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.

🏆 Winning Post of the Week

Makar Sankranti – A Gentle Invitation to Fly Higher

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Thoughtfully Yours,

Welcome to Episode #147 of your favourite weekly newsletter NLP Around You!

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🧠 Thoughtful Thought

“Anger asks “why me?”. Curiosity asks “what now?”” — Dr Mehernosh J Randeria

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💬 NLP Quote Corner

“The wise man never says everything he thinks, but thinks everything he says” — Aristotle

⏳ One Minute NLP – Letting Go of Control

We often think control equals safety. So we plan more, think more, and try harder. Yet the more tightly we grip, the more tense we feel.

In NLP, we learn that control and choice are not the same thing. Control comes from fear. Choice comes from trust. When you relax control, you don’t lose power. You gain flexibility.

Try this shift. Instead of asking, “How do I make this happen?” ask, “What’s the best next response available to me?”Feel the difference. One is pressure. The other is presence.

Notice how your body softens when you stop forcing outcomes. Your breathing slows. Your thinking opens up. Solutions appear where effort once blocked them.

Letting go doesn’t mean giving up. It means allowing life to meet you halfway. And in NLP, that balance is where calm confidence lives.

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🔮 Meta Magic

Gold or Growth – What would you chase?

A young man spent years mastering difficult things – quietly, patiently, for no audience at all.

First, he learned to walk on stilts.
He fell, rose, bruised himself, and learned again.
Then he taught himself to juggle – starting with stones, moving to knives, and finally to seven gleaming swords.

When his body had learned balance, and his mind had learned focus, he combined the two.
He walked on stilts… and juggled seven swords at once.

Only then did he walk into the royal palace.

Before the king, he moved forward and backward, high above the marble floor, swords flashing in the air like sparks. The court fell silent. The king rose, astonished, and placed a heavy bag of gold at the young man’s feet.

Word spread quickly.

Another young man heard the tale and thought, If that skill earned gold, mine will earn more.
He trained himself to dance on the back of a galloping horse; spinning, leaping, dazzling the eye. Certain of his reward, he went to the palace and demanded an audience.

The king watched briefly… then waved him away.
“Leave,” he said. “And do not return.”

Shattered, the young man went to a sage and poured out his anger.

The sage listened and smiled gently.

“The first young man practised for mastery,” he said.
“You practised for reward.”

“The first forgot himself in the craft, so the world remembered him.
You remembered the reward, so the craft forgot you.”

And in that moment, the young man understood:

When skill is pursued for gold, it loses its shine.
When mastery is pursued for its own sake, rewards follow quietly behind.

📖 Hook from the Book

“As Thoreau wrote, ‘It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.’” — Matt Haig, The Midnight Library

🎬 Movie Motivation 

“It ain’t about how hard you hit. It’s about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward.” This dialogue from the movie Rocky reminds us that resilience is a state. Meaning, not circumstances, determines momentum.

🏆 Winning Post of the Week

New Year. New You. Really?

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Thoughtfully Yours,

Happy New Year 2026

Welcome to Episode #146 of NLP Around You. 

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– Wealth that supports your freedom,
– Wisdom that guides your choices,
– Wellness that sustains your journey.

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and more about living with clarity, calm, and intention.

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Wishing you a year of meaningful progress, quiet confidence, and steady fulfilment.

🧠 Thoughtful Thought

“Creativity thrives where judgement sleeps.” — Dr Mehernosh J Randeria

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💬 NLP Quote Corner

“It takes something more than intelligence to act intelligently.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

⏳ One Minute NLP – State Before Strategy

Ever noticed how even the best plan falls apart when you’re stressed, tired, or irritated? NLP reminds us of a simple truth. State comes before strategy.

If your emotional state is off, your thinking narrows. You miss options. You react instead of responding. But when your state is calm, confident, or curious, better strategies appear naturally.

So before asking, “What should I do?” ask, “What state am I in right now?”

If needed, change it. Stand up. Breathe deeply. Smile. Move your body. Shift your posture.

Once your state changes, your perspective changes. And with a better perspective, better decisions follow.

In NLP, we don’t fix problems only with smarter thinking. We start by upgrading the state of mind doing the thinking.

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🔮 Meta Magic

Ten Steps are Enough

In a quiet village, there lived a young farmer who spent his days working in the fields at the foot of a towering mountain. Every morning, as he tilled the soil, his eyes drifted upward to its peak. One thought returned again and again: One day, I will climb it. I will watch the sun rise from there.

One evening, he finally decided. He would begin the trek after sunset so that by dawn, he could stand at the summit. With quiet determination, he picked up his Petromax lamp and started climbing as the light faded from the sky.

A few hours later, darkness wrapped itself tightly around the mountain. The petromax lamp glowed, but not enough. Shadows stretched. The path blurred. Doubt crept in.
Is this light enough? he wondered. Should I go back?

Confused and uneasy, he sat down on a rock, weighing risk against retreat.

That was when he noticed an old man, nearly seventy-five, walking steadily uphill. In his hand was nothing but a small chimney lamp. Its flame was faint, yet the man moved with surprising speed and confidence.

The young farmer stared, stunned. It’s pitch dark… and this old man is climbing faster than me?

He called out, “Uncle, where are you going in such darkness with that tiny lamp?”

The old man smiled without stopping.
“To the hilltop, son.”

The young man was incredulous. Here I am with a powerful lamp, confused and afraid… and he’s climbing with that?

Sensing his disbelief, the old man laughed.
“With this lamp,” he said, lifting it gently, “I can see ten steps ahead. I take those ten steps, and then I see ten more. That’s enough to reach the top by morning.”

He glanced at the young man’s brighter light and added softly,
“You can see twenty-five steps ahead… yet you’re sitting here doubting the light you already have.”

And with that, the old man continued upward, step by illuminated step, leaving behind a lesson glowing brighter than any lamp.

📖 Hook from the Book

“No one tells you before you procreate that the hardest thing about being a good parent is that you never feel like one.” — Fredrik Backman, The Winners

🎬 Movie Motivation 

“Jo dikhta hai, wahi sach nahi hota.” Translated to “What you see is not necessarily the truth.”

This dialogue from the movie Drishyam reminds us that the map is not the territory. 

🏆 Winning Post of the Week

Day 101 – The Journey Continues

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