Prosperity TVI see it, feel it and am committed to transcending it. Knowing the seduction. Thank you with all my heart.
Think of your life as a spiritual pursuit; one in which you will face an ongoing series of challenges and tests. These trials help to chisel away your base elements to reveal and develop your higher elements – that which is true, virtuous, and enlightened about you. I believe the natural result of a journey such as this should be a prosperous life.
This is a continuation of a series of posts on the four quadrants of living a prosperous life. What I like to label thermonuclear prosperity is created by the symbiotic energy of the four quadrants which come together to create the sweet spot of Divine Discontent: the consciousness where you live in gratitude for what and who you are, yet still feel inspired to do, have, and become more.
We’re up to quadrant three: Spiritual Harmony
This quadrant encompasses the many spiritual, blissful, or transcendent aspects of a prosperous life. This shows up in different ways for different people. For some it is religious, others metaphysical, yet others secular. The one constant is an appreciation for the sacred gift of living in accordance with your true nature and vibrating in harmony with the environment around you. You’re comfortable in your own skin, feel empathy toward others (including plants, animals, and solar systems), and work toward the greater good. One of the best byproducts of this state is attracting and sustaining healthy, enriching relationships in your life. (And just as important, mindfully inoculating yourself against negative dysfunctional ones.)
In this state of harmony, you recognize that all true forms of prosperity are infinite; others don’t have to do without for you to have. You know that the more prosperity you circulate, the more that will return to you. While good mental health is part of the wellness quadrant, overall peace of mind is represented in this one. This could be described as maintaining an equilibrium of spiritual sustenance.
Let’s explore an Action Plan for achieving this level of consciousness…
The physical health items we discussed in the wellness quadrant post play an important role in your mental energy and harmony as well. Make sure you’re taking care of those things. Next, you’ll want to…
Give yourself the gift of some form of meditation to calm your mind and create harmony. This might be what’s regarded as traditional meditation, it could be through pleasurable diversions such as gardening, or peaceful walks in nature.
Create a workout routine for your brain to keep your cognitive skills sharp. Play word games, Sudoku, brainteasers, crossword puzzles, and other exercises to stimulate your mental capacity.
Schedule a block of time each week dedicated specifically for thinking. This is different than meditation where you look to clear your thoughts. This time is for expressly welcoming as many rich, new thoughts as you can. Unplug from all devices, just sit with your thoughts and a journal of some kind, writing down inspirations that appear to you. I literally block off time on my weekly calendar for this and recommend you do as well.
As mentioned earlier, you must become mindful of the people who you allow to speak into your life. Mindfully create positive, empowering relationships that pull you up, and reduce or eliminate negative, toxic relationships that pull you down. I covered this in more detail and with a video in this post, so I won’t repeat it here.
Remember what Jim Rohn said about the five people you spend the most time with? He believed that your income would be the average of the five people you spend the most time with. I’ll take it further and suggest this applies in all four quadrants of living a prosperous life. These people are going to dramatically impact how well you live.
Starting with those initial five people, build out from there. One of the most important things you can ever do for success is to seek out mentors who guide you. (I hope you grant me the honor of being one of them.) You may also want to have some extended mentors. In my case, I have developed very deep mentoring relationships with Charles Fillmore, Naval Ravikant, Emerson, Paul Graham, Elizabeth Gilbert, Oprah Winfrey, Balaji Srinivasan, Tim Ferriss, Jeff Bezos, Ernest Holmes, Ben Horowitz, Thoreau, and others. (Although most of them aren’t aware of this!) But I study everything I can find by or about these people, to better understand how they think. Look for people who are where you want to be and learn all you can about them.
Reduce your exposure to “the Matrix” as much as possible. It’s important to recognize that we really are living in a Matrix; it’s just not configured like the one in the movie series. The Matrix manifests its influence through the Internet, or more specifically the computer algorithms used for surveillance and data-gathering. (This includes every online search you perform, what you buy, every website you visit, your social media activity, the things you ask your voice assistants, the apps running in the background on your phone, and what you stream for entertainment.) This data is exploited to manipulate your habits, moods, identity, beliefs, and behaviors. The objectives are to make you feel powerless, needy, and helpless – and drive you to take self-destructive actions that reward the managers of the Matrix. (This includes marketers, social media platforms, governments, and organized religion.)
One of the most damaging beliefs to your prosperity is thinking it’s normal to be connected to a device 24/7, staying hyperalert to an avalanche of news alerts, trends, commentary, snark, and negative programming. If you spend all day with your cell phone, you’re being assaulted with stimuli every waking moment and most of it has negative detrimental effects on you. And you are the victim of “surveillance commerce” by bad actors selling you shit you don’t need. To get and remain stable, happy, and sane – you’ve got to disconnect from the grid on a regular basis.
Use a VPN service that encrypts your data, hides your IP address, and allows you to use public Wi-Fi hotspots safely. You may also want to consider getting an unplugged phone.
