Broadcast Your Desires (Blog)

[windsorspirit]

Originally Posted by roxyruby

*hug* aww I hope you feel better fast, get well soon!! *hands over a get well card and some chocolates*

Thanks for the compassionate gesture, RoxyRuby. I'm rapidly returning to my natural state of joyous well-being, and feeling physically finer by the moment.

As number 1 on my list is nearing full realization, my creative power is getting hungrier for more delicious manifestations. Yum.

[free spirit]

Originally Posted by carlon

When I had employees in my business, the thing I had to say the most was "Do you damn job!" It's always the charge of the whine brigade. Sorry, but complaining that corporations are "brainwashing" you and society is making you greedy sounds like an excuse to me. And this talk on these threads of "brainwashing" sounds like a convenient way to feel better about yourself for doing a bad job at work. I don't mean you personally, freespirit, I mean "you" as everyone.

If you hate your job, quit. But 99% of people who talk to me about quitting their jobs never do. It's not about "brainwashing" or "not overcoming the slave mentality", it's just that starting a business is hard work--harder than Steve lets on in some of his posts.

I think the backlash against people who like their jobs is because some people are so miserable in their jobs that they resent people who are happy. Unfortunately, resentment masquerading as personal development is all too common. It's sad really.

I did quit my job. No whining or excuses for me.

I have also started my own business and without meaning to be deliberately argumentative - it was easy. Its was easy because I have the time to do it and the motivation as I'm doing something I enjoy with my own free will. I set my hours, choose my tasks, choose my strategy, choose ultimately which direction my life is taking.

But if you have a job that can do that, then wonderful! If it's not all those things, it's a massive time sacrifice, particularly as most jobs require the best part of your life. 18 - 65 years, Monday to Friday, 9 - 5. Yuk.

[Mounds]

Originally Posted by Manomanman

Wage slaves don't act like slaves - they literally are slaves. They do whatever they're told and punished if they don't. The only difference between the two is the legal entitlement.
them.

Lets say I came to your business and offered my skills and services. You say, "OK! Your hired. Here's your first task". Am I now a slave?

[Beuford]

Originally Posted by Mounds

Lets say I came to your business and offered my skills and services. You say, "OK! Your hired. Here's your first task". Am I now a slave?

If you're satisfied with the work you're providing and are comfortable with the pay and working conditions and you love your job, you're not a slave. If you work in a small cubicle at a job you don't really like or possibly hate, with less money than you think you deserve working for people who you do not like while being convinced you're stuck there because you need to pay for food, then I guess "slave" is more appropriate.

[windsorspirit]

You are and always have been free to choose what you want to do in your life.

[Manomanman]

Originally Posted by carlon

slave's ultimate punishment =being set free?

Most emancipated slaves in post-civil war America had no idea what to do when set free. The purpose of their existence, to work, was gone. So yes, taking away a slave's purpose in life is a terrible form of punishment. A slave only wants to do one thing: work for the master. All of the hard choices in life - what to do, who to marry, what to do with your spare time...all of those burdens are GONE! Most slaves are glad to work for their master and will socially punish the defiant ones who are making everybody's life harder than it has to be (the same way that corporate wage slaves ostracize entrepreneurs).

Prisoners and chronic jobbers also experience disorientation and purposelessness when they lose contact with the institution that gave them purpose in life.

[MidasGirl]

Originally Posted by Manomanman

To me, the entire point of conscious growth is to creates states of abundance which prevent the feeling of being enslaved.

I think its safe to say that "enslavement" is relative to a person's perspective. Do the vast majority of people feel like they're being enslaved by having jobs? Or do they feel empowered by the work they do? Most of the people I know hate what they do but do it anyway.

These people need a lot more than a perspective shift to free themselves.

How many business owners have you talked to lately? Most of them also complain, not about their boss now (who is perfect of course) but about the econony, democrats, republicans, Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Bush, Tim Geithner, their crappy customers, their unappreciative kids, taxes, taxes, taxes, taxes, etc etc. But of course this is all justified because we are the incredible entitled class called business owners.

True freedom IS a shift in mentality. If you feel enslaved as an employee, and you only move location, you're still a slave in your head.

