I intend to make this the first of several helpful NLP excercises that I've developed myself.

Focus on your frame and think about the good things going on in your life, or things you plan to have happen in your life. Being in a bad mood is a choice most of the time and you can also choose to not let the bad stuff get to you.

Take a DEEP breath, then let it out, closing your eyes as you're breathing in and opening them when you breathe out. Think about the bad things and let them fuel your breath in and NOTICE, how when you breathe out again, they don't affect you, they don't phase you at all, because you are secure in who you are. Negative things sliiide off of you like water off a duck's back. Notice how when you open your eyes when you are taking that breath for the third time, that you feel FULL of confidence. Notice how the world is brighter and less difficult. Feel the positive energy and positive vibes inside you and project them outwards.

That's a good NLP excercise to run through if you're feeling in a bad mood. I do it often when I'm at work and having a bad day, customers yelling at me for mistakes the company made, or that I have to charge them to fix things. The key is to take it seriously and put the stresses in while you're thinking it to yourself. If you think it in a monotone voice, it won't help, but if you think it like it's written, you will feel instantly better. I sometimes count to 10 while doing this if I'm highly stressed, but don't do that if it's going to get in the way of concentrating on the pattern. Do it while you're in a good mood and feeling empowered. Toss some good music on and do it so that the positive feelings from the music and your emotions right now, get anchored to the action of deep breathing and the eye closing/opening.

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"The 'Brick Walls' are there to allow you to prove how badly you want something!" ~ Randy Pausch

~ Rye

awesome! is there anyway that you can make these audio clips so we can close our eyes and listen instead of reading?

Haha, I'll see about that man, I don't know very much about making media, so I'll have to talk to some people.

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"The 'Brick Walls' are there to allow you to prove how badly you want something!" ~ Randy Pausch

~ Rye

That's a pretty good idea. Now if you could find a girl to do it, specially if you could find one to do it in a sexy accent, that would be money!

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Rye,

just download audacity, it's a free program that records stuff. It's what, I believe, doc, tripp, and I have used to record our webinars.

or, you could just have me do it. southern is a sexy accent, right

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- Zip

I would give it a try ...

I'll look into that over the next couple days.

I could have you do it Zip. Although Southern is a sexy accent, I'm afraid if you let a "shucks howdy" slip, that it might throw off the excercise.

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"The 'Brick Walls' are there to allow you to prove how badly you want something!" ~ Randy Pausch

~ Rye

True. You wouldn't want my "southernisms" to compromise the recording.

Good call.

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- Zip

Women love a good southern Accent. I know women up North eat up the southern Accent!

Til this day Yall will always be better than Youz or Youz Guys!

Rye Lee remember If he is from the south he probably has a chew or dip in. So it would be "Shucks" *Spits* "Howdy Yall!" thats when he will pull on his pants to show off his belt buckle while his cowboy boots scraps loudly across the floor.

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The Creator of the Facebook Poke Method!

Hesitation means Masturbation!

Rye,

I'll let you take this one.

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- Zip

Dammit Zip, you've been lying to us all this time?! You said you were from New York, you didn't mention anything about big belt buckles and cowboy boots!

Or the fact that you've got something dangling between those well shaped legs either...

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"The 'Brick Walls' are there to allow you to prove how badly you want something!" ~ Randy Pausch

~ Rye

Zip, you've just been negged.

Congratulations, you've actually been acknowledged by RYE LEE!! That's an honor--no, PRIVILEGE. You should feel proud!

(Not being sarcastic)

There should be some kind of blue or pink indicator on the left hand side of posts to show if the poster is male or female.

There was many a times I was confused on this forum -.-

Hah, yeah. But then again, women are pretty rare around here.
I only know of three--I'm sure there are more, but I can only think of three.
So, it's not really a huge deal.

Other than that, you can just tell if it's a guy or girl by their post lol.

rofl @ shucks howdy.

- Dex