When shrines are created for a corporate leader you know that we have entered a new era for business.
An era where business is about far more than just making money, and where entrepreneurs are the visionaries who have the power to change the world.
It isn’t governments who are going to get us out of the current broken mess – they are far too busy trying to preserve the status quo.
It is individuals – taking inspired action to create change and lead the people into the new era.
At a time where our schools are still teaching us that complexity and detail are what wins grades and where governments churn out 68 page dossiers to express what could be summed up in an A4 page, I love this quote by Steve Jobs:
“That’s been one of my mantras — focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”— BusinessWeek interview, May 1998
In case you haven’t seen it here is Steve Job’s famous Stanford Speech -which talks about synchronicity, faith and passion; about keeping going when the ‘corporate’ world rejects you and about living each day as if it were your last. The new era is not so much about Business Plans and logical thought through 3 year forecasts as dreaming big and manifesting everything you need along the way; living in faith and working from the heart not the head.
Is it just me or does everyone else sense a tremendous ‘cleansing’ process going on right now ?
Suddenly stuff we have been used to being around for years (think NoTW) crumbles and vanishes overnight… Governments are falling and economies are failing. And the pace of change all seems to be speeding up.
On a personal level, what started out as a decision to stop drinking alcohol a week ago today has now turned into a personal ‘Project Life Cleanse’ – as I start to clear out everything that is no longer working for me.
Relationships, finances, clutter, habits… plugholes, pores, porches - it’s all up for grabs now!
When we clear this clutter of old energy we create the space for the new to flow.
The exciting thing for me is that this ‘World Detox’ is leading us into a totally new way of being – both as individuals and collectively on the Planet…
I was inspired to write this blogpost by my 5 year old son who seems to have fallen in love with an older girl at school. I was tasked to help him deliver a love letter – which I discovered was full of printed money from pictures he had downloaded from the internet! Clearly he has got the connection that ‘women love men who have money’…
I am no fan of the ‘Alpha Male’ but even I must admit that hugely successful men are also very charismatic and extremely sexy. The question is, was it the money that gave them their sexual charisma – or was it their sexual charisma that attracted the money?
Napoleon Hill writes about the close connection between the sex drive and the ability to make money in his classic book ‘Think and Grow Rich’, citing Napoleon Bonaparte, Shakespeare, Oscar Wilde and Abraham Lincolm amongst others as outstanding achievers who also had a well documented highly sexual nature.
Hill calls this ‘The Mystery of Sex Transmutation’. The key is to take this huge sexual energy and to transmute it into wealth creating activity.
Over here in the feminine camp I have long argued that businesses run through passion are far more likely to deliver profit than ones run through a pure money motive. This is echoed by thought leaders like Nick Williams in his book The Work We Were Born To Do.
According to ancient wisdom the base chakra (which governs money making) and the sex chakra are closely linked… It follows that if you activate one you will also energise the other.
So I would love to know your view, do you think there is a connection between Money Sex and Love?
After Red Letter Days crashed in 2005 I had an ‘emergency visit’ from a feng shui guru who had contacted me in the aftermath of the meltdown to offer her help and advice.
Apparently 2005 had been my ‘Year 1′ in the feng shui astrology cycle – a year of great vulnerability and great loss.
Initially a cynic about these things, when I tracked back my ‘Nine Star Ki’ 9 year cycle it was chillingly accurate. For example, in 2004 (a year before the crash) I had been my ‘Year 9′ – the yang year of great Fame – where everything is to excess and a meltdown/breakdown is sure to follow. In every extreme yang are the seeds of yin…
Of course 2004 was the year I filmed Dragons’ Den and the first series was aired on TV (in January 2005 but still in the 2004 Chinese year).
Did you know that 4 of the 5 Spice Girls were in their ‘Year 9′ when they shot to fame in 1997? Year 9 is THE best year for you to go for fame and publicity.
Thus my interest in Nine Star Ki was born.
As well as a character reading tool, it is also invaluable in calculating where you are in your Nine Year Cycle. For all of us there are years to heal and hibernate, years to hatch new plans, and years to reap the harvest of our labours…
For example it’s interesting that Britney Spears had her post-Las Vegas wedding meltdown in her Year 1 in 2004.
And that in 1983 Michael Jackson was in his year of ‘Take Off’ after the Thriller Album was released. Shame they did not wait until his next ‘take-off’ Year 3 (2010) for his ‘This is It’ Tour to go live.
By pushing it ahead into 2009 (his year 2 of stagnaton and planning) it was just too soon in the cycle – and he could not cope with the pressure.
Finding out where you are in your Nine Year Cycle will be invaluable for you in deciding whether this is the year for you to launch a new business, to hibernate, to stick with your plans or to go for fame.
It’s an essential tool to help you work with your flow of Heaven Luck.
The Nine Star Ki Feng Shui Astrology app is now available in the iPhone App store – itunes.com/apps/ninestarki
Those of you who saw my ‘Transformation’ post about my Landmark Forum experience a few weeks back might be interested to be know there is a special evening for entrepreneurs happening on Wednesday 21 July at 7pm at the Eight Club, 1 Change Alley, London EC3V 3ND
It’s free and you don’t need to RSVP
If you are in London that day it’s well worth going along!
