Wealth Creation was one of the first modeling projects that I got involved with after I learned NLP and as I was developing Neuro-Semantics. I got interested in the strategy of how first-generation rich people become financially independent so that they can stop working for money, and let money work for them, thereby freeing them up so that they can pursue their passions and dreams. I wanted to be one of those people.

At first I thought I might find some really incredible and magical secrets that no one had told me about or that the rich were keeping to themselves. But after interviewing some self-made millionaires and then exploring the vast research literature of this subject, I came to what I still think is an astonishing realization— the actual processes for creating wealth is not Rocket Science, it is not even unusual, or uncommon. Actually, we all have the ability to create wealth. And, everybody I have met to this date knows all kinds of things that they could do that would improve their financial well-being. Everybody knows things to do. But not everybody acts on what they know.

This means that ultimately it is not what you know that will turn you into a wealth creator, but what you do about what you know. If you learn everything about wealth creation, and you don’t close the knowing-doing gap, all your knowledge will not make a difference. This, of course, is where Neuro-Semantics does its magic. Neuro-Semantics is the human science that enables you to get yourself to do what you already know, hence the Mind-to-Muscle pattern.

I also discovered that there are some really strange semantics involved around wealth, money, and finances. This refers to the meanings that you give to wealth, being wealthy, becoming wealthy, and living from a state of wealth. For some people, these words evoke feelings of guilt, confusion, inadequacy, undeserving and so they can’t get there because they are wired (within their matrix of frames) against such. Others have the opposite response. In them, wealth is equated strictly with money and so over-loaded with importance, that their sense of wealth is impoverished because it is not holistic.

The most astonishing discovery I made, however, is that wealth is an inside-out job. You have to get rich inside yourself before you can actualize it in terms of money, stuff, and resources. That is, you don’t get financially rich in order to be personally, psychologically, and relationally rich. That has it all backwards. First you get rich in all of the ways that really count— mentally and emotionally within yourself as a person. Then when you are rich inside, you have become a wealth creator (first for yourself) and then you’ll be able to know how to create wealth for others and that’s the pathway to financial independence.

The Training Workshop on Wealth Creation

In 2006, I renamed the Wealth Creation training, Inside-Out Wealth to reflect the discoveries I had been making in the ongoing modeling project. Over the years the training went under several titles, Games Wealth People Play and Mastering your Wealth Matrix. Today there are several Neuro-Semantic Trainers who present this training.

So, if you are tired of working for money and want to begin a process so that money works for you, so that you can then live for your dreams having the financial independence so that you choose how and where to devote your life’s energy, then consider attending the Neuro-Semantic Wealth Creation training. In that training you will discover and learn —

The principles for creating wealth

How to build a Ten-Year Wealth Creation Plan

The true heart of wealth and wealth creation

The entrepreneurial attitude about investing

The higher meta-states for seeing and seizing opportunities

The art of inside-out wealth

How to master your matrix for financial independence

How to close knowing-doing gap

How to access and operate from truly wealth states of mind and emotion

How to increase your efficiency in getting things done

How to reframe your attitude about challenge, problems, and difficulties

How to keep yourself motivated and focused over a ten-year period

How to develop a big enough intentional

And much more

“How becamest thou so wealthy?”

(The Richest Man in Babylon)
George S. Clason, 1926)

By L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

In 1926 George Clason wrote a fabulous little book, The Richest Man in Babylon. It’s all about wealth and wealth building. Yet there’s more to it—it presents a fictitious account (read, metaphor) about the first Modeling Project on Wealth Building. To highlight this delightful little book and provide 11 very Powerful Wealth Building Principles—free of charge, I have quoted extensively from the book and enumerated Eleven Principles that would begin you on the road to Financial Independence.

The Richest man in Babylon operated from a very powerful Belief, namely,

“Lo, money is plentiful for those who understand the simple rules of its acquisition.”

From that belief of Abundance, he then ennumerated Seven Cures for a Lean Purse. The king of Babylon wanted to know why should so few men be able to acquire all of the gold. What explains this? How could more do not become wealthy?

“Because they know how.” (p. 23)

In response to this information, the King of Babylon then did what any good modeler worth his salt would do, he searched out and found “the richest man in Babylon” in order to model the best. So when he finally appeared, he just went for it. He just asked the man directly,

“How becamest thou so wealthy?”

“By taking advantage of opportunities available to all citizens of four good city.”

“You hadst nothing to start with?”

“Only a great desire for wealth.”

“Tell me, Arkad, is there any secret to acquiring wealth? Can it be taught?”

When he discovered that it indeed could be taught, the King then invited him to teach it from the Temple of Learning (undoubtedly the city’s main Conference for such things). So the richest man began,

“Listen attentively to the knowledge… learn these lessons thoroughly, that ye may also plant in your own purse the seed of wealth. First must each of you start wisely to build a fortune of his own.” (p. 25)

And here were his first seven principles for fatting your purse:

1) Start thy purse to fattening.

Let an empty purse make you feel desperate and fed up. This will increase your desire to become wealthy. Ah, an Away From Propulsion System. But it doesn’t end there. There’s more Propulsion System described:

“The first storehouse of my treasure was a well-worn purse. I loathed its useless emptiness (Away From). I desired that it be round and full, clinking with the sound of gold (Toward!). Therefore, I sought every remedy for a lean purse. I found seven.” (p. 25)

Use your source of income as a stream of gold from which to build your wealth. For every ten coins you place in your purse, take out for use but nine. Thy purse will start to fatten at once and its increasing weight will feel good in thy hand and bring satisfaction to thy soul. “It’s a law of the Gods that unto him who keepeth and spendeth not a certain part of all his earnings shall gold come more easily. Likewise, him whose purse is empty does gold avoid.” (p. 28)

Develop “the soul to succeed.” Refuse to be a slave to money, to debt, to credit. Do you have “the soul of a freeman or a slave?” In a fascinating and biting conversation, a wise man strongly challenged another about his Character.

“If thou contentedly let the years slip by and make no effort to repay, then thou hast but the contemptible soul of a slave. No man is otherwise who cannot respect himself and no man can respect himself who does not repay honest debts.”
“But what can I do who am a slave in Syria?”
“Stay a slave in Syria, thou weakling.”
“I am not a weakling,” I denied hotly.
“Then prove it.”
“How?”
“Thy debts are thy enemies. They ran thee out of Babylon. You left them alone and they grew too strong for thee. Hadst fought them as a man, thou couldst have conquered them and been one honored … But thou had not the soul to fight them and behold thy pride has gone down until tho art a slave in Syria. … Hast thou the soul of a free man or the soul of a slave?”
“The soul of a free man,” I insisted.
“Now is thy chance to prove it….” (pp. 97-98)

This empowering question created a shift in perspective—a new frame or Meta-State:

“A strange thing happened. All the world seemed to be of a different color as though I had been looking at it through a colored stone which had suddenly been removed. At last I saw the true values in life. Die in the desert! Not I! With a new vision, I saw the things that I must do. … Go back … treat my debts as my enemies…” (p. 100)

Within me surged the soul of a free man going back to conquer his enemies and reward his friends. I thrilled with the great resolve.

