By the Ocean
Rain 75 Degrees
5:58 a.m.
I started my career in business learning from people who kept their business world very separate from their personal world.
Their business was on one side, their LIFE was on the other.
I suppose that’s how they want it, so that’s fine. But that’s not how I want it. I don’t leave for 8-10 hours a day and work on my business and then come home and do life.
It’s all one big MESS. Or at least that’s how the Matrix might describe it. The Matrix likes boxes, because it can control boxes.
If you step out of the boxes, the only things the Matrix can rely on to pull you back are fear and lack. It loves to pull those levers.
So I’m sitting at the kitchen table with kids playing, writing salesletters, creating marketing systems, stepping outside to talk on the phone, working on positioning for clients, putting together books for clients, getting up to watch kids ride their scooters in the street, making a snack for someone, taking some kids to the park, writing a few emails, thinking about the next thing I’m going to make, editing videos for my wife’s YouTube channel.
I’ve turned “interruption” into a catalyst for flow. It gets your conscious mind focused on something else for just long enough that your subconscious mind can deliver progress when you sit back down. Maybe it’s a learned skill. Maybe it’s just my skill. Maybe I’m just weird. I don’t know.
What I DO know is that my business is my life is my business. There’s no dividing line. There’s no postponing life until I get my work done, there’s no leaving my kids for one third (or more) of each day just so I can ask them what they did today because I wasn’t around to experience it with them.
Some of the most rewarding things I’ve done over the years are projects with my wife. If you set our Human Design Bodygraphs side by side, we basically “complete each other” in many different ways. What that means is that we complement each other on an energetic level, so that when we’re around each other, we feel good.
A few months ago, we started a podcast about our experience raising our 10 children over the past 22 years. To say it has been well-received would be a bit of an understatement.
I make the things I’m drawn to make, not because the “market” will like them. Despite my affliction where I spent the first half of my life trying to be liked, I don’t think that’s why I’m here.
So it’s a beautiful thing when something I want to make, like the podcast with my wife, is actually something that people want. And so it is with this.
As it turns out, a lot of free thinking people out there with children, who are pretty sick of the way of life the Matrix prescribes, don’t have a lot of support around them. It can feel pretty isolating when you choose NOT to do X (I’ll let you fill in the blank, there are a lot of choices!) and everyone around you is doing X and telling you that you’re crazy, irresponsible, even dangerous for daring to make your own decisions.
That’s the Matrix with its fear. THAT’S ALL IT CAN DO. But many times, that’s enough to get someone to stop their growth.
So yesterday we launched an offering to help those people. It’s called SOVEREIGN FAMILY. It’s something where we can share our own experience on this path and also bring like-minded people together in a way that they can realize, THERE ARE A LOT OF US.
Again, another example of life merging with business. Which is which? Am I doing LIFE right now or am I doing “BUSINESS?” I have no idea. I’m just being ME.
You don’t have to do it this way. And that’s actually the point. You don’t HAVE to do it ANY WAY! You can make it up. That’s the secret. When you reject all of the choices and create your own, the Matrix has no response.
And with that choice you get to the END, which is really the BEGINNING. The beginning of you reclaiming the power you have to create your life in any way that you choose.