I got an email from an acquaintance I have known in the NLP field for a long time.
Their first words were:-
“You seem to have diappeared off the map – or is it me that has moved off your radar?”
I thought of what I had been doing since we last met, that was a long time ago, I think it was helping (me making tea) another great trainer Michael Breen, at a one day seminar on the works of Moshe Feldenchrist.
Well I had not disappeared off the map; in fact my map had expanded since I had last seen them. I had visited many countries, China, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Italy, Turkey, Peru, Ecuador and Spain to name but a few.
I wondered which map my friend had been looking at.
Had they not seen my emails I had sent about courses I was giving in the UK?
I was sending signals for people’s radar to pick up.
Perhaps it was that this person had some course that needed to publicised, they think they can get some free publicity. As coordinator of the London NLP and Hypnosis Practice Group, there is a large database.
What map where they working from? Was it just a small map, that of the UK, or were they looking at the wider map, the world?
If you go to WH Smith in the UK, D&R in Turkey, or a newspaper shop in your country, you will see many maps, some of the your area, your interest, but mostly maps of different areas all giving different stories, some showing roads, some showing places of interest, some the geography of the area.
Which one do you choose? Do you get the one that is fit for your purpose, that what interests you, or do you look further afield. There is so much out there.
Which map was my friend on, because it was not on mine?
Apart from my hospital stay and recovery, I had been delivering courses around the world, NLP, Hypnosis, Memory, and PhotoReading, Coaching etc, working on people’s personal problems, phobias, and fears, giving the confidence and empowerment. I have had little time free, I was tired, overworked and under paid.
My friend could have looked at my web sites, at the many photographs, they would have seen some of my work visit (http://www.nlpnow.net).
We must firstly switch-on our radar, then, we must look at what is there. We miss such a lot by not seeing what is there.
Contact someone today, just to say hello.
Give a smile.