Can TLT help with time management?

[Giacomo]

Greetings,

I am about to deliver a training and I thought that it could be insightful for the attendees to understand how they "store" time as i think that this may have an effect on how they deal with it. (Procarstination, always in a hurry, etc).

can anyone suggest an exercise or make a comment on how to demonstrate this concept?

I was thinking of having participants discover tgheir timeline, and then have a short discussion to see if there are any group insights.....any ideas welcome.

Thanks from downunder.

Giacomo :)

[Poodle]

Huh? Training for what? Are you trained to teach TLT? TLT has nothing to do with storing time. That is strictly a function of the inner mind and if you don't know how to train to the inner mind then they won't get it or will get it only consciously.

[Giacomo]

Hi Poodle,

Good question. I will be doing a training on "time management" for employees of a company. I wanted to touch briefly on the concept of timeline just to show them that we all store time differently and that sometimes (in my opinion) the way we store time may have an impact (unconsciously) on our "self talk" about what we need/want to do. I do not want to do any therapy work or get to deep into the concept...I just wanted to use it more as an "ice breaker" to stimulate their interest and then move on to more traditional "time management" topics.

Thoughts?

Ciao

Giacomo

[tdiamond]

So G,

can you remember a time when you were a child?

yes, good.... and which direction did that memory come from?

( you point or say ... lets pretend behind you) good so thats from behind you?

yes

so when you look behind you can you see all the memories of your past?

wow yeah...

ok so then when you look in front of you do you see the future memories there?

yes

ok then so you realize your past memories are behind you and the future ones in front, so they runs from back to front?

yes

well thats your time line..


So G, is that what you were looking for to break the ice?

[Docresults]

Giacomo,

I've taught Time Management and demonstrated Time-Lines all the time. I don't do therapy so I don't get into TLT in a training.

I ask questions like how do you know the difference between your past and your future? If they had a location in your mind where would the past be and where would your future be? If you put that outside your mind what would it look like? Isn't that interesting what we do with time inside our heads, WITHOUT paying attention to what we are doing? Today we are going to learn some conscious ways to make what we do with time work for us, OK? Is that what you want to do as well?

To Your Best,
Doc Houston

"We are born naked, wet and hungry. Then thingd get worse." MY Grampa Vetter

[Connie]

What I was taught: that how you manage time is a factor of being "in" your timeline (it intersects your body) or "through" your timeline (standing apart from it). If you're in time, you're in now. Experiencing the moment. He suggested that this is a good set-up for a person enjoying a vacation, for instance, who doesn't have anywhere specific to be at a specific time. If you're through time, you see it all stretched out--which is better for planning, how long does it take to do what, being where when, etc. keeping appointments, and time management. He suggested that being through time would be more advantageous to a person in a business setting who needs to schedule his time more precisely.

[Poodle]

Down Under sounds so wonderful as you are in summer and I'm buried in snow, blowing snow and more snow to fall. You may do as Doc suggests or you may wish to purchase the book "Time for a Change" by Richard Bandler. On pages 70-79 he deals with time line work which is a lot of fun. He actually gives you the words to use if that is the route you would like to take. It goes from locating timelines (which would make for a fun speech) to timeline redecisions to working with a person on it - word for word. I have found it to be a heck of a lot of fun and my clients enjoy the process a lot and they are usually amazed at how resourceful their inner mind is. Just another thought. Pood

[Giacomo]

I have to say that I am impressed! I just "stumbled" upon this forum today for the first time......joined....and you guys have been so insightful and generous with your time and your ideas. I am so grateful that the internet can bring amazing people together...regardless of geographic location!!! :)

Thanks to all of you for the tips, I got something of value from all the replies! (I wish I had time to read Richard's passage in the book before my training...but it is in few days time).

When I did my course in NLP and TLT I never though that I would use it as part of a corporate training program, but with your suggestions I think that now it will be fun.

Ciao to all that contributed!!! :)

Giacomo

[Poodle]

Anyway the client has their timeline arranged is fine. It's their time line. The classic Through Time Time Line is left to right or right to left and reaches about as far as the arms and NOW is located in the center.

The classic In Time Time Line is as Connie wrote with the time line going front to back and stretches back as far as the original time line. Client is in the center which is again NOW.

Both are in time so to speak. And one can always ask to have the time line rearranged. I know one guy took about 30 minutes to answer this question as he had to consult his higher self and also his angel. Both FINALLY AGREED.

I don't know if you would want to get this technical as some people have multiple time lines and not everyone can visualize so then a pendulum is needed to get the answers.

[Poodle]

You know NLP - how about a Motivational Strategy -- both sides win.

[skip]

I would take a slightly different approach.

I would have them each elicit their time lines, making sure that each understands that there is no right or wrong time line.

Then you could take someone who manages time very effectively, and get everyone to notice how that persons time line is 'set up'.

Then you can have people, as an experiment, rearrange their tme line like the time line of the person who manages time well, and ask them to notice if they percieve 'time' differently, as a result.

Let them 'try it on' for a bit, and let them determine if, in addition to the other things you teach them, it helps them manage time better.

Good time management is part external skills internalized, such as organization, prioritizing, etc. The other part is an internal skill, or a subjective one, and that is an awareness of time passing, and a feeling of urgency about accomplishing the tasks your organizational, and prioritizing skills have set forth.

Teach the organizational skills, install a good prioritizing model, with a recursive feedback loop, reorganize the time lines if appropriate, install the sense of urgency, future pace, test, done.

cheers,

skip

[Poodle]

knows enough about TLT to rearrange time lines properly. If not, one could have a real mess IMO. If poster wishes to know more, I believe I have posted it in the past. Pood

[Nigel H]

Hi there

If you have studied NLP you may be familier with Metaprogrammes.

If so ... then you can explain that typically the time line orientation would equate as follows:

Through Time = Judger metaprogramme

In Time = Perceiver metaprogramme

I am not sure how in-depth you wish to get with people and how long the course is, but when I trained, we all switched from our natural time line to the other and kept it like that for a period of time to actually experience the difference it's orientation has on how we experience the world around us. Quite an eye opener. It's also possible to have someone move their time line for different circumstances - so if they are naturally a Perceiver it MAY benefit them to be more of a Judger for Work situations - so an anchor can be set to allow them to be one way at work and another at home!

From memory, there is some explanation of the diffrences in Tad James' book - Time Line Therapy and the Basis of Personality. May help you.

Cheers

Nig