Hi everyone,

I've heard lately about NLP and how you can get the change you want using NLP applications and techniques ...etc.

My problem is I don't like really my job field (accounting), I graduated in accounting 8 years ago, and now working as low profile accountant since then. I have the ambition and the will to go forward to seek chartred accountancy but I don't feel like the numbers and financial analysis and all those accounting things that are the everyday life of a successful chartred accountant.

Can NLP help me to overcome this mental block? can I use hypnosis, for example, to convince my subconscious that accounting is not that bad, and that numbers are not that disgusting? (i really hate numbers !!!)

Unfortunatly, it's kind of too late and too expensive for me to go back to university and study aerospace engineering (a field that i really like.. )

Thank you for your time and your help.

abousaad wrote:

Unfortunatly, it's kind of too late and too expensive for me to go back to university and study aerospace engineering (a field that i really like.. )

How about changing this limiting belief instead? There's always time to study what really motivates you.

abousaad wrote:

(i really hate numbers !!!)

Unfortunatly, it's kind of too late and too expensive for me to go back to university and study aerospace engineering (a field that i really like.. )

How did you get the idea that aerospace engineering does not involve numbers?

Hi Michaal

Check out Scott Flansburg site he has a way of making numbers fun.

Thank you for your answers guys,

Philip, I'm 30 now, going back to university to get a bachelor in aerospace will take me another 6 years in part time studies. things will be worse when you have 2 children & a wife in charge... not to talk about money issues, this why I think this option is not realistic.

Jay & Michael, I don't have a problem with numbers them selves, but with accounting/finance numbers, balance sheets, ledgers... I'm sure I will not have to deal with these kind of numbers in aerospce discipline for expl.

Things will be much easier if only I could get rid of this "hate accounting'' complex...

Thank you again guys..

Hi Michaal

I never assumed that you had an issue with doing numbers, my point was if you could make numbers fun, then accounting would become a pleasure, witch would give you a new way move past your hate of accounting. etc.

J

abousaad wrote:

Thank you for your answers guys,

Philip, I'm 30 now, going back to university to get a bachelor in aerospace will take me another 6 years in part time studies. things will be worse when you have 2 children & a wife in charge... not to talk about money issues, this why I think this option is not realistic.

Again, this is a limiting belief. I know people in their 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s who have gone back to school for advanced degrees, with larger families than yours. My father went back to school in his 40s to earn his Masters and PhD in physics, while working full time as an engineer and raising three children.

However... perhaps you can step out of the one-or-the-other choice here. There are many more careers than these two. Perhaps there is a third choice that would make you happier than accountancy? To me it seems that spending your life in a job you dislike could be considered a waste of a life. You don't get the time back, you know. Rather than try to bend yourself into a shape you already consider unnatural - find something that you love to do and spend the rest of your life working toward that goal!

abousaad wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've heard lately about NLP and how you can get the change you want using NLP applications and techniques ...etc.

My problem is I don't like really my job field (accounting), I graduated in accounting 8 years ago, and now working as low profile accountant since then. I have the ambition and the will to go forward to seek chartred accountancy but I don't feel like the numbers and financial analysis and all those accounting things that are the everyday life of a successful chartred accountant.

Can NLP help me to overcome this mental block? can I use hypnosis, for example, to convince my subconscious that accounting is not that bad, and that numbers are not that disgusting? (i really hate numbers !!!)

Unfortunatly, it's kind of too late and too expensive for me to go back to university and study aerospace engineering (a field that i really like.. )

Thank you for your time and your help.

So the answer to can NLP help me overcome this mental block is YES

The question you now need to ask is HOW?

Hi

I came across a session once where Richard Bandler used a motivation strategy to allow a young woman to develop an interest and skill in a technical field she was having difficulty with.

He had her forget (using some amnesia techniques) how she struggled and how hard it was as the first part of it. The rest was giving her a new perspective on her approach to the material. Basically, asking herself what the author of the material was trying to get across, and see the work from his perspective.

I'll see if I can find it again and offer you the outline of what happened, in case it is of any use.

From what I vaguely recall, place the bad feelings and thoughts into the place where you forget things. The things you need to become adept with, move them using visualisation techniques to place them where you enjoy things.

Look at your motivation strategy, spend a little time learning about it. Then decide which aspects you might want to develop a moving away from or a moving toward strategy for.

i.e. As examples of these two ideas: the things you don't like, let's say, bring them closer loud and clear so you can be motivated to move away from them rapidly and do them so you can get them out the way. The things you like, bring them closer so you can move towards them with enthusiasm.

This does take work and deliberate action, however I am confident you can make progress.

Good luck.

Lloyd De Jongh wrote:

Basically, asking herself what the author of the material was trying to get across, and see the work from his perspective.

This sounds like something from a rather old seminar excerpt on audiocassette... maybe one titled Using Your Brain for a Change. I'm not sure. I wonder if I still have a copy.