And btw, there is no real freedom. Just being human is slavery in itself. You will always be a slave in one form or another. Stop running away from your destiny

[todd65]

Originally Posted by bright

I'm starting to get a bit tired of all these posts about D/s and steve's personal life. Its great that you're enjoying your life and have found a good partner steve, but we'd like to read about things that can help us with our lives, we're not that interested in your personal romantic life.

Yeah i agree,i think Steve has a lot of great things to say but the whole love life thing creeped me out.

[xtheist]

Re the love life info...it's great that Steve's so happy etc but he is rather coming across as a schoolboy who has just discovered sex for the first time.
I also do wonder if it's hurting Erin to hear such detail. Not a criticism but just thoughts that have crossed my mind. Perhaps it genuinely isn't which is great.

[Savage]

I only posted 5 blog entries in January, 3 of them D/s-related. And yet web traffic hit a new high that month at 9.1 million page views. The previous high was 8.5M page views, set in October 2009 when Erin and I announced our separation.

So despite any complaints to the contrary, the hard data coupled with other feedback shows that large numbers of people are interested in reading quite a bit about my personal life. Some may complain they don't want to read about it, and yet they still keep reading.

People who genuinely don't want to read about a topic simply stop reading. They don't read first and then complain about it, then read some more and complain some more. That would be silly.

The real agenda of those who complain tends to be that such topics make them personally uncomfortable because it sheds light on relationship issues they don't feel ready to deal with. So they attack the perceived source of those feelings as a coping mechanism. It's their way of distracting themselves from dealing with their own relationship challenges.

A better choice, if I may suggest one, is to journal about your true feelings. There's really no point in whining about my coverage of a topic that has such a clear and demonstrable demand. Turn your attention within, and get to work on your own love life... one that is perhaps languishing while you continue to feed your World of Warcraft addiction.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by xtheist

I also do wonder if it's hurting Erin to hear such detail. Not a criticism but just thoughts that have crossed my mind. Perhaps it genuinely isn't which is great.

You underestimate Erin's cadre of boy toys.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by todd65

Yeah i agree,i think Steve has a lot of great things to say but the whole love life thing creeped me out.

What else can I do to creep you out even more?

[moonrambler]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

You underestimate Erin's cadre of boy toys.

There's a blog I'm looking forward to!

[Acting Like Godot]

Originally Posted by Plato

Sometimes it's a friend's girl, or just a stranger on the street. I want to walk up and say "You're coming with me. You're mine now." And really mean it, no matter what her response I'm taking her.

If I were the girl, I'd box you on the nose and call the police.

[Plato]

Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot

If I were the girl, I'd box you on the nose and call the police.

Bad idea.

For that I'll cut open your insides Jack The Ripper style and leave through my secret escape hatch. Wearing a cape.

[MissGina]

I want to get this CPA exam over with this year. I want to pass the remaining 3 parts on the first attempt.

I want to either get the Tax Job downtown or another job making around 50k this year please.

I would like a few new male friends. Starting with the new one I met today!! (LOA works people!)

Umm....I would also like to get some A's from these Master's classes.

I would also like to attend the CGW workshop in October.

These were more like wishes/goals than desires, but as long as they happen, they can be called fish as far as I'm concerned.


As for Steve and is love life, I think it is wonderful to hear about different ways to get to the "end result". We all want love/sex, so why get mad when we see someone else "getting some" by using a way we may not have thought of.....I think that's called being jealous lol.

I'm just scared to try it....along with having my name as my domain, but "this too shall pass"

[roxyruby]

Originally Posted by windsorspirit

Thanks for the compassionate gesture, RoxyRuby. I'm rapidly returning to my natural state of joyous well-being, and feeling physically finer by the moment.

As number 1 on my list is nearing full realization, my creative power is getting hungrier for more delicious manifestations. Yum.

You're welcome. & That is good!

[Curtis2011]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

What else can I do to creep you out even more?

Show us a video demonstration for your next D/s blog post

[Savage]

Originally Posted by Curtis2011

Show us a video demonstration for your next D/s blog post

Demonstrating what?

[Liz Caitlin]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Demonstrating what?

You eating Rachelle's brain.

[Armen]

I always learn stuff here. This is a valid point. Waiting for others to figure out our desires is a very slow process. It is almost too slow to even work. On the other hand, we learn a bit when we broadcast our desire, even if it doesn't work out.

A few weeks ago I tweeted a message that I wanted to get 10000 followers within a day. While that did not occur, at least I figured out that that didn't work. You don't know things until you try, and you don't know what you get until you ask.

