I Work For Myself

A galvanizing guided meditation. To categorically know and honor what it means to work for yourself. Not for a job that saps your life force and eats away at your morale and highest truth.

If you have a calling. A dream. A desire. To do what you want for a living...Then do it. Do it no matter what it takes.

Transcript

Let's sit.

I am right there with you.

And everything I say,

I back up and have done or am doing right now.

Breathe in and breathe out.

Focus on absolutely nothing.

These buzzing thoughts,

They will settle because you have no time for them right now.

This is your time.

They can bother you later at another time,

But not right now.

There are a lot of people out there propagating these magic formulas,

How to make all of this money,

Magic numbers,

And all of this.

Many of them have made money off of you and me.

There are some honest ones for sure that have something valuable to offer.

But when you take a deeper look,

You start to recognize how much of it is flair.

Flash funds,

Looking the part,

Playing the role,

Faking it till they make it.

Breathe in and out.

With this next inhale,

I want you to realize that there are no shortcuts in life.

Zero.

I want this reality to sink in deeply like something you'd hear from a grandparent.

But it is much better than listening to all of these other false promises that we run across all of the time.

The fact is,

It is work,

And everyone has a different path.

Breathe in and out.

In and out.

In and out.

This breath is clearing your mind and allowing me to install this awareness with your permission.

The real work is inside.

You can wear the fancy fedoras,

Have the perfect font on your website,

Film your vlogs and videos with a Tulum resort background.

But the reality is who you are.

Who are you?

And that is what we are going to get at right now.

Who are you?

Who are you?

Who are you?

I want you to keep that deep breath going.

Inhale.

Exhale.

Inhale.

Exhale.

Feel the rise and fall of the belly.

Who are you?

Who are you?

Try to stay still in the body without moving an inch.

Not even to scratch.

Practice this discipline.

Nothing wrong with a little itch.

Life is full of them.

Sometimes you just have to let it itch.

It will go away.

Like it all goes away.

Breathe.

Stay still and breathe.

Who are you?

Who are you?

That question is like a Zen koan.

Because how do you answer that?

Who are you?

Who are you?

It's almost silly to condense and conceptualize the grandeur of what it is to be you.

Living,

Breathing,

Fiery,

Vibrating,

Energetic awareness.

Who are you?

Who are you?

Just focus on the question.

Not the answer.

All that is important to me is that you are right here.

Right now.

Present.

Breathing.

I want you to be aware of that breath with me.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Deep.

Deep.

Deep.

Not shallow.

Deep.

Continue that.

Mind clear.

Mind clear.

Here is how we proceed.

This is how the mind works.

It is beautiful how fast we can clear it.

So fast you might have even forgotten what the topic was about.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Stay breathing.

What you want is not as important as how to get it.

I'll say that again.

What you want is not as important as how to get it.

We get very seduced by the getting.

The attainments.

The status.

The wins.

The brags.

The finish lines.

The offerings.

Of what we gain.

How our lives can change.

How we will be treated.

How we will be treated.

How we will be treated.

How we will be treated.

Differently.

Looked at.

Regarded.

See ourselves.

Feel worthy.

Feel accomplished.

Some of these are great incentives.

Some less so.

But still.

The incentive is not the core of what we are driving toward.

Remember I asked you,

Who are you?

I'm going to tell you a story of someone who thought they wanted something.

And they did want it.

They still want it.

They will always want it.

It is ingrained inside of that personality.

That won't change.

And nor should it.

What that someone turned into was a person that now would be almost internally unrecognizable from the version they started as.

And that's the beauty of how this all works.

You begin under some pretense.

And come to learn it was all prologue to get you to change.

All of that grueling work.

Sacrificed Sundays.

Breathe.

Mitigation of social life.

No drinking.

No concerts.

No movie watching.

They say it's all about the journey.

I'll take that a step further and say it's all about looking face to face.

Down the barrel of life's piercing gaze.

When you can look at life,

Straighten the eyes.

Those eyes will show you everything you don't want to see.

And you laugh and smile or cry in wince.

