Personal Development Unplugged

The secret of controlling your results Let's take control of the results we get and take responsibility for them and the empowerment that come with that. I heard the other day that you cannot control the results you get and when I heard it I said out loud REALLY!!!!!! Now that is the best of worst limiting beliefs and defies the the law of cause and effect. Simply change your belief and that statement falls down because it's not true. Now I know I titled this 'The Secret' but it isn't really a secret it's as usual, hiding in plain sight like most of what we miss. There's a word I'm currently in love with - Specificity - It's a great word and makes such a difference when we, yep me as well, remember to use it. When we don't we get generalities and generalities when used with skill and direction can make wonderful changes but not here in the subject of results. Even if we only use SMART goals you get to have more control but take it to another level with NLP's 'Well Formed Outcome' and you're in real business. 

The wheel of buckets and pillars a longer podcast What are you not succeeding in? maybe not performing at your best at? Are there areas, sections of your life that are just not as good as you would like?  Hmmmmmmmmm. Over the  years I have found a few ways to find just where you need to improve and I'll go through them with you here in this podcast. The thing is most of the the processes taught don't atually give you a how to make them better when you discover them - That's where the PDU podcast comes to the rescue like the Lone Ranger, Luke Skywalker or even Rocky Balboa (thnk I'm going off the plot now) Yep, we'll go through things like the wheel of life, the 3 buckets and the 5 pillars all I have to say are awesome metaphors and I do suggest you read about them for yourselves. We'll also go through some 'HOW TOO's' to work with any of these models  to make the changes these show up for you. You may decide to choose one of these models that feels and resonates and seeing the right way for you or as I would

Gift or passion - A longer five minute podcast I started with the thought of just a 5 minute chat but ended diving into the 'Follow you Passion'. Why did it become so important to me? Well - So many people I here in the self improvement/development genre either selling give up your career and simply follow your passion or others completely knocking it saying it just happy happy people being silly yet following their passion themselves. It's easy to knock following your passion when you are, following it that is and it's always easy to sell it and so many do both. Here's my thing with it - no one tells you what 'it' passion really is and how to really find it or follow it because I think they miss the point. What is the point Cloughie? I hear you say. The point is,  it - PASSION - is hiding in plain sight and if you look in the right direction you may see it more plainly than ever  :O).  Where do we need to look? inside of course that's why people can't sell it and the othersthat don't believe in it don't real

It's Hidden in the noise - you choose Be careful, there is so much noise that you may or may not be aware of. The noise I'm referring to is the news, radio, internet, TV and even podcasts (bless them) and although you can sift what you listen to messages can slide through without your knowing. You need, and I hate saying need, to be super vigilant of hidden messages. Some will use this for their advantage but even the best, the people you respect, can still slide things into your unconscious mind without intending. I'll give you an example of mine which hit me between the eyes but I think others would have accepted a simple, well meaning statement, that could have a devastating effect. Come with me and share my thoughts and decide what you have experienced - maybe I'm wrong but I think I'm nearer right ( don't you just love my use of English) Share with me your thoughts, please email me your takeaways and feedback here feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com It's just a chat. Oh! do you notice any differenc

The power of beliefs I'm not good enough I'm not worthy I'm driven Recognize any of the above? I wonder what yours are? Beliefs, to me, create our morals or is it the other way round? They set our boundaries, our rules for life, of what we think we know as wrong and right. In this podcast we dive into where our beliefs come from and the effect - especially when they are in conflict with our wants and needs. I'll share, as usual, my story and an interesting clients story of how limiting beliefs lie beneath the surface yet effect our lives in so many different contexts. Some will tell you beliefs, especially the ones we call core beliefs are difficult to change - but that's just their belief and if they had my experience they would change that to beliefs' any belief, can change in an instant! Come and explore with me and notice what happens inside. Let me know your thoughts, insights or any other form of feedback here at feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com As always if you enjoyed, got a take away from th

5 Important words that change your results If you want to succeed I have a belief you can take on as your own because it's true to you and it's only five words. Why is this sentence so important? It changed the life of one man. I belief this sentence helped create his achievement and continues to do so every single day. This man is David Goggins and his story really is remarkable. I have thought about this belief and it is so powerful yet so simple and as we know here "In simplicity there is Genius" and I wonder if you were take a few minutes to consider how having this belief would have changed some of your past challenges and how adopting it will change the way you approach your goals and dreams? I'd love to know what you think - let me know please at feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com As always I ask if you enjoyed this or any other PDU podcasts please share with anybody and everybody and let's help change thier world for the better  :O) Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or

