tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16359632338071989372024-03-14T17:48:06.935+02:00Robin Wheeler : Being Yourself for a LivingKeynote speaker, business consultant and author on being yourself for a living.Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.comBlogger165125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-78971908288289485872019-09-26T17:12:00.000+02:002019-09-26T17:31:13.939+02:00New<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">There’s
a new way to be, a new humanity. It’s not new to me but I’m feeling it freshly.
I’ve been personifying it steadily since late last century and bringing it to
the global community, yet it is still coming to me, ever-more amazingly. It’s
reached a zenith of clarity as it tips into universal reality. The rest is
history. I’m so happy.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">Like
a lotus rises from the mud, so an enlightened species is emerging from the
madness. Like a phoenix is born from the ashes, so a transformed consciousness
is coming out of the cremated remains. Like the new needs the old to die, so
the discontinuous human is surprising itself.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 150%;">I’ve written this body of books
along the way to usher it all in. Here’s your ticket and your seat. Stand tall
and enjoy the whole experience.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-88482540531171187632019-03-27T19:47:00.000+02:002019-03-27T19:47:05.345+02:00Words<br />
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I have no words for this but I shall surely share it in
due course. The nature of it is that words cannot reach or come from it, and
yet words are my predilection and profession.</div>
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I am drawn not to speak by the
nature and pressure of it and yet the first thing I reach for is the writing.
The contradiction is right here as I say that I cannot.<br />
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I am in transformation.</div>
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-69572522521529734812019-03-04T18:21:00.000+02:002019-03-04T18:21:07.485+02:00Heroes<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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A hero always hesitates before taking a leap into new
life. It is a hero’s business to leap into new life, and yet he hesitates every
time, because, for one thing, that’s what heroes do. They wouldn’t be heroes
otherwise. It’s part of the package to be drawn to the beyond and to be
challenged before saying an irreversible ‘yes’.<br />
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If the hero didn’t face new
frontiers and feel afraid, there’d be no triumph in the trip, no story in the
narrative, and no hero. One must overcome oneself to earn the title, and so one
will invariably hesitate before facing one’s fears and heading into the
unknown.
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The name of the game is transformation and one never
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-46590487462650881142018-10-23T12:52:00.000+02:002018-10-23T15:36:43.948+02:00Club Tropicana<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I am at the burger joint. The waitress has just taken my order for a
beer and backed up my interest in the food special advertised on the table
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">"This," she said passionately as she placed her hand on the
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">"I'll bring you the menu to look at,” she smiled appetisingly, “but
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5vr8pjrgzgObIdlqJCFcsIP-h0j1CNbmxQXsQNF8M9R45kTaOHi54ZS5EzjtmtIrQdRjHcqPm5oJO2MitXM5ZXkL-HskKsb-S159lF5Vt5Sjm-AdvfEztf7dA54wFJnUMaEO59fdGWsx/s1600/Death-is-the-Ultimate-Orgasm-by-Robin-Wheeler-Back-Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="690" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjC5vr8pjrgzgObIdlqJCFcsIP-h0j1CNbmxQXsQNF8M9R45kTaOHi54ZS5EzjtmtIrQdRjHcqPm5oJO2MitXM5ZXkL-HskKsb-S159lF5Vt5Sjm-AdvfEztf7dA54wFJnUMaEO59fdGWsx/s320/Death-is-the-Ultimate-Orgasm-by-Robin-Wheeler-Back-Cover.jpg" width="218" /></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I am feeling the lift that comes from an uplifting environment. It
reminds me of Thailand. That's why we go there, and why I come here on a
Thursday afternoon. Gentle buoyancy. Quiet happy hour, sweet scents from
hookahs, and well-chosen classic rock music. Cold beer, flashing car windows in
the setting sun, raucous bikes, and show-off modified cars roaring past more
than occasionally. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">That's Bedfordview for you, where I grew up and still live. The high
school is over the road where thirty one graduation classes have passed through
since I did. Fuck me! </span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Let's get back to the cheerfulness, and back to 1983,
when I was into music in a big way and at the beginning of my sexual prime. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Wham! released “Club Tropicana”, their forth single from their first
album <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fantastic</i>, and the video
featured George and Andrew in Ibiza playing the role of air stewards who have a
great time on the island despite missing a chance with two hostesses played by
the backing singers Shirley and Dee. The visual and sonic imagery of that song has
surely stayed with me and informed some of my passions in the ensuing thirty
five years. Beach life, sunset swims, warm water, and women. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Exotic pleasures
appeal to me. I am happy in the sunshine. It feels free and makes me happy.</span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> </span><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><i>'Death is the Ultimate Orgasm' by Robin Wheeler is on Amazon.com from 31 October 2018</i></span></div>
Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-33236282228632563082018-10-09T20:29:00.001+02:002018-10-09T20:29:23.603+02:00Manifestations<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Robin Wheeler, released worldwide on 31 October 2018:</span></i></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In early
2006, the first band I was in fell apart. Not long after the last straw fell to
the studio floor, one of the singer’s friends, whom I had met on the live music
circuit, a guitarist, invited me to casually “jam with a few people” one Saturday
afternoon. I didn’t have my own drums yet, but there was a kit in the practice
room, and so I arrived on the day open and mildly enthused, if a little
cautious and jaded. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxiAeruzx65CQiv2sNy5g5OzHrzuwtLvyPqMiL_Im-grqirsKSRgJe7q-VJuepW8XGo9estb9Gc4mGC1O3nEikDZehrTLfMODyTznyR57I98on6k6cQKCY72yXHbwEaA3eyaTw6Vlm0izr/s1600/Death-is-the-Ultimate-Orgasm-by-Robin-Wheeler-Front-Cover.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="472" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhxiAeruzx65CQiv2sNy5g5OzHrzuwtLvyPqMiL_Im-grqirsKSRgJe7q-VJuepW8XGo9estb9Gc4mGC1O3nEikDZehrTLfMODyTznyR57I98on6k6cQKCY72yXHbwEaA3eyaTw6Vlm0izr/s320/Death-is-the-Ultimate-Orgasm-by-Robin-Wheeler-Front-Cover.jpg" width="215" /></a><span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The new
singer turned out to be a fine songwriter with a handful or two of roughly
formed compositions to try out. The bass player, a woman ten years younger than
me, had a striking backing voice and a talent for song writing too. Unexpectedly,
I was part of a strong mix. Settled behind our instruments, we listened to one
piece on vocal and guitar and began to pick up our respective parts. Two or
three runs-through and we were already sounding like something, something
notable and exciting. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">By the end of
the day, I knew that magic had happened in that room and that I was into a new
surge of creative and productive energy with a talented and committed bunch of
collaborators. The bass player had to have her scheduled wedding and go on
honeymoon, but she would be back, and so the other three of us played with two
sit-in musicians for a couple of months fleshing out the songs and developing
the sound. When our fourth element returned, she slotted straight in and we
took right off, playing our first show in the middle of that year and getting
signed after our third gig just two months later. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Immediately
we were opening for some of the country’s biggest bands, doing short and
thrilling sets in front of significant crowds and working hard behind the
scenes to be our best. My drumming leapt forward with my application of self to
the challenging opportunity and fuelled by my love of the music and the thrill
of a dream coming true. I was thirty eight years old going on nineteen, a grown
up entrepreneur of ten years, an author for six of those, and a kid all over
again. Being myself for a living had a new lease of life. Being in a band took
me to the next level, and manifestation had me in its rhythmic grip. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">The rise of
our yet-to-be-named four-piece phenomenon happened heartily from a strong
communal base of friends loving the music and supporting the shows, and it
quickly reached the broader public too. The end of the year rushed up in a
heady haze of late nights in a range of venues across town and a soaring, melodic
indie-rock sound, festive in its sincerity and rapturous reception. Along for
the ride but taking a bit of a back seat was my writing, plus my corporate speaking and training, which had more
of a rock ‘n’ roll feel to them than ever. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Outside of
these activities was my personal enjoyment of music, wall-to-wall in the
