Changes and announcements

A few announcements:

1. I have setup the “Marc’s Life” list and blog as its own blog, as it isn’t logically part of any of the other businesses that I am creating.  The archive of old posts is still available here.
2. I have been using the Polyphasic sleep site for generic personal check-ins – understandably as I have been using polyphasic sleep essentially as an experiment in personal development (consciousness research).  But from now the site will be limited to my experiences specifically in polyphasic sleep, that has been ongoing for 10 weeks now (wow, can you believe it I have been doing anything consistently for 10 weeks .
3. As excited as I am about Saniel Bonder and his teachings, along with other models of development that we are creating at Trellis and testing in our new Relationship Coaching practice, these things convey best by direct contact rather than email.  Also the “Marc’s life” subscribers (you guys) signed-up as my friends rather than as students of this-or-that guru or transformational practice, so it’s not entirely appropriate for me to wax eloquent on my latest guru to this list.  So I am going to be sharing a bit more concretely to this list going forward.  If you are wanting to stay tuned-in to my developmental philosophy and practice, please subscribe to Lifestyle Design School which is the new forum for these types of things.
4. There has been substantial progress in terms of my life-work and business.  I am starting an online training company for blogging, internet marketing, internet business development strategy, and possibly personal productivity (David Allen’s Getting Things Done methodology), under my current wonderful domain name Tranquility Consulting.  I have some trial clients right now and I provide training both on-site and via Windows remote desktop.  I will be marketing through my network, eBay and strategic partnerships.  This idea has been a long-time in gestation.  I will share more later.
5. Rebekah has resigned her job.  She was unhappy there and the personal cost was too high, not to mention lost opportunity for energy healing clients, relationship coaching, weight-loss coaching, and developing Trellis.  I fully anticipate she will make up her lost salary in two weeks time.
6. I am back on polyphasic sleep and it’s going well.  I don’t know what I would do without it and in many ways it’s the lynchpin of my personal development program.  I am attempting to do all my research and business development in the first polyphasic shift (2-6am), and my calls and billable hours in the second shift (9-1).  Then I have a long nap and I am free for the rest of the afternoon and evening. This is my ideal schedule.  I haven’t yet “ironed out all the wrinkles”, but there has been so much change and personal transformation in other dimensions lately that I am not too worried about it.  Getting clear on a business vision (any business vision was huge, and the David Allen / Getting Things Done (GTD) connection is also huge.

So – I won’t say that the “consciousness revolution party” is over – after all Saniel and Linda are coming this weekend and I am so excited I can hardly breathe (I will be spending four days with them) – however, it’s becoming more grounded and concrete.  And while this is too long to get into right now, let me just say that my historical distress / obsession around issues of money and time-management is my core spiritual work (core wound), and is being addressed by the work I am doing with the Bonder’s and Waking Down, in addition to business development at Tranquility Consulting.  All this is an aspect of what Saniel calls “hypermasculine dharmas”, I will just leave you a little nugget:

The fundamental intention [of hypermasculine dharmas] is to dissociate from perceived limits of who we are and what we can or can not do… In order to accomplish the necessary dissociation, extrication, or liberation, the hypermasculine force of being first analyzes the limits it perceives and then deduces, by both intuitive and deductive means, strategies of thought and action that will achieve the desired goals.  The hypermasculine impulse then works to superimpose these strategic formulas of thought upon the living human mind and body.

Chew on that one for a bit, particularly in terms of the potential costs of such a system to one’s psyche.  This is the dominant developmental paradigm of the Western world (and Eastern styles aren’t really any better).