Awarded one of the top 15 personal development podcasts Exciting and Surprising news This episode was and is a chat, a thinking out loud and a few questions I'd like YOU to answer - if you would and as I was preparing this recording I got  Exciting and Surprising news and here it is: Yep The Personal Development Unplugged podcast has been awarded one of the top 15 personal development podcasts - Someone thinks we're doing a good job. If you want to see the others - we're at #2 by the way - click on here's the link Any way I want to share some thoughts about where we can take the PDU podcast and I would like your input :O) If you have five minutes to have this chat and give me you thoughts that would, as always, be awesome. You can do it through the feedback page here or email feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Please share and make this a bigger, richer world for us all to enjoy. Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave a comment or email me with questions, requests and feedback. If you have

The secret of a richer life We all have challenges in our life most of which we tend to keep hidden and below the surface and I want to show you that once we bring them to the surface then that life of richness gets even richer. I know it's easy to say that you have all the resources you need inside you and it is because it's true all we need to do is to access them and when you do WOW!!!! Why don't we do this? well I'll tell you why and how to but first -  Let's explore this and find out how being a little (or a lot) honest with ourselves. I'll share some personal challenges that I have that I am working on as examples and as we do here in this Personal Development Unplugged get-together give you solid ways we can work on letting go of the things that are holding us back from a richer life - A richer life in all areas of your life - on the inside and the outside. You will notice that this podcast is slightly longer than usual and that reflects the detail I go into in the HOW's and guiding you, I didn't want

Let's hang on to what we got A five minute podcast Oooooh I'm so sorry for the singing! Once you get over that I want to share some thoughts of letting go of what we keep on hanging onto. You  know those old feelings that we seem to have had for bloomin' ages. If you are like me and nearly all my hypnotherapy clients that negative emotion we are experiencing right now is more intense now than a year ago and the further you go back the less intense it was. Yet we have been hanging onto that and if we don't let go it's only going to get worse - BUT it doesn't have to be that way. Come with me and find out what we can do about it and reclaim a bucket load of energy and put it to better use - enjoying life and fulfilling your dreams  :O) Now is the time. Let me know what you learnt or what you would need to do more at feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com If you could pay this or any or all of the Personal Development Unplugged podcast you would be awesome!!! Shine brightly Paul Please remember you can leave

Overwhelming rituals - Really? We all need rituals - don't we? Successful people all have rituals - don't they? They all get up at early o'clock in the morning and meditate, yoga, journal, gratitude and a whole lot more and to be the same we have o do the same - Don't we? Maybe not, because there are many other ways to model what they do and adapting what they do and ut into your life and make it really work for you and not be a burden or something to feel guilty about. It's about modeling how they do these things, the things that work and the deep value of them and if you can get the similar results find ways you CAN incorporate these int YOUR life. Remember your you and not them and you have different  responsibilities. There is always a way and it's more about quality not quantity. Hope this makes it ok to find your own way with a little help. 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 s

Following my not another New years Resolution podcast #120 as promised I have recorded a supporting Hypnosis track just for you. The best thing is this can be used any time of the year to review and re-new any or all your goals. Please listen to the podcast first, if you haven't done so already, because there's so much information in it. REMEMBER -  You can use this process, like all the others, time and time again just when you feel the need Enjoy with Cloughie's compliments  :0) As usual - I love feedback, feedback is great so I'd love to know what you think and the results you get. Not just from this issue but from any of the podcasts or hypnosis sessions.

Something different to a NYR NYR - New Years Resolution and this podcast is absolutely not about NRY's and is about not wasting your time and use it more wisely. We all know making New Years Resolutions just don't work but nobody gives you what to do instead and that's what I am about to share with you. Twice a month I give a Q and A webinar for my sons' Joseph Clough Mind Mastery program members and I have taken an extract from one which really deals with this. It's not a snippet, it's the whole kit and cabbudle whatever than means. I'll show you examples of the way I use this time to really review but in a totally different way and then take that to a completely different level. I really feel this will help you get your dreams and goals and that's my aim through so many of these podcasts. I even give you the old 'CLOUGHIE GUARANTEE' that you will be amazed of what you will learn about yourself. I have even recorded a hypnosis track to get the both of you accessing all the creative and motivation juices flow

New year what!? - Nooooo!!!! Nothing to do with New Year Resolutions, in fact it's a little rant about them and more importantly something to put in their place. Let's use the time you would usually waste and use it in a completely different way. A way to make your life goals work as we start from a foundation of understanding and then ................... There's a lot more here than you would think and you may need your journal to make some notes so you really get the best from it. Let me know your thoughts and what you did and how good it made you feel. 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 click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates via email. 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 @pcl