unfolding of my ideal life. Woven into that, with the twenty fifth anniversary
of the release of Wham!’s first single, George Michael had surprised the world
with the announcement of a tour starting in Spain in September, covering Europe
for three months, and climaxing with four closing shows at Wembley Arena in
London the week before Christmas. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">He had not
toured for eighteen years amidst alternating doubt and confidence about his
future typified by outspoken withdrawal from the industry and then comebacks
that surpassed his previous peaks. Here he was, playing live again, like never
before. I simply had to see him despite my frustrating isolation on the southern
tip of Africa.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My sister,
Heather, and her family were living in London, and so I looked into visiting
them while I attempted to buy tickets online for at least one of the special
shows. That pursuit proved seemingly futile as prized positions in the venue
were snapped up in no time while flights in peak season were prohibitively
expensive, plus my brother-in-law’s parents were scheduled to stay in the guest
bedroom for the holiday season. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I had been to
see Bruce Springsteen four years before, flying to London without a concert
ticket, haggling at the door on the night to buy one from a tout, ultimately
getting in to the show, and writing my book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hunting
Power (2003)</i> about the life-affirming jaunt. And so, doing something
similar for George Michael did occur to me, but I was so absorbed in making
music of my own that the longing hovered on the outskirts of my rich
consciousness that was welling from within. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I did track
the tour dates, though, watching the set lists as they arose, but only from the
distance of resignation to my mixed fortunes. It seemed that the price to pay for
my fulfilment behind the drum kit was to sit out the George Michael experience,
for the time being anyway. Maybe he would tour again.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">My dear
friend and musical brother, Paul, also living in London, had secured tickets
for the first of the four nights at Wembley, on the day that they went on sale,
much to my envy, but this too had faded in my mind as the summer months down
south wore on and the band and I beat our way around our gold mining metropolis
at breakneck speed. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">On the Monday night of 11 December, though, I was sitting
quietly at home in my apartment, a long way away in thought from Wembley Arena,
when a text-message ping on my phone raised no suspicion at first but tugged at
my intuition as I made my way across the room to read it. It was from London
and, in Paul’s customary style, had a huge impact through minimal wording.
‘Here we go…’ it simply said.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">In that
instant I was electrified into full engagement. My spirit was suddenly in the
cavernous room as the lights went down and the legend took the stage in the
city where both he and I were born. The possibility of my body being there too
burst out of the deep blue into my remote location, and I scrambled to see what
was happening online. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Unbelievably,
tickets had become available for the following night’s show, seemingly held
back and then released for sale at the last minute. And they were at the
original price! Luckily I hadn’t paid three times that on unofficial sites
during my investigation phase months before. Flights were also suddenly available,
those too at bottom-of-the-range fares. This was incredible. A gap was opening
up in the week of the events…</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I spoke to Heather,
who said that her au pair was scheduled to go home to Poland for Christmas,
which freed up a room in the house form me. “Come!” she said in excitement.
“We’ll make it work.” </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I slotted
straight into gear. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Concert tickets were not on sale for the later shows in the
week but I figured that they might be made available closer to the time. I was
right. As the days passed, they came up. Also, an extra date had been added on
the Sunday night, which was feasible for me since my final commitment for the
year with the band was on the Friday. I could fly on Saturday and land just in
time to make it. It was tight but attainable.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">With George’s
recent album <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Patience</i> playing on
repeat and the framed poster of the cover watching me from my wall, I monitored
the online sales and tried repeatedly to buy three tickets as soon as they went
up, with no luck. In the song “Flawless”, he kept singing that maybe he would
see me that night, repeating that it I had to go to the city. Maybe? Hopefully!
There was no point waiting and I was working on it.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I dropped my
online application to a single seat on the Sunday and one became available. I
made my move and secured it. I was in! Ten minutes later I slotted a second for
Heather, a couple of rows back, and twenty minutes after that I wrapped up a
third for her husband, Jason. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">We</i> were
in. Next was my flight, which, without issue, joined the list of confirmation
emails. With that, my wind-down week took off in the most thrilling direction. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Adrenaline
and sleep deprivation had me on a high, enhanced by a year-end show that blew
the roof off the local venue where we had played our first gig six months
before. The next day I packed my winter clothes for a month away, locked my
apartment, tied up a phenomenal year with the tail of a comet, and was taken to
the airport by my loving and patient father (for whom, it would turn out, it
was the second last festive season on earth). </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">As I checked
in with him by my side, I noticed that the departure time was three hours later
than scheduled. Once I was through customs, I established that both the flights
on my airline that night were delayed, which meant a stretching of my
anticipation before getting off the ground and on my way.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">While I
waited, the delay was extended and the later flight even cancelled. If I had
been on that one, I would have been shunted to the next night and not have made
it to London for the concert. This was turning out to be most intense. </span><br />
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Tired
beyond belief, I eventually boarded the plane in the early hours of the morning
and sat upright for half a day until we landed at lunchtime instead of before
breakfast. I took the tube from Heathrow to Wimbledon, met Heather at the
station, saw the kids quickly, put my bags in my new room, showered and
dressed, and set out for the show. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">We drove
through the city streets, found parking at the venue, and queued to convert the
email print-outs of tickets to the real thing. As we received those, I looked
at the seating plan, which suggested that they were some of the finest in the
house. Could they actually be that good? I didn’t give it much thought but we
would soon see. The three of us made our way up the stairs and into the buzzing
arena, finding our respective spots not next to each other but close enough to
communicate. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I was right on
the railing of the first tier straight up from the phenomenal and by now famous
stage, with Heather beaming behind me and Jason smiling a few rows back. And,
yes, the seats were in prime position, clearly kept for VIPs and released at
the last minute. What a place to find myself. What a moment to be in. What a
culmination of effort, opportunity and seized good fortune. What a
manifestation. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I had been a
fan of George Michael since I was thirteen, if not of all the music then
certainly of his genius and career. I had travelled all the way through it with
him from the first song to the quarter century celebration. I had seen and
shared the ups and downs, been inspired and mentored, and felt concerned and
supportive through the twists and turns, as had millions around the world and
thousands in the room that night. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">I had made it all the way from my bedroom in
early high school through my climactic week with the band to the city of my
birth, and there I was looking at the big black cloth draped like a velvet void
in the sizzling crowd over the soon-to-be well-lit centre spot. I was encrusted
by exhaustion, cresting on cumulative experience, and liberated by pure
presence. It was tough to tell pleasure from pain.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Immune to my
state but speaking straight to it, the lights went down and the stage lit up.
The people went crazy, my heart pounded, and the show began with an acoustic
song from George’s second solo record, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Listen
Without Prejudice Vol 1</i>, from 1990. It was the album’s closer, now opening
the historic evening, “Waiting (Reprise)”, sung from backstage. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">There was still
no sign of the star but as the song ended the door in the middle of the
stunning stage opened and George Michael walked out into the frenzy of love.
