When I first started copywriting, I remember getting the draft documents for a huge copywriting job that never went through - a series of white papers. I spent months writing and rewriting them anyway.
It doesn’t really matter what you read or who you speak to, almost everyone is experiencing some kind of life crisis right now – whether it’s financial or emotional or both.
Wow there’s a lot going on in people’s lives at the moment, loads of change and chaos. Here are a few things you need to know to help you stay sane over the coming weeks and months.
Marijuana has countless medicinal applications and its legalization would take pressure off our justice system and push a new stream of income into the economy. Not to mention the benefits of being able to grow hemp.
So why haven’t we legalized marijuana?
If we’re going to change the world, we’re going to have to think carefully about what our future will be.
Here are the reasons why I think history is one of the problems with our world, and why it should be something we revisit if we want to change the future.
#prayforparis started with the best of intentions, but now focus has shifted to media’s lack of coverage on other key issues and areas.
So how do we turn the media tide? What can you as a person do?
The System is one of those concepts like they… everyone kind of has an idea of what it is, but it’s vague and no one can actually define it.
What is the system exactly? What are the ways that the system traps you and keeps you trapped?
What are the subtle signs you can look for to tell you when you are pushing too hard and it’s time for you step back and take a breather before you burn yourself out?
Our society hugely values busyness and being busy. Years of running on that treadmill conditions you to get busy and be busy in order to create movement.
How does manifesting money and things make you depressed over the long term?
Around the world, people are depressed. Current international suicide rates stand at 16 people per 100,000 population, or to put that in easier terms: around the world someone commits suicide every 40 seconds.
So, between starting to read this article and reaching this point, two people have died by suicide already.
Around the world spiritual peeps are worried that their future feels uncertain. Why does your future feel uncertain – and why isn’t this a bad thing?
If you’ve been on a spiritual journey, there’s usually a sense of direction and movement – a sense that you’re going somewhere. When do you get the odd moment that you feel directionless and unsure, it’s quite unsettling, usually part of a shift cycle, and it usually passes very quickly.
What’s happened to all the money in the world and how do we fix the current global economic crisis we’re in quickly, so that we get the economy moving again? Between 2010 and 2015, the personal wealth of the world’s 62 richest people increased by USD 500 billion. During the same period the wealth of the poorest 50% dropped by 41%, despite a global population increase of 400 million people. Now go back and look at those figures again, and then realize that those 62 richest people have as much money as the poorest 50% of the world’s population…
We often talk of having an instant gratification society, but what does this really mean and how does your impatience get in the way of the desires you’d like to manifest?
Every now and again South Africa produces a really amazing speaker and business personality, and Vusi Themebekwayo certainly makes that grade.
A self-made millionaire and youngest ever Director of a JSE listed company, Vusi has been labeled the “Rockstar of Public Speaking” by former Australian Prime Minister, John Howard. Appearing on the local edition of Dragon’s Den, Vusi is a leadership genius that did more than 200 speaking engagements around the world in 2013 alone.
In beauty is in the eye of the beholder, we take an honest look at the trend of fat and skinny shaming that is so prevalent on social media nowadays. It’s really difficult not to go onto a social media site nowadays and not see at least one post where someone is pointing out that the person in the picture is too thin or too fat… or pointing out a part of a (usually female) body, that honestly is usually far from visually appealing, and harping on about how this is definitely sexy. It’s also impossible to pick up…
The world we live in is falling apart – you don’t have to look far to find proof of that environmentally, economically, politically and socially.
If we’re going to change the world we need to rethink certain key ideas, and find out of the box solutions to the problems we face – without upending the entire system or the 8-billion people it has to support.
Nothing beats the power of a really good question to get your mind’s flywheel up and spinning, and these 3 coaching questions have the power to change your life. How do you know you’ve found a good coaching question? You’ll keep coming back to it, understanding it from different angles, over and over again, over a period of years. The following three coaching questions are the most powerful I’ve ever come across, and they will have dramatic long-term impact on your life if you keep applying them. Fair warning, even though these look like simple and innocent questions, they…
So the horror and difficulty of 2016 are finally behind us, and it’s time to turn to the page and start over. So how do you get ready for a new start in 2017?
You’ve made resolutions before, listed your goals, promised to quit smoking, drink less and go on diet… and somewhere just after midnight on the first, it all started slipping away.
What do you need to consider to make resolutions that stick, and return results, in 2017?