“The soul of a free man looks at life as a series of problems to be solved, and solves them, while the soul of a slave whines, ‘What can I do who am but a slave.’” (p. 101)

This lead him to present another powerful Principle of Wealth Building and Success:

“Where the determination is, the way can be found.” Do you believe that? Would you like to believe that? Are your ready to say “YES!” to that? Then do it.

2) Control thy expenditures.

The principle is very, very simple: Live on less than you earn. Save 10% of everything you earn. Repeat these words until they stand out like letters of fire across the sky: “A part of all I earn is mine to keep.” “Impress yourself with the idea.” (p. 19). You’ll soon realize what a rich feeling it is to own a treasure upon which you alone have claim.

How can I save 1 coin of every 10 coins? You have to say No to framing everything as “necessary expenses.” Avoid doing that. In fact, refuse to do that.

“That what each of us calls our ‘necessary expenses’ will always grow to equal our incomes unless we protest to the contrary.” (p. 29)

We have to say “No!” to many of the desires that extend beyond our ability to gratify them. Yep, wouldn’t you know it! We have to actually budget our necessary expenses. Touch not the one-tenth that’s fattening thy purse. Let this be thy great desire that’s being fulfilled. Refuse to rebel against the slavery of the budget—its your way to true freedom. A budget helps your purse to fatten. It defends you against thy casual wishes that causes thy purse to leak.

“He who spends more than he earns is sowing the winds of needless self-indulgence from which he is sure to reap the whirlwinds of trouble and humiliation.” (p. 94)

Develop a plan to get out of debt, then patiently follow it. So, do you have a plan? Do you know how to plan? Do you have the guts to follow it?

3) Make thy gold multiply.

The gold we retain from our earnings is the start. Now ask, How can we put our gold to work for us? “Opportunity is a haughty goddess who wastes no time with those who are unprepared.” So? So, set your will for wealth (a meta-state!) After all, will power is but the unflinching purpose to carry a task you set for yourself to fulfillment.

A man’s wealth is not in the coins he carries in his purse; it is the income he builds— the gold stream that continually flows from his purse and keeps it bulging. Have you started your own “gold stream?” Do you know how to do that? Would you like to? If you found out, would you be willing to do the work necessary to follow through?

4) Guard thy treasures from loss.

Now comes the time to begin to guard your purse with firmness, lest it be lost. Use Security of your investments as thy first principal. Study carefully to avoid being misled by romantic desires to make wealth rapidly. Be not too confident of thine own wisdom in entrusting thy treasures to the possible pitfalls of investments.

Wealth brings responsibility. When you desire to help others, do so in a way that does not bring thy friend’s burdens on yourself. Humans in the throes of great emotions are not safe risks for the gold lender (p. 78).

“Forget not that gold slippeth away in unexpected ways from those unskilled in guarding it.” (p. 84)

Do not be swayed by the fantastic plans of impractical men. Better a little caution than a great regret.

5) Make of thy dwelling a profitable investment.

“I recommend that every man own the roof that sheltereth him and his.” It will make your heart glad, you will have valuable property. Ah, the use of real estate in building wealth! Well, it’s a place to begin rather than throwing all your money away on rent.

6) Insure a future income.

Learn to make your treasure work for you. Make it your slave. Make its children and its children’s children work for you. Make preparation for the days to come. Have sufficient insurance.

7) Increase the ability to earn.

Make your desires strong and definite. General desires are but weak longings. Ah, sounds like State Management and amplification! Develop wisdom: the more of wisdom we know, the more we may earn. Learn more of your craft. Pay your debts with all the promptness in your power. Cultivate thy own powers— study and become wiser, more skillful. “There is abundance for all.” (p. 41)

“Ill fortune pursues every man who thinks more of borrowing than of repaying.” (p. 93)

8) Enjoy life.

Do not overstrain or try to save too much. Life is good and rich with things worthwhile and things to enjoy. Don’t miss it. There’s more to “wealth” than just money. There’s also wealth of mind, emotion, relationships, etc.

9) Don’t depend on luck—Use the real luck of proactive responses to Opportunities.

Give up myth of getting rich without effort. Not the way for “consistent winners.” When opportunity stands before thee, it offers a change that may lead to wealth. Do not delay or procrastinate then. “Good luck waits to come to that man who accepts opportunity.” (p. 50). Good luck flees before procrastination. Give up the needless delaying when you know that something is a good choice. Every man must master his own spirit of procrastination when it whispers in your ear. To attract good luck, take advantage of opportunities.

10) Know the 5 Laws of Gold.

Become wise in “the ways of gold.” Prove that you are capable of handling it. Put by at least 1/10 of your earnings. Find a profitable employment. Invest it cautiously, get smart about your business, avoid tricksters and schemers. (p. 63)

Learn to be thrifty who does not spend wantonly. Seek advice of the wise. Seek wisdom before money. Fanciful propositions that thrill like adventure tales will come and tempt you to endow your treasure with magic powers. Know the risks that lurk behind every plan.

“Because I learned these five laws in my youth and abided by them, I have become a wealthy merchant. Not by some strange magic did I accumulate my wealth.” (p. 67). Instead of seeking out some strange magic — learn the structure of the magic of wealth building, i.e., the laws and principles that truly govern it!

“They are not secrets but truths which every man must first learn and then follow who wishes to step out of the multitude…” (p. 70)

“In the strength of thine own desires is a magic power. Guide this power with thy knowledge of the five laws of gold and thou shalt share the treasures of Babylon.” (p. 71)

“Merchants must learn their trade.” (p. 81)

11) Learn to appreciate Work — and then turn it into Fun.

Work will become the best friend you’ve ever known if you use it for fattening your purse. If you take the attitude that only slaves work, you’ll not get far. Nor will you get ahead by shirking. So “work for him as hard as thou canst. If he does not appreciate all thou do, never mind. Work well-done, does good to the man who does it. It makes him a better man.” (p 124)

When you have the attitude of looking for how to get out of work, how to work minimally—you develop a lack of Quality Orientation. Do the opposite. Give it your best. Turn it into fun.

