All I wanted was Pizza

It had been a good night. An interesting night. By good, its not what you think. Good to the average single male on the prowl equates to picking up, getting some kudos, an inflated ego and a burned out inner eco system. A good night to the average male involves being drunkenly possesed by those meaningless legs.. revealing flesh, those momentary passing and insubstantial glances from the girls who are out on the town playing a numbers game, a game of internal scoring of how many men she has wrapped around her pathetic facade.

I’m not an average guy, and a good night to me involves none of the above.

As I walk out of the cloud of weak impotent wanna be alpha men losing their marbles over the energy sucking vamps of superficial ladyhood, its time to get a pizza and find my way back to the castle.

Handing over my $3.50 for my veg pizza – honestly – do you really want a filthy meat pizza from a night club pizza shop at 3am in the morning? I don’t think so. These cooks hate you. You’re having fun – and you’re drunk throwing your fun in their face. They hope you get sick. They probably wipe their dicks on your salami for giggles. But regardless, I don’t eat meat. My prey isn’t retarded animals that don’t know how to leave a paddock. That is for the weak and moronic herds which is the average person on planet earth. Unaware of life outside the herd.. just make sure the herd gets the foodthey want and nobody will ask any questions.

A girl walks up. More attractive than not and she knows it. You could say pretentious. To the average guy, she’s the kind of girl that gets you lost for words and off center as you try to give her some moment of passing happiness. You try to act cool.. You try to come up with something seductive to say. Me? I don’t bother.

“Its my birthday I turned 30 today. Do you think he’ll give me free pizza?”

Of course she will get free pizza. Her whole little fabricated world is built up around her very short lasting beauty. In my mind, I immediately categorize her “freebie pretentious”. She’s now slotted into my archive.

“Sure, smile nicely honey – the world is your oyster. By the way, whats the secret to looking so young at 30?”

Don’t get me wrong. I know how to play the game. I have these bitches wrapped around my sphere I’m the sun and they are my planets. But for me? I’m looking for something more. A fox to blow my cash? I don’t think so. What – I build an empire so she can tell her friends about how she has nabbed a rich prince and she gets whatever she wants because she is beautiful? I don’t think so.

Before she has a chance to answer, another girl, clearly her bestie out on the town with her intrudes…

“Oil of ulay” she says.

She wants a slice of my pizza, I can tell. Not my pizza pizza… my pizza. See, she just felt something different she hasn’t felt before. A man. She can feel my immunity. My charisma. My attitude. My anger and my calm. My solidarity. A king amongst men. They throw out their best meal and I ask for a different dish.

Misogeny? Not misoginistic at all. Just immune to the games. I am the game master and they are still learning the rules of how to play. They come to me, because they want to understand the way to play the game without losing. Thats what I know.

The friend, lets call her Viccy for now then locks gaze with me. To her, its her big guns. When you have a girl holding prolonged looks don’t be mistaken. She doesn’t necesarrily like you, she’s actually looking as hard as she can to find that weak look in your eyes. See, she wants to crush you. She wants to feel her power greater than yours. She looks and she shoots with her tremendously seductive never misses stare and tries to take me down – she fails. In her humility of losing her first attack, she offers a humble statement as a way now to merge with the sun.

“I’ve got to be the oldest girl out here tonight.”

I smirk. We are still locked eyes and lets be honest, she is gorgeous. I wouldn’t be looking at her if she wasn’t. She looks between 26 and 29 but my guess is, she’s actually around 31. What she is used to guys saying about now is that she looks 25 and she is hot as a model  – you know “don’t worry about the age gorgeous you are stunning”. Thats the pattern she’s after. But ironically, its the pattern she hates.

“Why – how old are you?” I ask.

“How old do you think I am?” she baits up another hook.

“36.. maybe 38? You don’t look too bad for your age.”

She is gutted and takes a step back. Her eyes widen and every inch of her body wants to pounce me.

“You ARSEHOLE!!!”

The energy in the air now is ferocious. Her circuitry is malfunctioning and she doesn’t comprehend. See, her whole night has just been a big wasteful orgy of compliments and come-ons. Being told she is hot, sexy and wants to be fucked is the norm for a girl like this. She’s come to expect it – but deep down – she finds men pathetic, needy and easy. She feeds off her countless minions. For her, a night on the town is fuel for her inner queen medusa. Her military equipment is jewellry… skin that looks like a fresh and fertile 18 year olds… eyes that look like a lake you want to dive into… curves and clothes you want to lose yourself in – but I don’t.

