with my existence and with the hypocrisy inherent in our present environment.
I often feel frustrated and enclosed within a wide area of BS.

These blank, blank, blank gurus kill me too. I detest them, Gordon! I feel they are nothing but cheats and liars...but, be that as it may, my ultimate goal is to generate enough money, cash, to purchase a boat big enough to house my library and to live on this boat until death, reading and studying.

Tomorrow, I may feel different, I doubt this.

Taylor

> Taylor,

> Let me start with a little cynicism by
> saying,

> Treason Doth Not Prosper,

> for if it prosper, NONE dare call it
> treason.

> For all the advances in psychology, you'll
> find that NLP has been done for years,
> especially FUTURE PACING.

> They have come up with an interesting
> vocabulary.

> I've always thought all you need to do is
> create a new vocabulary and your in like
> Flint (whatever that means, anyone know?)...

> With that being said, FUTURE pacing is
> anchoring a feeling to a future event, and
> when the event occurs, supposedly you'll
> fire off the "rehearsed" response.

> OK. OLD world (a few years ago) salespeople
> VISUALIZED their success.

> In a popular best-seller of the 60's,
> PSYCHO-CYBERNETICS, Maxwell Maltz presented
> his thesis on this very thing.

> See yourself making the foul shot. Practice
> making the foul shot without the ball but
> with a FEELING OF SUCCESS, VISUALIZE.

> Then when you get to the line in the game,
> you'll make the shot, unless your Shaq...HA!

> Now of course there are a lot more BUZZ
> words to go along, you have to access the
> correct part of the brain, you have to
> imbed, you have to anchor, you have to cross
> map, inner circle blah, blah, blah...

> Good luck in your studies Taylor, you'll be
> a master of NLP in no-time.

> By the way, I know NOTHING about it. But I
> know one (a nlp practicioner) when I meet
> one, and I love to send conflicting messages
> while they lead and pace me...HA!

> Gordon

> PS. Napoleon Hill had his abbreviated
> definition of future pacing, only he didn't
> know it...

> what the mind of man can conceive, and
> BELIEVE,
> IT CAN ACHIEVE.