“Good evening, London!” a most familiar voice said to us all as the next song
started, the one I had heard on repeat in my lounge only days before telling me
to go to the city. This time I was there, in the room, not maybe tonight, but
definitely, and about to hit an all-time high.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Song by magical
song I disappeared into that mystical night. My tensions fell off me like dry
mud, helped along by plastic cups of strong beer and increasingly uninhibited
and ecstatic dancing until I was clapping like carefree toddler under a
Christmas tree. Poignant moments punctuated the timeless proceedings leading
into colourful flares of escalating festivity with out-of-this-world visuals
and sublime sound increasing in volume and vitality until there was nothing
left but the totality of the occasion. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">One of the
musical highlights ever for me, the break into the last verse of “Fastlove”,
came to pass and took me over the top. Two hours and a lifetime of music later,
just before the end of the show, George apologised self-deprecatingly for
playing it, adding that he simply had to, and then launched into the only
performance on the tour of “Last Christmas”, with snowy scenes on stage one week
ahead of that particular Christmas in the singular city. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">By then I was
a bundle of bliss. I had never known such joy, love and communion. My whole
life had led me to transcendence.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;">Manifestations
exceed all expectations.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><b><i>'Death is the Ultimate Orgasm' by Robin Wheeler out on 31 October 2018 </i></b></span></div>
Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-86028471509938722712018-07-20T12:17:00.000+02:002018-07-20T12:17:04.862+02:00Loved<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let yourself be
loved. The universe wants to love you. Life wants to reward you for being here
and ravish you with appreciation. People want to give you gratitude and
affection. Everything and everyone is delighted and overflowing. The only
barrier is you. Let love in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let your guard
drop and your armour fall to the floor. Let your tenderness soak in the warm
sunshine. Let your realness reign and feel the fresh air against your tingling
skin. Hear the music on the breeze and let your heart sing along. Allow love to
take control of your being.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwHgSs62PD8_0OeyxKlklUjK_Haf-wP_5ho6o7Zcw1tK2SrjSiGUBPXnSDhbqMAtp6f4DTNTxUnPSANSkzRFY-W3afPhmM6L83bgYymXW6IYeOjbt0OskHW94MiXm6zlDCH022CW8hu5L/s1600/Mandala.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="480" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjKwHgSs62PD8_0OeyxKlklUjK_Haf-wP_5ho6o7Zcw1tK2SrjSiGUBPXnSDhbqMAtp6f4DTNTxUnPSANSkzRFY-W3afPhmM6L83bgYymXW6IYeOjbt0OskHW94MiXm6zlDCH022CW8hu5L/s200/Mandala.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let life take
care of you. It brought you here in the first place and is carrying you all the
way home. Let it fill you along the way. Don’t stand in its way and don’t hold
up a wall. Don’t maintain your pain or justify your jaundice. They are more
than valid but all part of the process! Love is the process. Let love in.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We are
traumatised by life experience. We are alienated from ourselves by hurt and
social conditioning. There is a wedge between us and the wide and wonderful
world, a barrier that breaks us into separate bits. We feel like we exist in
isolation. There is a cynical, doubtful self that stays clear of perceived
danger and protects itself at the expense of wellness. Will I get hurt? I
always have been. Will I feel abandoned? That’s my core theme. Will I allow
love to have its way? I don’t even know what that is anymore. It’s a common
tale that we all can tell.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But love is the
way. Love is baking us from all directions, hot and keen to get in. Love is the
eternal summertime surrounding us with rich opulence. Love is also aching to
get out. Love is our essence and our fragrance, a soulful flower keen to
continuously bloom. It must be shared so that we may be free and happy. It must
come in and go out all the time. Let yourself love and be loved.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Let the truth
prevail.</span></span><br />
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-41890270363144079012018-06-05T12:47:00.000+02:002018-06-05T12:47:04.940+02:00Dangerous<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">A</span> few years ago I was stopped by a traffic officer for yielding
at a stop sign in a business area of my hometown. He told me that he was going
to give me a fine for the offense and, of course, I took offense, which kicked
me into retaliatory action. While he prepared his form, I prepared my impromptu
presentation<span style="font-family: inherit;">.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />W</span></span>ith his belly in my face, I started slowly. “Can I ask
you question while you write that?” I asked.<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />"</span>OK,” he replied coolly, expecting the reaction he gets
from everyone.<br />“What percentage of people do you think do what I did and
slow down at that stop sign without coming to a complete stop?”<br />He didn’t answer.<br />“Really,” I continued. “Is it five percent, ten percent,
fifty percent or ninety percent?”<br />After a moment he said, “Ninety percent.”<br /><br />“That’s interesting,” I reflected calmly. “So almost
everyone does the same, which means that the stop sign should not be there.
People are voting with their behaviour with the vast majority making themselves
clear.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>And you, who works for the people, choose to give me a fine.”<br />“It’s the law,” he retorted.<br /><br />“That’s interesting too,” I continued. “That’s the same law
that twenty years ago didn’t recognise you as worthy of the vote.” That got to
him. “The law changes, you know,” I asserted, “and it is seldom wise or fair or
in service of people.”<br />He kept writing.<br /><br />At that point someone walked across the road in front of
us and I picked up on that too. “That guy over there,” I said, “isn’t he
jaywalking?”<br />“Yes,” replied the cop.<br />“So why don’t you give him a fine too?” I asked.<br />“I am busy with you,” he said.<br />“So you are exercising your discretion,” I told him.<br />“Yes,” he confirmed.<br /><br />“Well, I exercised my discretion when I paused at the
stop sign,” I said. “I slowed down, assessed the situation, saw that it was
safe to go, and didn’t put anyone at risk. What makes your discretion better
than mine?”<br />He didn’t have an answer to that.<br />“Are you older than me or more educated?” I went on. “Why
is your decision placed above mine?”<br />At this point he could contain himself no longer. “You should
speak to my partner,” he said. “He thinks like you.”<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />H</span>e shouted out across the road to his colleague, who
approached and joined the conversation. I greeted him in my friendly and
intense way and ran through some of the points I’d already covered, and he
laughed.<br />“You’re right,” he said.<br />“I know that I am,” I smiled.<br /><br />“Do you think that giving me that fine is going to change
my behaviour?” I asked. “I am going to keep driving using my best intelligence
and you have made no attempt to advise me on any better way of doing things,
which should be the real point here, not so?”<br />They looked at me in disbelief.<br /><br />“You’re just meeting daily income targets with those
fines, not serving the community or improving the situation on the roads. Doesn’t
it say on the side of your car, ‘Protect and Serve’?”<br />“Yes, we are given targets every morning before we leave
the station,” the second cop said.<br />“There you go,” I nodded.<br /><br />“One more thing,” I went on, “and I’m asking this man-to-man,
as human beings, not to your uniform but to you as a person. Did you wear your
safety belt when you drove here earlier?” Without waiting for an answer I said,
“Because if not, that makes you a hypocrite. It should say on the side of the
car, then, ‘Warning: Armed Hypocrite’, so that the community knows what we are
dealing with.” </span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">They were dumbstruck.<br /><br />Driving my point home, I said, “So when you go to sleep
tonight, just ask yourself if you are being true to yourself in what you do for
a living. You may just be betraying your soul every day on this job.”<br /><br />The second cop was laughing loudly at this point, loving
every word of my argument, while the first just looked on<span style="font-family: inherit;">.<br />"</span>I’ll tell you something,” the first one said. “I’ve had pregnant
women in tears begging me to let them off and I have still given them the fine,
but you, you are a dangerous man.”<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br />"</span>That’s right,” I confirmed with a big smile. “Keep what
I’ve said in mind,” I suggested, “because at some point you will be forced to
be true to yourself in life.”<span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /><br />S</span>tating my speaking fee, I added, “When you are ready I
can come and do a talk to your department about how to live and work in a more
