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Believing in an abundant universe is not an excuse for ignoring your spiritual maturity.

Ok, I know I sometimes use phrases like ‘abundant cosmos’ and ‘the universe is generous’ etc.

But don’t think I’m one of those hippies. Don’t think I’m actually telling you the universe shares your perspective on how important you are in any way, shape or form.

When I tell people to trust the abundant nature of reality, I’m doing that in a context where our media and pretty much every institution we engage with is telling us to be fearful and tightly curled into a ball under the table.

It’s a context where we are trained to believe in the cunning and malicious nature of the cosmos.

That attitude won’t get you far. You’ll call in a disaster.

That said, while I’m not saying that the universe looks at you the same way a tiger looks at a chipmunk, I am definitely not saying the universe wants to treat you like a spoilt child at Christmas either.

This is where the new age movement tends to become a bit unhinged.

It’s the idea that it’s all about me. If there’s a falling star in the sky, it’s the cosmos trying to give me a personal message. And anything I want, I can have. Anything I can dream, I can manifest.

If I smack my head on the clothesline, it’s the universe trying to teach me an important lesson.

It’s a universe built around me. Me, me, me. What I want and what I need.

What are you, 4?

What a juvenile way of coming at the world.

And what really kills me is that the same people who believe that the entire solar system was set up as an amusement park for their own personal enjoyment, are also the ones going on about ‘expanding consciousness’.

Yes expanding consciousness is important.

Human maturity is defined by our capacity to carry an awareness of others. When we are young we have no capacity to consider other’s needs. I want that Tonka truck, and that’s all that matters.

As we grow and mature, we are able to consider other people’s needs alongside our own. We care for our family. Then we care for society. Some of us then go on to care for the entire human race, and even the entire planet.

Human history is the expansion of consciousness, from the juvenile individual consciousness out to a species-level, planetary-level, or even God-level consciousness.

So where does treating the Earth like your own personal Toys-R-Us fit on that spectrum?

Yep, right down there with toddler consciousness, a small step up from booby consciousness.

For example, take the statement “I am asking the cosmos for a set of ivory egg cups because I love myself, I deserve nice things, and I am open to receiving.”

Yeah sure. But what you are also saying is that you have no capacity to consider the context of that desire. You have no capacity to consider the needs of the elephants in your selfish demand.

Your consciousness is limited to your own personal desires.

And you might get what you want. The universe is engineered that way. But don’t think for a second that by keeping your consciousness narrowly boxed in around your personal needs that you are maturing in any spiritual way – that you are in any way contributing to the expansion of your own consciousness, let alone the consciousness of humanity.

Seriously, fek off.

So yes, the universe is abundant. Anything is possible.

But you still have an obligation to cultivate your own maturity. That’s your responsibility.

And if you want to mature as a person, and definitely as a spiritual being, you need to understand the context for your demands.

Otherwise, you’re just a child.

OPE – The power of ridiculous self-belief

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Leveraging OPE (other people’s energy) for fame and fortune. The Deluded President issue.

Ask Trump how his presidency is going so far. What would he say?

My guess it would be something like this:

“This is a great presidency. One of the best presidencies ever. No one has achieved more for America than I have.”

Something like that right? It’s fairly predictable.

But even to Trump supporters, this isn’t really believable. You’re not taking it literally. Even if you love Trump, you probably wouldn’t go out on a limb and say that Trump was one of the best presidents ever.

But Trump would.

Trump is now famous for his, “No one does X better than I do” statements.” Some of them feel exaggerated “No one understands infrastructure better than I do.” Some of them just sound absurd “No one loves the bible more than I do” or “No one respects women more than I do.” (Yep, he really said that.)

What is his strategy here? Why does he just keep pumping out these statements that literally no one believes? You don’t even really believe that he believes it.

His critics say he’s just a deluded narcissist. It’s the kind of stuff that a madman would say.

And look that could be it. I’m not a professional psych, unlike the junior columnists at The Guardian. Could be true.

But my theory is that he’s leading by example.

He is demonstrating an unwavering commitment and support to himself, so that others may follow by his example.

What I think Trump recognises is that humans like to back winners. ‘Loser’ is a stench and it’s repulsive. Even as much as Aussies like to back underdogs, we only back them if they actually have a chance of making a decent show of it.

And so this is an energy source that we’re able to work with.

If you can paint your project in the colours of ‘winner’ it will attract energy. It will attract people willing to put energy into the outcome.

Dress it in the rags of loserdom, and even you’re die-hard supporters will start eyeing the exits.

Maybe an example will make this clearer.

Imagine you’ve got to go to your financial partners to ask them to tip in another 5% to cover a cost overrun.

Email 1: Dear Linda. I’m very sorry to say that our project is running out of cash. I am really worried that if we don’t raise a little more money, the whole project is going to fall over. Can you please give us some more?

Email 2: Dear Linda. The project is going great. I can’t tell you how many calls I’m getting about how awesome our project looks. We’re going to win awards with this one. We do need a little more money to seal the deal though. Can you please give us some more?

