Jumper Cables for Life

When your car stalled in the 1930s, you had to place a metal pole into the drive shaft through a hole in the front of the engine and hand crank it into action. It was quite an exhausting process and required a lot of energy and effort, not to mention time, to fire up the motor. It was certainly not for the faint hearted or those of a weak constitution. Consequently the driver would do everything he could to keep the engine running.

As the technology of the car evolved a more sophisticated process for starting the engine was developed and all it took was a turn of the key and you were on your way. Nowadays engines have become so efficient and reliable that they rarely break down and when they do the most common cause is a flat battery. Then all we need to restart the motor is a set of jumper cables connected to another running engine.

Wouldn’t it be handy if we could jump-start our life as easily as the car? Imagine energy fueling stations dotted around town, where we could plug into an energy source and top up our human battery in a jiffy.

I like to think of the tools of NLP as jumper cables. When my battery is flat and I have little or no motivation to move forward, I reach into my toolbox and pull out something to get me started again. All it takes is a small intervention here and there to get me firing on all cylinders.

Life can be quite exhausting and it is hardly surprising that we cannot always maintain a constant level of positivity and motivation. It is not a failure or deficiency, simply a fact of life that this human engine needs a little help to keep it running at optimum efficiency. We already know the positive effects of regular food and healthy nutrition on our physical body, but many of us neglect the emotional and mental top ups. There are more than 40 tools in NLP, which will get your life going again and enable you to recognize when your battery is getting flat before it actually runs out.

It didn’t take me long to appreciate the benefits of investing in regular services for my car. Breaking down in the middle of town, in temperatures of 40 degrees or more or having to risk life and limb in a taxi cab were sufficient motivators. The benefits of preventive maintenance for myself were not always so obvious, though the effects were far more dramatic.

The warning signs are always there, but sometimes we need someone else to point them out to us. When you get to that point where everything is a big effort, you don’t have the same clarity that you used to have and even simple decisions seem like enormous problems, it’s time to crank start the engine, and NLP has all the tools to help you do just that.


NLP works through the unconscious mind to tackle our limiting beliefs, change our negative scripts and reinstall positive strategies to move us forward and onwards to a fulfilling and motivating life. Through these powerful tools we can combat the common scourges of life and open up to our higher self, to regain our self-confidence and know that we can do or be exactly what we want and really ENJOY our lives at last.