How the NLP Skill of Chunking Can Help You Get What You Want

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How the NLP Skill of Chunking Can Help You Get
What You Want

• Although most of us have goals and dreams, why do
  so few people succeed in achieving what they
  really want?The problem for many is that, when
  they set a big objective, they can be put off by
  the scale of the task.
• But as the Chinese philosopher Confucius said
• A journey of a thousand miles begins with a
  single step.
• The problem for many people is that the whole
  thousand miles seems intimidating but the first
  step can also seem unsatisfying.
• So they never get started.

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How the NLP Skill of Chunking Can Help You Get
What You Want

• This is true in business as well. Your journey to
  a hundred customers begins with the first sale
  and your journey to a million dollars in the bank
  begins with your first thousand.
• But most of us begin by looking too far ahead.
  The secret is to find a way of taking that first
  step quickly.
• One of the ways in which we can categorize people
  according to how they think is through their
  preferred chunk size. This reflects whether
  they like to look at the detail of all the
  individual steps or just the big picture of the
  total journey.
• The problem is that both types of people can have
  difficulty in reaching their destination. They
  might lose focus by getting bogged down in the
  detail or else they never take any action because
  they dont identify the steps required.

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How the NLP Skill of Chunking Can Help You Get
What You Want

• The NLP process called chunking helps both
  types of people and the truth is most of us
  have elements of one or the other.
• The secret of taking action is making the steps
  small enough to be manageable and large enough to
  be satisfying.
• Fortunately the process is quite simple when you
  have a system to follow and it is useful in a
  wide range of situations from time management to
  writing a presentation.

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How the NLP Skill of Chunking Can Help You Get
What You Want

• We can use the concept of chunking in two ways.
  We can
• Become more specific and get more detail.
• Become more general and get a bigger picture.

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How the NLP Skill of Chunking Can Help You Get
What You Want

• Using chunking to become more specific
• If we are talking about cars, for example, we can
  become more specific by talking about makes of
  car such as Proton or Perodua.
• We can then become more specific still by going
  down to brands or models from each manufacturer.
• The secret of making this work is asking the
  right questions. In the car situation, we might
  ask what are some examples of this?

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How the NLP Skill of Chunking Can Help You Get
What You Want

• This can be represented visually, for example,
  using a mind-mapping approach where each idea is
  broken down into further segments.
• If you are developing an action plan, you might
  ask what specifically do I need to do to achieve
  this?
• Or in writing a presentation, you might ask What
  information supports this point?
• Although this seems very simple, it is extremely
  useful in a wide range of situations.

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How the NLP Skill of Chunking Can Help You Get
What You Want

• Using chunking to become more generalChunking
  also helps us to become more general in the
  cars example, we would move towards other types
  of road transport and then other types of
  transport and finally up to something very
  general like movement.
• Again the secret is in the questions you ask. In
  this example, it would have been What is this
  an example of? or What is the purpose of this?
• One way in which chunking to become more general
  is useful is where you have a large to-do list
  and you want to organize it into categories or
  chunks that can be combined.
• For each task on your list, you would ask what
  does this task achieve? or which category does
  it fall into?
• Chunking can therefore help you take the steps
  you need to get what you want.

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The Creativity Matrix Chunking Up, Sideways
Laterally

• This uses elements of matching and mis-matching
  as well as big picture and detail to produce lots
  of ideas and content to bring out a full range of
  creative flexibility you may not have thought you
  had. What you do with the resulting content is up
  to you but its likely that inspiration for the
  following elements of your book can all be
  covered
• The big idea, benefits or promise
• A title and subtitle
• The main chapter headings
• Your target audience
• Words for the blurb

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The Creativity Matrix Chunking Up, Sideways
Laterally

• There are three main ways we sort data in our
  minds. They are
• Chunking Up (where youll get all the benefits
  and reasons why)
• Chunking Down (where youll get all the detail)
• Chunking Laterally (where youll often find the
  weirdest stuff and metaphors)
• This is useful to know because, what most people
  describe as creativity is really a form of
  chunking up and chunking laterally and when
  youre not feeling creative its almost always
  because the details are bogging you down.

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The Creativity Matrix Chunking Up, Sideways
Laterally
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
UP
DOES NOT MEANS . DOES NOT LEADS TO.. . DOES
NOT GIVES YOU..
MEANS .LEADS TO.. .GIVES YOU..

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LATERAL
IS LIKE IS SIMILAR TO IS AN EXAMPLE
OF
IS NOT LIKE IS NOT SIMILAR TO IS NOT
AN EXAMPLE OF
THEME WORD. IDEA..
IS INVOLVES IS MADE UP OF
IS NOT DOES NOT INVOLVES IS NOT MADE UP
OF
DOWN
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The Creativity Matrix Chunking Up, Sideways
Laterally
POSITIVE
NEGATIVE
UP
Passive income, Fame and Fortune. A way to make
money. A way to contribute. People will think you
are smarter. Fulfilment of a dream. A lasting
legacy.
You dont have to do marketing. Instant
Riches You stop working once the book is
written. A predictictable income (at first). You
really are any smarter. You got lucky.

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LATERAL
Running a business Being a movie or pop star (do
it once get paid many times) Investing (you do
it up front) Gambling (if you do it wrong) 1
many buisiness model
Selling time for a living. Working a regular
job Typical 9-5 job / business. Winning the
lottery 11 business model.
Being An Author
Deadlines Writing winning books. Getting Publish,
Self-publishing Promotion and publicity. Tought
leadership. Selling loads of books. Building
passive income. Dealing with bookshops. Hard
Work. Action
Sitting back and watching the Royalties roll in
without effort. Just go to launch
parties. Leaving the promotion to your
publisher. Signing autographs. Hoping
DOWN