What happens to you, your family and your friends is so much more real to you than any set of figures on a balance sheet. Even business always comes back to people The fact that NLP's lessons, insights and practical advice can be applied equally well at home and at work makes them doubly useful. The artificial divide between life and work and between people's home and work personalities is something that will come up again in a later chapter. But the truth is there are few work decisions that are really taken on a wholly factual, dispassionate, Spock-like basis. So the skills of rapid rapport-building, vividly convincing communication and even, most fundamentally of all, knowing what you really want, are just as essential in the salesroom and the boardroom as they are in the wine bar and the bedroom.
Spontaneous excellence is lovely when it happens.
Everyone knows that fantastic feeling you get on those great days when the force is with you and you couldn't go wrong if you tried. These are the days when things are the way they should be and your personal relationships are easy and loving. If you're working, the problems just melt away in front of you. If you're playing sport, you can effortlessly perform beyond the limits of your normal capabilities. If you're painting or writing or studying, you're absorbed in the flow, full of relaxed, productive concentration that makes you wonder why you ever stared with gritted teeth at an empty canvas or a blank sheet of paper and felt you would never progress again.