More Wealth Principles

Tony Robbins (1986, Unlimited Power, Ch. 19: Five Keys to Wealth & Happiness):

Use your NLP resources to take absolute control of your life, this means using your abilities, not just having them. Our actions are guided and controlled by our philosophies, so make sure you have some good ones!

1) Life will pay any price you ask of it.

What do you ask of Life? How big are your goals? Ask for resounding joy and success. Empowering belief: If you learn how to manage your states and your behaviors, you can change anything (p. 321).

2) Learn how to handle frustration.

Otherwise, frustration will kill your dreams. Frustration can change a positive attitude into a negative one. The worse thing a negative attitude does is wipe out self-discipline, and when that discipline is gone, the results you desire are gone.

Mind-Lines for frustration: The key to success is massive frustration, just look at any great success! People get paid very well to handle frustration. The more frustration you can handle, the more you can be paid. Aim to learn how to handle frustration effectively. Success if buried on the other side of frustration.

3) Learn how to handle rejection and the tiny word, “No.”

The fear of “no” stops most people from taking action. Learn how to strip it of all of its neuro-linguistic power! Refuse to turn failures into Big Events! How many “no’s” can you take? You give it power through how you represent it to yourself. Anchor yourself to “no” so that it actually turns you on.

Mind-Line on No: There are no real successes without rejection.

4) Learn to handle financial pressure.

Learn how to get and how to give, how to earn and how to save. Learn how to give back to the world—to create value, to act from the position of abundance, to become that kind of a person, to expand your sense of appreciation. Giving back teaches you more fully what money can do and what it cannot do.

5) Use the 10/10/10/70 rule.

Living on 70 percent of what you have. Save 10% to build up capital to invest, reduce all debts with another 10%, and give away another 10% of your income. Make money work for you instead of against you. Learn to earn, save, and to give. Operate with purpose and elegance in regard to money. Work from a set of dynamic, evolving and enabling goals.

6) Learn to See Opportunities.

Become a true capitalistic living in a capitalistic society, surrounded by opportunities everywhere. Take advantage of the very system that our forefathers fought to create. Learn to take your money and use it as capital.

7) Learn to handle complacency.

Comfort can be one of the most disastrous emotions. Judge yourself by your goals, not by what others are doing.

8) Always give more than you expect to receive.

The secret of living is giving. Give first. If you’re just accumulating money for you, to lord it over your kingdom, you are not really a success, don’t really have power, nor true wealth. Think of success as a process, a way of life, and a strategy for living. Then use your power in a responsible and loving way.

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters

compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Would you like to explore a question that will help to identify how optimistic, success-oriented, and likely to succeed? If so, then notice what you immediately think when you hear the following question? What immediately pops into your mind?

If something goes wrong as your working on a project, or with a team, or on a highly critical objective, which would you prefer—to discover that it was something in your area or something external to yourself?

Now, I have to admit that this is a test question as you will soon discover. The trick to it will show why the preferred answer is counter-intuitive to how most of us think and how we have been trained to think. It also goes against how most of us are oriented in life— we are oriented to move away from a positive feeling and attitude about failure, failing, making mistakes, messing up, flobing it, or welcoming errors. I mean, really, who wants that? Yet, this is the paradox. It is by entering into this “dark” side of things, welcoming this shadow, and kissing this dragon that we actually take some powerful steps to greater success. How in the world does this work?

This counter-intuitive response involves numerous powerful frames of mind that put us into the very best states for ongoing development, unleashing new potentials, and using every experience for accelerating our learning. The paradox begins on the level of acceptance. Acceptance is the ability to look reality in the face without caving in. We call this ego-strength. This is the strength of mind and person (sense of self) to welcome reality for whatever it is for the purpose of analyzing it and figuring out how best to cope with it.

The paradox also goes right to the heart of responsibility, of taking and owning responsibility for one’s life. It was Martin Seligman who discovered in his study of helplessness and optimism that when optimists experienced failure, they typically attributed their failure to something they did or did not do. They looked at their actions, words, relationships, and actions. This attitude in the face of failure is what enables them to take the next step, namely, “If I caused it, I can correct this.” And that’s where the power of persistent success lies. It lies in ownership of responsibility.

Conversely, those who deny any responsibility, who fear failure and mistakes, who dread being wrong more than anything move into denial, cover-up, projection, rationalization, and all of the other defense mechanisms. Yet these protective maneuvers actually reveal the person’s inner insecurity and lack of ego-strength. So while the person is investing mind and emotion into defensiveness, the person fully at peace with his or her fallibility is looking those failed attempts directly in the face and harvesting learnings and wisdom. This puts that person miles ahead in moving toward his or her goals.

Doesn’t this completely reframe failure, errors, and mess ups? Welcoming them enables us to learn from them more efficiently and so accelerates our development. And by seeing opportunities for wisdom in every action that didn’t complete get the results we wanted, we embrace the failure as a rare and unprecedented opportunity to learn something critically important.

So, why do optimists fare better than pessimists? They operate from the frame or inner game of taking full ownership for their performances. This saves them the time, energy, and negative states caused by whining, complaining, blaming, fearing failure, dreading being wrong, etc. They don’t have either the time for that nor the disposition.

Whining about conditions over which we have no control is not only counter-productive, but actually creates, feeds, and nurtures one of the most self-sabotaging frames of all, the victimization frame. This creates a defeatist view of the world and of life that leads nowhere. People who play that inner game then stop trying, stop working, stop learning, they become negative and they get into a negative mood of, “Why try?” It is this frame of mind that does the most damage to them.

So the next time something goes wrong, I’d heartily recommend that you use the kind of inner self-talk that optimists use, to immediately go inside and say to yourself,

“I hope it was my fault!”

“I hope it was my failure; then I will get some top-quality feedback for fabulous discoveries and new found wisdom.”

“I take total responsibility for the outcomes and results that I’m getting.”

One of the key secrets to success is that when you get knocked down, be sure to land on your feet! Such resilience will enable you to stay focused on the most critical elements of all, namely, what you can do to obtain more and more efficient results. Along these lines it has been that “The best defense against unfair workplace treatment is performance, is being able to perform better and more effectively.”

Now, are you yet interested in the Neuro-Semantic mastery skills that we present at the trainings whether at APG, Wealth Creation, Meta-Coaching, Trainers training, etc.?

Author: L. Michael Hall is a psychologist, entrepreneur, runner, writer, researcher, modeler, and many other things who lives in the Rocky Mountains and travels all over the world.   www.neurosemantics.com P.O. Box 8, Clifton, CO. 81520 USA

“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.

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

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Work                                                                          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.

∙ How do we shift to this non-linear kind of systems thinking?

∙ What do we specifically need to do in order to stop the dichotomizing and see the supposed opposites in a more synergetic way?

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?