sincere and intelligent way.”<br /><br />“We have to go now,” the second one said as a vehicle drove
up with two more colleagues in it.<br />“Let me give you each of one of these,” I finished,
handing them each a copy of my book INSIGHTS and placing a business card in the
chapter called ‘Questions for the Cops’. “This is a gift for you. You are
welcome to stay in touch once you have read it. I have given away many over the
years but never heard from anyone again, not once.”<br /><br />“Thank you,” they said as they jumped into the vehicle,
did a U-Turn through the intersection and sped off without wearing safety
belts.<br /><br />Fine-free, I continued on my way.</span></span><br />
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-81653418737087473682017-11-05T19:31:00.000+02:002017-11-06T11:09:07.871+02:00Bringing Down Walls<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We live in a world of walls. We are
surrounded and defined by them. Our perceived individuality is a function of
them and our personalities are forms of them.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We are closed in by constructs of
which we are largely and insistently unconscious. We put and keep these walls
up. Have a look.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">When we see them, they dissolve. We realise
why we have put them up and we remember our oneness behind the barriers. We
live the high of freedom and reunion. Healing happens when the walls come
down.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifn5q3n8BTGF_l7P7GAk9lBN2SCaTf4cA3PR0LU0jCFG4qqTFFiJBc648r5CC22jp5buZ0uSzx7RZd_zN8hhphGkZx2LFNzLBheXkMqTN55EVtQhjrZNYJpadS9MjNMi1NAlUoVhcOKQ0e/s1600/gate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEifn5q3n8BTGF_l7P7GAk9lBN2SCaTf4cA3PR0LU0jCFG4qqTFFiJBc648r5CC22jp5buZ0uSzx7RZd_zN8hhphGkZx2LFNzLBheXkMqTN55EVtQhjrZNYJpadS9MjNMi1NAlUoVhcOKQ0e/s200/gate.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We don't want to be closed. We have cut
ourselves off to protect ourselves from pain, to keep danger out, and to try to
keep vulnerability in. But we have created bigger troubles than we have saved
ourselves from. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We are lonely and isolated. We are sad and sore. We look strong
and safe but we are broken and miserable. Walls are the way we have set up this
suffering.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We want to be open. We want to merge with
the oneness. We want to reconnect and truly live. We want to be successful in our natural state. We want to be happy and barrier-free. We want
to be ourselves for a living. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">We can and we are. It hurts but the
constructs are crumbling. It's scary but the structures are subsiding. It's
revolutionary but it's rudimentary. The transformative time in history
here. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;">High walls are making way for high humans.</span></div>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt;"><br /></span></div>
Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-40765450226278447302017-09-13T14:21:00.000+02:002017-09-13T14:21:39.484+02:00Working with the Inner<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Do
the inner work. There is nothing more worthwhile within, and no better endeavour
for affecting the outer. </span><br />
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Go in and face what's there. Feel it, see it, let it
be and allow it to unravel. Surrender to the awakening that it provides. It
reveals everything you need to know and carries the timeless truth within it.
It also shows the way in the world and makes you ready to encounter it. The
inner is the way.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
work is the way. Life is work, in gratitude and giving. It is a blessing to be
here unpacking who we are and sharing it with the world. Work is how we
actualise and give service. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Work is art, love and joy. Work is making a
difference. </span></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Inner work is tuning in and sitting with what's there. It is
letting go into the vortex pulling us ever towards it, without releasing
awareness. It means never letting go of awareness. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Watch whatever happens
wherever you go. Always be allowing the watcher to be growing from every
experience. Every experience is an intensification of watching. You will one
day watch yourself die. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
are always watching yourself die. Be increasingly aware of it. Everything is
you dying. This is true living! Every moment is the burning up of everything. The world is on fire.
Your physicality is a flame. Watch it. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This is the work. This is the fun. This
is the magical mystery. This is the deepening of being. This is the settling into who you really are.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">This
is the awakening. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span>Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-20058178749960700112017-08-24T10:43:00.000+02:002017-08-24T13:46:07.293+02:00Processing Emotions<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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don't know how to process emotions. This is a big problem. How can you live
rightly if you don't know how to feel? You will block and deny what you do
feel, endure endless inner conflict, and act that out wherever you go.</span></span><br />
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">How can
you relate to others if you are not aware of and managing what you are feeling,
or when you are acting out your intrinsic war? How can you thrive or connect if you are
repressed? Your life will be superficial and your effect on others will be
destructive. Emotions are essential elements of wellness.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0xAOHtxVbGyAkTDx2dc1N8wScLHV4TZ0abqK7DcUHgIm5L05nZ8uTq8dxLRo-gDlVOlv8hZ3u2TNmTP20R9vXPvLN6QfPDFv0xiQ_G86hvyKb6Z9fy3WywaVQA_FllvyJjUPpotiEysqN/s1600/sauce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg0xAOHtxVbGyAkTDx2dc1N8wScLHV4TZ0abqK7DcUHgIm5L05nZ8uTq8dxLRo-gDlVOlv8hZ3u2TNmTP20R9vXPvLN6QfPDFv0xiQ_G86hvyKb6Z9fy3WywaVQA_FllvyJjUPpotiEysqN/s200/sauce.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Emotional
wellness dictates the quality of our lives. It defines our intimacy by allowing
us access to it. The degree to which we are one with ourselves determines our
openness to others and to existence as a whole. Feeling is fundamental.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Face
your feelings. Let them be there fully. Let yourself feel. Let the energy move
through and reveal its magical messages. Be alive on every level.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Allow the
doors to be open and the life force to flow. You will thrive on another level
altogether. You will be yourself and bond with others. You will see clearly and
connect properly.</span></span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You
will be, deeply. </span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span>Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-81115133385325169692017-07-28T19:30:00.000+02:002017-08-01T11:18:21.036+02:00Up Your Standards<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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your standards. Stop putting up with anything that isn't up where you belong. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You know you should be up there with the knowing you have always had. You know
you have compromised yourself your whole life into a compromised position. </span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You
know its the way of the world but you know even more that you have given way to
it. You know that's why nothing is working as it's supposed to. You know you are fed up with people's nonsense.</span><br />
<br />
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">You know that it's
up to you to make things right.</span><br />
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
world can't give you what's in keeping with your worth when you keep selling
yourself short. You can't get what you deserve when you keep giving up on
your inherent standards. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpFw_TPUvrU1pVyOWJNbDUHAXh9_7bYZk5Tzq_X_phKwANCVcHZC2aqJOTraBrrwEvg2yoHX3Y-tI9MoR01BkVmna-9cnt75BXQAlJgvjh0ndyOWuM2JUTVNsIiJgSSHXk5YEMy_FI-xWT/s1600/window.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhpFw_TPUvrU1pVyOWJNbDUHAXh9_7bYZk5Tzq_X_phKwANCVcHZC2aqJOTraBrrwEvg2yoHX3Y-tI9MoR01BkVmna-9cnt75BXQAlJgvjh0ndyOWuM2JUTVNsIiJgSSHXk5YEMy_FI-xWT/s200/window.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I know it's tremendously tough to stand your ground, to overcome the
pain inside and be firm. I know, too, that you simply have to find a way, and that you can. You
will be bullied at every turn until you learn your lesson. You are worth
standing up for.</span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Up
your standards to where you feel met. You won't be at peace until you do. And
met you will be. The immediate and wider world will have no option but to deal
with you as you present yourself. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">People may throw tantrums at first but they
will respect, admire and emulate you. Everyone wants the same for themselves.