Or think about an invite to a party:

Email 1: Can you come to my party? I’m really hoping that everyone can make it. I really don’t want it to be awkward with just a few of us sitting round. So please come and pretty please bring all your friends.

Email 2: Hey, I’m having a party. I think I’ve got like 200 people locked in already. The police are hassling me to get a mass gathering license. It’s going to be epic. Oh, do you want to come too?

Do you see what I mean? Even though you know the second emails are exaggerated (No one throws parties better than me), it doesn’t really matter. You’re holding a space so that people can look at the project through the lens of winner-ness.

And it works. Having seen it through that lens, people take that world view on. In their minds, it’s a successful endeavour unless proven otherwise.

And this is what Trump is doing. He’s inviting people to look at him as if he was the greatest president ever. He is anchoring his perception in greatness, in the way that good negotiators will ‘anchor’ the price near where they want to end up.

And it just doesn’t matter if it’s believable or not. The only thing that matters is that Trump back himself, with total confidence.

And with that, he calls in a huge amount of energy – energy he can work with.

So, what are you the greatest at doing?

How to buy your life back

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At the end of the day, the aim of the game is to buy your own life back

How much do you need to replace your income? Let’s crunch the numbers on it.

Ok, so say the average household income is $80K a year. That’s a decent mark to aim for. You can get by on that.

Let’s also assume that you’ve got a portfolio of properties yielding 5% a year. That’s also modest. You do hear of people settling for 2% in Sydney and Melbourne these days, but across the country, I think 5% is realistic.

So let’s back it out. How much do need at that kind of return. Well, to replace $80K you need 20 times that much: $1.6 million.

Could you ever save that much?

No way. Even if you saved 50% of your pre-tax income (a massive amount) it would still take an average household 40 years to save that much money!

But thankfully we don’t live in a universe where we have to live off savings alone. We can invest, leverage our money, and use our wealth to grow more wealth.

But even still, building a $1.6m portfolio takes time and patience. For some people it’s a life’s work. Sadly, some people are only ready to retire when they are almost ready to retire.

Such a tragedy.

But let’s think about that 5% number for a second there. Some people might look at that and think it’s ambitious in the current interest rate environment.

I look at that and think it’s piss-weak.

I can tell you that my portfolio is easily returning double-digits. Not every deal and not every property gets north of the 10% line, but some of them are well north of that mark, and on average, I’m into double digits easy.

Now, partly that is about being at a stage in my wealth journey where I’m able to access a different class of deal. I get invited to the high-roller table on a regular basis. And because I’m tipping in more capital, the returns tend to be higher.

Wealth creates more wealth.

But it’s also about being smart with the deals I do go in for. And I would say to anyone starting out in property investment, no matter where you’re coming from, that 7-10% isn’t an unrealistic target to aim for. With the right skills and the right knowledge, any one can hit that mark.

So let’s look at our numbers again.

Let’s assume that instead of getting 5%, we’re now getting 10%… does that change the game much?

You bet it does!

Now instead of needing $1.6m, we need half that much, just $800,000.

Or think about our world where savings are the only way to grow wealth. We’ve just saved ourselves 20 years!

Even in the real world, that has just saved us a tonne of time. Like what? Maybe a decade.

Who wouldn’t like a decade of free time?

The central point is, what’s going to be easier? Saving and amassing another $800,000, or investing in your skills and education, and getting better returns on the deals that you’re doing?

(yes that’s a rhetorical question)

And I’m not talking huge bucks. $10,000 would well and truly cover it.

Would you pay $10K for a decade of free time?

Seriously. A decade off. A decade without work, without deadlines, without the boss telling you what to do.

A decade to put energy into the things that matter. Your relationships, your passions, your I’ve-never-done-spear-fishing,-might-give-that-a-go’s.

A decade that is entirely yours.

Seriously think about it. Imagine, in my hand I have the ticket to the next ten years of your life. I can make them completely yours. The price tag? Just $10K.

That’s a bargain isn’t it?

This is the power of education.

It’s the power to buy back your life.

NO B.S.FRIDAY: It’s not Malcolm. It’s democracy. Duh!

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I saw a newspaper article the other week about the fractious nature of modern Australian politics. Malcolm Turnbull has now lost 30 Newspolls in a row – the number he pointed to when he rolled Tony Abbott.

And now the sharks are circling.

And so it looks like the revolving doors of Prime Ministers is about to take another turn.

How bizarre! How strange! Who can understand politics these days? What is wrong with people?

But I’m hearing this and thinking why are we talking about politics, or even politicians, or even voters.

It’s the system, stupid.

Because there is no centre. It’s a fiction.

It’s this kinda of silly idea that on all issues there is a common centre. That there is some sort of political middle-ground that some fictitious Prime Minister could occupy that wouldn’t offend too many punters.

It just doesn’t exist.

And there’s two reasons for that.

First, every individual is different. Even if you could find two people who passionately agree on 99 things, there’d be at least one issue that they’d come to fisty-cuffs over.