Author: L. Michael Hall is a psychologist, entrepreneur, runner, writer, researcher, modeler, and many other things who lives in the Rocky Mountains and travels all over the world.   www.neurosemantics.com P.O. Box 8, Clifton, CO. 81520 USA

I’m writing this to those of you who know and love the NLP model as I do. I’m writing to those who have entered into the field of our neuro-linguistic states to discover the heart and soul of how to “run your own brain” and manage your states. In doing this, I am writing to people who already know that the NLP communication model is a very powerful model for self management, understanding the structure of experience, and succeeding at the things important to us. So with that upfront, I want to ask one question, the question I put in as blunt form as I could in the title. I want to ask,

If NLP is such a powerful model and tool for communicating with self and others and for enriching our lives, accessing resourceful steps, and working methodologically with our outcomes to achieve our most compelling goals, then why aren’t more of us rich, financially independent, famous, and/or succeeding beyond our wildest dreams? Why do so many NLP therapists and trainers just getting by and why is there is much scarcity and poverty thinking in the field? Why isn’t there more wealth and prosperity in this field?

Except for Anthony Robbins, there’s only a handful of people in the entire field who have made any serious money. The great majority, perhaps 95 to 99% of NLP trained people, are not financially independent. And those who run training centers or use NLP as their primary modality for therapy, consulting, and/or coaching struggle in their business to make a decent living.

Now compare that to the very, very different picture that you get about NLP from the promotional literature about it! From the P.R. that sings the praises of NLP, you would think it was the ultimate panacea. After all, it’s full of magic, ten minute phobia cures, and the very structure of excellence. So surely there’s a structure or strategy to wealth building and we should be able to generate it with NLP.

So what’s the problem?

And more importantly, what can we do about it?

The Problem. A key problem is that NLP focuses primarily on linear processes, on the representational steps of strategies. As a result, it fails to fully exploit higher dimensions of consciousness. Yes, Robert Dilts began that exploration, yet in doing so he took the same linear thinking and created a rigid hierarchy or ladder and turned “logical levels” into a “thing” as if it was real. They are not. They are not even “things” at all, but dynamic processes. Consequently NLP even today has no model for handling the reflexivity of a self-reflexive consciousness, a mind-body-emotion consciousness that reflects upon itself time and time again.

Now enter Neuro-Semantics. Meta-States entered the field of NLP in late 1994 and was recognized by the International NLP Trainers association as “the most significant development in 1995.” Why? Because it modeled the very factor that makes human consciousness and experience unique and systemic—self-reflexivity. This actually introduced a paradigm shift into the field—a shift that is still surging and reverberating through the field and creating a revolution in understanding about systems thinking and dynamics as applied to the study of the dynamic structure of experience.

Afterward the discovery of Meta-States an explosion of creativity occurred as more than a hundred Meta-Stating patterns quickly emerged along with several new models: the Matrix model, Axes of Change, Self-Actualization Quadrants to mention a few. Along the way we began modeling numerous areas of expertise using the Meta-States model. This including selling, persuasion, women in leadership, wealth creation, fitness and healthy eating, business excellence, coaching, and so on. We also began applying these models to NLP itself and began re-modeling NLP. This led to new time-line patterns, the expansion of meta-programs and meta-model distinctions, the discovery of the meta in the so-called “sub-modalities,” etc.

What does all of this have to do with wealth and wealth creation?

What does all of this have to do with using NLP to get a Porsche?

A lot. After all, the dimension of wealth that we first think about (namely money) arises within a system (the financial system) which is embedded in numerous other systems (an economic system, a market of products and services, an entrepreneur system, etc.), and all those systems govern the personal mind-body-emotion system of a given individual. No wonder wealth creation is not a simple linear thing but a dynamic process involving many things and involves an alignment within all of these systems.

This is what the linear approach of strategies in NLP lacks. Merely running a pattern will not do. One’s entire matrix system of both process and content frames must be awakened, detected, empowered, and aligned. Doing this will then begin creating a self-organizing attractor frame that will create inside-out wealth.

This reveals yet another weakness in the NLP model. Somewhere at the beginning, several thought viruses got in that has been devastating the otherwise positive intentions and hard work of NLPers. What thought viruses? Those of scarcity and competition for beginners. There are others.

What we need is to identify, detect, enter, transform, and master our Matrix of Wealth. We need to set frame upon frame that will give us a robust Matrix for creating wealth. Doing that creates a rich inner game and winning at the inner games makes the outer game a cinch. All that’s needed then is translating those rich semantic meanings of value, creating value, adding value, seeing opportunities for adding value into our everyday performances. That’s inside-out wealth. That’s the theme and subject of Mastering Your Wealth Matrix. That’s the training focus which came from the modeling of how wealth is created. That’s the application training using the best of Neuro-Semantics to become financially independent.

By the way, I settled on a SUV and a 747 jet (which I rent pretty regularly) rather than a Porsche as I created enough financial freedom to follow my passions. In 2005 there will be 2 Wealth Creation Trainings — one in Portland OR. in the US (June) and one in Johannesburg, South Africa (Sept.). Winning the Wealth Creation Game is mostly involves getting the inner game set, establishing your millionaire mind.

There’s an untold variable that plays a key role in creating wealth that most people are not aware of at all. In fact, the common myths about building wealth obliterate this variable so completely that very few people know about it. And to make matters worse, it is not a variable that can be very easily communicated. In fact, as I begin this piece, I have to admit that I do not know how to state it succinctly let alone in a compelling way. Perhaps that’s because of the content of this secret principle of wealth creation. But I will give it a go and let you be the judge.

I’ll begin by seeing if I can put most of it in a singular paragraph. This secret principle of wealth creation and success in general involves—

Using the power of compensation so that you develop a stubborn resolve that has so much steel and commitment within it that you experience as it were an immunization to failure that makes you so undefeatable that no matter what the odds, you succeed anyway. From this you develop a resolve made of steel so that you develop such a powerful will-to-win that you out-perform against all odds and persist until you do.

Whew! That was a mouthful. Did you get all of that? To give this some embodiment, think about Lance Armstrong. While he was a good cyclist, and a committed athlete, there was something about facing a life-threatening disease that evoked something within him that then became the winning factor.

But I’m not finished. There’s something else in this secret. To identify that we have to ask the probing question, What calls forth this kind of resolve of steel that makes the difference? And the answer is one that you won’t like. At least, I don’t like it.

What calls forth a resolve of steel in people and becomes the catalyst for an undefeatable spirit is typically a humiliation, defeat, adversity, or conflict. It is usually something unpleasant, distressful, challenging, disappointing, even painful. More typical than not, it is precisely something along a path that we don’t want to travel.