Up your standards for you and for everyone.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
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<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span><span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">See
you in the sky.</span></div>
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<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman" , "serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">
</span>Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-68162689968768292622017-07-17T19:48:00.000+02:002017-07-17T19:48:13.055+02:00When you have had enough<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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you have had enough, really had enough, you will do something new.<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will take responsibility for yourself and face your
feelings.</span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will allow the pain to pass through and the revelation
to rise. </span></div>
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<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tuzaio1Q_-Zw_njCXEpbbPEDQ6nyXtzcd8mq2A6wcXFqXpigItD-WKnWKpE5z3ruMy0STIKtxEn_03Ugb8ArVrTAVWMBv6NplTxqp87IWPC27hRV1tZRht2Bpkzk8F5WYQ8TRJ7ogZX_/s1600/9767.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg-tuzaio1Q_-Zw_njCXEpbbPEDQ6nyXtzcd8mq2A6wcXFqXpigItD-WKnWKpE5z3ruMy0STIKtxEn_03Ugb8ArVrTAVWMBv6NplTxqp87IWPC27hRV1tZRht2Bpkzk8F5WYQ8TRJ7ogZX_/s200/9767.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will understand forgiveness and be eternally grateful
for your whole experience.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will finally hear and respect yourself, and do the same
for other people.</span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will take no more nonsense from any person - human, legal
or corporate. </span></div>
</span></span></span></span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;">
<br />
</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will change the world. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will awaken.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will be free.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will do all of this without doing anything at all. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will find out who you are. </span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">When you have had enough,
really had enough, you will be yourself for a living.</span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;">When
you have had enough, you will be happy.</span><br />
<br />
</div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>
</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-3555073928070121892017-07-04T22:09:00.000+02:002017-07-04T22:14:08.949+02:00Helpful<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<w:EnableOpenTypeKerning/>
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<m:brkBin m:val="before"/>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Many
articles, blogs and books are helpful and worth reading. It's essential, however, not
to get lost in their message, even the best of them.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFlUiCgbv-10_iSky37kBKJrkZmsqoDI5fbfpEAr01UaCQ0I0O1IN704ED08S7RxifKFptfHVxaR9PgvIncpoPdENtacP6Tjt3nz2VUqYU0CLNFz0jjrbL5CGfPsgtnW4nwmNZjWpQXgN/s1600/7805.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiFlUiCgbv-10_iSky37kBKJrkZmsqoDI5fbfpEAr01UaCQ0I0O1IN704ED08S7RxifKFptfHVxaR9PgvIncpoPdENtacP6Tjt3nz2VUqYU0CLNFz0jjrbL5CGfPsgtnW4nwmNZjWpQXgN/s200/7805.JPG" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">No-one's voice is truer
than your own. No-one's knowing is more right for you than yours, no matter who
they are. No-one's insight should draw you towards them more than it takes you
into your own illumination.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everyone
has something to offer and each is a teacher. We are interdependent and all one,
learning from <span style="font-family: inherit;">one</span> other all the time.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But no-one is helpful unless they get
you to hear and trust yourself.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Hear
and trust yourself.</span></span><br />
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span>Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-54702764266247391202017-06-05T12:20:00.000+02:002017-06-06T19:41:39.957+02:00Forget Productivity<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Forget about output and efficiency. Let go of that entire
paradigm.</span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Drop the tension that comes with measuring performance and trying
constantly to measure up. Relax, trust, create and live in a natural and
healthy way. You will produce much more, without trying or compromising, and it
will be of an altogether different quality.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH-YpxkR1CpTvhBWVtWJmx08SZaNWgRsF0Nxn8HPl4pNS4p13haS1P-r00kfpETri-JgzYc_YxLSLGwJSVqZvwa2TbfXEpxBa3E3hye3FNa6eF-dAjLg7edojdVy5nxGWsUD9XnANb5I1O/s1600/3562.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1600" data-original-width="1200" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhH-YpxkR1CpTvhBWVtWJmx08SZaNWgRsF0Nxn8HPl4pNS4p13haS1P-r00kfpETri-JgzYc_YxLSLGwJSVqZvwa2TbfXEpxBa3E3hye3FNa6eF-dAjLg7edojdVy5nxGWsUD9XnANb5I1O/s200/3562.JPG" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It will be essential, elemental and
authentic. It will be sincere and unique. It will be your life’s work. It will
be you.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You will be steadily happy, no matter what oscillations
you are taken through for the unfolding of your inner myth in the evolving
world. You will stay blissful because you are on course. You will know joy
because you are being true. </span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">The mad world can run its course and you will be
here when it’s ready to heal and be healthy. You will be teaching away by your
very being. You will be needed and appreciated.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
</div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You will be richer than ever.</span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-24652421430894895962017-05-18T13:43:00.000+02:002017-05-18T13:43:01.783+02:00Understanding Illness<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Illness
brings you back to who you are. It returns you to the truth. It takes you
forward, in quantum leaps, to who you need to be. It precipitates seismic
shifts into the new, and back to the real.</span></span></span><br />
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>Illness
reveals secrets you have been unable or unwilling to hear. It stops being
discreet and says it like it is, taking a whisper on the wind and using it to blow down
your door. It scatters your attachments like dead leaves around the
otherwise-ignored corners of the garden.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK50jeJgywIbaWomCyfWOkIV8RwM37tBEfgYAEmDvUA0DuAeelLwm8JyxkSwF2IUDYjyQF61IsPkx3RluEdu9SmNSVhhvqod4r77EfcxGJ477kceRilgR3gDaHy2Z5hlbPE5hfcJ2iO7mO/s1600/flowers.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgK50jeJgywIbaWomCyfWOkIV8RwM37tBEfgYAEmDvUA0DuAeelLwm8JyxkSwF2IUDYjyQF61IsPkx3RluEdu9SmNSVhhvqod4r77EfcxGJ477kceRilgR3gDaHy2Z5hlbPE5hfcJ2iO7mO/s200/flowers.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>It weaves you into a cocoon and then
drives you to break your way out of it. By making you die, it teaches you to
fly. When
you look around you are reborn as who you always had inside.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>You were never
really ill. You were always on course. Now you know. </span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span>You
keep transforming.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span>
</span>Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-30172448444767877852017-04-24T21:15:00.001+02:002017-04-24T21:15:04.113+02:00Keeping it close<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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it close. Your precious energy, keep it close. Keep it close to your chest,
close to your core. Keep it central and centred.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Keep it where it serves you
solidly instead of being sucked up by circumstance. Don't let the vampires
siphon your sacred sauce. Keep it where it accumulates in readiness for opportunity.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Retain your power and let the world come to you. Chance favours the
resourceful. Keep yourself ready.</span></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZGp7pxYRSjoLKcr85OSS741OfmoEI2ohnLwn6Nnkgwnqo3CcZvaNg01xgmgyKswRMZKXT79t45gntYw1JftgWS0VPZ-gRK3N9nOStu5m0FjrvjwTE1orZXLovThum_ejpxcY3tUPxh7Y/s1600/robin3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiEZGp7pxYRSjoLKcr85OSS741OfmoEI2ohnLwn6Nnkgwnqo3CcZvaNg01xgmgyKswRMZKXT79t45gntYw1JftgWS0VPZ-gRK3N9nOStu5m0FjrvjwTE1orZXLovThum_ejpxcY3tUPxh7Y/s200/robin3.jpg" width="153" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"></span></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Everything
always changes. Keep this understanding close. No matter what is happening, it
will shift, and that will transpire relatively quickly. A masterful
moment-dweller knows this well. A magician keeps this close. </span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></div>
<div class="MsoNormal">
<br /></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Do not fret over
pressure. It's here to keep you close to yourself. When it shifts you will be
grateful for your wisdom. Amazing movement will emerge and you will be wiser
than ever.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Sit it out and watch. Do not dissipate under duress.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span>Keeping
it close is key.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br />
<div class="MsoNoSpacing">
<span style="mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span><br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
</span></div>
<br />
Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-5028868583167235542017-03-19T21:33:00.000+02:002017-03-23T15:19:46.830+02:00Finding your level<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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a level at which you ought to be operating. You won't work well at any other
stratum. You may not have the courage or the confidence to pitch yourself
appropriately, and you may be fiercely frustrated with your stubborn stasis, so
you are confronted with finding your fit and frequency before you can
flow.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What
can you do but grapple with your sense of self until you set it straight?
