[Neurons] 2016 "Neurons" --- Are you as Productive as You Could Be?

[L. Michael Hall]

From: L. Michael Hall

2016 "Neurons" Meta Reflections - #12

March 18, 2016

 

 

ARE YOU AS PRODUCTIVE

AS YOU COULD BE?

 

 

Two years ago, Andrei Pligin, NLP Trainer in Moscow and founder of the
Moscow NLP Center, asked me if I could put together a training on
productivity.  He looked over the list of 50+ trainings that we have
available in Neuro-Semantics and didn't see "Productivity" listed.  My
explanation is that we get to productivity through Achieving Peak
Performance.  "That may be true," he said but those words will not appeal to
people in Russia.  What we're interested in is "Productivity."

 

So I began studying things from the perspective of Productivity.  And sure
enough, I came right back to performance.  To be productive, you have to
perform.  Duh!  Yet that's not enough.  To be highly productive in a way
that increases the quality of your life and that brings out your best-
there's much more to it than just performance.  Performance, without the
other things, can lead to stress, performance anxiety, overload,
unhappiness, running around not knowing where you are and lots of other
unpleasant states.  And that's not what anyone wants.

 

In view of that, I returned to one of the central themes in Neuro-Semantics-
The quality of your life is the quality of your states.  So it's about your
states!  And if it is about your meanings, then it is also about your
intentions also.  When we put all of that together, it is about your ability
to get into a highly focused state of flow that we call your "genius" state.
There's a lot to productivity!

 

Further study revealed that even that is not enough.  You could get into the
right state of flow and engagement (genius) with high quality meanings and
intentions, feel the inspiration, and even transfer what you know to what
you do (mind-to-muscle) and still not be productive.  That's because what if
there's a set back?  What if the production takes a lot longer than you
anticipated?  So we need to add persistence, dedication, discipline, and
resilience.

 

About the same time that Andrei was asking about a training on Productivity,
a magazine in Brazil in the process of introducing the Meta-Coaching system
and Neuro-Semantics, described me as "the master of productivity" quoting
the number of books I had written.  Some of my friends in Brazil sent the
clip to me.  Personally I found it surprising because I don't think of
myself in that way or in those terms.  When I said as much, one of my
friends asked, "Then how do you explain all of the materials you've been
able to produce?"

 

"Well, it is just the accumulation over many years of an inspiration that
keeps animating my life."  That's when my friend asked, "Is that the secret
of productivity?  You get an inspiration, you believe in it, you stay with
it through the ups and downs, you refuse to let it go, you keep refreshing
the inspiration, and focusing on the process rather than the end product?"

 

That last line was it!  That was the missing piece I needed to complete the
training program for Productivity and what I realized was that it presents a
paradox.  The paradox is that to be highly productive a person, you have to
focus on the process, and get your eyes off of the end-product.  For most of
us, this feels counter-intuitive.  We think, "I need to keep my eye on the
end-product!"  But to do that distracts us from the productive process, the
performance of the success factors that leads to that final product.  Now I
had the program for "Unleashing Productivity."

 

If you're interested then in May I will run the prototype of this training
in two places, first in Oslo Norway and then in Moscow Russia.  Later many
other Neuro-Semantic trainers will be training it.

            Oslo Norway - May 2-4.  Contact Lene Fjellheim:
<mailto:lene at coachteam.no> lene at coachteam.no 

            Moscow Russia - May 6-8.  Contact Andrei Pligin:
<mailto:pligin at nlpcenter.ru> pligin at nlpcenter.ru 

 

Here is a description of it from the Executive Summary in the Training
Manual:

 

Productivity- The Vision of becoming a Highly Productive Person:

One thing that you can count on from highly effective people-they are
productive.  They are highly effective in their life's work, their
relationships, their home, their career, their hobbies because they have an
effective strategy for getting things done and producing results.  As a
result, their productivity level is much higher than most people.   This
enables them to enjoy the fruits of their productivity in terms of money,
recognition, influence, joy, having fun, and making a difference in the
world.  This is true of experts and this is true of people who make a mark
for themselves in the areas that they are interested in.

 

How is your productivity?  Are you ready to discover how you can turn up
your productivity?  Are you ready to discover the secrets of high level
productivity so you can unleash it in your life?

           What makes people highly effective and productive?

           How are they able to regularly and consistently produce as they
do?

           What makes them prolific, efficient, persistent, and resilient
in their work without burning-out or succumbing to stress?

           How can you unleash your processes of productivity while still
having lots of fun?

           How can you become productive in a healthy way without more work
and stress?

 

Productivity: What is it?

           Productivity: Being able to produce goods, services, and
information that you desire at a level that allows you to succeed in
reaching your goals.  Producing- getting results, achieving the objectives
that you set.

           But not all "productivity" is healthy or ecological.  There are
many kinds of productivity which may not be, in the long run, productive!
There's fire-fighting productivity; there's stressful productivity, there's
forced productivity.  These involve working harder and longer and are more
stressful.  Getting busy and being busier is not necessarily healthy
productivity.  Productivity is not pushing harder or beating yourself up.

           Self-Actualizing Productivity: the kind of productivity where
work becomes play, where you actualize yourself, your best potentials, and
operate from a state of flow.  In the "genius" state in are in the zone and
much more productive because all of your resources are available.

           When a person is not productive- he is unproductive or may be
doing counter-productive things which undermine his productivity.

 

There are answers to the questions about the mystery of productivity.  These
answers reveal that there's a strategy and process for being productive.
You can become twice as productive as you currently are.  What if you became
four times more productive?  You can also have a much more enjoyable
experience as you simultaneously become more productive.  This does not
inherently mean more stress or "work," it can mean less!

 

The Design of Productivity Training:

Using the modeling processes of NLP and of Neuro-Semantics, you will
discover -

           How to examine and enrich your current strategy of productivity.
When you discover where and how the current strategy is not working as well
as it could, you can then enrich it so it is more robust, powerful, and
effective.

           Identify all of the mental-emotional states that you need in
order to take your productivity to a high level.  To make your strategy work
effectively, you have to be able to access- in the moment you need it- the
right state.

           Run a checklist on the requires skills for high productivity.
Do you know the skills that you need for high productivity?  Do you know how
to develop those skills?  Do you know the four components of every skill?
Do you know how to deliberately practice your skills until you can "turn
them on" at will? 

           Discover the near-magical frames of mind that enable you to
think like a highly productive person.   Such persons typically think in
ways that distinguish them and differentiate them from most people.  Do you
know these unique thinking patterns?  Do you know what and how they think
that differs from you?  Would you like to?

           Identify the complementary set of skills that you need.  In
every area of expertise, productivity in that area will be distinguished
also by unique complementary skills.  Which ones govern your area of
interest?  These are not the core skills.  Yet these are the contributing
factors that can make all the difference in the world.

 

If you're interested in it now, contact the sponsors mentioned above.  And
look for the training of Unleashing Productivity as Module V in our
Self-Actualization series.  There will be many other Neuro-Semantic Trainers
presenting this training in the months and years to come. 

 

 




 

 

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

               Neuro-Semantics Executive Director 

               Neuro-Semantics International

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