And so even within die-hard Liberal or Labor supporters, there’d be areas of disagreement.

For example, I might be pro-tax cuts. But I might also be passionate about the rights of transgender orang-utans in old growth forests.

That means that right now, there is no political party that can represent my interests.

So being part of a major party, or backing any Prime Minister, is necessarily an act of compromise. If I’m going to back the Liberals, then I’ve got to be willing to accept that my orang-utans will be hung out to dry.

But this isn’t the age of compromise. This is the age of bespoke customisation. This is the age of choosing exactly the right phone case that expresses my unique soul.

I want my internet service provider to cater exactly to my needs. I’m in no mood to compromise.

And so if you want people to settle down and just get along with one Prime Minister, then you have to ask them to let go of their unique preferences.

But people might be well in their rights at that point to say, hang on, if the system can work with my needs, isn’t that a problem with the system?

Isn’t a system that mashes every issue into a simple spectrum of left and right, just a bit broken?

And isn’t a revolving door of Prime Ministers just a symptom of that broken system.

You know, maybe the problem isn’t us, you miserable bastards.

The other factor here is echo-chamber media. With the rise of Facebook et al more and more we’re getting a news feed tailored exactly to our prejudices.

That means that we think that pretty much everyone agrees with us.

That also means that our sense of where the centre is, and what a reasonable compromise might look like, becomes highly skewed.

“Hell no. There’s no way I’m willing to compromise on my orang-utan sanctuary. This is like the number one issue in my news feed right now. The only people opposed to it are fringe lunatics.”

And so you see the political parties getting pulled apart by their supporters. From their supporter’s perspective, they’re being too soft. They’re making too many concessions. They’re drifting too far from where they think the ‘centre’ actually is.

And what would have been seen as simple political negotiations in a by-gone era is now seen as ‘selling out’ to the enemy.

Off to the guillotine with you.

So of course ‘the centre can not hold’.

There never was any centre to begin with. It’s was a fiction from the beginning.

All we’ve got now is a situation where the robes are being pulled of the naked emperor, and everyone’s frustration gets taken out on the sitting PM.

I don’t know where we go from here. But this is a problem that needs to be fixed.

Democracy, as we’ve known it, has past its use-by date.

OPE – The power of sexy

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Leveraging OPE (other people’s energy) for fame and fortune. The sexy issue.

Sexual energy is an energy you’ve got to work with.

Now you might look at me and say, “Well that’s easy for you to say, with your tight leather pants and lustrous man-rug bursting out of your satin shirt. But I’m just not that out there.”

But I’m drawing a distinction here between your sexual energy and your sexuality.

I am definitely not suggesting that you power up your sexuality as a tool. I am not the titan of business that I am today because I learnt how to shake my money maker.

What I’m talking about is your sexual energy. Your primal energy. Your vital life force.

The most direct experience most of us have with this energy is in the sex act itself, but that says more about our fuddy-duddy society than anything.

A fully switched on, expressive human is so confronting that we lock it away and say, “Save it for the bedroom, mate.”

But it’s a dynamic energy we need to activate.

Why?

Because people respond to it in a powerful way. Nothing is as attractive as being around someone in that kind of space. It’s called charisma.

Why? Because that kind of energy is infectious. If you don’t have that frigid instinct to shut it down, it’s a very activating energy to be in the presence of. It drops you into your own juicy drives. It’s inspiring.

It is just fun to be around.

And people who are activated by that kind of energy become very motivated. They want to see your projects succeed because they want to see you succeed. They want to see you succeed so you can keep feeding them the juice.

(Yes I do think we are sophisticated monkeys. Very sophisticated. But still monkeys.)

If this is true, and you know it is baby, how do we bring ourselves into this kind of activation?

Google local swinging groups in your area. Open a line of credit at FeathersandChains.com

No. Absolutely don’t do this. The absolute worst way to try and activate your sexual energy is to try and get your sexy on.

Ideally, sex (and sexiness) emerges as your sexual energy activates. Sexual intention ungrounded in this essential energy is just a bit creepy.

No, the right way to do it, is to come back into your sensual body.

As much as you can, give everything you do a home within your body.

Even if your vision is for stock-management app for shoe stores, if you are feeling that in your body, if you have a physical connection to your desires, your vision and where the project is going – if you get excited about it at a very physical level, then you will start to ‘light up’.

Most of us spend pretty much our entire lives in our heads. Our bodies are just these annoying things that we have to lump around and feed on a regular basis, and if we listen to them at all, all they’re saying is that there’s pain. Lot’s of pain. I can’t move my hips.

Pfft. Who needs that?

‘Connecting to the body’ is easier said than done. Depending on where you’re starting from, it can be a bit of a journey.

But I can give you one tip. Let yourself get excited. When something turns you on, grab a hold of it. Move with it. Dream into it. Lets it’s juice flow through you. Don’t think that you have to pretend to play it cool. Get excited.

When you turn on, you will turn other people on.

And then things get happening.