She is now lost for words and walks away. 1 to me. 0 to her. And trust me – its a game. Its a big battle field of sexy domination. And woman? Woman is the dominator.

The look in her eyes expresses a yearning. She hopes this is just part of my lure… she hopes now that I’m about to take her now destroyed persona and implant a new matrix into her. That I’m going to make her fantasy come true. Afterall, she just met a knight in shining armour. A king amongst plebs. A god amongst mere mortal low lying suckers of the superficial. But unfortunately for her, no dreams are coming true tonight.

I take my pizza and find some space to eat on my own. I turn my back to her. In need for the fuel she is used to, she quickly scurries to a group of ‘men’ (and I apostrophe that because we all know – they are not men) and tries to get a quick resupply. I can vaguely hear the energy as they each fall over their words and lose all sense of dignity as they try to build her up. Little do they know, all they are doing is reminding her exactly why she craves me. She’s had this… this herd style of nothingness… what she wants is what she feels she can’t have.. what she is losing… to her, I represent the eternal.. the strong and the verile… I am what she has worked for all these years to impress upon, and she has just realised she doesn’t have even the slightest idea of how to court me. She has just realised her whole life has revolved around little children in man suits with nothing to offer and now in the light of a true saviour of her vagina she is completely clueless.

I turn around and look at her again. She immediately loses focus from her child conversation and I sense she is relieved that she is still on my radar.

“Phew” I hear her little girl heart say.

She scurries over.

“Why did you say that??”. Clearly obsessed now. Now, she’s ready to learn and has started to see her place in the world. She has just reconnected with her vulnerability. She just got absolutely ego fucked and dropped back into a place she had long forgotten.

Do I need to fuck her? No. Do I need to wine her and dine her and have a relationship with this woman to give her the most life changing upgrade she’s ever had? No. I’m not a pick up artist pleb trying to get some passing kicks. As a friend said long ago, “You are a king amongst men, my friend.”

“Every other man wants you – don’t they?” I ask her. She is still speechless relatively however. She’s been demoted to a school girl now who’s game table just lost all of its legs in just a handful of words. To me? Its nothing. To her, this is everything.

For me – this is sex. And I fuck about 100 girls a night. No semenal fluids required. I am an icon in this world. A prodigy. One of the last remaining men on the planet. I walk through sin city with my eyes wide open and I come out always on top, unscatched, risen from the ashes and with my power always growing. I am the final hope for humanity… for mankinds reputation to not be lost forever.

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Lessons from a dog

Borrowed from illustrator Patrick Moberg at http://www.patrickmoberg.com/blog/id:434/lessons-from-a-dog . I love his drawings and I think you will also.

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Be water my friend

“Be formless. Shapeless. Like water. Now you put water into a cup – it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle – it becomes the bottle. You put water into a tea pot – it becomes the tea pot. Water can flow–or it can crash. Be water my friend.”

~ Bruce Lee

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Callum Coats – Natural Motion

The above video is inspired by Viktor Schauberger (1885-1958) which I found over at RawketScience

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So did you do nothing?

Since my last post talked about doing nothing I guess you could take the title of this post 2 way. Chances are however, despite my totally convincing argument that doing nothing could lead to being able to do so much more you probably did nothing. Nothing in the ignorant sense, not the increasing awareness sense.

Essentially however, you can’t do ‘nothing’ in the lazy sense, because apparently we are always decaying or regenerating. Some people like Deepak Chopra refer to sitting still as dynamic non-change, meaning you are changing while not changing. There is the you that remains the same, and yet you inhabit a body with some 1 trillion cellular changes per second roughly.

Naturally, we are on a quest to achieve what we want. Yet what do we want? Do we find what we want by reading blogs or watching TV? Or do we remember what we truly want when we sit down and meditate? Essentially, if you are going directly for what you truly want, rather than a bit of this and a bit of that while being distracted here and there then obviously one would be many times more potent in creating what they want when they can tell the difference between a true inner desire and a distraction. But most people, do not.

