Up Your Standards

Up your standards. Stop putting up with anything that isn't up where you belong. 

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. 

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.

You know that it's up to you to make things right.

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. 

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. 

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. 

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.

See you in the sky.

When you have had enough

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will do something new. 

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will take responsibility for yourself and face your feelings. 

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will stop blaming the outside and let what's inside reveal itself. 

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will be real.

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will allow the pain to pass through and the revelation to rise. 

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will understand forgiveness and be eternally grateful for your whole experience.

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will finally hear and respect yourself, and do the same for other people.

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will take no more nonsense from any person - human, legal or corporate.

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will change the world. 

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will awaken.

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will be free.

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will do all of this without doing anything at all. 

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will find out who you are. 

When you have had enough, really had enough, you will be yourself for a living.

When you have had enough, you will be happy.

Helpful

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.

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. 

Everyone has something to offer and each is a teacher. We are interdependent and all one, learning from one other all the time.

But no-one is helpful unless they get you to hear and trust yourself.

Hear and trust yourself.

Forget Productivity

Forget about output and efficiency. Let go of that entire paradigm.

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.

It will be essential, elemental and authentic. It will be sincere and unique. It will be your life’s work. It will be you.

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. 

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.

You will be richer than ever.

Understanding Illness

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.

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.

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.

You were never really ill. You were always on course. Now you know. 

You keep transforming.

Keeping it close

Keep it close. Your precious energy, keep it close. Keep it close to your chest, close to your core. Keep it central and centred.

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.

Retain your power and let the world come to you. Chance favours the resourceful. Keep yourself ready.

 

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. 

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.

Sit it out and watch. Do not dissipate under duress.

Keeping it close is key.

Finding your level

There's 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.

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

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.

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.

It will be worth every ounce of effort and release. It will be on the level and it will be your home.

Then you can take it up.
 

Lack

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.

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.

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 it is unhealthy, unsavoury and unsustainable.

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.

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. 

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.

We are health itself.

Happy

Have a good day. Don’t fret or worry. Trust and enjoy life. 

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.

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. 

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.

Have a good day. Have a good moment. Have a good life. 

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.

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.

Be. Be yourself. Be yourself for a living. Be yourself for a living in our transforming world.

Live the love.

Identifying with your Brand

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Being yourself for a living means thriving freely beyond the trappings of identity.

New Business

Business is in bad taste. It is beneath 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? 

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.

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. 

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. 

It’s time to have it another way. A better, more enlightened and happier way.

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? 

Aren’t we all going out of the old way of doing business? Do we not need a revolutionary approach? 

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?

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. 

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. 

Stand your ground, because this future is here.

We are learning and thriving on a new earth.

Rude

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. 

This message from her logo popped up out of the blue: 

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 was writing a piece from a new book at the time, but I replied immediately, saying: 

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! 

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

Personal provocations aside, the book cover was having an effect. People were reacting strongly. This was a good sign.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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 show me how to do it. Then maybe we can discuss it further.

But people choose to be twisted and presumptuous fools.

You can’t tell them that, though, because it’s rude.

One

I like to have just one of everything. 

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 your last night on earth.

Who has time for second best? Wrap the ultimate around your wrist and proceed in presence.

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.

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. 

Simplicity is an asset.