Your Holiday Relaxation(or is it Hypnosis) Yep it's that time, the day after all you have been planning for, now you can relax. If you have 5 or so minutes lets relax together, it's a little hypnotic so make sure you have nothing to do that needs your attention. You may even want to close your eyes.   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 click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates via email.  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 podcast page http://personaldevelomentunplugged.libsy

A life with rules equals freedom - What?? Let's live a life inductively with some rules that aren't rules but are needed, confused??? I was until I took some time to think about a sentence I heard. It all started with " you're living in the danger zone if you're living in a life without structure" and initially I shouted to myself NOOOOOOO! But then I took some time to think about firstly my reaction and then to look at this from the inside out. I enjoyed this thinking and examples came to mind that seemed to go against this then to come back to it and that was confusing. Examples such as my NLP trainings and the processes contained in them, the way I learnt and the way I was trained in hypnosis, Yoga, my gym workouts and well you fill in the blank - Yep I want and challenge you to think of things you have learnt or do that has a structure and is needed to give you freedom. Yep it gets even more confusing. I'll also share ways to be free to become the most successful you with a structure by following what suc

The secret of a perfect Christmas We often forget to STOP and scan our emotions - how we feel. With the holidays approaching I thought I would share just a little thought I had about how our expectations are so high, how perfect things 'should' be and we do should all over ourselves and when things aren't going as perfect as things 'SHOULD' be. I don't know if, like me, you have not had the best times in the past over this time of year? You see I wanted to see if I could change it this time and wondered how? Well have a listen, it may resonate and if it does then we will both have a better time - YAY! Not a perfect time but a good time. It's all about having a thought, a little visualisation and then living those thoughts. When I think of the 'hows' in this podcast I wonder what it would be like to use them for different occasions or context you find your self in? 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 othe

Another question and something I learnt This small podcast came from a podcast I recorded but was unable to publish. Something just didn't seem right yet I was still considering it then I listened to an interview (on the brilliant Joe Rogan podcast) which seemed to make something change in me. It lead me to know being out of rapport with myself which I will explain. I'll also share a little story when a client of mine really shocked me. If this moves you to give a little feedback at feedback@personaldevelopmentunplugged.com Speak soon 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 click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even get updates via email. 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 f

Ritual or Special Moment A five minute quickie podcast Can I share a moment with you, it reminds me of the gift inside podcast episode earlier, I was journaling but a different time then usual - I missed my ritual of journaling before I start my day and I experienced something different because I felt drawn to write even though it was the middle of the morning. Why was I drawn to write? And I didn't write anything really awesome I just seemed to get this was a time to be WITH myself and I was learning something a little special. I didn't really understand but I think I did. Have a listen to find out more. When you do I am going to ask you a question and I'd love to know the answer. Email it to 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 click on the iTunes logo or any of the other buttons at paulclough.co.uk and even g

A deep dive into reclaiming our goals Do you get your goals - All your goals? do they sometimes disappear or do you sometimes seem to just let them slip away? I know I have so many goals, things I want to do. Some I have started and not finished, not followed through and some I have been excited about and not even started. And this seems to be connected with this weird feeling I am experiencing right now. What about you? I know sometimes this makes me feel a failure- does that sound familiar or resonate with you? This is another deep dive or venture down the rabbit hole of goals. We all see others doing what we, you, me, I, would dream of doing and they seem to be doing it with ease and I'm not or maybe it's just me? Come with me to think about our goals, dreams and wants together and let's find some answers. I'll show you mine if you show me yours  :O) We can talk about plateaus and springboards that are there to help you not a place to give up - what!? Let's talk about why confusion is a great thing to gain

Is selfless service real? Is this something you can really do with no expectation of return? I wonder? Come down this rabbit hole and my struggle with Selfless Service - you will won't you So what is it supposed to be? A service which is performed without any expectation of result or award for performing it Hmmmmmmm............................. This got me thinking of a couple of stories I'll share with you Is it really wrong if you give selfless service because it feels really good to do it? When we give selfless service in business, going the extra mile, giving more than contracted because you can has the effect of gaining more business. I know that when you use selfless service in networking, which I think is the best way, which is to connect others with others with no expectation of a return or reward. Yet doing it this way actually repays more than you can imagine. So how can we give selfless service without expectation knowing that you will be rewarded because that's a natural law - the Law of Reciproca