Why would you ever want to write out an “I have a nightmare” speech?

Mar 14, 2017 | Posted by William Sumner | Leadership |

Most of you know my “I Have a Dream” (IHAD) tool – it is one of the most powerful tools in my system:

I talk about most people’s self-talk about their diet is harsh and difficult. Bookmark that.
Go to Dr Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. Two sentences and you get goose bumps when you hear it.
Now write your speech about your health, your body, exercise, that gives YOU goose bumps. (it is not about your diet.)
Would a diet be hard if that was your self-talk?

I further ask: Do you love this tool? Have you used it? (Everyone loves it, and no one thinks they have used it.)

I further explain this phenomena as one of the great points of NLP (Neural Linguistic Programming,) WE ALL use NLP, all the time! You generally use the unproductive side of a tool. In this case it is: I have a nightmare! (IHAN) I mime and mimic someone who hates their diet. I whine, I flop my body around.

Great tool, right? (if you want a 12 min explanation, or if you wish to discuss this in deeper detail with someone, watch this video:

Here’s the rub, (and this is definitely advanced stuff – that is why it is for you “demystify leaders”) would you ever have anyone actually write out their IHAN speech? Generally not – you don’t want them to anchor it or continue to work with it. You want them to write out their IHAD instead… and away they take off.

I had a particular client who was really good with the tools. He wrote a great “I have a dream” speech. He gave it to me (almost convincingly I might add.) And here’s where YOU can catch the power of someone’s “I have a nightmare” speech. I asked him write his down. It started off weakly. Nope, re-do it. It picked up power, BUT NO EMOTION. He was flat when he gave it. “This is your nightmare – and it’s flat,” I said. Give it with real emotion.

He couldn’t. It choked him up so badly he couldn’t give it. Now what?

Write me. I will send what I did next.

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