And take it and make love to it.

And celebrate it.

And build a shrine to it.

Your shrine.

Your sacred space.

Your awareness that you have danced the dance with life at its most daring.

And daunting.

And delirious.

And devastating.

And distilled.

And dreary.

And dormant.

When you have done that.

Then you have done it.

You have done it all.

You have won the grand prize.

You don't need to be famous.

Or rich.

Or successful.

Or known.

Or prove another thing ever again.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

Breathe.

And now we move backward.

From there.

I work for myself.

Now you feel the words.

They aren't like an empty rattling can on the side of the road.

They have substance.

They are earned.

Breathe.

It is all about the breath.

The rest is just connected.

It's just connecting the dots.

The breathing is the profound part.

Always has been.

Breathe.

I work for myself.

What this means is I will do what it takes within the parameters of the generosity of time.

I have had the good fortune of holding.

This time.

It is sacred.

Breathe.

Can you say this for me?

In your mind.

That time is sacred.

And know what that means.

It has taken me years to fully understand this.

Especially if you want to work for yourself.

Time.

Is so sacred.

My time.

Is the only time.

When I can get closer to working for myself.

Breathe.

Affirmations are almost as good as useless.

If we have not done the work to affirm those statements in the first place.

It's like rubbing the genie bottle and hoping our wishes will get granted.

The funny thing.

Once you are in the full thrust.

Once you are in the full thrust of the work.

Is you don't even need the affirmations.

You are what you do.

You are what you do.

You are what you do.

Remember I asked.

Who are you?

You are what you.

You are what you do.

That's who you are.

You know the measurements.

You're making the recipe.

You see how much of each ingredient goes into it.

How serious are you?

There is serious.

And then there is serious.

Are you willing to work 20 to 30 years to have what you want?

This is the drive you have to be prepared for.

You might catch a wave.

Know someone.

Have your 12 month plan.

And maybe things will happen for you.

But then maybe you will need to dig in deeper.

And get that advanced nautical license.

The one where you will know how to navigate the most ferocious oceans and seas in the world.

You will learn that.

You will become the master.

Breathe.

And keep raising that mastery.

You work for yourself.

You will adopt this lifestyle.

No matter how unpredictable.

No matter whether you know or don't know where your next money is coming from.

This is the necessary constituent of your freelance foray.

Whether you start your own business.

Whether you want to live in a foreign land.

Whether you want to be a creative individual.

Whether you want to do away with punching in on a time card or mobile phone.

And especially if you want to be at the top of your game.

Which let's face it.

If you are doing this at all.

Why would this not be in your crosshairs?

A great mentor once said to me.

Everything you do should be the best thing you've ever done.

That is the path to success.

If I ever heard of one.

Economized into one line of succinct expression.

If you can match that with loyalty and consistent discipline and focus.

You will have that.

The world may not reflect it exactly as it is being energetically articulated.

But make no mistake about it.

You have arrived.

You are there.

The world is often slow on the uptake.

And won't always manifest all of your glorious work.

But that shouldn't stop you.

Especially if it is important to you to evolve.

I have seen it said.

That the meaning of life is to find your gift.

And the purpose of life is to give it away.

As you come out of this meditation.

I want your state of mind locked on this awareness.

That you work for yourself.

All of the rest will have no choice but to follow that.

If it is as true for you as the air you breathe.

Then who or what would dare to question that?

I won't.

If you can't.

As you breathe out.

You let it all process.

I wish you all of the necessary strength.

Courage.

And insight.

On your continued journey.

Until next time.

Love.

And Light.

Reviews

Wow, I found that powerful moving and the style original which is refreshing thank you

Motivating

Wow !!..great...very intense...I really, really got into this ...the music was intense almost dark...but along with what you are saying.
One thing ...you kept saying " breath, breath, breath " ...I don't breath that fast especially during meditation...however, maybe I was missing your point ...felt like I was hearing " live, live, live " ...or " do, do, do " ...or am I over thinking this.
Thank you very much for this.
Peace and Respects