Beyond
balance to synergy
CREATING WEALTH
THROUGH META-STATE SYNERGY
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By L.
Michael Hall, Ph.D.
Presenter of Wealth Building Training
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"The test
of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed
ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability
to function." F. Scott Fitzgerald |
| When I began modeling first-generation
rich millionaires, I discovered something that seemed to violate my
understanding of the importance of "balance." And for a
couple of years, I really didn’t know what to make of it. As
a psychologist, I had been trained to think about things in terms
of "balance." In the field of coaching, the "wheel
of life" has been used for years to portray the various dimensions
of life which need to be "balanced:" health, work, relationships,
spirituality, family, relaxation, etc. More recently many books and
coaching has made "work/life balance" their speciality.
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| Yet there’s a
strange paradoxical problem with "balance." If we focus
too much on balance, balance itself can become imbalance. This is
especially true if we treat the facets of life like work, fun, hobby,
etc. as if they are separate and we’re not allowed to mix
them. I began to realize this as I was modeling those who became
first-generation rich millionaires. One of the characteristics of
those who found a pathway to wealth creation is that they blurred
the line between work and fun. Leaders in all kinds of fields, creative
innovators, and pioneers in new developments commonly say that they
haven’t worked in years, for them everyday that they are fully
engaged in what they do that so happens to make them lots of money
is just fun. |
| It’s interesting what
happens when we mentally dichotomize work and fun, that is, put work
and fun into different classifications or categories (boxes) and treat
them as opposites. When we do that, and then operate as if they were
polar opposites of a continuum, we begin to feel the need to balance
them. If we don’t, then we can feel torn by them as we over-emphasize
one to the exclusion of the other. When we are at work, our mind goes
to wishing we could take a vacation and go on a holiday. When we’re
on holiday, we torment ourselves with apprehensions about all the
work we have to do when we get back. |
| Continuum _____________________________________________________ |
Work |
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Play |
Yet
there’s another choice. Rather than treating these as opposites,
dichotomizing them and turning them into an area of conflict in
our mind-and-emotions, what if we created a synergy out of them?
Thinking about things as opposites along a linear continuum is actually
a lower and more primitive kind of thinking. It’s what we
call linear thinking. When we rise above that kind of thinking to
non-linear, systemic, and holistic thinking, we are able to create
new levels of synergy so that new emergent properties arise, things
that are "more than the sum of the parts." These new gestalts
then contain a higher level integration than "balance"
ever could. |
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One
way we can do this is through using the Meta-States model. This
revolutionary model uses our natural self-reflexive consciousness
to step outside of the box of linear thinking as we step back and
jump a logical level in our mind. This meta-stating means bringing
one state to another to set one as the frame of the other. In the
case of work and play (or fun), we could meta-state play with work
so that we set work as the frame and the higher level class or category
over play. Doing that leads to working at our play, which doesn’t
strike me as any improvement at all. |
Yet
what if we meta-stated our work with play? What if we created the
new frame of playing at our work, playful work, or enjoying and
having fun at our work? Yes, now that does sound like an incredible
improvement, a revolutionary one in fact. What would we feel if
work was framed, felt, perceived, and experienced as a member of
the class of Play? What if we woke up every morning and couldn’t
wait to get to work because it was so much fun, brought so much
joy, and energized us the way that play does? |
The
synergy of creating this new complex state of joyful work would
not be a "balance," of so much time and effort devoted
to "work," then we get a break and can go "play."
That would be such a very different world than living in the universe
where we felt our work was play and couldn’t believe that
we actually get paid for it! |
As
we meta-states these "opposites" we create new gestalts.
We create a synergetic matrix that puts things together in a new
and dynamic way. When we do so we move beyond "balance"
to synergy. Now we are no longer talking about mere balance. As
a form of linear thinking, balance implies going to the midpoint,
fifty-fifty, half and half, a compromise between two choices. When
we go beyond balance to synergy we move to a rich and full mixture
of the seeming opposites and the emergence of new qualities. |
Now
you know why we emphasize that there are three kinds of states (primary,
meta, and gestalt) and why we do so much "gestalting"
of meta-states in our Meta-State trainings, especially the Wealth
Creation training to create such gestalt states as "passionately
enjoy work," seeing and seizing opportunities, loving problem
solving and adding value, etc. So when will you join a Neuro-Semantic
training and experience such synergy? |
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