Everything will revolve around adjusting until it slots into sync. All
endeavours will push you to be who you are meant to be, despite all doubt,
resistance and attachment. All experiences will edge you towards alignment.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Everything will make you edgy until you find your groove, at which point you
will disappear and the music will make itself. This will be at your
level.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You
will take shots at it and fall short, not because you are unable to reach it
but because you still can't see yourself in the right way. Your attempts are
how you test yourself and the waters. They are essential experiments and
experiences that grind and grow you into your fit.</span></span><br />
<br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGQ4po99hhy6fCF-NVsijokmgoxIxJLp6BZTUbywyYGjpcVfb0ReYsiXL1i3aPiSXkHm3tS0o01XYpSZMLJ9JbhsC-NUCBxf_jeT6_G0jq4INCWXFcSJiR6mSBIYyXm4lcQqUFhamF46P/s1600/hotel.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjoGQ4po99hhy6fCF-NVsijokmgoxIxJLp6BZTUbywyYGjpcVfb0ReYsiXL1i3aPiSXkHm3tS0o01XYpSZMLJ9JbhsC-NUCBxf_jeT6_G0jq4INCWXFcSJiR6mSBIYyXm4lcQqUFhamF46P/s200/hotel.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">That interview you go for, that
article you write and send to an aspirational publication, that creative angle
that comes to you spontaneously and inspires you to see and take a gap that
opens up in front of you...</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The
universe and your higher self are conspiring to let you prove yourself. You are
by far the toughest critic to overcome. It takes all you have, and it takes
surrender to the same degree. You cannot force it and you cannot give up on it
but you have to go through both repeatedly before you find it.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can't just
fake it either. Your level will elude you at every turn yet await you wherever
you look. If you are sincere, you will go through hell but you will eventually
shift into place.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It
will be surprising and profound, and it will be what you have always known. It will be what you have been looking for finally finding you. It
will being a whole heartfelt heave of happy health.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It will be worth every
ounce of effort and release. It will be on the level and it will be your
home.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Then
you can take it up.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-87661854172185859402017-03-01T10:24:00.001+02:002017-03-08T21:27:19.062+02:00Lack<div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Belief in lack is an active awareness. More accurately, it is an active unawareness. It's a perspective that we conjure, one that keeps us unconscious.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It takes us away from the truth. It creates all kinds of cretinous constructs that keep us out of touch with ourselves. Lack is not real but we make it seem so. We insist on it as a world view. This induces most of our anguish, and the anguish then furthers the skewed perception. Lack endures and we limp along.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghBSwBt1Lk5YSogGpBVG4J-PciBVX9Sf3-hMvknaFxVn8C9p8Eie55dnvsa6IwPzR4YIu8EQQcWcksklBMeagibidvPfNj2HDoFQpKCcoB_A_q8MKWhMGv3WMj1yydNWCeKn5w_6gbJxGf/s1600/set.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghBSwBt1Lk5YSogGpBVG4J-PciBVX9Sf3-hMvknaFxVn8C9p8Eie55dnvsa6IwPzR4YIu8EQQcWcksklBMeagibidvPfNj2HDoFQpKCcoB_A_q8MKWhMGv3WMj1yydNWCeKn5w_6gbJxGf/s200/set.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are unaware that we are believing lack into being, and will fight to uphold our point of view and suffering, but we do still know on some level what we are doing. We know that i<span style="font-family: inherit;">t</span> is unhealthy, unsavoury and unsustainable.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It gives us some sort of twisted kick that we choose in bitterness, indulging our self-induced right to complain and be miserable. It's a way of staying childish and renouncing responsibility. It's a device for avoiding life.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is no lack in real life. Release your false sense of it. Instead of fighting, find what you are enforcing and let go of it. Take the tension as an opportunity to relax through it back to an integration with abundance. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">There is only abundance. Life is constantly flowing boundlessly. We need not believe anything to enjoy it. We need not do anything to be rich. We need not conjure a sense of wellbeing.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">We are health itself.</span></span></div>
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good day. Don’t fret or worry. Trust and enjoy life. </span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Make the changes you need
to make. Move into the new. Be happy where you are and follow the pull of
further happiness. Let go into the longing. Dissolve into the flow.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Everything
is up in the air. The human race is metamorphosing. We are going extinct the
way we were and being born on a whole new level. Maybe we aren’t. Maybe we
won’t make it. It’s important to sit with that distinct possibility. In
awareness of reality, we can create a fresh one. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCkwTbQZ9B9lri_v4xYtViyaNffsHKRnRigABNCjEyrQEtfc3fs5-s-Xq1UI8FkdjS8MjC9Z85pHcq34zO_vs6x_zQxOSW5lht-G4U-QJbWli04vJGVDJkmUhXR4JYYOiKffNv6WhLwmSd/s1600/Roof.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhCkwTbQZ9B9lri_v4xYtViyaNffsHKRnRigABNCjEyrQEtfc3fs5-s-Xq1UI8FkdjS8MjC9Z85pHcq34zO_vs6x_zQxOSW5lht-G4U-QJbWli04vJGVDJkmUhXR4JYYOiKffNv6WhLwmSd/s200/Roof.jpg" width="150" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course we will make it.
Everything is in the balance. This is a do-or-die situation. It is a matter of
life and death, no less. Look into the heart of it. Choose the right way
forward. Happiness is the way.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Have a
good day. Have a good moment. Have a good life. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Don’t be afraid. Fear is the
blinding barrier to living to the full. It is a cloud, a fog of forgetting.
That’s all, yet it controls the old way of life. We are moving out of that
heavy weather. We are heading into the sun. We are stepping out and walking on
the beach of life. We are learning how to be happy again. We are remembering.
Have a good day.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Do not
be convinced by the tension. Use the tension to let go. All is good. Surrender
into it. Let yourself be as happy as can be. Then release into even more of it.
Do not fear. Just take care of the moment with simple joy. Everything will take
care of itself. Feel the love.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Be. Be
yourself. Be yourself for a living. Be yourself for a living in our
transforming world.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Live the
love.</span></div>
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-32299641338497426102016-12-20T12:14:00.001+02:002016-12-20T12:37:16.528+02:00Identifying with your Brand<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Most people get their identities from other people’s
brands. You get a job with a company, which comes with a title, and suddenly
you are somebody. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have position and prestige by association. But how
substantial can that be? The giver of that status can take it away, plus they
can demand all sorts of compromise in exchange for it. You are strutting around
on shaky ground.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You may convince others of your standing but you know the
bottom line. You are nothing without that brand and you are nothing with it
too. Your delusion will not stand you in good stead.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuksSMlcRFcvWY55-1Dzlavoi1CJf-sQHltTEsi-5S76OlwN0zKzbWhV9QFwdhrBYcRZwDL6gTnhBZUVL5GOABtHo8FDqOnOTvJS5Z5XDWH2mAC9O1bdlFmjZRY0M-vebPQfHU3lKeRx-L/s1600/house.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjuksSMlcRFcvWY55-1Dzlavoi1CJf-sQHltTEsi-5S76OlwN0zKzbWhV9QFwdhrBYcRZwDL6gTnhBZUVL5GOABtHo8FDqOnOTvJS5Z5XDWH2mAC9O1bdlFmjZRY0M-vebPQfHU3lKeRx-L/s200/house.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Some people get their identities from their own brands.