The final step in the Action Plan, and the one that will be the most challenging for many of you – is a mindful, carefully planned, strategy to remove yourself from as much social media as possible. If you can get off social media completely, do it! If you need to keep a presence for business, be a content provider, but not a consumer.
This will shock many of you, but my views on social have evolved a great deal in the last few years. There are thousands of positive, intelligent, thoughtful people on social media that you can learn from. Unfortunately, they make up less than one percent of the profiles on the various platforms. And no matter how assiduously you curate the people you follow, it’s impossible to keep your feed clear of gossip, sensationalism, virtue signaling, hate, polarization, bad premises, poverty consciousness, and scams. Even the most positive, well-meaning people on a platform are subject to comments, trolls, and algorithms, and end up getting drawn into negativity. And your consciousness becomes the collateral damage. My businesses require me to be on social. I post my content and flee, spending less than 20 minutes a day there.
Every action you take on social media provides your data to the Matrix, which will use it to program, manipulate, and impoverish you. The entire business model of all social media platforms is keeping you on their sites as many hours per day as possible, then selling your eyeballs to advertisers. And the best way to create site stickiness is hate and fear.
The damaging results to humans from social media are not debatable to any rational person who has not been brainwashed by it. They include:
Every item on that list above is a threat to spiritual harmony. Get away from social as much and as fast as you can.
Next post we’ll move to quadrant four: Significance. Until then, please share your thoughts and ideas in the comments.
Peace,
- RG
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I see it, feel it and am committed to transcending it. Knowing the seduction. Thank you with all my heart.
Yes, "the seduction." Well said.
Loved this!!!!! For some reason I never saw the posts for the prior ones in this series. Can you send them to me
Read this post here: https://randygage.com/no-dad-poor-mom/ It contains links to the four related ones.
Perfect timing for this post.
My next toastmasters meeting I’m tasked with giving the toast. Our topic of the week is none other than social media. May lift some of the key points in this post.
I completely agree with everything you said in this post, especially about social media.
Randy,
So glad you're posting awesome content again. You are one of those people like you described who I consider part of my inner circle, even though we've only spoken to each other a couple of times.
I didn't understood the second paragraph in this post, as it left me confused.
The definition of symbiosis that I'm familiar with, is where the sum of the whole is less than the sum of the parts. The parts feed off one anoher like a log and a flame until nothing is left.
Synergy, on the other hand, is where the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Am I operating with a misunderstanding of these two aspects of physics?
Great to see you dropping by! My understanding is that symbiotic can work both ways: in a beneficial way where both parties involved benefit from the interaction, or parasitic, where one party benefits while the other is harmed. Obviously I believe in the case of the four quadrants, they're interacting in the beneficial sense.
If you are comfortable in your own skin, at peace in your mind, accept your current situation, and are grateful for it, what else do you need? Where, then, does divine discontent, with its deep yearning for growth, arise from? I don’t see the motive. When you remain calm, no temptation can have power over you. I’m curious about the idea of the infinite nature of all forms of prosperity. Embracing it relieves anxiety, enabling a person to think and act in ways that bring out their best qualities in order to achieve personal goals.
Interesting take and question! I believe it's not a case of temptation overpowering you, but your potentiality inspiring you. -RG
I see it, feel it and am committed to transcending it. Knowing the seduction. Thank you with all my heart.
Yes, "the seduction." Well said.
Loved this!!!!! For some reason I never saw the posts for the prior ones in this series. Can you send them to me
Read this post here: https://randygage.com/no-dad-poor-mom/ It contains links to the four related ones.
Perfect timing for this post.
My next toastmasters meeting I’m tasked with giving the toast. Our topic of the week is none other than social media. May lift some of the key points in this post.
I completely agree with everything you said in this post, especially about social media.
Randy,
So glad you're posting awesome content again. You are one of those people like you described who I consider part of my inner circle, even though we've only spoken to each other a couple of times.
I didn't understood the second paragraph in this post, as it left me confused.
The definition of symbiosis that I'm familiar with, is where the sum of the whole is less than the sum of the parts. The parts feed off one anoher like a log and a flame until nothing is left.
Synergy, on the other hand, is where the sum of the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
Am I operating with a misunderstanding of these two aspects of physics?
Great to see you dropping by! My understanding is that symbiotic can work both ways: in a beneficial way where both parties involved benefit from the interaction, or parasitic, where one party benefits while the other is harmed. Obviously I believe in the case of the four quadrants, they're interacting in the beneficial sense.
If you are comfortable in your own skin, at peace in your mind, accept your current situation, and are grateful for it, what else do you need? Where, then, does divine discontent, with its deep yearning for growth, arise from? I don’t see the motive. When you remain calm, no temptation can have power over you. I’m curious about the idea of the infinite nature of all forms of prosperity. Embracing it relieves anxiety, enabling a person to think and act in ways that bring out their best qualities in order to achieve personal goals.
Interesting take and question! I believe it's not a case of temptation overpowering you, but your potentiality inspiring you. -RG