Supernatural nightmares of the solopreneur kind
Happy Halloween, my spooky solopreneur friend.
In the spirit of the season, my lady and I have been watching the trashy TV series Supernatural lately. And by watch, I mean she watches while I write on the sofa next to her, briefly pausing from time to time to appreciate the Americana of it all, the religious references, or a particularly gruesome murder. For those who don't know, it's a show about two brothers who hunt demons. It's a show about heaven and hell, angels, and biblical prophecies type shi.
Over the past few years, especially since starting my business, I've become borderline obsessed with whether the inputs I'm consuming are helping or hindering. So, in Trumpian style, I've pretty much built a wall to keep anything negative out of the old noggin and deported anything "low vibrational," or so the hippie types might say.
I used to be a frequent consumer of rap music, for example, whereas now I listen to classical. No, I'm not kidding. I won't watch a murder documentary. I've become a militant adherent to enforcing this new cerebral firewall… But when a good woman asks on All Hallows Eve, you gotta bend a rule or two. So my subconscious has slowly been absorbing all this fictitious violence - demon attacks, vampires, werewolves… classic Halloween horror. Which is undoubtedly the cause of the nightmare I had last night, and I ain't ashamed to admit it. I woke up with a jolt and a gasp, my mind simulating the grisly killings I'd been soaking up over the past few evenings.
Now you might think, "James, this is absurd. You can't even watch a soft horror TV show without getting nightmares!"
I'll tell you what's absurd, chum.
Not putting yourself on a strict information diet.
The level of consumption the average brain is subjected to each day is nothing short of paralysing. You ingest thousands of new pieces of information, opinions, and entertainment DAILY. That's why so many have shiny object syndrome, can't commit to anything, and have to ask Grok if it's true that the sky is blue.
When's the last time you really got in tune with your own opinion? Most people simply parrot what others are saying. There are vanishingly few CREATORS in this "creator economy". This even applies to the GOOD info you consume. You wouldn't follow the teachings of multiple different religions and expect to make it to the pearly gates, now would you?
So, tell me why so many look up to so many gurus.
You gotta pick one. One guru. One biz. One obsession. Put the blinders on, forget what everyone else is saying, and become a monomaniac.
"The single-minded ones, the monomaniacs, are the only true achievers. The rest, the ones like me, may have more fun; but they fritter themselves away. Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission." - Peter Drucker
If you are looking to strip your copy, emails, or content of the teachings of all false prophets, so you can become your own kind of monomaniac?
Go here:
James Perkins
P.S. There's a devilish discount available for you for Halloween only, courtesy of the dark lord, Don Domingo.
