Circle of excellence

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Circle of excellence

• This exercise helps you access resources that you
  need to move you from where you are to where you
  want to be.
• 1Lay down the circle on the floor. This is your
  circle of excellence. Do not step into it yet.
• 2Choose a challenging situation coming up in
  your near future.
• 3 What resources do you need? What
  characteristics do you need so you can move from
  where you are now to where you want to be? Name
  these and take note of them.
• 4 Think of a time when you have had these. Model
  and feel again that time when you have had that.
• 5 When you have this, Step into the circle and
  relive this experience. Use your senses be vivid
  and present and associated as you relive this
  experience.
• 6 Step out of the circle. Think of the next
  resource and repeat step 5.
• 7 Step into the circle and recess all these
  resources, and in your minds eye see that future
  situation, and take these resources to where they
  are needed and notice the difference.
• 8 Give a name to this new feeling.
• 9 Think of a time in a future situation when a
  similar state might occur and see how you will be
  different with these new resources.
• 10 How does it feel now?
• Adapted from NLP- New Technology of Achievement
  by Steve Andreas and Charles Faulkner