The relentless marketing and advertising drives of the last century have landed us in the midst of a world of consumers driven by instant gratification – and to be fair, advertising is completely to blame. We often hear talk of how we, as the advertising and marketing industry, have created low self-esteem and body issues in women, but you hear a lot less about the impact of creating a world of consumers. A simple look around you will verify the fact we do live in a world of people who do nothing but consume, consume, consume though… so much so…
Retrenchment, even if you have voluntarily agreed to go through with it, is a horrible experience. And the only thing worse than being retrenched is having to stand in front of people and retrench them.
Whether or not you’re expecting to hear it, the news that you’ve been retrenched hits you like a sucker punch, usually in the stomach and around the chest region. If you’re one of the unluckier ones, it can feel like your whole body has been slammed into a brick wall.
How spiritual bypassing, and the accepted behavioral norms in society, breed narcissists, psychopaths and narcissistic behavior. Spiritual Bypassing is a really interesting term introduced by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist, back in the 80s. A spiritual bypass or spiritual bypassing is a "tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks”. In a nutshell therefore, it’s how we use spiritual concepts to avoid dealing with the ugly truth of life that faces us sometimes. But the even uglier truth we’re facing right now is that…
The Trump Thing
In between painters, a flooded house and a crazy workload, I haven’t had much of a chance to get onto social media and media to see what people are saying, but the little bit I have seen worries me enormously.
Everything I have seen so far is people spreading messaging of hatred and fear – we’re going to create our own reality with this.
I lived through the apartheid changeover in South Africa. In fact I turned 16 the day after the famous 1994 elections. When I entered high school, I went into a racially-integrated school because racial segregation had been lifted.
Over the past nearly 23 years I’ve watched my country and people evolve… and it has gotten ugly, largely because people are determined to hold onto the ugliness and hatred.
The Ego or spiritual journey has as one of its goals that you accept death, the transience of life.
This is one of the more vague pieces of the puzzle that doesn't readily make sense.
Being back in 3D world with my new awareness and insight has made seeing the stuff easier to do, and it turns the world on its head from what I used to see years ago... but it doesn't make humans easier to deal with.
In fact it makes it a little harder. With the amount we've changed and grown over the past few years, I think the thing probably driving me the most crazy is how resistant to change they are - and how much they want to stay stuck.
I'm really glad Trump won the Presidency. I predicted it months ago and I feel glad and relieved that it's not Clinton.
It feels like there is hope.
And the MAJORITY voted for him - that's how he got into power.
As we come off the end of the big part of the shift and we adapt back into secular life and reality, how are you having to adjust yourself for the people around you - in order to fit in?
One of the things you experience firsthand in healing and development work - but don't often hear about - is the fact that you get greater clarity - thinking, understanding and knowing become easier, and you become noticeably smarter.
Are you tempering the intelligence you've gained?
Money and spirituality are uneasy bedfellows, and the truth is that many, if not most spiritual types have financial anxiety, worries and concern, and just can’t seem to get their lives together in that arena.
So why do spiritual people battle with money? The answers might surprise you.
We all know that degrees can be – and are often – illegally purchased. So what if I tell you that you can fraudulently purchase a legal degree – and no one would be the wiser? How much faith would you have left in the education system and degrees? It’s 11PM on a Wednesday night and you’re pretty annoyed. The love of your life is meant to come around and you’ve heard nothing. Suddenly – and finally – your phone rings. It’s the number you’re expecting; but not the voice. And then that unknown voice shatters your world forever... the love of your life,…
Basically everyone is battling with money right now So this isn’t a fun post, and it’s not the kind of good news post we want, but it is the truth. If you ask around, July & August were horrible months for just about everyone, with a lot being pushed to extremes, like actually becoming homeless. It’s not pretty, and it doesn’t look to be getting much prettier as we go forward. If you think about it, survival issues are our best hope for a catalyst that triggers global change and awareness - and everyone is in a hurry for stuff…
We all have people in our lives who are takers… who take and take without giving anything back.
People who we never hear from unless it’s to ask for something; because they (once again) need our help, or a favor.
In many cases we land up doing it.
Why? Because we want the connection, we want to be loved… and, importantly, we want a place where we can put our love.
Give thanks you've escaped the system
I guess I'm one of the very lucky ones, because my journey has happened in a way that isolated me from the world.
