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Many people would just love to be more persuasive but just don’t really have any idea how to be.  You need to ask yourself what is your intention?  Your intent directs the flow of energy in your interaction with others so don’t you think it makes sense to have in your mind a very clear and strong intent before engaging in your persuasion mission? Think about the person that you will be attempting to persuade and try to think of how your persuasion will benefit them.  Your persuasion efforts will be more effective if you make it clear what their benefits will be from the situation. Try to put yourself in their shoes and think of what benefits you can see looking at it from their angle.  Also try and look at the situation from an independent view as this can also make you aware of other ideas and benefits. It pays to have an idea of what the other person wants and keep the positive intention nice and strong in mind when interacting with the person. This will automatically create a good vibe between you and therefore create the well known fundamental persuasion skill – rapport. During your interaction with the other person make sure you ask well focused questions as this will increase your persuasion parlance.  You will want to ask questions that will get the person to open up so that you can discover one of the very powerful motivators known as values. This is an interesting aspect of how the human mind works because you find yourself becoming more curious about people’s values as your persuasion power increases. You MUST remember however that once you have got the other person talking, make sure you be quiet and LISTEN. That’s right, just sit back and listen as they are giving you lots of high quality information that you can then use to persuade and guide them.  Pay lots of attention to discover words that people may use that have a lot of emotional value for them. What do you suppose would happen if you were to then describe and incorporate those valuable words into your persuasive ‘pitch’? They would be much more likely to go along with your persuasive intention because you are using words which stimulate powerful feelings inside them for the changes that they really want. In the art of persuasion – or indeed anything – there are many ways of doing things, many perspectives, techniques, methods and tools.  By using these things and paying attention to feedback, you will get the results that you are looking for.  Neuro Linguistic Programming teaches you these valuable tools and more and shows you how to use them to your advantage.

 This article was written by Shezz P who has successfully changed her life using self taught NLP techniques.

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