When I was younger and poorer, I was in a Irish Pub and sitting next to me at the bar were two pretty women and one was enthusiastically telling her friend about this woman she met that changed her life by using NLP on her.

I didn't know what NLP was but I kept listening because it sounded so SciFi.

For about an hour I eavesdropped on her tales of this mystical mystery woman tapping on different parts of her body and reprogramming her mind. It sounded so wild!

She said the body was like a keyboard and the mind was like software, or something like that.

They got up to leave and I confessed to overhearing them and asked how I could meet the woman she was talking about. She pulled out a pen and on a napkin wrote the name and number and told me she had a workshop coming up and I should call tomorrow as it was sure to fill up.

They left and the bartender High-Fived me thinking I just got her number.

I called the woman's people and found out how expensive it was. Way too much for me! I was depressed and picked up my spirits by walking around the neighborhood and dumpster diving.

There was a lil' stray dog that lived in the area and everybody loved it because it sat on one street corner near On the Border and did funny tricks on its own to get treats from people leaving. A guy reached in his take home box and pulled out some chicken and gave it to the dog who was now doing flips. His girlfriend laughed and the guy said, "This fella's a survivor! He's so inventive, he'll find a way!"

Somehow when he said that, the idea of me getting into this NLP Workshop without paying popped in my head!

I called back and said if I videotaped the NLP Workshop for them, would they be interested? They said, No. Why? They didn't want to pay me for it. I told them, I'd do it for free if they just let me take it. Oh...

I was in!

For weeks I recorded the courses and witness some mini miracles, but being that I wasn't partaking in any of the exercises I felt I was missing something. I wanted to learn more about NLP. I read some books, or rather tried to read some books about it. It was tough.

There was a few techniques she demonstrated on a man with financial troubles that stayed with me and I used them by accident, or rather as a goof on someone and I can't describe it, but through a very complex web of events the dominoes fell into place that lead me to start making the most money I ever made before.

But after a few years I sabotaged myself.

Been thinking about getting back into learning more NLP. I've been watching some great things about Paul McKenna, who use to be a DJ on a station that I did voice work for back in the day, and now he's the biggest selling non fiction author in the UK.

Check out his videos!

I was reading this very funny article about his book, "I Can Make You Rich!" and there was a great bit about getting back at cruel teachers:

"McKenna liked his parents, but hated school. Specifically, he hated the Catholic comprehensive run by Jesuit priests that he attended, a place “run on a mindset of guilt, where everyone was constantly put down and made to feel not good enough”.

He quotes one of his school reports which said: “If he carries on like this, he’ll never amount to anything.” When, several years later, he published his first book, he sent a copy to his English teacher with “F*** you” written inside the front cover. “Very childish, I know, but also very satisfying.”"