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JImmy's Story

Jimmy was a 16 year old high school student. His mom called and wanted me to work with him. Jimmy’s my said that her son had ADHD and ADD and he was doing poorly in school. He was on medication and his mom said that she really didn’t think it was helping that much. When Jimmy and I met we had a great conversation. He told me that because he was diagnosed with ADD and ADHD he couldn’t focus in school and because of that he was doing poorly.
When I speak to someone I spend very little time on discussing what is wrong with them. I want to know what is right in their life or what they do well so I can see what great resources and skills they have to draw upon and use in the area of their life they want to improve. In my conversation with Jimmy I asked what he loved to do and what he did really well, that he was proud of. Jimmy told me that he was a great poker player (A big smile now covered his entire face).
He told me he loved it so much that he could play for 4 or 5 hours with no problems. I asked him what made him a great poker player. His answer was shocking for someone who was diagnosed with severe ADD and ADHD. He said that his ability to focus and concentrate made him a great player. Now Jimmy had my attention. I asked him to explain and help me understand what he meant. He said that he was able to focus on all the aspects of the game. He was able to keep track of the cards that came out of the deck and what were the strongest cards to play and the hands that were most likely to win.
Jimmy also told me the he was able to focus all of his attention on the other players, watching their body language and listening to their voices and how they reacted when they won and lost a hand. He told me that playing the players was more important than playing the cards. Think about what Jimmy was telling me. Here was a kid who was doing poorly in school because of his in ability to focus yet is greatest skill and asset in playing poker was his ability to focus intently for several hours. Interesting isn’t it?
Jimmy agreed to let me put him a deep meditative hypnotic state. In this hypnotic state I had Jimmy relive one of his great poker games where he was big winner. I had him notice each skill and resource he had and used that made him a winner at poker and I also had him notice where he stored all those resources in his mind. Then using my voice as a guide Jimmy was able to begin to use those resources and skills he had as a great poker player and move them over into the other areas of his life.
Jimmy was also able to realize that these other areas of his life, like school were critical to his future success, the same way you would study another poker player so you could ultimately win the game. Once Jimmy made that connection in his mind that school and poker were the same thing, he was able to become and great student.
We have to be careful in the words we use and the labels we give people. The moment Jimmy was given a diagnosis of ADD and ADHD; it became a reason and an excuse for his poor performance and behavior in school. His parents had an excuse as if to say, his behavior is not his fault or our fault he has a “disease”.
Once Jimmy’s heard his parents using his diagnosis as an excuse for his poor behavior and performance in school over and over, Jimmy accepted it as being true about himself and then he accepted his poor behavior and school performance as his reality.
When Jimmy realized that when he played poker he was using the resources and skills he thought he didn’t have and he was using them very well, he was able to change is reality and his outcomes.
Be careful what you say to yourself and to your children and in front of them. If you say enough times to yourself or in front of or to your children, it can and will become yours and theirs reality. Where is Jimmy now? As of this book being published, Jimmy just graduated high school and was getting ready to go away to college in the fall. Needless to say Jimmy’s future has no limits.
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Jimmy's Story

Jimmy was a 16 year old high school student. His mom called and wanted me to work with him. Jimmy’s my said that her son had ADHD and ADD and he was doing poorly in school. He was on medication and his mom said that she really didn’t think it was helping that much.
When Jimmy and I met we had a great conversation. He told me that because he was diagnosed with ADD and ADHD he couldn’t focus in school and because of that he was doing poorly.
When I speak to someone I spend very little time on discussing what is wrong with them. I want to know what is right in their life or what they do well so I can see what great resources and skills they have to draw upon and use in the area of their life they want to improve.
In my conversation with Jimmy I asked what he loved to do and what he did really well, that he was proud of. Jimmy told me that he was a great poker player (A big smile now covered his entire face).
He told me he loved it so much that he could play for 4 or 5 hours with no problems. I asked him what made him a great poker player. His answer was shocking for someone who was diagnosed with severe ADD and ADHD. He said that his ability to focus and concentrate made him a great player.
Now Jimmy had my attention. I asked him to explain and help me understand what he meant. He said that he was able to focus on all the aspects of the game. He was able to keep track of the cards that came out of the deck and what were the strongest cards to play and the hands that were most likely to win.
Jimmy also told me the he was able to focus all of his attention on the other players, watching their body language and listening to their voices and how they reacted when they won and lost a hand. He told me that playing the players was more important than playing the cards.
Think about what Jimmy was telling me. Here was a kid who was doing poorly in school because of his in ability to focus yet is greatest skill and asset in playing poker was his ability to focus intently for several hours. Interesting isn’t it?
Jimmy agreed to let me put him a deep meditative hypnotic state. In this hypnotic state I had Jimmy relive one of his great poker games where he was big winner. I had him notice each skill and resource he had and used that made him a winner at poker and I also had him notice where he stored all those resources in his mind.
Then using my voice as a guide Jimmy was able to begin to use those resources and skills he had as a great poker player and move them over into the other areas of his life.
Jimmy was also able to realize that these other areas of his life, like school were critical to his future success, the same way you would study another poker player so you could ultimately win the game. Once Jimmy made that connection in his mind that school and poker were the same thing, he was able to become and great student.
We have to be careful in the words we use and the labels we give people. The moment Jimmy was given a diagnosis of ADD and ADHD; it became a reason and an excuse for his poor performance and behavior in school. His parents had an excuse as if to say, his behavior is not his fault or our fault he has a “disease”.
Once Jimmy’s heard his parents using his diagnosis as an excuse for his poor behavior and performance in school over and over, Jimmy accepted it as being true about himself and then he accepted his poor behavior and school performance as his reality.
When Jimmy realized that when he played poker he was using the resources and skills he thought he didn’t have and he was using them very well, he was able to change is reality and his outcomes.
Be careful what you say to yourself and to your children and in front of them. If you say enough times to yourself or in front of or to your children, it can and will become yours and theirs reality.
Where is Jimmy now? As of this book being published, Jimmy just graduated high school and was getting ready to go away to college in the fall. Needless to say Jimmy’s future has no limits.
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Call 847-331-5848

Read the success stories of Pete, Allison, Jeremy, Nilsa, Mark, and Tom