We are taught that trial and error is the way. You must exhaust all possibilities before you know what the right solution is. And going within and simply knowing the path to walk is a kind of lunacy. Thats the malfunctioning dogma at least.

Personally, I can’t recall the number of times I have been sitting in front of my computer trying my heart out to solve a certain technical issue. The solution to the bug seems to evade me and it is ultimately frustrating. Then I remember “ahh, thats right! If I’m being frustrated I keep on creating more frustration” and I hop up and walk outside. I take a seat down on the floor and just breath and turn my mind off.

Generally I notice 2 things happen:

1. My mind continues thinking about the problem even though I’m telling my mind not to
2. In the moments in between the sort of elastic unwinding of those thoughts I feel a true sense of joy regardless of not solving the problem, yet

Deep down, I know that once I can stop being in the frequency or the train of thought I am in, that the solution will actually just pop into my head and yet, it won’t come while I am trying to think about it. Because this type of problem is something completely different to the rational or logical ideas I have tried already. There is something innately wrong with the whole package or program I have written and its time to come from an entirely different space. So I keep breathing… I keep coming back to nothingness… I keep reinforcing that I am ok sitting on a balcony and that despite my program being broken – I am not broken. I am ok. Infact I am more than ok, I am inspired now. I feel quite incredible actually. Wow, you know life is pretty damn amazing. What is that smell in the air? Is it jasmine? Jasmine with a hint of basil. Just delightful.

By now, I’ve literally forgotten what I was even working on. The subtle smell of life has overtaken the nagging electro cyborg issues I was working on. And then the most profound thing happens… a lightning bult hits. I see something entirely different inside my mind. A pathway or a way to do the math I hadn’t even thought of before. I am excstatic, both by the possibility that this solution just might work, but also because I didn’t even need to think about the issue for the solution to bloom inside my mind. Is that the deep subconscious coming to life and working for me? Am I tapping into parts of my brain I haven’t been using? Does the simple act of being happy and inspired mean new parts of the brain start working? Or are there angels perhaps feeding my mind thoughts because I took a moment to notice the flowers? Who knows – really? What I do know is this works and that the solutions I have come up from in this space seem to transcend things I have spent sleepless nights tattering away to create.

I believe if you were to ask some of the most profound creators of our time like Gary who co-created posterous we would find time and time again they came up with these awesome ideas when they were inspired, and not when they were afraid of a recession, or afraid of meeting a deadline, or in fear of running out of money. If you ever find yourself in these states of mind, just go for a walk, find a place to sit and do nothing.

 

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The healthiest things are often the hardest to do, right?

With all the people I have talked to over the years, I don’t think I’ve truly met a person who just absolutely loves doing the super healthy stuff. For example, eating a head of broccoli straight up and raw… mmm mmmm mmmmm… doesn’t exactly get the mouth watering does it? What about a nice shot of wheatgrass? mmmm yumm… makes my stomach curl. How about going for a jog? Oooh yeah. Not.

The healthiest things, in general, are not fun to do. I remember a long time ago hearing about the Alkaline / Acidic diet balance and a guy by the name of Stuart Wilde said “Basically, you want roughly 70:30 or 80:20 alkaline:acidic balance. Whats the acidic food? Thats the fun stuff. If its not fun, its probably alkaline” and I have generally found this to be true. Simple really. Party drugs = Fun (but detrimental to health), Green Tea and Apples = not so much fun (but great for health). 

If this is true what is the least fun thing to do within reason that we can do that = health and happiness?

I remember the least fun thing I ever did. I was 20 at the time and I picked up a flyer about a meditation retreat. It went for 12 days and I thought “Cool! I’ve done some guided meditations before… that can be kinda fun.” I started thinking about colorful lights, like chakras and I started to fantasize about what I would learn at this camp. I saw myself learning how to do things like fly in my dreams, oh, or perhaps I could at will with jedi like mastery all of a sudden go within and have an orgy with all the super models on the planet. Why not? Comon, don’t judge me – I was a young male full of hormones and this is generally what we think / thought about. And imagine all the open minded babes that would be there? I was excited and signed up.

A few months later, the time to go the camp comes round and I am full of enthusiasm. This was going to be fun but after arriving and having an hour or 2 to quietly peruse the premises all attendees are ‘gonged’ into the common area and then it hits me – this wasn’t a fun meditation camp. 

