Personal Development Unplugged

You're unique - really??? You hear this - that you are UNIQUE-  and I guess you dismiss it because well ....... everyone says it but do they mean it or are they just saying it because it sounds nice? In this five minute Quickie podcast (12 minutes 7 seconds actually - just get lost in my words and time flies ) I'll take from the nice bit to something superhuman. I'll show you examples of people like you,  like me (please like me) and see how we are unique in that we are all superhuman with superhuman powers. Sounds impossible doesn't it  - you'll see  :) I'll even show you how to capture your 'super-humanness' and use it for Good with a capital 'G' And no you don't need your cape. Shine brightly Paul please share and subscribe. Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Go to paulclough.co.uk/subscribe to learn more If you want to access my FREE HYPNOSIS tracks

Why do we always expect a no and how do we get over expecting a no because you can Forget that old 'self sabotage' that's just an effect and we can deal with that too! You see we stop ourselves doing stuff - that technical term again - because we think we don't do what we want to do because we expect someone will not accept us, say a no, we'll fail or any other excuse. That's right EXCUSE, you heard me right. We make up these excuses with a wonderful positive intention but only to create a conflict between that intention and what we do or don't do  - our behavior. Come with me to dive quickly and deeply to find the simple way(s) to change this and actually get great results. It only takes 15 minutes and 11 seconds in this 5 minute podcast :) As always please share this and all/any of the previous episodes of this podcast and make a difference. And As a favor can I ask you to leave a nice review on iTunes/apple/google play or any number of platforms of your choice because that would be a great way to pay this

Getting help (To Good Mental Health) Oh how I hate the term mental health issues but I guess it's here to stay. It seems all I hear about on podcasts, radio, tv and everywhere else is that more and more people are getting anxious over mental health issues - with anxiety being a major player in those issues ( so a little self propelling). I'm also hearing some terrible advice from well meaning people but nevertheless bad advice. So................ I wanted to share my thoughts, advice and personal experiences which will, I believe, allay those fears and give you (if you're suffering) or someone you know who is suffering the encouragement to deal with it and how easy and comfortably you can resolve these issues. When I say issues I mean all issues from addictions, depression, fears, anxiety, social phobia, OCD -  Oh you go fill in the blank  :) The thing is you may not be experiencing and of those symptoms, and I hope you never will, but if you do this information will be a nugget to keep in your back pocket 'j

The art of the language of Love A five minute Quickie podcast When you learn the art of the language of love your relationship with your partner/husband/wife/significant other will be enhanced beyond your imagination. Here's the thing - we all understand how we know when we're loved and we think everyone understands this in the same way (like we do)  but there's a big BUT WE DON'T Would you like to know how to find out how to communicate your love for someone in a way they get it, know it, and most importantly FEEL IT So if that's a big fat YES then have a listen. It's simple when you know and I'll explain it simply so you can reap the benefits of your love for others. As always let me know how you do by emailing me at feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Go to paulc

Experience being in the moment For once a 5 minute 5 minute Quickie Podcast This is pure experiential and not hypnosis because this includes seeing, hearing and feeling (even taste and smell) and literally experiencing  being in the now - this very moment - Awesome If you can do this outside (in nature ) all the better but please do not worry if you're not. The great thing is you can use this as many times as you like and the more you get used to it you will create a wonderful habit. And the affect ............ Well you just have to do it    :) Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Go to paulclough.co.uk/subscribe to learn more If you want to access my FREE HYPNOSIS tracks go to paulcloughonline.com/podcast Follow and inter-react on twitter @pcloughie Why not look for me and the podcast on SPOTIFY AND the app

Me feeling a failure - and how I am dealing with it I guess we all feel like a failure at some time or other - don't we?? Or maybe it's only me. I'm sharing something a little personal in the hope that if you feel like I felt or ever do in the future you will have some strategies, processes to deal with it. I'm sure I'll think of other new ways to help in the future and will, as usual share them with you, but right now here's what I got :O) Come with me a dive into a small bit of my personal thoughts of my personal feelings and beliefs that I think I've dealt with in a kinda good way. I'm sure you will learn something, even if it's only for a friend feeling a similar way or maybe a closer friend than you know already. Please feel free to share this or any episode, in fact it's a brilliant way to pay it forward and the thing is you will never know how far the effect of your sharing will go - and that's amazing! Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and

