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“Smart People Mail” 😂
I received some spammy stock investing email the other day from a newsletter entitled “Smart People Mail”, 😂😆 (as if that was not an obvious enough manipulation – like hey if you read us, you are very smart!) beneath that was a long drawn out schpeel of fear mongering about the national debt and the potential “total destruction of the fabric of our society” (their literal words not mine), followed up by a sweet offer for how they can solve all this for you. Of course! 😉
I smiled and chuckled. Whomever is sending this email out is using the familiar levers of fear, shame, and pride to run people around, and they know it will work because people WANT to make sure they’re being smart with their money, they WANT to protect themselves against total destruction of the fabric of society 😅😆, and they WANT to believe someone knows the way better than them, and that someone on this little blue dot 🌎 knows what the hell they’re doing more than they do.
These messages are out there en masse. Ads and emails with the subject line “You’re Doing It Wrong!” (I have literally seen emails that had this subject line) followed by an offer for how they’re going to totally set you right.
That’s one way to do it, that’s for sure. That’s one way to make you feel temporarily secure, yes.
But a deeper security exists for those who want it. A far more generous and enjoyable security that you can actually live and breathe and laugh in. A security that surpasses times and trends and goes straight to the heart of you, and all that is.
But the reason I’m here today is because there are 2 things I want to share with you about this funny email I received, because the email was attempting to leverage people’s power in two ways:
- Money Fear & Debt Shame: If you are beating yourself up about any kind of debt, owing, or feeling “behind” in regards to money in any way, I would just like to remind you that almost every country in the entire world is in debt way over it’s eyeballs and you are expecting yourself to be different?? lol Some would come in here and say “hey this is a collective sickness, it’s not your fault!” – but that is not what I am here to say. I am here to propose an alternative viewpoint: what if there’s nothing wrong with that? What if that weren’t wrong but just the way it is? Humans, animals, plants, microorganisms and every other thing on earth “owe” each other everything. All the time. EVERYTHING. That’s that. Money and energy and food and water and cells and atoms and molecules are in CONSTANT circulation without end. You cannot stop a river, but you can try! It will just turn into a reservoir and a waterfall somewhere else. It will evaporate into rain clouds and rain back down somewhere else. It will be drank up and pissed out SOMEWHERE ELSE. lol 😂 You cannot stop it really, you can only create the illusion of stopping it temporarily. So play with that how you like, but it may feel more calming to your body and soul to recognize you are part of this unending chain of receiving and owing, and will be as long as you are in the physical. And if you’re scared of being calm, than ask yourself how things have turned out when you are panicked and in terror in your life, versus when you are calm and seeing from a more generous view? Your life experience will reveal the truth about that, no convincing needed.
- Personal Insecurity & Shame: Where are you buying things, and making choices in your life and business based on the perception that you’re doing it wrong? Or that there is something wrong with you that needs to be fixed? I mean it sounds like a good plan, right? You’re wrong, they have it right, and they will fix it for you. But where does it end? And do you want it to end? Because you could live out the rest of your life that way, believing you’re doing it wrong and buying an endless chain of products and services to make it right. And a lot of people truly believe our economy and society would collapse if we believed otherwise. I don’t believe that however. All that would happen is the value chain would shift from one of choices based on fixing, to one of choices based on love, on delight, on curiosity, on need, on want and on desire. Instead of fixing things, we’d be doing things for the JOY of it. For the curiosity and wonder of it. For the discovery of it. For the fun of it. For the experience of it. Or just to “try it on”! What if you knew there was nothing wrong with you and never was? What if the things you bought and hired and paid for were from pure appreciation instead of from an attempt to fill a perceived gap? It’s okay to have perceived gaps and voids, they are part of life and part of this adventure! But there are multiple ways to navigate this plane, and I just want to offer you that choice.
YES there are problems. And YES there are solutions. But there is a whole other world you can live in besides the “problem and solution” world. You can visit that world when you need to, and you can return to your world of choices led by love.
I know you are a choices led by love person or you wouldn’t be reading this. You’d be reading the “you’re doing it wrong” mail! lol 😅 Maybe you read those too. Maybe you’re secretly afraid they are right. Maybe you see yourself making choices from that place and feeling like you have no other real options.
But I know you.
You know there are ALWAYS other options. That’s why you think and choose and speak and move about life the way you do. Apart from the norm. Apart from the old. You are always moving towards the new. The FRESH. The ALIVE. You live for that. 🥹❤️💗💞
Me too.
Me too.
Keep being you. Keep looking for the new. Keep trusting yourself and the paths that feel like love. Not because it’s right or wrong to do so, but because it’s what you really want.
And if you WANT and would LOVE some support with that, you know where to find me.
xo,
