Michael Neill - You Can Have What You Want: Proven Strategies for Inner and Outer Success

You Can
Have What
You Want

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You Can
Have What
You Want

Michael Neill

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Copyright 2006 by Michael Neill

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Library of Congress Control No: 2005939084

ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-1183-6
ISBN 10: 1-4019-1183-8

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1st Edition, November 2006

Printed in the United States of America

To Nina, Oliver, Clara, and Maisy
without you none of this would have been worthwhile
or anywhere near as much fun.
I love you more than words (even these words)
can express....

Im not a teacher:
only a fellow-traveller
of whom you asked the way.

I pointed aheadahead
of myself as well as you.

George Bernard Shaw

CONTENTS

by Paul McKenna, Ph.D.

Give a man a fish and hell eat for a day;
teach him how to fish and he eats for a lifetime.
Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, 6th century B.C.

THERE ARE VERY FEW PEOPLE in the human-potential movement these days who impress me. Unfortunately, I have come to realize that many of the biggest names are better marketers than agents of change. Michael Neill is different. He has a truly original message and a wonderfully lighthearted style of delivery. This is partly a product of his high level of skill, but also an indication of who he really is as a person.

I first met Michael back in the late 80s when he was working in a New Age book shop in Camden, and I was a DJ at Capital Radio in London. We both went on to become Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) trainers and stayed in touch on and off over the years. Then several years ago, I was in L.A. and we met up again.

When I asked him what he was doing, he told me he had become a success coach. He explained that this is different from therapy, where the emphasis is on what happened in the past and on fixing whats broken. In coaching, his job is to assist people in enjoying the present and creating the future. Instead of just giving his clients what they say they want, he teaches them how to get it for themselves.

Then he asked me if Id consider having some coaching with him. I almost said nothings were going well for me, and I wondered what he could teach me about changebut I was curious, so I hired him for a month to see what he could do.

What I didnt realize at the time was just how exceptional a coach Michael really is.

According to a brand-new research study (reported in the UK publication The Guardian, happiness, rather than working hard, is the key to success. Cheerful people are more likely to try new things and challenge themselves, which reinforces positive emotions and leads to greater success at work, stronger relationships, and better health. This echoes what Michael has been demonstrating for years, and is one of the primary messages of this wonderful book.

Scientific or not, I can only talk from personal experience. Since using Michaels approach to creating inner and outer success, I have become happier in myself, more successful, and to be blunt, I have simply made a lot more money! This book contains many of his techniques that I can personally attest are powerfully life-changing.

In recent years I have recommended to many of my closest friends that they hire Michael as their coach, and I have watched their lives transform beyond all recognition. They too have become happier, wealthier, and perhaps, best of all, more inspired and alive than ever before. I will tell you the same thing I tell them if they are skeptical or hesitant about getting started: Working with Michael will help you to get more of what you truly want out of life.

For the small investment in time and effort it will take you to read this book and do the experiments, you will experience a profound and positive life change. Do it!

Paul McKenna, Ph.D.

WERE I TO MAKE A FULL LIST of the people to whom this book and I are indebted, it would be longer than the book itself. Therefore, with a huge Thank-you to everyone who has contributed to the accumulation and sharing of experience represented by this book, here are a few of the people I would particularly like to acknowledge:

Stuart Wilde for pushing me out in front of a group of people before I had any idea that I could: I came, you pushed, I flew!

Richard Bandler for his support and for developing the field that saved my life and launched my career.

Paul McKenna for dragging me out of premature retirement kicking and screaming (and for being a great friend along the way).

Gay and Kathlyn Hendricks for convincing me that sticking my head above the parapet would be much more fun than living in an eternal crouch.