Learning by forgetting The 5 minute quickie podcast that actually lasts 18 minutes (sorry I got carried away) You don't know how much you don't know until you really begin to learn more and more and as you will know from FMQ 246 (you have listened to it haven't you?) your learning potential is limitless. Yet one of the problems of learning something new, well in my personal experience, is that I usually start with comparing what I already know to in the new information before I've really understand it. Do you find that the case with you? I hope I'm not the only one :O( The thing is that in order to add new stuff I think we need to 'park' what we know so we can LEARN NEWLY. We need to temporarily forget what we know already, other that to understand this new 'STUFF' (technical word for new stuff) so we can fully take on the learnings and only when we understand this new 'stuff' we compare it with what we already know. The thing is, this is so simple to say yet in reality can be difficult to do because of our b

You can never not know more A five minute podcast that lasts 12 There are so many Bs beliefs we tell ourselves to not do things or maybe more importantly learn new things. I'm to old I'm to set in my ways You can't teach an old dog new tricks You get the picture And each one limits our potential because YOU can never not know more - it's a fact that we sometimes try to deny but will always fail. Come with me and in the next 12 minutes we'll discover that your potential is limitless and all you have to do is.............. Well you'll have to listen and find out :O) Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Go to paulclough.co.uk/subscribe to learn more If you want to access my FREE HYPNOSIS tracks go to paulcloughonline.com/podcast Follow and inter-react on twitter @pcloughie Why not look for me and the podcast

Here's your hypnosis track to accompany the episode #133 Follow - find your passion I think you will really enjoy this trip down the rabbit hole of passions, your personal vision and calling using the wonder of you mind - your Unconscious mind :O) Shine and be well Paul       Personal development [self improvement] [self development] [NLP] [Hypnosis]

Follow - find your passion Pt2 Or we could include re-connecting with your calling - Hmmmmmmmm That's exciting :O) Yep, following on from podcast #132 I have taken a deeper dive into how  we can find, re-charge, re-connect to our natural passion(s) and associate back into those feelings so we can begin, again, to recognise the things that spin the feelings of passion and have more of it. If you haven't listened to the previous podcast you really should then get your note pad/journal and get ready to explore.  To assist you, following a great little exercise and process, I've recorded a hypnosis track to even further embed this into your unconscious mind. I think you will really enjoy this trip down the rabbit hole of passions, your personal vision and calling. As usual let me know the new things you discover and achieve - email me at feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com The hypnosis track will follow the day after publication of this podcast episode so keep an eye out or simply go to www.paulcloughonline

Be a super hero whenever you want Would it be ridiculous to think you could feel like superman whenever you wanted? Some may think so but they would be Wrong - completely Wrong with a capital 'W'. How so? I hear you say. In the next 5-10 minutes you could learn to do just that What do I have to do? you ask Simply listen and be prepared to stand up and move. Curious? intrigued? Simply press the play button and be prepared to be AWESOME. Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Go to paulclough.co.uk/subscribe to learn more If you want to access my FREE HYPNOSIS tracks go to paulcloughonline.com/podcast Follow and inter-react on twitter @pcloughie Why not look for me and the podcast on SPOTIFY AND the app Castbox I'm also in iHeart radio YouTube - copy n paste UC3BlpN4voq8aAN7ePsIMt2Q into search bar The Libsyn p

Sharing what you know - a five minute podcast Don't they go on? Who? Someone who's just stopped smoking. Who would want to seen as that person? I guess I did when I first started learning hypnosis and NLP and it really turned people off although I knew and still do there's a gold mine of things people could get the benefit of. So it's got to be done in a caring/sharing communication. So how can we share this golden nugget, this special bit of learning - Well, that's what I'll explain here, All you need to do is come along for this short ride :O) The thing is when you do share in the right way a number of very special things happen: You get to learn it again at a deeper level You get to help and inspire others - show what's possible When you get feedback from sharing to the integrated field of learning I bang on about to get to know even more And you will never know how fall the ripples of your words will go but they will go far and that's an awesome thing to do. Do let me know your thoughts via email feedba

Your passion and how to find it - a longer podcast - Pt 1 Aren't you fed up with people pushing that you have to follow your passion and make it your life's work? Putting so much pressure on you and making you feel bad if you're not. I think when some in this niche of personal development they have an agenda and generally to leans towards their profit. So I've been thinking - Have you Cloughie? Yup! and I want to share with you my thoughts on this subject and how you may be so close to finding your Calling and the passion that goes hand in hand. This is the first part of at least two podcasts in which I hope to discover passion, calling and how to live it not follow it :O) And in those immortal words I quote so often 'IN SIMPLICITY THERE IS GENIUS' we'll find the uncomplicated and simple ways to experience just that. Are you prepared to follow me down this particular rabbit hole? Come on - Let's dive in! Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedb

Is this Ridiculous? A 5 minute quickie podcast I heard a great question whilst listening to an interview with Chris Voss on the Jordan Harbinger podcast and thought how could we use this to help us get our goals, outcomes and basically anything we dream of. Who first came up with this question I don't know but it's great to hear people sharing gold nuggets of information so freely just like we do here on this personal Development Unplugged podcast Now you know I believe questions - great questions - are a major tool in your personal development armory and this is one to add. If you add this to "What would this issue / goal /outcome look like or be if it was easy to achieve" , kindly shared by Tim Ferriss  then we're on a winner. So what's this question Cloughie? I hear you say. Well that my friend is what I'll share with you in this podcast and how we can take it from a business closing question to one we can use anywhere and use it to achieve the success in out lives we, you and I, truly deserve. Talking abo

When personal development gets uncomfortable Do you ever give up when things get uncomfortable? I have in the past, until I learnt and experienced this. If you knew that when things begin to feel uncomfortable that things were going to get better, bigger, easier and be a quantum leap you'd look forward to it or look for it wouldn't you? So many questions and if you come down this little rabbit hole with me I'll share with you what I have learnt and am still learning :O) It's good stuff and I think you'll get a lot of take aways from this as I hope you do from every episode.  Please remember if you do why not share them with me via private email feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com and this episode to a friend as you never know how much difference it may make like never knowing how far the ripples of change go. Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email m

Changing your Bias We all have a bias and would it be better to neutralise your bias to become a more balance you? If you could manage your own personal bias to ensure you get the best results - You would wouldn't you - you would - wouldn't you??? When you hear what he definition of cognitive bias you will be shocked! I was and that's why I have looked deeply into how we use our bias and more importantly how it's used by others to influence us. The more I thought about this the more interesting it got, how our internal communication filters towards our bias and how we can effect this to become balanced and in that way ensure the best results for you and create a reality that you really want and enjoy. Lets use our ability to choose and decide for ourselves Come down the rabbit hole with me on this subject and see, hear and feel how far we can go  :O) Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode plea

It's a bummer A five minute quickie podcast So what am I calling a bummer? Well - When you are using an excuse and your best friend calls you out on it - that's a bummer  :O) You see we believe we can fool some of the people all of the time and all the people some of the time and we even try (notice that horrible word) to fool ourselves and think we can get away with it. I had a friend who wold stand up and be counted because if I dodge a question or was deliberately vague he wouldn't let me get away with it. It made me think and be honest, honest with my self. Whilst that can be a little uncomfortable it really is most enlightening and empowering. Yet why should we put our friends in that difficult position? When we can simply own it and call ourselves out to be honest because we know it anyway. Let's go a little deeper in this - come with me and make a difference. Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any ot

Either or Radical or counter-intuitive Evolution or revolution? and does it have to either or? We are told, from so many places, we have to be so radical to make a significant change and only being counter-intuitive is the way. Maybe not being radical is actually counter-intuitive Oh it's so messy to think only one way and no doubt, like me, you have seen radical paths can be so destructive because they're not thought through and the only direction is to be radical. That doesn't work yet we do need to think differently to create new things. Come with me to talk about both sides of this line of thinking and see if we can come up with a way or better still ways (plural) and evolve ways to succeed in ourselves and bring others along by example. Please share and make a difference Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have enjoyed this or any other episode please share and subscribe. Just email me feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.

When focusing goes wrong A slightly longer podcast There's so much talk about focus and focusing and we've talked about that subject before and no doubt will again BUT this is not about that. You see we all focus and we do it really well - you just don't realize it. So what am I talking about? We have a great skill in/on focusing on the negative, what might go wrong, worst case scenarios and what frightens us then there's behaviors like OCD, phobias and the like. Show me someone with any of these issues and I'll show you how they're constantly focusing on their issue to the exclusion of everything else. Let me explain - Well you'll have to listen because that's the thing about the podcast and I'll also show you ways we can use this skill for good and to enhance your career, goals and life in general. Go on, come with me and see, hear and feel how you can make a difference and what 'take aways' you can gleam. I'd love to hear from you what you did think of this and any other of these podcasts, simply email me

 Now I'm trying too hard! Last FMQ (238) we dived into "Trying" and how that really doesn't work. This episode let's look at the other side of the issue of trying and it's in the title TOOOOO hard :O) You see what can happen when you change from trying to committing to being and doing we  can experience overwhelm - And we thought this was going to be easy - Stay with me because it will be - I promise 'Cloughie' promise. Tony Robbins hit the nail on the head when he said "people over-estimate what they can do in the short term and under-estimate what can be achieved in the long term" Come with me again to share my thoughts on how we can really achieve our dreams/goals/wants and needs and feel empowered at the same time. Yup! that's where we go in this Five Minute Quickie Podcast. When you have please share to your friends, give a review on your listening platform of choice and send me some feedback by email  feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com When you've done all that, sit back and............ Shine b