“From this point forward” instructs the camp leader “you will be participating in noble silence.”

I gulped. What the fuck? How on earth am I going to chat up flower girls without talking? What the hell is this place? Clearly I didn’t read the fine print.

“There will be no communication between any of you for the following 10 days. There will be no killing of creatures – even insects.” We were then shown our rooms – and it got worse – males were on one side of the camp and females on the other side and there was absolutely NO cross pollination between the sexes for the following period. I couldn’t believe it. I was in some sort of buddhist monk nightmare.

Over the next day, the meditation technique was explained and there more rules besides not talking, killing, fornicating or flirting. Not only that, we were not allowed to follow thoughts or day dream. And so to hone our focus, the next 3 days were spent simply observing the sensation of air passing in and out of the nostrils. It was torturous. If a thought entered the mind, we were to come back to the nostrils. If an insect landed on your back, you were to come back to the nostrils. If your legs started to hurt because you had been sitting in the same spot for 4 hours straight without moving, you were to come back to the nostrils. You get the idea. It was nostril mania minus the hype and by hype I mean regular thinking about stuff, or doing stuff, or doing anything really. No scratching itches. No writing blogs. No tv. No music. No nothing. Just a god damn sensation of air passing in and out of the nostrils.

Imagine how irritating it has been just to read this last paragraph about nostrils and consider that the time you spent thinking about nostrils is 1 millionth of the time I spent thinking about my nostril. It was grueling and the most challenging experience of my life. And that was just the preparation for the following 7 days. It wasn’t all bad however… I did tap into some sensory sensitivities I had never had before. I mean, if you are unfamiliar with this technique… your sensations or nerve awareness is probably pretty grotesque… you can likely feel the whole area as a whole – but can you traverse 1 mm at a time from hair follicle to hair follicle at a time? Probably not. Who cares thought right? My thoughts exactly man.

Over the next week, we were allowed to venture beyond the nostrils. We still couldn’t talk. We still couldn’t communicate. Still no reading or writing or fornicating. But now… now it was like exciting.. just to be able to go beyond the nostrils. I tell you, it was like being a kid in a candy store for the first time. It was like training on the top of a mountain with no oxygen then coming down for a run in a forest with an abundance of oxygen. It was like I went from having a body with 100 different areas I could feel to having 1000000 different areas I was aware of. I got it or at least a fragment of what this teaching was about – get some awareness of what you have.

Metaphorically, this relates to my previous posts… the world or most of it is running around “oh no oh no oh no I don’t have enough I need more more more if only I had more” but what if… what if you don’t need more… what if you’re only tapping into 1% of what you already have? What if Einstein was right in that we’re only using 2-3% of our brains and there is more to be used? What if you can actually get more out of the food you eat, or the air you breath or the relationships you have? What if?

Here’s a certainty – if you are thinking that you need more and your current circumstances do not have the capacity to deal with what you need, it is a certainty that you will actually no longer be looking at what you have and there is no chance for you to even tap into your current abundance. IF this theory is true. Instead, you will be looking here there and everywhere but the resources around you or even closer – within you. 

Let me throw some more what ifs out there… WHAT IF man… just what if all it takes is a shift of focus for you to be tapping into 95% more stuff? Forget extra effort… forget extra resources or extra networking… forget extra cash… what if literally through a simple change of mind you could turn your 500 to 1000 a week wage into 10,000 to 20,000 or 50,000 a week. Because here comes the sell ladies and gentlemen and I’m not even going to sign you up to anything. This is a solution that can’t even be sold – infact this meditation camp I went to 100% free – but I’m not even going to sell you on that. 

What if all you had to do every day to start tapping into 95% more stuff in yourself and the world you inhabit was just take 20 minutes to sit down and chill the fuck out? What if thats all it took? Comon man, you’ve tried everything else. You’ve got the skills. You’ve got the prowess. Shit you have the looks too I mean look at those funky digs. You’ve got it all… and yet there you are freaking the F out like a Crazy M’er F’er thinking the clouds are falling down. You’re in a monetary psych out thinking you are about to run out and the world is going to collide. Umm, can I remind you that what is apparently on shortage ‘money’ is not even linked to anything? Its an idea. An emotion. Something we’ve agree’d to hold value. That will fall down faster than lead out of a plane. In fact its non-solidness means it can fall down instantly as it doesn’t even have weight to have gravity. Its like freaking out because the sun could blow up. Insanity.

