Rosie Reflecting

  I’m having a Facebook free weekend, so far I’ve managed nine (9) hours and counting.   I used to have an iPhone. I don’t now for several reasons that are not relevant here. On that phone I could see how much time I had spent on screen and what I had been doing, Scary on the one hand and a little salutary on the other.   There might well be a setting on my Android but I haven’t looked for it.   Anyway this is about this particular weekend it’s the third weekend in February 2021 and we are still in Turkey, therefore it’s a lockdown weekend. That should mean the whole country of Turkey that’s nearing 85 million people should be staying at home. With the exception of those who need to work which in a rural area such as where we are has different interpretations. Hey ho. It is possible to have food and meals delivered and on Saturdays delivery companies are still providing you with the online orders you placed earlier in the week.   Due to the weekend...

    Are you?    Does everyone else seem to be? Are you waiting for the best option to come along? Or waiting for a better option?   Every day we are bombarded with the ‘must haves’, the ‘buy now’ (as well as the ‘unique’, the ‘new’, the ‘different’ – that’s another story).   And in these current times when a lot of what the media gives us is about doom and gloom, what do we focus on?     Some people become very inward looking and only use their own judgment, or they base this judgment on information they have gleaned from different sources when faced with uncertainty and then they start to decide for themselves.   They may take on outside information and process that information and then store it somewhere in their memory banks.   Ultimately they make their own decision and sometimes they make that decision only based on noticing what is wrong or can’t be done in respect of whatever it is you would like them to do.   Now...

At the age of 6 years old I developed a block for mental maths, math, or arithmetic.   There followed many of years of complete and utter bafflement about numbers on my part that is until 2002 at the age of 50! I had come across strategies to learn useful things, that we had strategies to avoid things, to do the wrong thing. That we could change those things that were wrong for us, if we wanted to. My prime interest in NLP has always been how we can use to improve our and others learning. How if want to, can we change or improve things for the better. In 2002 when I was training to become an NLP Master Practitioner we were learning about modelling.   NLP is based on the models of presuppositions or operating beliefs, three of which are – Modelling successful performance leads to excellence. If one person can do something it is possible to model it and teach it to others. Excellence can be duplicated.   Therefore by carrying out the modelling and distilling a mod...