A healer's perspective on manifestation A thought just occurred... the whole concept of single-mindedly focusing on a goal when you're manifesting is really difficult to do, and it's where most of us fall over. And then I realized its because it's an unnatural process - it requires us to ignore the shadow: the doubts and fears etc. Those ego/shadow emotions are not emotions that like to be ignored - if you just avoid them, they only get louder and louder. Then I thought, there has to be a way or point that the alignment with the resonance happens instantaneously - as a…
Spiritual seekers and the manifesting money conflict
So continuing on the why we battle with manifesting money thread:
One of the aspects of the system that is apparent to everyone is money, but we can't really figure out why money plays such a crucial role.
It has to do with manifestation and focus: manifesting money takes time and focus away from time spent on God.
Science is as much a religion as Christianity or Islam Unless you have physically conducted every experiment yourself, and verified the existence of every element of any scientific "evidence" you present, your scientific evidence has no more validity than anything presented in any spiritual or religious text. Whether you are reading a text book or a religious text, you are reading the words of a man you don't know, written down, and you have accepted them as the truth - when you don't even have proof that that author exists in fact. Like the stories presented in religious and spiritual…
Ego and conversion - conversion is lazy faith
The more I think about conversion vs seeking, the more I realise that conversion is lazy faith.
The thing about the journey is that it is hard - and whether you're consciously journeying or even just manifesting, it's all about building faith, and stamina of faith.
Everything boils down to faith in the end.
Ego & People's Responses
If the person agrees with you, you're passionate.
If your point of view offends them or conflicts theirs, or seems to offer more logic than theirs, then you are aggressive.
Stress and emotional eating
People often try to fix stress and emotional eating by applying rules to food.
If you don't want to eat because you're triggered by stress and emotion, then clear the stress and emotion away.
You won't need to overeat if you're feeling at peace, secure and rested.
And it's a permanent solution to the weight.
Notes: Ego in society discussion
Part 1 of the discussion on Ego in society - notes for all the main areas, tied to my personal shift.
Not something I’d usually post, but group members enjoyed it.
Free Will & Why We Remember Nothing at Birth This is a plane of free will. That means that free will is honored first. That's what they mean by we're born as Gods - our free will is honored first. Also why they say the universe will respond to manifestation - it is obliged to honor your free will. So every time you put something out there, anything you manifest, you are automatically making God your servant. Therefore, the ONLY way to serve God fully is to hand over your free will in every second. To make no decisions for yourself.…
Suggested Coaching Strategy to Fight Addiction
This strategy has developed as I’ve been thinking about addiction as the polarity scale of free will, and so it is untested.
Two things with that: I’m really open to feedback and suggestions on improving this, as it’s a first draft.
I would also love to hear from people fighting addictions what they think of this as an approach.
Anyone who does want to try it, I’d been keen to watch and stay in touch as you do to see how it plays out as a DIY strategy.
The Secret, Getting What Your Ego Wants & Other Lies
The lies of books like The Secret.
So people are starting to get irritated by The Secret and Abraham Hicks and others who teach manifestation for the purposes of your Ego desires.
How media and minority issues are used to distract you from the real truth
Approximately every 40 seconds, someone somewhere in the world successfully commits suicide. Those are just the successful attempts.
Roughly, this means that 1-million people die every year from suicide, and that number is expected to reach 2-million by 2020, taking into account the rising trend of suicide.
What is “The System”? When it comes to concepts like "the system", we tend to talk in vague circles around it - because it’s so hard to see. Once you do see it however, and you understand how all-pervasive it is, you understand why you couldn’t see it before. But that’s partly what makes it so hard to describe in the first place - almost everything you see around you can be used as an example of the system at play. It changes however, when you stop focusing on the examples, and begin to focus on the aspects of the human…
The Money Problem Part 1 - Your Money Mindset When money worries and anxiety set in, it seems to take over your whole world. It’s overwhelming and all-consuming and you just don’t know how to stop thinking about it. Worse than that though, it almost feels as if you are being cheated and deprived when you start having to make longer term lifestyle and budgetary adjustments, and when you feel cheated and victimized, you start getting despondent in other areas - like at work. I mean why are you working so hard if you can’t even afford a decent lifestyle? Please…
The Money Problem Part 2 - The Practical Reality of Tightening Your Belt If you’re in the development and spiritual game, there’s a comment you will hear a lot from teachers and other seekers, and it has to do with confusion that people can’t understand them, especially when they’re talking so plainly and literally. At first you take this very personally, and land up spending a lot of time adjusting your communication style, but eventually, you realize that the reason people can’t understand you is because they don’t want to understand you - so they block you out. The reasons for…
The Money Problem Part 3 - Your Ego responses to tightening your belt
Look there is no silver bullet for this part - it’s going to keep coming up in small layers on a daily basis, and you will just keep chipping away at it, little bit by little bit.