Let me put it this way my man. Micro Macro. Macro Micro. As above – below. So below – as above. Ancient stuff. It holds it time, basically. Here it goes. You have a body with something like 100 trillion cells. There is something like 1 trillion trillion changes PER SECOND happening in your body. Get a grip of that for a second – because here is the show closer. How many of those changes are you aware of per second? I bet you can feel your heart beat… and you can probably feel whether you are warm or not and maybe you’re following a thought or two. More than likely, to do all of that takes about 100,000 changes per second – I know you’ll forgive my massively grotesque numbers here – if you want to I invite you to do better. Your body however, and your perception of your body and your awareness of your body and your organisation of your body is the micro, and the world at large and your operation and organisation in the world is the macro.

So what? Sit down and spend time observing your body. It is the most complex new world order to exist in all of recorded history to date. Sit down and get up to speed with the miracle that already exists which more than likely has advice and information just sitting there waiting to be tapped into that supersedes, heaven forbid, even the holy grail of information you are reading now.

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The power of ‘now’. Are people translating it incorrectly?

Its amazing you know, there are countless books out there now that suggest being in the now is the key to happiness. The general concept is that everything to be happy is found in the present moment. One can’t find happiness in the future, because the only time we experience is this present moment. Some will go as far to say that being in the future simply brings unhappiness. Mostly, I agree with this. It doesn’t stop my endless day dreaming about my island full of magic monkey babes swinging from the trees while we sip on coconuts and listen to great jungle music, but it has stopped my from projecting being unhappy with the current situation.

There’s this age old belief that what you focus on expands which I can’t really fault. Focus on what makes you unhappy and you find more reasons why you are unhappy and so forth and vice versa what you are grateful for somehow we start noticing more things we are grateful for. But I digress as the reason I am writing is the mass confusion around this whole present-be-in-the-moment business. The dysfunctional trend I have noticed with modern be-in-the moment devotees is that they are not happy with what is, actually somehow they have completely transformed the teaching from everything you need to be happy can be found in the now in your current circumstances TO everything you want to be in your current circumstances should be here and now. See the mutation? See how distorted it is? Let me re-iterate it big bold letters:

Original teaching that has brought people happiness for thousands of years:

everything you need to be happy can be found in the here and now

The new age self appointed mystics version:

everything I want to be happy should be in the here and now.

Hey, its just a subtle difference so who cares? Well – I care… its given birth to a new age kind of spiritual monstership of greed and that is the antipode of what the teaching is about. The concept is supposed to make people happy with what is, therefor desiring and craving less, or more from less — to now people being discontent from more. The average entrepreneur has assets, is relatively healthy, is not living in a warzone or living in sardine cans or a refuge camp and yet STILL wants more! Thats why I care. 

Growing up with little possessions myself – I became familiar with the difference between something I wanted and something I needed. However in my last job, I remember being told often what my bosses needed. “I need this by 5pm today” to which I would silently rebel “Actually you need air and water by 5pm – you actually want this task completed by 5pm”. In our modern western world, wants have been translated into needs. Big mistake.

Am I anti-more or wanting stuff? Hardly. But do I believe you can somehow bipass the whole what you focus on expands thing? The whole law of gravity thingemy jig? Nope. Let me explain. You want more or you want more abundance or free time while you are focusing on what you don’t have and what you are missing. You’re wanting to encourage a more spacious world while coming from a space of lack. And how does that effect things? Well it effects the language you use and the way you go about generating opportunities with others. Personally, I find it repulsive when somebody is coming from a greedy state. I want I want I want I want. My mind just hits the off switch and I do something else. 

So now we’re in a world wide kind of recession. Has the mutated lesson caught up with us? Isn’t it interesting that while the western world e.g Europe and America and Australia are starting to feel the pinch, while the cultures who have been learning to be happier with less are beginning to go through a boom? China and India for example are building new cities while the US is scraping for jobs. Funny that? Is it just cyclical like the weather changes between the east and the west or is it plain and simple a moronic belief systems catching up with us?