See, I told you that you wouldn’t like it. Was I right? So, what exactly am I talking about? Well, in The Millionaire Mind, researcher of the rich, Stanley Thomas exposes several of the myths of wealth creation and among them is that those who became the first-generation self-made millionaires were not the whiz kids at school, not those voted “most likely to succeed,” not those with the highest grades or IQ tests. Only 2% of those with the Millionaire mind scored high scholastically. The majority were “C” grade students and “… they are more likely to have one or more components of inferiority in their self-image.” (p. 88).

He found them self-depreciating and that

“… during their formative years, some authority figure such as a teacher, parent, guidance counselor, employer, or aptitude testing organization told them, You are not intellectually gifted. … They were degraded by someone or something during their formative years … [They] responded by over-working and eventually out-performing the so-called intellectually gifted.” (p. 88, 89)

What’s the point?

“In the real world, who succeeds? People who have built up immunity to pain.” (93)

“Questioning the norm, the status quo, and authority are hall-marks of the thinking of self-made millionaires and those destined to become affluent.” (92)

So they compensated and developed a strong work ethic (99). Facing various obstacles or handicaps, they compensated for their deficiencies.

“… most self-made millionaires were confronted with one or more significant obstacles in their life. … Our self-made millionaires chose another path [than accepting the negative evaluations by some authority figure], they discredit the authority figure who attempt to degrade them … They had the insight, courage, and audacity to challenge the assessments.” (101)

Underline those words, “insight, courage, and audacity to challenge.” They are the ingredients of the kind of tenacity that enabled them to “fight and compete for important goals” (106). As steel cannot be hardened unless it’s hammered,

“… it’s no different with people. Self-made millionaires report that degrading evaluations and comments by certain authority figures played a role in their ultimate success in life. Hammering built the antibodies they needed to deflect criticisms, and temper their resolve.” (102)

“Adversity is essential in bringing out the best in people. Some call it character.” (108)

Have you ever heard about this secret ingredient of success? And what specifically is it? We are talking about the steel resolve to fight for important goals and to not expect it as an entitlement or as a natural consequence of intelligence or inheritance, not to look for a panacea or easy path to quick riches. We’re talking about the stubbornness to compensate, to learn to play the game with whatever handicaps one starts with, and to nurture such courage that one fights against all odds. Somehow it is in the very process of overcoming problems, labels, the odds, humiliations, and challenges that strengthens a person from the inside out. It is like adding titanium to steel—that very process makes steel many times strong than it is alone.

“Life is not one short race—it is a marathon of marathons. Labels come and go. If you believe that you can succeed in life in spite of degrading labels that predict your failure, you are likely to win most of the marathon. This is the common experience among millionaires. The large majority report that at some point or points in their lives they were labeled inferior, average, or mediocre, but they did not allow critics to forecast their future achievements, and they overcome their label of so-called inferiority.” (98)

Have you ever had a process that was like the forging and hammering of steel? Like adding titanium to steel to create a steel resolve about something? Those are the kinds of experiences that make and/or break people. It’s from that kind of furnace that self-discipline, courage, commitment, and passion arises. It puts a fire in one’s belly that makes one ready to take on the impossible challenges. In this, we see why over-protection and over-cuddling creates a softness that leaves one unprepared for life and unwilling to devote the necessary effort.

It is the disciplined person who takes charge of his or her life and assumes complete responsibility for the results one gets and for succeeding in one’s specific area. As such, a disciplined person is not easily side-tracked, not given to self-indulgence, and doesn’t expect a path of roses.

“If you lack discipline, the chances of your ever accumulating wealth are very, very small. … A person with self-discipline possesses an internal compass, a control and navigation system. … To become wealth one must be disciplined in thought and deed, disciplined enough to search for great economic opportunities.” (85)

Now you know another wealth creation secret. What you may not know is that this is a complex meta-state comprised of numerous ingredients and that in Meta-States we have a process for putting them together, shaking well, and baking until we create a batch of a new gestalt state. Today, we know how to generate such rich gestalt states, states made of a titanium enriched steel resolve, without having to put people through painful experiences and how to convert painful experiences into a rich core. And, in fact, that in part is what Mastering Your Wealth Matrix is about.

Meet me in Portland Oregon —

June 24-26, 2005

For — Mastering Your Wealth Matrix

Winning the Inner Game of Wealth Creation

A Positive Change NLP Center

Rich Aanrich and Cat Wilson

(503) 525- 0595

www.apositivechange.com

Rich@apositivechange.com

Author: L. Michael Hall is a psychologist, entrepreneur, runner, writer, researcher, modeler, and many other things who lives in the Rocky Mountains and travels all over the world.   www.neurosemantics.com P.O. Box 8, Clifton, CO. 81520 USA

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

How do millionaires think?

How do self-made millionaires think—those that actually create the wealth in their own lifetime?

What do these first-generation millionaires actually do to create their financial independence?

For years I have been studying and modeling the experts in wealth creation, both personally and from the extensive research by those who make it their business to study such people. From both longitudinal studies, focus groups discussions, and questionnaires, tremendous data has been collected about this subject. One of my favorite researchers is Thomas J. Stanley, author of The Millionaire Next Door and The Millionaire Mind.

His research completely validates and confirms what Scrully Blotnick discovered back in the 1960s, and what Robert Kiiyosaki and Suze Orman have more recently been popularizing. In all of this, there is not a lot new, and nothing at all revolutionary, or rocket science. Yet it does goes against many myths about wealth building and the Hollywood version that has permeated the mass media.

One of those myths is the idea of keeping all your options open, diversifying your efforts, and being ready to seize any opportunity that comes your way. If you’re wanting to become financially independent and successful in your field, these things will not only not work, but will positively sabotage your best efforts. Conversely, if you’re committed to your own financial independence so that you stop working for money and let it work for you thereby freeing you up to follow your own dreams and aptitudes, then you will need to do the opposite. It requires that you—

Focus your interests, activities, and energies in a specific area.

Focus your perspective to seeing and seizing opportunities only in that area.

Focus your powers of decision to say no to other opportunities.

In interviewing 733 self-made first generation rich millionaires who had an average of 9.1 million in net work, Stanley Thomas described these people in this way:

“They are ‘nichers,’ and they have little competition. … It’s all about vocation, vocation, vocation. If you select the bedrock foundation of the ideal vocation? What then? You love the products you product. You have affection for your customers and supplies. In addition, you know more about your niche market than anyone else. And your customers don’t’ care if you were a C student in college. To them you are the who is enlightened.” (189, 21)

To a great extent wealth creation is all about focus. Focusing on your innate talents and aptitudes, focusing on developing your talent into skills, then into expertise competence. Focusing on finding a niche market where you can specialize, and focusing on devoting yourself to something you love for a long enough time to become masterful at it.

