4Building the Motivation, Enthusiasm and Desire

Anchoring

In this section we will talk about anchors. Before we get into exploring how to use them, I want to explain why we are looking at them.

Anchors are a way of making you feel good in the moment, a way of quickly shifting your emotions so you can feel excited, confident and positive at the flick of a switch.

This is very useful and can be done very discreetly to enable you to get a quick confidence boost when needed; for example, before getting up to do a talk or presentation.

They can also be used to add the all‐important feeling element to affirmations and visualisations, which we are covering later in this chapter.

So, what is an anchor?

Well, an anchor in the personal development sense ...

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