You start your own business and instantly call yourself the CEO, even though
you are the one and only member, who does every task, including wondering where
the money is going to come from.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You have prestige by positioning, which is
potentially empowering, but people can easily see through it, too. You have given
yourself status, which may not be worth much in the end.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You can make the most
of it over time, building something substantial, but that might make you full
of yourself. Is there anything more off-putting than someone stuffed with
being self-made?</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">A sincere personal brand can be a healthy, living thing,
one of the greatest creative experiences available to us. Part of its wellness,
though, is that we do not over-associate with it. It is a wholesome expression
of who we are and how we are of service, but it is not us.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">It is our legacy but
not our identity. We work with it but we are not it. In fact, by not being synonymous
with us, it teaches us who we really are. We grow into the truth behind the
brand and the business.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Identifying with someone else’s brand is sad and pathetic.
Identifying with your own brand can be even more dangerous. It’s essential to
remain nobody behind whatever role you play and fulfil.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Being yourself for a living means thriving freely beyond the
trappings of identit<span style="font-family: inherit;">y.</span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
</span></span>Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-48686806589353378712016-12-01T11:18:00.002+02:002016-12-01T12:33:28.231+02:00New Business<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Business
is in bad taste. It is beneath us.</span><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Of course we all need to earn a living, so
to speak, but the universe brought us here without us selling ourselves, did it
not? We are in good hands. We are, in fact, those hands, inseparable from the
big picture. So why make ourselves small and sell out? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stay in tune instead and
let the whole do what it does. Stay integrated and see. Business is petty and
we are quite the opposite. There is no need to trade for a few pennies what is
priceless.</span>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We all
need to earn a living because the world is upside down. The
planet provides for us, we have just turned everything inside out. We are inverted ourselves, making a case for what we do not want. </span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjsoLwRvqu4k3Pdl0yUk0wQvT4tqQbGBglXo26_P0AZQO4vEPPnDRUEWQGzqM-7aTVJiSgVAE4kMNhVVnaDZC67ZoqxaoXuij8clljCTLdZhPXUTAm-l-7N174vwmvXQ2lAdkCnlEYzNYo/s1600/garden.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgjsoLwRvqu4k3Pdl0yUk0wQvT4tqQbGBglXo26_P0AZQO4vEPPnDRUEWQGzqM-7aTVJiSgVAE4kMNhVVnaDZC67ZoqxaoXuij8clljCTLdZhPXUTAm-l-7N174vwmvXQ2lAdkCnlEYzNYo/s200/garden.jpg" width="200" /></a><span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Tell someone
that earning a living is a red herring and they will argue with you, insisting
that you are out of touch with reality. They want to be free but they build a
prison instead. That’s why we all need to earn a living: we won’t have it any
other way. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">It’s time to have it another way. A better, more enlightened and
happier way.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In a global
scenario where business rules the roost and exploits every individual out
there, of course earning a living will be viewed as non-negotiable. But in a
situation where robots and artificial intelligence are taking over most jobs,
when those jobs have been alienating people for decades, is the idea of earning
a living even valid anymore? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Aren’t we all going out of the old way of doing business?
Do we not need a revolutionary approach? </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">In such a new setting, would people
not be taken care of on a basic level, with food and housing and transport, all
provided sustainably and pollution-free, and thus be able to share their
talents and love and joy and creativity in a blooming, awakened world? Wouldn’t
the human contribution be prized instead of repressed? Wouldn’t we be
empowered to be ourselves?</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Here we will
not have to earn our living, we will have it automatically provided as a matter
of intelligence, dignity and respect, and what we give will just make it all the
richer. Being yourself for a living will not be a business, it will be way
above that. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We will not be reduced to the lowest common denominator controlled
from behind the curtain by corruption. We will have awakened and claimed our
power. Politics, police and exploitation will have no place in our world. </span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">Stand your ground, because this future is here.</span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="mso-ansi-language: EN-US;">We are
learning and thriving on a new earth.</span></div>
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-14618839033500293962016-11-23T21:08:00.000+02:002016-11-24T11:32:27.925+02:00Rude<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I received a message this morning from an events organiser and magazine publisher with whom I have had some dealings over the years but none for at
least the last five. Her social media profile does not have a picture of her on
it but a logo from her business, and it goes by that and not her personal name.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This message from her logo popped up
out of the blue:<i> </i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Robin, I have a high regard for you, and it is in this
spirit that I would like to tell you that your open shirt image is not a really
good marketing image. I also think the cover photo of your latest book does not
show you as a professional. It’s just my opinion – but your value as a
professional needs an image overhaul. Lotsa luv (no name given)</i> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was writing a piece from a new book at the time, but I replied immediately, saying:<i> </i></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><i>Who is that behind the image? Not very professional to
give unsolicited advice. Coming from you I take your comments as a compliment
and validation. Thank you!</i> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">What she did was more than unprofessional. It was rude. I
had to deal with her accordingly, but do so cleverly. I was ready because she was not the first to
say such things in such ways about BIGGER INSIGHTS.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I have had a few gnarled
and uninformed reactions, so I had already processed the experience and grown
impervious to it, although I was not particularly vulnerable in the first place. I do know what I am doing, and it is all carefully considered. Her opinion stands as just that, but it is ignorant of my
work and out of line on that point alone.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She is speaking out of context, too, which is her problem
and not something I can be distracted by. She shouldn’t try to make it my
problem either. She should act in line with the high regard in which she claims
to hold me, or stop holding me in high regard. And she should watch out. She may
make a fool of herself, and I may be in the mood to help her along.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The first person to take issue with my new book cover did so
behind my back, and then in sugar-coated and diluted form via
messages to me on social media. She took it upon herself to decide how I should
be living my life and creating my art, and then inform me of her decision. She stuck her nose into my business.</span></span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2oRYtdUR0pbJ8ibouMaVIvDEQyDOHSP_z-0qcUUQBr02IpxKiZ-NI6AnN1ZsJJ1MAaDSgVnwzSNItWXYi84yF7CnqlJ3MuINmcJMNYlfZnDrKBFT3x5H0BGWoasDqYmgPshKO1FeXCzra/s1600/BIGGER-INSIGHTS-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh2oRYtdUR0pbJ8ibouMaVIvDEQyDOHSP_z-0qcUUQBr02IpxKiZ-NI6AnN1ZsJJ1MAaDSgVnwzSNItWXYi84yF7CnqlJ3MuINmcJMNYlfZnDrKBFT3x5H0BGWoasDqYmgPshKO1FeXCzra/s200/BIGGER-INSIGHTS-4.jpg" width="168" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">She said that I should smile because it makes me look younger, as if she would have welcomed similar comments made in return. I humoured her because of previous dealings and would not be drawn back into that madness.