Ego is a mechanism of separation, and so Ego always aims to illustrate and indicate separation where it exists.
Very few separation issues get ego’s attention the way that money challenges do.
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The Money Problem Part 4 - The global impact & why is this happening?
The first thing you must understand about the money problem right now is that it’s everywhere.
In every country, on every continent, at every level of normal, middle and lower class, people are finding life expensive. Nowhere seems to be immune really.
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The Money Problem Part 0 - Index & Introduction
This page contains an index for the Money Problem article series.
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When you spend some time applying your mind to it, you’ll eventually come to realize that the whole of society is built around the basic idea of “don’t offend or get offended.”
I’ve written a good few posts on this that you can go back to if you want more detail, but it’s not a stretch to see that "not offending someone" is the basic premise of the way our society is structured.
Why don't people think?
The construct of society and media has reduced the amount of time they can focus - most can't even stay focused longer than a couple of hours.
Why I believe in Flat Earth
Somewhere in 2015, maybe early 2016, I stumbled across Flat Earth one day… and the pure thought of it made me piss myself laughing… Earth? Flat? Are you kidding me?
But, because I challenge my mind, I have this thing I’ll do…. when I come across something that triggers an Ego reaction in me, I immerse myself in it and clear the mirrors.
People seem to think that because you're working remotely, online or at distance, that somehow healing work is not as powerful or effective. While I can't show you how powerful distance energy healing is in a post, I can show what online text coaching via email or message service looks like - and that's what this link is - a transcript of the actual client session that took place, with names changed for privacy. This exchange took place over a message service, and was entirely written. There are huge advantages to using only written communication - first you get total privacy, second…
What you’re not expecting about marketing a spiritual, personal development or healing business In my former life, before I was a loud, ballsy, offensive teacher and healer LOL, I was a marketing aficionado. Naturally, I thought that when I delved out into the teaching and healing world, that I would be able to translate my knowledge and success into a parallel success in this market. LOL… I thoroughly saw my ass with that ;) Luckily I have a GREAT of a sense of humor when it comes to failure, trials and shifting... so here we are to unpack the unique…
6 reasons why lightworkers, empaths, indigos, crystal children and other spiritual types don’t do well in the 3D or “real" world So I had a foray back into the “real world” with a project I did recently… and it was a stark reminder as to why I don’t participate in 3D anymore lol ;) I say lol… but maybe that’s a nervous laugh. 3D ain’t fun…. and the people in it are weird. I thought about that a lot with this project I was working on, and for a while I had been thinking about the differences between us spiritual…
So the global lockdowns mean the world is falling down around you, and at the least, business has taken a few staggers backwards. The only solution is to get your self moving again, and get out and find that business. You know how to do this… even if you are starting from scratch again. You know what it’s going to take to get the momentum going again… even if you are going in a completely different direction this time. You know what you need to do… well, kind of… but you have no idea where to start. You need…
How do the Thinking & Communication Styles on the Left & Right differ?
As we watch everything unfolding around the world in 2020, many of us are asking: how do we open the lines of communication between the left & right?
Below you’ll find a comparison of values & beliefs on both sides.
In this infographic, we look at the different Ego Expressions on the Left & Right of the Political Spectrum.
As I've been trying to understand the whole race & political issue that's going on in the world right now, I mapped it to a few Ego models. Maybe this will help you make a bit more sense of what's going on between the two sides as well.
Each of the Ego expressions has been mapped using Life Coaches Toolbox Ego Models: Ego Layers of Separation, 7Ps of Ego & the CHILLS Mechanisms of Ego.
In How the Progressive Left is Trying to Create God, we look at how the Progressive Left is trying to fill the space left in their lives by the absence of God in secular culture.
Accordingly, they have spun a new socialist ideology that they are using to fill that need for God. So how does that ideology look very much like religion as we know it in the Western World?
In Surviving Cancel Culture we take a look at how your Ego is likely to respond when you come up against the Outrage Mob.
In addition, we unpack what it is you are probably trying to understand about their behavior.
It's not curative, but it will help lessen the sting and the psychic pain you're feeling.