Shout outs to Steve.

[cacheborn]

I have never seen such vivid demonstrations of projections as some of the posts who were opposing D/s or such topics. Interesting.

[carlon]

Originally Posted by free spirit

I did quit my job. No whining or excuses for me.

I have also started my own business and without meaning to be deliberately argumentative - it was easy. Its was easy because I have the time to do it and the motivation as I'm doing something I enjoy with my own free will. I set my hours, choose my tasks, choose my strategy, choose ultimately which direction my life is taking.

But if you have a job that can do that, then wonderful! If it's not all those things, it's a massive time sacrifice, particularly as most jobs require the best part of your life. 18 - 65 years, Monday to Friday, 9 - 5. Yuk.

Good for you. Most people never take the plunge. You're right. Starting a business is easy..of course, it's the whole running thing that's hard.

In my case, I chose to have a job because I wanted to live abroad. Visa required a job, so I got one. So, for me, a job is currently a means to an end...just the same as a business. I think with all the job/business false dichotomy that simple message gets lost...our careers are a means to an end.

[carlon]

Originally Posted by Manomanman

Most emancipated slaves in post-civil war America had no idea what to do when set free. The purpose of their existence, to work, was gone. So yes, taking away a slave's purpose in life is a terrible form of punishment. A slave only wants to do one thing: work for the master. All of the hard choices in life - what to do, who to marry, what to do with your spare time...all of those burdens are GONE! Most slaves are glad to work for their master and will socially punish the defiant ones who are making everybody's life harder than it has to be (the same way that corporate wage slaves ostracize entrepreneurs).

Prisoners and chronic jobbers also experience disorientation and purposelessness when they lose contact with the institution that gave them purpose in life.

Whoa...better tell the ghost of Lincoln what an idiot he was for emancipating the slaves. You're heading off the deep end, and I really don't want you to get hurt. Look, when you're wrong, the best thing is just admit that your metaphor is wrong and move on.

Unless of course you REALLY think that freeing the slaves was a bad thing...then I don't think anyone here can help you.

[jinkster]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

...the hard data coupled with other feedback shows that large numbers of people are interested in reading quite a bit about my personal life. Some may complain they don't want to read about it, and yet they still keep reading.

People who genuinely don't want to read about a topic simply stop reading. ...

won't the people who stop reading still show up in your "hard data" of page hits?

i hear that a lot of people are enjoying more personal information - would you rather not hear from the ones who have stopped reading?

maybe some people think this is a blog by democracy? that we can put in our 2cents with hope that it might influence your direction. doesn't seem too likely!

[Savage]

Originally Posted by jinkster

won't the people who stop reading still show up in your "hard data" of page hits?

i hear that a lot of people are enjoying more personal information - would you rather not hear from the ones who have stopped reading?

maybe some people think this is a blog by democracy? that we can put in our 2cents with hope that it might influence your direction. doesn't seem too likely!

If people stop reading, they don't generate any new page hits because they don't visit the site. Feb traffic is just as high as January, so I'm seeing a net gain in readership this year, not a decline, and it appears that's mostly happening because of an increase in referrals and in search traffic (both of which tend to be mutually supportive).

I don't need to hear from the people who stopped reading. If people don't like my content or style, I'm not going to change for them anyway, so that info isn't particularly useful to me.

I am influenced by others of course. I write many blog entries based on reader suggestions. But I don't rearrange my lifestyle just because it bothers some random people on the Internet.

[xtheist]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

You underestimate Erin's cadre of boy toys.

[ursixx]

Originally Posted by todd65

Yeah i agree,i think Steve has a lot of great things to say but the whole love life thing creeped me out.

<Share your key goals with others. Let your friends and associates know what you desire to manifest or achieve, especially for desires that may come to you through your social circle. was the point with the blog and if he said he was addicted to the missionary postion and it was the greatest thing since...(insert great thing here).. it would be the same. The point is he broadcasted his desires.. I am going to retire when im 55 there is one of mine

[Happiness]

silly question...isn't Steve married to Erin anymore? did I miss something???

[SatvikBeri]

Originally Posted by Happiness

silly question...isn't Steve married to Erin anymore? did I miss something???

You missed all the posts on polyamory and on their separation. They're either divorced or in the process of divorcing, not sure which. But read Separation before you jump to any conclusions.