When you do that, then the “foundation stones of financial success” come easy. What are those? “Integrity (being honest with people), discipline (self-control), social skills (getting along with people), a supportive spouse, and hard work.” (11)

Over the past two decades I have been observing those who have studied NLP to use it as a way of making a living. I’ve been observing people in the USA, the UK, Europe, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, South America, etc. Over that time I have seen some who are very successful in business and I have seen many, many more who were not. What is the difference?

One primary difference lies in the power of focus. Those who try to be “all things to all people” and therefore a dabbler in many things and a master of nothing are the ones who struggle financially and have much less business success. It is those who focus their use of NLP into a specific area and specialize in a market where there’s a strongly felt need, these are the ones who create an economic engine for their financial independence.

Focus power—the ability to concentrate dreaming, desiring, creating, and acting on one single thing. That’s the secret. And no surprise. This is the heart pulse of genius itself. That’s why we have applied Meta-States and NLP to “the genius state” of flow. When you’re able to step fully into that state of focus, you are of one mind and intention and then as “energy flows were attention goes as directed by intention” you are all there and have all of your resources available.

When I do the 4-day Living Personal Genius training I always begin by asking how many genius states participants have created and how many do they have “at a moment’s notice,” that they can step in at the snap of a finger and be there fully. Even though this is where the power and genius is, I’m typically surprised at how many know the process, yet how few utilize it to their own personal empowerment.

Would you like to know more about all of this? Great, here are two options:

1) I have attached a pdf file of a MILLIONAIRE-MIND CHECKLIST. Here are 200 questions that come from The Millionaire Mind you can use as a checklist. If you want to know what we do in our Wealth Creation trainings, we empower you to enrich the matrices of your mind with these millionaire frames. Our next one is June 23-26, Portland OR. at A Positive Change, Rich@apositivechange.com (503) 525-0995.

2) If you’re finally ready for the genius training or are ready to truly integrate it, our next training on Focus Power is in Minnesota, April 29, 30, May 1. Neuro-Semantic Institute. (651) 264-3045 (877) 686-2867

Author: L. Michael Hall is a psychologist, entrepreneur, runner, writer, researcher, modeler, and many other things who lives in the Rocky Mountains and travels all over the world.   www.neurosemantics.com P.O. Box 8, Clifton, CO. 81520 USA

Wealth Creation Ideas #4

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

“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.

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

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Work                                                                          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.

∙ How do we shift to this non-linear kind of systems thinking?

∙ What do we specifically need to do in order to stop the dichotomizing and see the supposed opposites in a more synergetic way?

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?

Author: L. Michael Hall is a psychologist, entrepreneur, runner, writer, researcher, modeler, and many other things who lives in the Rocky Mountains and travels all over the world.   www.neurosemantics.com P.O. Box 8, Clifton, CO. 81520 USA

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters

compared to what lies within us.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Would you like to explore a question that will help to identify how optimistic, success-oriented, and likely to succeed? If so, then notice what you immediately think when you hear the following question? What immediately pops into your mind?

If something goes wrong as your working on a project, or with a team, or on a highly critical objective, which would you prefer—to discover that it was something in your area or something external to yourself?

Now, I have to admit that this is a test question as you will soon discover. The trick to it will show why the preferred answer is counter-intuitive to how most of us think and how we have been trained to think. It also goes against how most of us are oriented in life— we are oriented to move away from a positive feeling and attitude about failure, failing, making mistakes, messing up, flobing it, or welcoming errors. I mean, really, who wants that? Yet, this is the paradox. It is by entering into this “dark” side of things, welcoming this shadow, and kissing this dragon that we actually take some powerful steps to greater success. How in the world does this work?

This counter-intuitive response involves numerous powerful frames of mind that put us into the very best states for ongoing development, unleashing new potentials, and using every experience for accelerating our learning. The paradox begins on the level of acceptance. Acceptance is the ability to look reality in the face without caving in. We call this ego-strength. This is the strength of mind and person (sense of self) to welcome reality for whatever it is for the purpose of analyzing it and figuring out how best to cope with it.

The paradox also goes right to the heart of responsibility, of taking and owning responsibility for one’s life. It was Martin Seligman who discovered in his study of helplessness and optimism that when optimists experienced failure, they typically attributed their failure to something they did or did not do. They looked at their actions, words, relationships, and actions. This attitude in the face of failure is what enables them to take the next step, namely, “If I caused it, I can correct this.” And that’s where the power of persistent success lies. It lies in ownership of responsibility.

Conversely, those who deny any responsibility, who fear failure and mistakes, who dread being wrong more than anything move into denial, cover-up, projection, rationalization, and all of the other defense mechanisms. Yet these protective maneuvers actually reveal the person’s inner insecurity and lack of ego-strength. So while the person is investing mind and emotion into defensiveness, the person fully at peace with his or her fallibility is looking those failed attempts directly in the face and harvesting learnings and wisdom. This puts that person miles ahead in moving toward his or her goals.

Doesn’t this completely reframe failure, errors, and mess ups? Welcoming them enables us to learn from them more efficiently and so accelerates our development. And by seeing opportunities for wisdom in every action that didn’t complete get the results we wanted, we embrace the failure as a rare and unprecedented opportunity to learn something critically important.

So, why do optimists fare better than pessimists? They operate from the frame or inner game of taking full ownership for their performances. This saves them the time, energy, and negative states caused by whining, complaining, blaming, fearing failure, dreading being wrong, etc. They don’t have either the time for that nor the disposition.

Whining about conditions over which we have no control is not only counter-productive, but actually creates, feeds, and nurtures one of the most self-sabotaging frames of all, the victimization frame. This creates a defeatist view of the world and of life that leads nowhere. People who play that inner game then stop trying, stop working, stop learning, they become negative and they get into a negative mood of, “Why try?” It is this frame of mind that does the most damage to them.

So the next time something goes wrong, I’d heartily recommend that you use the kind of inner self-talk that optimists use, to immediately go inside and say to yourself,

“I hope it was my fault!”

“I hope it was my failure; then I will get some top-quality feedback for fabulous discoveries and new found wisdom.”

“I take total responsibility for the outcomes and results that I’m getting.”

One of the key secrets to success is that when you get knocked down, be sure to land on your feet! Such resilience will enable you to stay focused on the most critical elements of all, namely, what you can do to obtain more and more efficient results. Along these lines it has been that “The best defense against unfair workplace treatment is performance, is being able to perform better and more effectively.”

Now, are you yet interested in the Neuro-Semantic mastery skills that we present at the trainings whether at APG, Wealth Creation, Meta-Coaching, Trainers training, etc.?

