Are You Waiting for a Miracle?

Welcome to Episode #148 of your favourite weekly newsletter NLP Around You!

🧠 Thoughtful Thought

“Sometimes you need to slow down in order to speed up.” — Dr Mehernosh J Randeria

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💬 NLP Quote Corner

“To go wrong in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky

⏳ One Minute NLP – Building Resilience

Resilience isn’t about being tough all the time. It’s about bouncing back without losing yourself. In NLP, resilience begins with how you interpret what happens to you.

When something goes wrong, notice the first meaning you give it. Is it “This always happens to me,” or “This is uncomfortable, but manageable”? That meaning shapes your emotional response.

Try this shift. Ask, “What part of this can I handle right now?” Not the whole situation. Just the next part. Your nervous system relaxes when the task feels contained.

Then reconnect with a resourceful memory. Recall a time you got through something difficult. Feel that strength again. Let it remind you that you’ve done hard things before.

Resilience grows quietly through small reframes and steady self-trust. In NLP, it’s not about avoiding life’s knocks. It’s about learning how to stand up with a little more ease each time.

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🔮 Meta Magic

Are You Waiting for a Miracle?

Leo was a hopeful boy with unshakable faith, and very weak report cards.

Whenever he was asked to study harder, he would smile and say,
“Don’t worry. God is kind. God will help me.”

God, however, stayed silent during exams. Leo failed again and again.

One day, a monk arrived in the village, known for turning comfortable lives upside down. He called all the youngsters to gather beneath the banyan tree. Leo’s father insisted he go.

The monk began a story.

“There was once a farmer with fertile land,” he said, “except for one enormous rock sitting right in the middle of his field. It blocked growth and stole potential.”

The farmer prayed every day,
“God, please remove this rock.”

Years passed. The rock didn’t move.

One day, a traveller stopped, listened, and handed the farmer a hammer.
“Why don’t you start?” he asked. “One strike at a time.”

The farmer laughed. A hammer against a mountain? Still, the next morning, he tried. Nothing happened. Days passed. Weeks passed. Then cracks appeared. Months later, the rock broke apart. The field flourished.

The monk fell silent.

Leo felt the story land exactly where it was meant to.

He understood:
God doesn’t remove stones. God gives tools.

That evening, Leo opened his books, not waiting for miracles, but creating momentum. One page. One effort. One day at a time.

And slowly, the biggest rock in his life began to move.

📖 Hook from the Book

“We always think there’s enough time to do things with other people. Time to say things to them. And then something happens and then we stand there holding on to words like ‘if’.” — Fredrik Backman, A Man Called Ove

🎬 Movie Motivation

“Don’t ever let somebody tell you you can’t do something.” This dialogue from the movie The Pursuit of Happyness simply reminds us that external voices become internal beliefs only when you accept them.