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134 DSR – Wanting More Money

October 17, 2013 — Leave a comment

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Wanting more money and thinking it will make you happy or solve your problems is what I refer to as The Grand Illusion.

Money = happiness is a lie.

Your consciousness about money is a thermostat. No matter what’s happening around you (large increase in money) you will automatically go to your pre-set “temperature.” And you’ll spend all of the increase is that’s what it takes to reset to your comfort zone.

Money doesn’t create consciousness.
Consciousness creates money.

The good news is you can increase your money consciousness. How? Checking out the resource below is a good place to start. And by the way, this book is in my personal library.


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132 DSR – The State of You

October 3, 2013 — 3 Comments

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consciousness

The State of Tennessee
The State of California

How about The State of Being?
The State of Consciousness?
The State of You?

What state are you in?
What state of mind are you in?

“Don’t bother setting up free republics or moving to a country which offers more liberties. Simply declare yourself to be an independent state. Do not involve and coerce others. This is the only way we will effect a proper revolution. Once each of us recognizes our own freedom and our own responsibility, then the chains that bind us will fall away. To be free from bad manners, we have to be mannerly ourselves, and then we have to ignore the bad manners in others.”
Tom Hodgkinson – How to Be Free

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129 DSR – What You Should vs What You Could

September 12, 2013 — Leave a comment

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What should you be doing?
What could you be doing?
What’s the difference?

The world (should), convention, tradition, routine, the past.
The spirit (could), potential, possibility, power, the now.

The great dichotomy
dichotomy – a division or contrast between two things that are or are represented as being opposed or entirely different.

The great lobotomy
Cut out of your life what you think you should be doing and start doing what you could be doing.
What you want to do.
What you love to do.

Debt can be an excuse for not living your life.
I can’t, I’ve got bills.
When I get the kids thru college, then…..
When we pay the house off, then…..
When I get that raise/promotion, then….
Being debt free, removes the excuses. If you want it to.

Fear makes you the observer and not the participant. TV allows you to watch people do things extremely well instead of doing them badly yourself. Thank you Tom Hodgkinson

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128 DSR – John From NYC – Interview

September 6, 2013 — 2 Comments

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life is short
Life is short, you only live once. Why not live free?

“Plastic has wings to fly out of wallets and purses and mannequins in a store front window get more looks than artwork in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.” – John from NYC

Consume – to use up or destroy as in fire. Cancer.

Q: If you could change one thing about money, what would it be?
A: Eliminate interest charged in lending.

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126 DSR – Sameness Disguised as Variety

August 23, 2013 — Leave a comment

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The Sea Of Sameness

Strip malls
Restaurants
Retail stores
Travel across America what do you see?

Cut and paste capitalism. Purely profit driven. Maximum profit, minimum creativity. “Starbucksification” as Tom Hodgkinson puts it in How to be Free

Thinking you have selection makes you feel powerful and free.

Is thinking you need wide selection in order to feel powerful and free a sign you don’t feel powerful and free in the first place?

“Fashion is an attempt to decorate our own inauthentic lives.” – Michael Tsarion.

You want to be different in appearance, stand out from the crowd. Why the need to be noticed? To what end? I want you to see me, accept me. I want to be noticed but left alone. I’m over here, but don’t ask me to be responsible for anything.
Do we just want to be acknowledged? Justify my existence?

Acknowledge yourself.

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“Starbucksification” as Tom Hodgkinson puts it in How to be Free

Starbucks was losing money. They shut down stores for a few days for training. Problem? Quality suffering, customers unhappy, profits falling. Why was quality suffering?

People wanted it faster, Starbucks was trying to deliver. Quality suffered. Anytime you speed things up you get hurried and give less of yourself to the task at hand. You dilute purity/potency in an effort to sell more stuff. If you want it faster, you get hooked on faster. It takes more to stimulate you. You feel empty. Search outside for remedy.

Sameness Disguised as Variety.
Different as people AND equal at the same time.
We Are All One (Sameness) Showing Up As More Than One (Variety).

Resource:
How to Be Free – by Tom Hodgkinson

Chapters:
Cast off your watch
Stop Competing
Escape Debt

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125 DSR – The Problem With Screens

August 18, 2013 — Leave a comment

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TV screens. Computer screens. Phone screens. Movie screens.

Quote:
“By parading a stream of other people’s lives in front of us, screens remove the responsibility to create our own lives. We watch other people doing things instead of doing them ourselves. This makes us radically powerless, and powerlessness leads to anxiety. And anxiety leads to shopping. Shopping leads to debt. Debt leads back to anxiety.” – How to Be Free by Tom Hodgkinson

Observation:
Western consumerism teaches you to live vicariously thru others. To live vicariously thru your possessions. If you buy first, then you will feel, experience, be.

Definition:
Vicar = representative, deputy, or substitute; anyone acting “in the person of” or agent for a superior.

Example:
The Vicar of Christ.
A religious term, thought system word, gatekeeper word. Slavery.

Two Sides:
The dumb animal side
The smart mind side

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124 DSR – Love & Money: Friend or Foe?

August 10, 2013 — Leave a comment

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Love & Money

Love & Money
Are they friends or enemies?
Do they work together or fight?
Are they kindred spirits or total opposites?

Love = energy, attention/intention
Money = energy, attention/intention

How much time do you spend pursuing money?
Thinking about it? Using it? Dreaming about it?

How much time do you spend pursuing love?
Thinking about it? Dreaming about it?

Options:
Less money, more time.
More love, less anger.

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119 DSR – Drink from Your Own Chalice

July 15, 2013 — Leave a comment

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Definition:
Chalice – Vessel or cup. Container for liquid.

Famous example:
Holy Grail – Tradition says Jesus used the cup at the Last Supper to institute Mass. Other stories claim that Joseph of Arimathea used the cup to collect and store the blood of Christ at the Crucifixion.

What does a cup do?
What is it’s purpose?
What’s most important? Cup or contents?
Half empty, half full? Does it quench my thirst?

Drink from your own chalice analogy:
Drink from your own cup
Draw from your own wisdom
Dip your bucket into your own well
You are the source of your abundance
You are the source of your wisdom

And so it is with money and borrowing it:
Stop looking outside yourself for your abundance

Resource:
AstralQuest.tv

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