Author: L. Michael Hall is a psychologist, entrepreneur, runner, writer, researcher, modeler, and many other things who lives in the Rocky Mountains and travels all over the world.   www.neurosemantics.com P.O. Box 8, Clifton, CO. 81520 USA

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INSIDE OUT WEALTH

L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.

In 1998 I began a modeling project on Wealth Building. A simple question drove the research. I simply wanted to know how the first-generation self-made millionaires did it. What were the key factors that enabled them to become wealthy, make a fortune, and attain the financial independence that so many of us would like?

The original phase of the project only took 10 months. I interviewed a few millionaires and then began reading the literature of the field. I then began my first trainings and tested the application of Neuro-Semantics and NLP to Wealth Building. In was in that way that I field tested the ideas and concepts. In the process I learned a lot, but more importantly I applied the Wealth Building Principles to my own life. In the first two years, I doubled my net worth, then doubled it again in the past two years. I went from having two rental properties to 8. In that same time, my income has tripled.

While there are numerous secrets to building wealth, I can tell you that none of them are Rocket Science. In fact, you already know many of them. And if you don’t know them, you can discover them within a day or two by reading a few basic books. But, the million dollar question is this, Will you be able to get yourself to incorporate them and actually put them into practice?

The likelihood is that you will not. The great majority of people will not and do not. Why not? Because of a central occupational hazard for humans―we know more than we do. It is this Knowing-Doing Gap that stands in the way of most of us. This is true for wealth building as it is true for relationships, business excellence, fitness and health, etc.

This is the problem with 99.99% of all the books, tapes, workshops, and trainings in Wealth Building. While I love and read and use the materials of the key players in the field of Wealth Building, there is zilch in those books and trainings that actually enable people to incorporate the principles, rules, and secrets. The feeling is always left, “If I just buy the next book, then I will get it!” “If I sign up for one more training, then I’ll get it!” And I would not want to be the one to blow the whistle on this or to suggest that these people and programs might have a vested interest in getting you to do that, so I won’t.

I’ll just say this― Discovering how to bridge the Knowing-Doing Gap and learning how to truly implement what you know, how to take it from Mind and put it into your Muscles … this is the very heart and the most unique thing that the Meta-States of Neuro-Semantics offers. And when you know that― then just about any expertise and excellence can be yours!

Knowing How to Implement Knowledge is truly Inside-Out Wealth

When you know how to take great ideas, inspiration concepts, and state-of-the-art models and install them into your very neurology and make them your neuro-semantics, then you are 90% of the way to any excellence or expertise that you want.

After all, the greatest knowledge and models and skills in the world will do you squat if you don’t use them!

The secret of wealth building that Napolean Hill, Dale Carnegie, the authors of the Millionaire Next Door, Robert Kiyosaki, Suzie Orman and many others emphasize that we have to first think wealth. This highlights that wealth is built from the inside out. They have that part right. “Do what you Love and the money will follow” is a general concept in the right direction (general, but not quite fully adequate, it’s missing some things).

Wealth is built from the inside out and we have to know how to get it from our heads into our muscles. That’s the part that 99% of the books and trainings miss. But now, in Neuro-Semantics―we include that part.

Wealth that’s holistic, balanced, ecological and inevitable begins with a wealth of mind and emotion that glories … absolutely glories in the ability to see and create value, to create value first for self, then for others, and then for everybody.  It is this kind of true internal abundance that cannot but explode externally with the actions that add value and makes us valued everywhere we go.

Wealth is created by the entire mind-emotion-body, or neuro-semantic, system which sees opportunities, seizes opportunities, gives, enriches, has a grand time … even when finances are tight.

Wealth has to start with an attitude of multiple states and meta-states that come together to create a marvelous gestalt … a gestalt that we create in the Wealth Building Training that’s based on the principles of Internal/External Wealth. It’s an attitude that uses the state of frugality to squeeze all the good things about of everything … that doesn’t need more and more money to be happy .. but that uses happiness to make more and more money. That’s the frame. Hector Quintana was at the training in Monterrey, Mexico (Feb. 2002) and wrote this about the training.

“These new feelings are awesome. I feel more energetic every day and I also offered to some people I know to coach them for free in order to help them develop belief changes like saving money … developing a business and gain a sense of joy when confronting challenges without losing alertness in front of problems … “

He went on to describe several things he has already done at work and with others in “the joyful game of marketing valuable things to others” that has opened new doors of opportunity.

Wealth Inside-Out

The Wealth Building Training using Neuro-Semantics and NLP is a very different kind of training. You will discover:

• The Overall Strategy for Building Wealth in a Decade
• The 12 Keys to mastering the Pathway to Wealth Building Mastery
• How to get into the right States and Meta-States to make it happen
• How to Dance with the Dragons that try to stop your success
• How to build up a spiraling frame of mind of value and valuing that will allow you to explode into a lifestyle of seeing and adding value everywhere
• How to become intentionally focused and sustain your motivation after the “Rah! Rah!” dies down
• How to play to your strengths and find the passion that you can use to build your wealth.

In addition, you will begin to create your Ten-Year Wealth Building Plan … so that when you walk out of the training, you have the beginning steps for your personal business plan. And, no excuses to get in your way.

Warning!

This training can be very dangerous to your old excuses, sense of being a victim, and your current skills of blaming and whining. Dragons will be identified and slain. Excuses will be blown out. Dis-empowerment will be framed so that they become out of the question for you. This is not a training for the faint of heart, it is for those who want to live life passionately, purposefully, and fully. It is for those who want to build wealth from the inside-out and who want to do so in such a way that the “wealth” and the building of it is holistic, ecological, respectful, and fun.

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• Would you like to Learn the Secrets about Wealth Building??
• Would you like to Learn how to Accumulate Capital & Make Money Work For You?
• Would you like to Stop being a Slave to Money & Step into the State of Feeling Financially Independent?

You can!  Having modeled the secrets of wealth building from those who have achieved it and having researched the field of wealth building using the tools and models of  NLP and Meta-States, we have found The Structure of Wealth Building  Interested? and now have a special training that can put into your hands the very secrets that Millionaires use.

I doubt that you’ll be surprised to know that there truly is an Art to the Magic of Attracting Wealth and developing Excellence in your mind, heart, and lifestyle with regard to becoming “wealthy”.  What might surprise you is to learn how easy and simple it is to get these secrets of wealth building installed in your muscles so that it becomes “your way of being in the world.”  Then, it will happen.  Interested now?

