Written by Eugene Morgan
Milton Erickson was a master of getting his patients to do crazy things. Erickson didn’t tell his patient what to do, instead he created an atmosphere by utilizing the patient’s unique patterns, interests and beliefs. In so doing, he created within the person motivation to do something that could make a change. The person would begin to come up with an idea for himself to do something to make personal changes. What ideas, beliefs and interests that motivate us to do something, is a question we all can ask ourselves. If we look at the things we excel in one area of our lives, then we probably could use those same beliefs, interests to drive us to excel in other areas.