[Neurons] 2008 Meta Reflections #34

[Dr. Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

July 30, 2008

Meta Reflection #35


WEALTH IN MOSCOW



This past weekend I returned to Moscow Russia to present the Wealth Creation Workshop for a second time. It had been 3½ years since my last visit and at that time (which was my third trip), we filled a training room in a particular hotel to capacity, 120 crammed into the room. This time myself and the sponsors assumed we would have a smaller group. We were wrong.

This time subscriptions to the training began coming in and a few weeks prior there were 150, and then I was told 170. So the training took place in the auditorium of the school where Andrei Pligin was once headmaster. It seated 250 and it was packed; as the closed registration a week before, many dozens others were turned away. So the room was packed with people standing in the back and on the sides.

During the training I met a dozen or more who had been at the last training and they testified that their income and equity had doubled, tripled and in the case of a couple people, quadrupled! And of course, that's a pretty good selling point for others to find out about the Wealth Creation Training.

Who was there? We had people from several countries-former Soviet countries: Latvia, Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, and from many cities in Russia. We mostly had coaches and consultants. But we also had a few therapists and many business people-some in real estate, others beginning their own first steps of self-employement.

A group of 26 came from Latvia bearing gifts of chocolate for me and telling me that I was "the most famous NLP trainer in Latvia." Now I've never been there, but of course, no other international trainer has been there either! So what's the reason for my popularity there? They have my books there.

That goes back to four or five years ago when I contracted with a Russian publisher to translate and publish 12 of my books, then later Crown House Publications contracted for another 8. Now books can sell in Russia for $2 or $5. So books are cheap and there's really no money for the writer. I think I received maybe a thousand dollars as I gave the publisher the publication rights- $1000 for 12 books. Sure it was not much, but my belief in abundance is part of my own wealth creation plan. The principle I operate is that of abundance: "Give and you shall receive." I discovered this past week that another "famous" NLP trainer was in Russia about the same time I was, but he refused to sell the right to have his book translated. "No enough money!" he said. So it was not translated. And so he is not known in these other countries where NLP is just now entering.

At the training was an NLP trainer from Latvia who had been trained by the Moscow NLP Center that Andrei Pligin and Alexander run. She brought 26 people from Latvia! And now they was me to go there to train and others want me to go to Ukraine. So while I never set a goal to train in those countries or to have influence there, things are moving in that direction because of a more general principle of abundance and collaboration.

The Wealth Creation Training is currently formatted and titled, "Inside Out Wealth" to highlight the them that "wealth" is not just money, and not essentially money, but ideas, creative ideas that solve problems that add value to people and that enrich people. The title and focus also highlights that this kind of inner wealth is an inside-out process. It begins inside and is then externalized in the real world in actions that create problem-solving products and services that enrich the lives of others.

It is created and developed inside as our inner experience of being wealth and then is expressed in terms of doing wealth which finally leads to having wealth. The order of inside-out wealth is important. It is being-doing-having. To try to create wealth by merely trying to "have" without giving, without acting, without creating value, without using one's talents, without developing them into skills, without caring about what adds value to people and identifying your market where there's a need to satisfy, a problem to solve, or a value contribute, you cannot create wealth. You will be lost on your wealth pathway without no center to ground you.

While at Moscow in the Training, I used the tools of Neuro-Semantics-Meta-States to create the kind of complex layered states required for a wealth-building attitude, the Matrix Model to format and organize all of the facets of wealth creation that I've modeled from millionaires and billionaires, The Self-Actualization Quadrants for unleashing your wealth creating potentials (a new piece to this training), and numerous patterns that are unique in Neuro-Semantics. So from time to time the questions that began arising had more to do with these models and processes than wealth creation. One man at a break told me, 

"How about giving less on the wealth and more on the Neuro-Semantic models!"

Later when I thought about that I realize something. Models themselves are forms of wealth! Models have always enriched us, given us tools by which we can do things that otherwise we would not. So models are a form of wealth and wealth creation. They guide us in being able to do what we envision and dream about doing.

Moscow itself is an impressive city. In the past two years cars have more than doubled there. There are now two-to-three times more cars on the road than just two years ago. So traffic jams are as problematic as in Mexico City. And prices also have risen in Moscow to levels that now parallel costs in other major cities. With 12 to 16 million people, the city swells with another 6 million during the day, so it is has become a truly mega city.

In spite of that I was really impressed with the changes that I see there since my last visit. Capitalism has come to modern Moscow and it is here to stay. On this trip I met lots and lots of people who are investing, buying property, creating new businesses and in spite of the over-bureaucratic nature of the government and recently changes in the politics, tremendous change and transformation is occurring on the ground level. And I suspect that will continue for many, many years. 

Then there is the impressive accomplishments of Andrei and Alexander of the NLP Center. Over the yeas, they have trained almost 20,000 people in NLP. 20,000! They caught a vision of NLP when they first encountered it and have been spreading it so that there are now NLP Centers in many, many cities throughout Russia. It's incredible. Meta High Five for their success of their vision and commitment!! 



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