I could see what feelings were behind her opinion and her approach, and I felt how
much energy was in it all.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Personal provocations aside, the book cover was having an
effect. People were reacting strongly. This was a good sign.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The next kind soul to express her profound concern about my image did so on only our second meeting. Our first had happened the afternoon
before that when we convened to talk about her ideas to turn my work into global webinars. She had approached me by email and happened to be in town
for the week, and I was out her way for another meeting, so we slotted in an
hour to talk further.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It was unsettled and scattered, and I felt afterwards that she
did not get my work as she pretended to, and had some other agenda or power-play going on behind the scenes, which was subtly obstructive. She wanted to
see me speak, and I had a talk on the next morning, so she came to sit in on it, and
then we squeezed in another meeting between that and the next one I had scheduled over
lunch. This too did not flow, and it wore me out.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">When we reached my car I was already late for my next and
original appointment, but she decided to spring it on me that, although she loved my work, she had to say that she was so put
off by the new book cover that it almost made her turn away from dealing with
me. She shared caringly that the look was out of keeping with the gentle person that I am and with the rest of my branding.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">"Could you have it redesigned?" she asked. "Is it too late to
stop the print run?" This from someone I had just met and not resonated with,
but who felt intimate enough to guide me strategically at an imprudent time.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I considered both pieces of input, as one would, as valid,
and as part of all the feedback I received. Most people found the cover evocative, with some even finding it seductive. "It could be appropriately titled Hotter Insights," someone wrote. I thanked her and kept the idea for possible future use.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All of the reactions pointed in the right direction, which is that the book
is getting noticed and it’s speaking powerfully to people. If anyone
engages it and does so in context of the rest my work, they are sure to get at least
some of the big picture, and be affected positively by it.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They can read the
book first and then tell me it’s not the right cover. They may not like it, as a
matter of taste, or be offended and put off by it for some reason, but
they are welcome to try for themselves and <i>show</i> me how to do it.
Then maybe we can discuss it further.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">But people choose to be twisted and presumptuous fools.</span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">You can’t tell them that, though, because it’s rude.</span></span></div>
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-60090354844752236612016-11-10T11:11:00.000+02:002016-11-10T11:11:18.757+02:00One<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">I like
to have just one of everything. </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Who needs more than one watch? Choose the one you
love the most, the one that best depicts you and celebrates your life with every moment
you have it on, and wear it like this is</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>your last night on earth.</span><br />
<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivo5Utx5bFPTBky78FAwfbTTlG-j_SI-IC7DtwWhIEhPW5jvdlOmaChY4zMDvtvXYc_-S96ihB7YRDYoTPbinoqLkUpgu9J5oHCbRLk2Jd51I_NvsuHriomk49HuQB2IP6F9QF77mppZ4n/s1600/bike.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEivo5Utx5bFPTBky78FAwfbTTlG-j_SI-IC7DtwWhIEhPW5jvdlOmaChY4zMDvtvXYc_-S96ihB7YRDYoTPbinoqLkUpgu9J5oHCbRLk2Jd51I_NvsuHriomk49HuQB2IP6F9QF77mppZ4n/s200/bike.jpg" width="150" /></a><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Who has time for
second best? Wrap the ultimate around your wrist and proceed in presence.</span></span></span><br />
<br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Who
needs a second car? You can drive only one, as they say. I’ve had two and the
second was a compromise. I drove it out of duty and didn’t feel right on those
days. It encumbered me.</span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US"><br /></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Material possessions are already a high price to pay,
and it’s prudent to keep expenses down. If you must, wear one and drive one, but only one<span style="font-family: inherit;">.</span> </span></span></span><br />
<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span lang="EN-US">Simplicity
is an asset.</span></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-44381553655465477022016-10-27T18:24:00.000+02:002016-10-27T18:26:38.775+02:00Farm<br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">There’s a dairy farm in Irene fifty kilometres from
my house. It’s a popular weekend getaway where families can have breakfast
or lunch while the kids play on the old tractors or watch the cows getting
milked. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I go there now and then to get out of my usual environment and to introduce
friends to the village where my paternal grandparents built a house in the early
1950s and lived until the late 1980s. Irene<span style="font-family: inherit;"> is</span> where my father grew up, and where I have
been going my whole life. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span>
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It's between the cities of Johannesburg and Pretoria,
a piece of the country in the middle of the metropolis. Developments are
encroaching from all sides but the essence remains, and it seems to be safe for
the near future at least. I may move there one day, as the old house is
still in the family. So I visit the area with all of that in the air.</span></span><br />
<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIaOeV7q8yUY6Y9hp1qvyt42kXfe9mBG7gZAH8FqQFk43esSE7SSup066Hob7hW6ggslB44jReWfgKZLNqRp1ctTfMbvkYGnOB2o9jEtzucmekzV5F50_-heCHfIH5T8XXE-e-xzklE7zy/s1600/cow2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIaOeV7q8yUY6Y9hp1qvyt42kXfe9mBG7gZAH8FqQFk43esSE7SSup066Hob7hW6ggslB44jReWfgKZLNqRp1ctTfMbvkYGnOB2o9jEtzucmekzV5F50_-heCHfIH5T8XXE-e-xzklE7zy/s200/cow2.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">I was looking this morning at some of the photos I took
on my last trip of the cows and calves in the shelters and roaming the fields on
the farm, reflecting that their position there is as strange as it is beautiful
and vital. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">They have no control over it, though. They are entirely at the mercy of
humanity. They are slaves and captives in a pretty prison. They cannot wander
outside of the boundary fences or even the managed routines of the farm. They
are alive but they cannot preserve their lives or do anything with them.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">All
they can do is find joy in the moment in acceptance of their lot. If someone
wanted to convert them to beef, they would thus be converted. They are there,
but under the power and in the hands of others. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Those others are not seen. They
own the property and the industry but they run it from behind the scenes.
Patrons enjoy the facility and pay for its presence, supporting the ownership
but never encountering it directly. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">This is the way with all of us in the world. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Someone behind the curtain owns everything. We just work here, or visit there, and pay either way. We are just like those cows. We are
farmed, too, with our consent, albeit tacit. We are around because it suits
someone's pocket, and we have agreed to their<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>terms.</span></span></div>
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZ5ior4PevofWpjVY1KldCfiogNfCOrRAqIB9X39ZEECxnXSGQqkdqPuRj8eqUFBxQWITEZmnzbkR5A0Kgd-x6QQumxvW34zxk4Y_iMNWuYPfjVckgkkYXdzqT0nTFU8K9QyOxZuRYm63/s1600/cow.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgiZ5ior4PevofWpjVY1KldCfiogNfCOrRAqIB9X39ZEECxnXSGQqkdqPuRj8eqUFBxQWITEZmnzbkR5A0Kgd-x6QQumxvW34zxk4Y_iMNWuYPfjVckgkkYXdzqT0nTFU8K9QyOxZuRYm63/s200/cow.jpg" width="200" /></a><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">We think we have lovely surroundings,
and we do, insofar as they feed us enough to make us profitable. We pretend to
be happy and to make the most of it.</span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1635963233807198937.post-85324400017311997372016-10-10T21:49:00.000+02:002016-10-11T10:29:17.206+02:00Simplifying<br />
<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">In
your 'being yourself for a living' business, you are constantly in the process
of simplifying.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Everything is always getting more complex, changing and
evolving all the time with multiple interrelated factors and some new ones
coming into effect and others falling away. Your job is continually to evaluate<span style="font-family: inherit;">, </span>and to find the simple solution to what you want and need to achieve.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">You look for
the essential genius at the core of any predicament. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This is leadership. This
is innovation. This is survival. This is being in business.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">When
you are on top of it and good at it, you thrive on it. It is a state of constant
learning, though, so it is uncomfortable and challenging. There is change and
tension, rising pressure and shifts.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">This can get too much at times, or just
the anticipation can get to you, or the momentum of being on edge can make you
edgy, but the simple solution is always just around the corner. When you see it
and it slots into place, you slip into more ease and greater acceptance and
understanding.</span></span><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: small;">Simplicity
takes over.</span></span><br />
<br />Robin Wheelerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16317604335781904666noreply@blogger.com0