[Neurons] 2011 Meta Reflections #31

[L. Michael Hall]

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

Meta Reflections 2011 - #31

July 12, 2011

 

 

SELF-MANAGEMENT

THE HIGHEST MANAGEMENT OF ALL

 

 

 

When I first learned NLP I heard the statement that "if you can't run your
own brain, someone else will."  Later as I applied that statement to wealth
creation and came up with the following line: "If you can't manage your
mind, what makes you think you can manage your money?"  The premise here is
that if you can't manage your mind, or beliefs, or representations, and so
on, how can you manage your state from which comes your speech and behavior?
And of course, the implication is, You can't. All of this points to
self-management, does it not?  And as with so many things, the best
management, the highest management of all is inside-out management. 

 

Recently when I was in Bali for the Meta-Coach Training, I ran on the beach
each morning, and as I did I began noticing day after day the ways that
someone had been managing the beach against the wear and tear of the ocean.
Later on one day I mentioned that and as I did I called it Beach Management
and later, Ocean Management.  What I noticed was that they were building
rocky walls that were like fingers out into the ocean.  This seemed to
manage how the waves would then hit the beaches and to do so in a way that
the erosion from the waves coming in and out, and taking sand and property
with it would not undermine the sidewalk or foundations of buildings.  There
were places were that had occurred, and now someone was managing that by
directing the waves to come in and out in different ways.

 

And while there, I saw a crew of men begin to build a new dike to re-direct
the waves and to rebuild where a lot of erosion had occurred.  They were
managing the ocean.  Well, not really, just some waves on one particular
beach.

 

Management- What is it?  And what does it involve?  To manage is to take
something (whatever the content is) and work with it.  Managing involves
noticing what one is working with, how much there is (make an inventory of
it), identifying the assets in that inventory of factors, parts, products,
people, etc. as well as the liabilities.  As a manager, you will want to
learn the processes involved in the content and how to work with those
processes.  In an organization, you manage the system, the processes, the
budget, the hiring, the people and so on.  And you do so as you work with
hiring, setting criteria, communicating the vision, mission, and values of
the company, planning, monitoring, developing people through training and
coaching, etc.  To manage you will need to set up ways of monitoring things,
measuring things, determining quality, reporting, solve problems,
communicate upward, downward, and laterally.

 

There's a lot to management!  So also with self-management!  What's involved
in that?  How are you as a self-manager?  Do you like your management style?
Are you warm and nurturing?  Are you firm and on target?  Do you get things
done or do you let them go and not follow up on things?  The content of
self-management is yourself.  It is you in all of your dimensions of mind,
emotion, health, fitness, energy, communicating, relating, time, scheduling,
activities, promises, habits and rituals, money, resources, strengths,
weaknesses, debts, and much more.  There's a lot to manage in yourself if
you are going to be an effective self-manager.

 

In Neuro-Semantics we view self-management as the ultimate management or
highest form of management.  That's because if you can manage yourself-if
you can get yourself to do what you know to do so that you can
follow-through, if you can get yourself to keep on learning, integrating,
etc. then as an effective self-leader you can succeed with yourself in
reaching your objectives.

 

Self-management, of course, comes after self-leadership.  First you have to
learn how to lead yourself- and that means creating a meaningful vision and
then setting out a mission that will become your purpose and intention.
Self-leadership requires you to be able to know yourself and inspire
yourself.  You lead yourself by creating a vision of the future that you
want to create.  

How about you?  And what is leadership?  It is bringing out the best in
people; it is setting a direction and vision that creates a strong and
sustainable sense of inspiration; it is seeing a possible future,
identifying the current reality and setting out a pathway for solving the
problems in the path to that future.

 

Then comes self-management.  And as it is said about companies, so it is
with people.  Most people are over-managed and under-led.  So to be an
effective self-manager, it is not a case of micro-managing everything you
do, it is rather the case of setting out intentions and meaning-frames that
will self-organize your mind-body-emotion system.  It is creating processes
that will then require some monitoring and upgrading and quality
controlling, but not micro-managing.  Ultimately, you can benchmark your
effectiveness as a leader and manager of yourself by looking at how well you
are unleashing your potentials and actualizing your highest and best.  If
you are increasingly living a self-actualizing life (using the 15 criteria
from Maslow's modeling of self-actualizing people), then you are doing a
great job of leading and managing yourself.  If not, then take time to visit
a self-actualization coach (a Meta-Coach) to facilitate you in being a great
self-leader and self-manager. 

 

 




 

 

 

L.  Michael Hall, Ph.D.

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