Actually, you probably already know a great many of the Wealth Building Principles that if only you could get yourself to practice, it would dramatically increase your ability to become financially independent. Is that true for you?  It’s true for most people.  Would you like to develop the ability to actually use what you already know?  This actually makes up a big part of the Wealth Building Training,   You will learn how to set the kind of frames that will empower you to follow through and implement your knowledge.

The Wealth Building Training also focuses on Alignment.  How to become aligned with your highest purposes and values.  And when that happens, it will build congruence, personal power, responsibility, and motivation into you.

Are you ready to organize yourself for abundance?  Would you like to build a propulsion system in your mind-body that will automatically move you in that direction?

We began this Modeling Project of Wealth Building from the realization that we live in the land of opportunity. Given that, why do so few ever achieve financial independence? What stops you from becoming wealthy and accumulating the kind of wealth so that you can live without financial worries? Why will 70% of the American population end up at 65 years of age dependent upon the government and social security?

Opportunity alone must not be enough.  Something else is needed!  But what?  The problem does not lie in the lack of the vital information about how to make money or even how to develop financial intelligence. Book stores and libraries, TV infomercials, internet, etc. provides plenteous data about how to make lots and lots of money. There is no lack of strategy.  How to actually make money via real estate, the stock market, investments, etc. abound.  Everything we need to know to become wealthy lies at our fingertips.  Opportunity and information about opportunity abounds.  We have plenty of vehicles for becoming Financially Independent. That’s not the problem. The problem lies at a meta-level.  The problem lies in our attitudes, beliefs, understandings, and states.  People programmed for wealth operate from specific wealth building states.  Do you know what those are?   Would you like to?

Programmed for Wealth

Lots of people do become wealthy in the USA. In fact, 80% of all millionaires are self-made millionaires.  So what are their secrets?  Suppose you wanted to set out to model their accumulation of wealth strategy.  What would you discover?  Would you like in on the Secrets that we’ve discovered?  When I began this project of modeling wealth building and accumulation, I assumed I would need to do lots of interviews in fleshing out the data of this research.  But no.  I discovered that many others have already conducted the interviews of those who had become wealthy. Researchers have even conducted longitudinal studies following those who wanted to become rich. They have even pulled out those traits, beliefs, ideas, habits, etc. of those who succeeded in the process and compared that to those who did not succeed.

The Secrets Behind Wealth

Wealth Building grew out of our research and offers you the secrets, strategies, and meta-level structures of beliefs, values and perspectives that will enable you to replicate the very structure that has proven successful for those who have become wealthy millionaires and financially independent.

In this training we will not focus on the details about how to make money in a particular area.  Instead, we give you the higher level structures of mind and heart to develop the kind of enhancing relationship to money and the creating wealth process so you can follow your passions and let the money follow.

Discover your current programming about wealth, money, and all of the associates concepts that either promote or sabotage wealth building. Do you have all of your levels of mind organized for wealth and success as you define it? Would you like to construct that kind of framework? This training will address numerous facets inside you that powerfully affect your strategy for wealth and success:

• Beliefs about self, success, & money: transforming limiting beliefs.
• Aligning values & meta-levels to eliminate any self-sabotage and internal conflict.
• Installing a Propulsion System as an Accelerated Motivation for reaching goals for wealth.
• Developing positive money attitudes that will support you in a balanced way.

Presenter/Modeler

Wealth Building as a Workshop was developed by L. Michael Hall, Ph.D.  using the modeling technology of NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) and the latest model of Neuro-Semantics® and Meta-States®.  Dr. Hall has explored the research in this field and made it available in an extensive Training Manual on Wealth Building used exclusively in the Wealth Workshop.

In this Workshop You will Discover …

In the study of the Structure of Wealth we have discovered that some people just seem to have a nature knack for making wealth, experiencing wealth, thinking in wealthy ways, having a wealth of ideas, experiencing wealthy emotions. They live their lives in a way that seems rich, full, complete, satisfying, enhancing, empowering, resourceful.  What gives?  How can we learn to replicate what they do? In the workshop, you will find out!

You’ll learn a holistic approach to wealth as “abundance” in many dimensions of life:  mind, heart, finances, relationships, creativity, etc.  You will learn how to adopt a wealthy perspective so that you do not “sell your soul for money” to the detriment of your relationships, health, happiness, etc.

Wealth, from “weal,” refers to abundance of supplies, possessions, and resources. It speaks of affluence, abundance. The original term weal refers to being in a “sound, healthy or prosperous state, well-being.”

• Learn how to install Meta-Patterns and Meta-Frames that will open your eyes to all of the wealth that’s all around you.
• Learn how to come away from the training with a new attitude about money.
• Learn how to install a Propulsion System inside yourself that will take you straight to your money goals.
• Learn how to create your own Personalized Wealth Plan so that you will have a specific plan to focus on when you leave. This is the central focus of the workshop and has been designed so that you can walk away and begin making your financial dreams come true.
• Learn how to build and implement the kind of supportive states and meta-states that will support and enhance your ability to handle all of the key factors involved in wealth building.

State Management is Essential in Wealth Building

Don’t believe me?  Then consider the people who can make lots of money, but can’t keep it due to impulsive spending or the inability to save.  Or, consider those who can control their spending and gambling habits but sabotage their ability to take risks, extend themselves, smartly invest, etc. Consider those who let fear sabotage investment.

Take the time and learn the Meta-Skills to build your Wealth,

not only in terms of dollars but in terms of Sense!

Attend this workshop and gain in Wealth Mastery!

“Wealth planning always seems overwhelming, too much to tackle at once, but now, with this training in Meta-Money, I can make progress with very small steps … and with more intensity.”

Christine Smith Jany, NY City

“I experience this training as very high powered. Dr. Hall’s comprehensive genius has reconstructed NLP from scratch. The training has released me from several major dragons that have kept me from working towards my dreams. One key impact was getting me to be clear about what I really want.”

Khalil Rohoman, NY City

“Once again, Michael Hall has taken his powerful mind to this area of vital importance– the creation and maintenance of growth of money. I found his research in this area very impactful.”

Ruth Roosevelt, Consultant to Traders

“I found the very idea of Meta-States and their usefulness in creating changes very powerful.”

Stanley Cunningham, NLP Trainer

“I never understood the value and importance of frugality. Frugality is good! Making mega millions is honorable and worthwhile for the good that can be done with the money.”

Delores Brown

“The shift to a Wealth Building Map with a mighty ‘Yes’ is powerful. I will let you know in the weeks to come the effect of this program.”

Tod Frueh

“Superbly clarifies what wealth is and is not, while filling the toolbox with basic equipment for building wealth.”

Russel Ketch, Engineer

“This training has given me the tools to improve and change the way I deal with my finances. I now feel I can change my states to accumulate wealth.

Bill Jany, Salesman

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