I know this is personal but I have to ask, “How’s your cash flow these days?”

If you answered “PERFECT, never better, I’m making more money than I can possibly spend or give away” – then I suggest you read the latest copy of Condé Nast or the Robb Report instead of this post.  “See you on the Island, mon”.

For the other 99% of us not jet setting off to our favorite private island for the weekend, I’m going to share my precious golden ring that will give you the power to walk right out of this Fantasy Island hell of an Economic Amusement Park! If you are ready to get off the twisted, triple loop Feast or Famine Roller Coaster then stay with me!

Years ago when we arrived, the Economic Amusement Park was like Disney Land for grown-ups. It was better than Disney Land because we created our own fun from the Magic Abundant Forest where money really did grow on trees and the trails were marked with golden stepping stones leading every visitor to the home of their dreams.

Along with our fully outfitted dream homes were the latest model vehicles, including boats, four-wheelers, power scooters for our kids, cell phones for the whole family, intercoms, internet, inter-galactic satellite to receive every bad movie ever made in the entire Universe on our 5 billion channel, 10-ft. wide, high def televisions with surround sound loud enough to lift you out of your 27 function barco-lounger with built-in popcorn maker! It was AWESOME.

Life was bliss while we floated along the Tunnel of Love-My-Stuff as long as we paid no attention to the ‘man’ behind the curtain pulling the levers and spinning the dials of our Fantasy Island make believe. The rides in the Economic Amusement Park were exhilarating as well as whimsical. The Merry Money-Go-Round was a favorite as it took us on a ride of endless revolving credit on multi-colored bank cards disguised as lovely prancing ponies, gentle giraffes and sophisticated swans. Round and round and up and down as we let the calliope music lull us into the “bigger is better” mantra of super-sized jumbo loans and (nutritionally void) delicious whopper waistlines (more to love, right?)

But like the emerald city of Dubai, the Economic Amusement Park was built on a foundation of ever shifting sand, made-up of pretend rules of conduct and ethics that were amended on a whim by the great and powerful wiki-Oz. And like all good and well behaved children that seek the approval of our elders and do what we are told, we began to feel confused and disoriented as our Tea Party-Cups spun faster and faster and the fine print we were to follow got smaller and smaller until everything was just a blur and our heads ached and our stomachs churned and we begged the ride to stop.

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As we stumble back to our foundation cracking, paint peeling, high maintenance homes we can’t understand what went wrong. We no longer understand the rules of the game. We didn’t even realize we were playing a game. God forbid we let anyone know that we don’t understand what’s going on. So we keep it all inside like frightened children and ask ourselves what we should do. Who can we trust? Should we do something different? But what? It will work itself out, right? And then we’ll get back to having fun again! I can’t wait until they re-open the Merry Money-Go-Round. It sure has been down for maintenance a long time now.

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Like the Hotel California of song lore, once you enter the Economic Amusement Park, you can never leave! UNLESS… and here’s the really OMG, Dorothy and the ruby slippers- ‘a-ha’, “I could’ve had a V-8” moment…

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…You GROW UP and take 100% responsibility for everything that has brought you to this exact moment in time!

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Stop crying Peter Pan, if you want things to be different then you have to change. Adults can have fun too, I promise. They have even more fun because they don’t worry about who is controlling the purse strings of their lives. The Fantasy Island Economic Amusement Park is in ruins because we wanted to experience the carefree frolic of excessiveness! Wheeee!

Now stop blaming the government, Wall Street, the Auto, Airline or Oil & Gas industries on your personal debt – you got what you asked for, be grateful for your education and experience and let it go. Become the parent to your own financial health & well being that you so wantonly left up to others in the past.

Blame and shame will only perpetuate more of the same.

So grab hold of one another Peter and Dorothy, as fiscally responsible grown-ups you can literally walk out the front gates of the run-down Economic Amusement Park and the guards will never notice. The precious golden ring of awareness will make you invisible to the other miserable souls still standing in line at the Merry Money-Go-Round with the “closed for repairs” sign on the chain. You will be vibrating with a new, higher fiscal frequency that no else in the park can see. Go ahead, walk through those rusty gates, and see what it feels like!

Unlike the ones left behind, you are now responsibly FREE!

Today is the first step toward an awareness that there is another way to relate to money in your life and business. Most of us have become totally schizophrenic when it comes to money. When we have it we trust in the universe, we are happy in our relationships, we feel less inhibited to express ourselves. When the flow of income appears too slow or even to stop from time to time we literally become physically contracted. Our thoughts become twisted with fear as we trip down the negative future fantasy path of ‘not enough’! Coming out of the Fantasy Island coma can leave you feeling both excited and fearful. What next? How will I reinvent myself and the work I do in the world? How will I make enough money to live a life of personal and financial freedom?

