What's your perception of your reality at this point in time?

The Emperor's Lounge
#1

I consider myself intuitive. But over the years I’ve realized it’s a mixed bag of what I’m actually perceiving about my immediate environment and internal emotional damage projecting outwards

So how do you feel about your reality right now?

For me I feel as if there’s a huge imbalance in terms of quality of living here in the US. Businesses are demanding more work for less pay, some are just straight up abusive and morally bankrupt… Expenses have gone up to an absurd degree. Listen I’m all for being an entrepreneur, but if the solution to cost of living struggles is “get a better job, make more money” the system is fucked.

I get limiting beliefs and all that. And i still have to work through mine. But I can’t help but feel there are more obstacles to overcome due to outside forces.

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#2

Both points can be true at the same time.

There can be objective obstacles and challenging external conditions and forces

AND

my personal beliefs and orientations to my resources can also be less than optimally effective.

The point of working on one’s internal factors is not to ignore or negate objective, external conditions. It’s simply to optimize factors under your direct control.

There’s a balance to be found and repeately found again between 1) working to improve and strengthen one’s self/one’s systems, and 2) paying attention with humble discernment to the conditions of Society and the environment. This is ongoing.

To make things more complicated, the two are definitely overlapping and mutually influencing.

Getting enough sleep/rest, exercise, great nutrtion, meaningful efforts/projects, and social/emotional support is not going to make life perfect or dispel and banish all difficulties. It will however put you in a better position to deal with the challenges that do come and to recognize and connect with the opportunities that also come.

It’s not magic. It’s just the best we can do.

Fitness, to the extent that it can be achieved, is a preferable alternative to dysfunction.

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#3

I needed to hear this one today, thanks man.

You know sometimes the struggles aren’t heard in life or swept under the rug. It can be hard to balance the two. What is me vs what’s the outside? I know this is true with a lot of other people struggling out there. I’m fortunate enough to be able to steer my life in the right direction and have build a somewhat cushion of safety for myself. My heart just goes out to those still struggling, maybe this is Chiron in my natal chart.

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#4

I think in anything in life there will always be external limits.

But as you build up your own value, that becomes the sole driving force of breaking your perceived limitations. You gotta fight for the things you want.

When I first started in sales years back, I was jobless and merely chose it out of desperation for money. It was that or I am evicted by my landlord. I was an introvert and didn’t particularly enjoy talking with people. Pretty much everyone on my sales team was extroverted, loud, and boisterous; typical sales traits. So there’s the external limitation that played against me. But I was hungry, acted with desperation, put my entire life force into this job, and what followed shortly after was me leading the team in sales performance, and being promoted to a branch manager within a year. I doubted myself the whole way, but gave myself no choice of exit, because frankly, I had none. I was relentless.

Fast forward to today, I now have 5 years of sales experience in my arsenal and pretty much identify with it now.
It’s absurd to think about, but the notion of “You become what you repeatedly do,” is so correct.

You will never truly feel ready for anything, you just simply have to get out there with relentless desperation, focus and drive. A never quit attitude.

I’m still learning and growing. As my financial security builds, my next steps would be to exit my 9-5 job and really embark on my creative endeavors.

hope that resonates

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#5

Damn props for coming out the other side of that. Sales would be a walking nightmare for me. I’m an introvert too. But I used to have extreme social anxiety. I still do to some extent. I don’t think I’ve ever been in a position of homelessness vs putting myself in that kind of situation. I don’t know if I’d make it, that kind of haunts me. When the chips are down how much do I really have inside of me to get through that? I mean I got skills in other avenues now, but it’s that whole square peg in a round hole thing with 90% of other jobs I battle with.

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#6

You are a strong man.

I think you are learning your style of strength and how to best harness it.

You ask yourself difficult questions. It’s your nature.

That is not a sign of weakness. It’s actually part of your strength.

Everyone talks about Shadow Work.

What you’re doing is actual Shadow Work.

It’s what most artists do, by temperament.

You’ll see more and more beneficial fruits from this work with every passing month and year.

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#7

Limiting beliefs are literally like a blindfold. There is no better analogy.

When you have wealth limiting beliefs, all you will see is scarcity, struggle and financial lack.

When they’re gone, all you see is abundance and opportunity. You will literally feel overwhelmed by opportunity. You won’t even have the time to take action on all of your ideas because you want to monetize everything, lol.

When you have the passion, creativity, drive, courage and financially abundant mindset to actualize goals and take action on them… then work becomes as fun and interesting as playing your favorite video game.

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#8

I don’t know how things are in the US or other countries for new business owners, but in my country there are programs that provide limited supported to new business startups that have been assessed as viable by a qualified contracted company.

The disadvantages to this this are that you’re still accountable to the company who assesses you and coaches you, and to a branch of the government, and you have to abide by all applicable laws and regulations, which may change down the track to be in conflict with your own ethics or principles. You have to deliver on your financial projections as well within a reasonable time frame. But, with all that said, it still leaves new business owners at the moment with the flexibility if they have the stomach to go through the coursework and paperwork and assessing, to receive a stipend while they are bringing their business to profitability.

If such programs don’t exist in the US, there are always “angel sponsors” and companies willing to invest capital in the right startups, although those are becoming less common as the economy goes downhill.

Its very easy to get stuck in a binary (or mono) choice system if you listen only to restricted sources to get your advice. I know this because for six years I stayed in solely employee based work, albeit in a responsible part of the public sector where I felt I was doing good for those I helped, and for most of that time I was not exploring other options. Doing a 9 to 5 style job can be exhausting and you need something to increase your energy and consciousness levels (like Khan Black) in order to gather the sharpness to rise above it.

For me last year, it was being shoved aside with a show cause letter after doing everything in line with $company’s advice that I worked for, and a couple of clues which made it clear it was just a numbers and shareholders game influencing the decision from further up the chain, to decide to try and improve my lot. I’m glad that I went down that path. And in the course of doing so I’ve seen other people play or game the system to make it work better for them, always within the rules of the system of course.

My point here is that to improve your quality of living, there are definitely options out there, but as you say it requires being perceptive about your outward environment. If you come at it from the perspective of “let me see if I can find what way I can get the support I need” rather than assuming it doesn’t exist if you don’t find it the first time, eventually you will find a loophole. Always assume a solution exists that you just haven’t found yet.

Solution focused thinking rather than problem based thinking too.

Yes there are obstacles to be overcome, as well. To get on the path I’m currently on, I basically implemented exactly what @Malkuth mentioned in points 1 and 2.

I’m still nothing more than a budding entrepreneur making less than someone on the dole does per fortnight. I’m not a famous person (except on this forum perhaps infamous :wink: ), I still fuck up, I’m a sinner just like everyone else who falls short of the divine perfection. But when I screw up I pick myself back up and keep moving forward, because there’s no going backward to where I was. To do that you need to cultivate the right mindset and review your game plan enough to have faith.

Much more I could say, but from the original post it sounded like the concerns were more related to those topics than anything more subtle.

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