In ways, I am happy the world is going through a recession. I’m grateful for it. I think we really need it just to get back in touch with what we really need. And what do we need to be happy and healthy? After a trip to Bali earlier this year, I saw kids on the streets with whiter teeth than me and bigger smiles than me while riding around on rusty bicycles and 10th generation hand-me-down clothing. I couldn’t help but feel these parts of the world that have been living in what would be considered economic poverty have something now to offer us must-have-everything-now society of greed we’ve become to comfortable in.

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A smile can make a person. Here’s a bit deeper look into natural home remedy tooth paste / whitener

If you are familiar with the FDR (www.consciouslifestyler.com/fdr) at all you know that Don recommends using Salt or Bi-Carb soda for a tooth paste. Some people might say “well isn’t that an abbrasive that can kill your enamel?” In some cases – it can. But here is another persons take I am borrowing from a completely non-affiliated website I stumbled across from http://www.myhomeremedies.com/remedy.cgi?remedyid=2571&page=4

> I’m inclined to comment (for the overpaid and pessimistic dental > hygenists out there) that baking soda was integrated into O.T.C > pastes for bruhing years ago. Yes the content is regulated and > likely by the FDA. Regardless, it is accepted by the same > affiliation whose concern is the general public. Tell me, how many > dentists would EVER promote a home remedy? The answer is few and > they’re likely the meek and good hearted ones who aren’t out for > several insurance claims to pay for their second yacht. The truth of > the matter is that baking soda IS an abrasive, and caution should be > exercised is using it as polish in a home remedy, as much so as it’s > concentration is regulated in OTC toothpastes. You shouldn’t scrub > your teeth with it hard enough to rip the enamel off, because it > will. Cider vinegar improves the calcium metabolism of the body. > This only scratches the surface of the benefits of vinegar to the > body though. These benefits include the removal of everyday fatigue > that some of us (who intake insufficient vinegar volumes) contend > with daily. Vinegar, contrary to some opinions has no ill effects on > the body. Calcium is certainly one of the main components of bones > and teeth and it must be acidified entirely in the stomach before > its absorption, and can only be absorbed through the duodenum and > the upper small intestine before it loses its acidity. Vinegar helps > to acidify calcium in the stomach to help this process along. This > is suggesting consumption however, and we’re discussing brushing and > teeth whitening. Vinegars main component is acetic acid, a stain > remover when applied to teeth as well as to the bumper on a classic > coupe deville. Yes vinegar has so many uses it’s had several LARGE > books dedicated to its uses and practicality in everyday life. You > need to ignore comments from the ivy league peanut gallery of > dentists who care about money and their own healthy teeth. Notice I > said Money first and teeth second. I believe this is pretty close to > the truth. Let’s face it, if you’re searching for teeth whitening > tips you can try at home you’re likely not in the same state of mind > on the matter (ever!) as a dentist with great teeth. So keep you’re > teeth clean, stay away from excessive sweets (cavity avoidance) quit > the excessive smoking/wine/coffee, and other teeth stainers, brush > regularly and use this mild solution as well- baking soda, apple > vinegar, and a dash of salt (salt has an antiseptic effect, that
> effect isn’t on teeth, it’s on the oral cavity. Because of this, > warm saline rinses are prescribed to patients after extractions.
> Sodium chloride does not have any particular effect on teeth, but a > very high concentration may cause a little attrition (wear) when > accompanied by strong brushing.) So now you know and if you’re smart > you won’t take my advice either. If you realy want the truth > research the matter yourself.

Cool huh? What is your tooth paste formulae?

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Things to consider when building a business

If you recall a few posts ago I talked about how the space you come from really changes everything. I’m just going to now make some commentary about pushing and relaxing and draw some similarities between building the body and building a business as to me, the micro is a reflection of the macro and vice versa.

With the human body, we know that it is important to exercise. Exercise is vital. It gets circulation happening and since life is movement this is a wonderful thing. The simple act of walking dialates blood vessels and more nutrients can be delivered to the muscles and skeletal structure. Bone density grows. We burn fat. But just as important as exercise is resting. Resting allows for a balancing of energy to take place. Perhaps you may have overworked the legs and so the body will work at keeping a balance and delivering some of that leg workout to the arms. Rest is vital to recover.