Fear not Peter and Dorothy. The energetic (spiritual) and practical (physical) tools and support you need to re-invent your way of doing business in the world is ready and waiting for you to take the leap up to the next highest version of you and your business! And, here’s more good news… it’s really okay to have FUN and create a beautiful, successful business at the same time without getting stuck on the Feast or Famine Roller Coaster!

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To Your Heart & Soul Success,

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Some Scientists believe that humans are evolving at an accelerated rate (duh…). Up until now the standard belief was that we haven’t genetically mutated or evolved in the last 50,000 years.

How arrogant is that?

When I think about our conscious evolution and the realization that what we think and feel actually creates our existence then it completely validates that Eve was our first conscious thinker.

I can just imagine that it went something like this (about 50,000 years ago); Adam’s out hunting with the guys, gone for days to ‘who knows where’ while Eve and the girls are tending the fire, gathering berries and keeping the wee ones from wandering too far from the new cave the clan has just laid claim to. While on their berry gathering outing Eve discovers a new fruit hanging from an unfamiliar tree. It’s sweet and crunchy and delicious and she carries an armload back to the new digs.

So the ladies and children are snacking on the red delicious fruit when the boys bring home the bacon. Then quite uncharacteristically Eve exclaims, “I can’t believe it. Wooly Mammoth again. Don’t you know that Mammoth meat goes right to my hips?” All of the cave ladies dropped their jaws and nodded in amazement. They suddenly realized that what she said was true. They just hadn’t been aware of it before Eve gave voice to her new understanding that said Mammoth meat was making her fat. Adam’s response was, “Huh?”

There it is, as plain as Eve’s hips. Self awareness, the recognition of cause and effect. The knowing of what we want and what we don’t want.

The Leading Edge of Consciousness

So the first humans to experience the awareness of themselves then taught awareness to others and mated with other more aware homo sapiens so the awareness gene began to migrate and expand.

Let’s take it a step further than genetics. Each generation is born from the previous leading edge of collective consciousness. Therefore, (stay with me here, this is fun), if the clan is beginning to experience say, drought in the region and find they need to move on to find food and water and more Wooly Mammoths, some of the clan (probably the women) may think to gather some of their favorite fruits and delicacies. As they travel, the seeds from their harvest fall to the ground and eventually grow into a living trail of their journey. The children born along that route come from this new leading edge of consciousness. The consciousness that is now aware of the need to carry their sustenance with them when they have to move. Only now some of them recognize (probably the women) that they can carry lots of seeds from their favorite foods and plant them all around the new cave.  This was not only practical but also happened to birth the first neighborhood beautification project (definitely the women).

Now the next generation born on this leading edge of consciousness grows up surrounded by their favorite foods planted all around them.  What used to take a full day to gather sustenance for the evening meal may now only take half of a day. Free-time is born! Free time allows us to take a break from survival and turn our attention toward things that interest us.  The next leading edge of consciousness has the time to ponder and experiment and develop a tool (probably one of the men) to more efficiently kill the dwindling Wooly Mammoths.

This generation has more food, dad’s not traveling so much because they can kill the Wooly Mammoth so much more efficiently and can have a little free time to himself now to create more children. As more children are being born at this time then the broader the leading edge of collective consciousness expands. Are you beginning to get the picture?

You don’t have to believe anything I say here of course. I’m not a scientist, I’m not an ordained minister trained in theosophy. I’m not a psychic, a channeler of a non-physical personality or even an astrologer. I’m just a student of life. A student of what makes me feel good and empowered and what makes me feel bad and powerless. I’m just connecting the dots of our conscious evolution on a personal scale.

Before Eve connected the dots between the Mammoth meat and her hips getting bigger, she simply had the experience of eating said tiger and broadening hips. The delicious magic apple gave her the gift (or curse as some would have us believe) of self awareness. Now she was having the experience of eating Mammoth meat and broadening hips while consciously witnessing the phenomenon. As her awareness deepened she evolved to a point where she could have the experience, be aware of the experience and offer feedback of the experience all at the same time! Now Eve, and eventually Adam not only had sensations of pleasure or pain they had a whole new awareness of conscious choices and contrasts in their world. Now they had discernment and preferences and knowledge of choice. Thus opinions were born.

And now you understand how we got to where we are today! Need I say more?

What’s your opinion?