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Neural Linguistic Programming & Passwords

Posted in faith, Home, Security on January 23, 2009 at 10:55 am

NLP has all sorts of implications, uses, abuses & detractors. At a nice simple level where we don’t have to argue too much let’s compare it to cognitive behaviour therapy & what simpler times called positive thinking. Basically it helps to keep telling yourself something good!You may be up for staring at yourself in the mirror and telling yourself 5 times “every day in every way I get better and better” (or if you have very low self esteem ”I am not a complete plonker”) but I a) laugh, b) get bored on day two

However, I have come up with a brilliant(!) plan. What do I have to say several times a day? My password! Well type anyway. I have therefore changed my password so I give myself a positive message every time I log on. Obviously you shouldn’t tell people your password or even hint at it but there are loads of messages you may want to reinforce and you can mess them about a bit and if you are doing yourself some good by typing it then you can afford to make it a bit longer.

IamTh1nner!

DontBmean2yourself

sm1leMore

practisingScalesMakesMeABetterP1anist

WWJD???

GoHome0nT1me

So think of something you want to hear or something you want to achieve & make a positive statement password!

NB The corolorary of this is a negative password will be bad for you - typing “IHateWork” several times a day will not add to job satisfaction and “SteveIsAGit” won’t help office relationships