In business, it works the same way. Exercise could be considered the act of building more systems or working on improving the products. Or it could be marketing or networking or simply paying the bills. If however, like with the body, you continue to keep pushing without rest you will in fact burn out. Perhaps this isn’t always the case, but it is generally what ussually happens.

The question is – are you resting? Do you take time in your business to let it breath. Do you take time to let it do its thing or do you keep pushing it as though its in a non-stop marathon?

Imagine you are running all day non-stop and all night non-stop and on and on. Can you imagine the body to hold much reserves? It doesn’t… somebody who did that would have literally no fat or reserve energy and would probably collapse. Are you getting my metaphor here? The equivalent in business is you wind up eating your reserves. Instead of building bone density, which could be considered your business systems or investing in stronger bones, you start chewing into that money to pay for people to remain stressed and continually pushing the marathon runner.

Take a break. Truly sit back for a moment and come from gratitude. Not a weak dismal tiny moment… I mean really sit back and marvel at what you have accomplished and the simple reality that you are even in a position in evolution to have perception of all this. You could have incarnated as a street sweeper or a shoe shiner scraping for change to buy some rice – instead you are actually building a business and choosing to be conscious. Its a miracle – is it not?

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein

To me, there is nothing inspiring about a struggler or a person who is frustrated or wants more than what is. That is not to say I don’t feel inspired to experience something else but I feel when it comes to inspiring others nothing is more inspiring than a person who is happy in this miracle.

If you take this advice, I believe you will notice a miracle in your business as I have seen time and time again. Here’s the scenario… you have tried everything… the systems are in place… the marketing looks great… you have a great product and a great team behind you. You have tried everything but what you haven’t tried is nothing. Try doing nothing at all other than gratitude. If its been a while since you’ve done this… try spending at least a whole day being grateful. Don’t pick up any phones. Don’t respond to emails. Put a notice on your web page that says you don’t like auto-responders and you’ve taken the whole office out to an exotic island for the week and go do that. Be careful though – because if your business has the goods – prepare to come back to a long waiting list of orders or new customers.

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Taking ConsciousLifestyler to the Clouds

We’re a website that represents people who believe in optimal health and every day we hope to make it run a little bit smoother for everyone who uses it. Pleasing everybody is not always the easiest of tasks when there is so much feedback but the general north on the compass is getting the stuff on screen as fast as possible.

Yesterday, the average load time for the home page was 8-9 seconds which is OK. Its not great – but its not unbearable. Still, when we are making a claim that what we stand for is optimal speed its not exactly lightweight and the fastest it can be. So since Tyler started going on a 4 Day Colon Cleanse 2 Days ago (http://www.consciouslifestyler.com/australian-import-license/) in celebration of us getting our Australian import license meaning we can now ship to Oz without fear of customs, I thought I’m going to do a detox of sorts on the website. Trim the fat, so to speak. Help it lose some weight for the summer.

Firstly, I merged all our JS files (which were quite a few) into the one file which meant our visitors are now only grabbing the 1 request to download rather than several simultaneous requests. This shaved a whole second off load time. Then I went through and got really picky about what was superfluous design things like excessive background images etc and I just simply stripped them out. The whole aim of the game was achieving the same, or more, with less, which is essentially what detoxing is about. By flushing ourselves of the built up stuff, we actually can do and be more. Its really cool. I did the same thing then with our CSS files and pulled them all into the one.

Lastly, I decided it wasn’t good enough that we were serving all the files from the one server in america and set us up in a Cloud hosting situation. What this means is that now when somebody from Australia visits the site, we serve the files from a data center in Sydney. And when somebody hits the site from London, we serve the files from there and when somebody hits the site from Hong Kong, we serve the sites from there etc etc you get the idea right? Basically, with Cloud hosting we create mirrors of the vital files all around the planet so that instead of everybody driving down the same highway, its like we’ve all of a sudden put the place you want to drive to right around the corner from your home so now you don’t need to get on the highway at all which means avoiding those traffic jams and potential slow times.

After all this, we’ve got the home page loading at 3 – 5 seconds on average.. sometimes even as low as 1 – 2 seconds. How awesome is that? Check it out @ www.consciouslifestyler.com. 

Also, what do you think of this new branding we are working on? It represents the many, coming in to fuse into the whole… while it may seem chaotic, there is a very real and present order to the seemingly fragmented parts.

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