[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflections #1

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From: L. Michael Hall

2008 Meta Reflections #1

January 7, 2008



A NEW YEAR- A NEW YOU?





Ah, a new year and with it-new year's resolutions. Decisions, hopes, dreams, wishes, commitments, resolutions, and plans for making your life better, fulfilling your dreams, becoming more fully your full potentials, turning things around, eating better, exercising more, taking care of relationships, and the list goes on and on. What are your resolutions for this year for yourself? What decisions are you making for improving the quality of your life this year?

As we begin the new year, I hope that you have not pooh-poohed new years resolutions or, for that matter, resolutions. Making mental-emotional-and-conative resolutions activates the part of consciousness that makes us unique and truly human. A resolution for how to live, what to do, what to avoid, new directions for living, dreams to actualize-these are things that indicate that we can take charge of our lives and translate great ideas into actual lifestyle. It indicates that we humans are a class of life that are the architects of our lives. Whether you know it or not, whether you exercise the power extensively or not, you do play an architectural role in your life. And if you so desire, you can learn how to run your own brain in order to manage your own states.

Of course, there's a science and an art to creating empowering resolutions that enable you to effectively actualize your dreams. That human science begins with the Well-Formed Outcome pattern of NLP. This means that there is a proper structure to "goals" and that we can just as easily create ill-formed, sloppy, inadequate, and even toxic goals. Well-formed outcomes provides a set of questions and distinctions for making sure the outcomes that you set and how you set them are well-designed and life-enhancing.

Yet the science doesn't end there. Well-formed outcomes is taken to a whole new level with the KPI pattern of Neuro-Semantics (a pattern that we use in Meta-Coaching) and that Meta-Coaches learn as part of how they coach for a person's self-actualization. The Key Performance Indicator pattern enables you to take the precision and specificity to yet another level as it enables you to clearly articulate your goal and measure your progress to actualizing the goal.

Now equally important to the skill of creating life-enhancing resolutions is the art of execution when you translate your dreams and exciting meanings into actual life-style. This also is where state management plays a critical role. After all, if you can't manage your state-if you can't monitor the states that you experience and if you can't manage the thoughts, feelings, and energies of those states, then you will not be able to consistently get yourself to do what you resolve to do. And that seems to be the biggest problem for those who have become cynical and distrusting of new year's resolutions.

Making the resolution is one thing; following-through on it so that you actually execute the decision and live it out in your body, well, that's a very different thing. In Neuro-Semantics we call this the knowing-doing gap. Know what to do, even knowing how to do it, and having the motivation and determination to do it-all of that is the knowing. The doing is the embodiment of the knowing. In the doing we translate from mind into body so that we "know" it in our body. This makes the knowledge "intuitive" (in-knowing).

So, given all this, how are you doing? Where are you in your ability to translate from mind into body so that what you construct mentally from your ideas, insights, studies, and dreams, your highest and best meanings become your actions-what you actually do, your performance? How well are you able to monitor and manage your states so that you can get yourself to come through and follow through? How are you at taking effective action in practicing, persisting, continuously learning, refining, and improving?

Because it is a new year, all of us have an opportunity to examine our style of actualizing our highest and best and step up to be the architect of our future, the quality of our life, and the direction that we set for our lives. If you don't-then you leave these things to chance, or worse, to someone else determining your life, your direction, and even your goals.

Will this be the year that you'll be a conscious architect of your own self-actualization? Would you like to set that as your goal and resolve for this year? Actualizing your highest and best is the pathway of happiness and joy because it activates t he two dynamics that make us fully alive/ fully human -challenge and competency. Challenge is what makes life meaningful and significant; competency is what enables you to rise up to be equal to the challenges. And of course, these critical success factors are the heart and soul of Neuro-Semantics: meaning and performance.

To your self-actualization in 2008! 

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The Ultimate Self-Actualization Workshop

At this moment, I only have two of these workshops scheduled for 2008.  Many other Neuro-Semantic Trainers will soon be offering this workshop and when I get their schedules, I will put them here.  Our launch date for the New Human Potential Movement is May when I am anticipating that one to three dozen Neuro-Semantic Trainers to be presenting.

1) April 4-6, Portland OR. sponsored by Apositiva, Rich Aanrich and Cat Wilson cat at apositivechange.com (www.apositivechange.com rich at apositivechange.com). (503) 525-0595. 

2) May 17-19. ID Com. International, Montreal Canada. Isabell David. Phone: 450-224-5398 / 514-815-5457. idcom at cgocable.ca / idcom at idcominter.com

Web: www.idcominter.com. This training will be delivered in English and simultaneously translated to French. 80% of the participants in 2007 spoke both English and French; with 20% speaking only French and 10% speaking only English. Come and enjoy a taste and feel of Europe in Montreal as you self-actualize.





L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Neuro-Semantics Ltd., Executive Director
ISNS - International Society of Neuro-Semantics
P.O. Box 8
Clifton, Colorado, 81520 USA
www.neurosemantics.com 
www.meta-coaching.org
www.self-actualizing.org 

Email: meta @onlinecol.com @acsol.net @mindfocus.co.za
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