I had intended to offer products for sale on Google and installed the Google and YouTube app on my Shopify store. I didn't pay attention to the rules and had my account suspended. I have to use real photos of all the products I list. So I started taking photos of my test prints, and these are simple selfies. I generally crop my face out of it (I'm not a model). I do have a few models for some things and those photos will be taken over the weekend I hope, as I'll be visiting friends on Saturday to both celebrate Christmas and the birthday of one of my favorite people. We're doing a secret Santa and then going to see Avatar (the newest one) together Saturday night. My friends are all significantly younger than me (all are in their 30's), which I love. We bond from a shared sense of humor.. And I think they appreciate my insights on matters related to biotech. One of my friends also follows geopolitics to a degree, as do I (though I've made a concerted effort to reduce news consumption). I'll stop by the home of another close friend on my way back to Vermont. TBH, the great thing about younger friends is that I can maybe avoid what my mom went through the last few decades of life, which is losing friends through death and not having that dependable social circle any more. I can hopefully avoid that.
So, yesterday I went to the country club I belong to, which has a great gym, and took photos of some of my products. Then went for swim in the pool. I'm so very fortunate to live in a place like this. There's the indoor pool, outdoor pool (for summer obviously), a lake and beach and skiing and skating. There's also pickle ball and tennis courts (I don't use these). On winter weekends, they even have horse drawn sleigh rides. I don't cross country ski, but they offer this too around the golf courses (two 18 hole courses)... and yes they have golf but I don't play. The golf courses are nice to look at though and to walk around. I'm very grateful for all of this. I'm looking forward to skiing next week and skating also.
Back to my store....so after the weekend, I'll try to get my Google and YouTube Shopify app account reinstated. It's not necessary for store growth however. For that, I depend on Pinterest, primarily. Having real photos of my products will also gain customer trust. I did manage to install an app for customer reviews. I'll bring my test prints to Boston for my friends to see and ask them for honest reviews (the truth is that if they're all "5" that will look suspicious....I would prefer honest reviews). I cannot review them. It will likely violate a Shopify rule. Having some reviews will begin to make my store look more trustworthy. Trust is a huge factor when it comes to online sales.
For today, though, I do not intend to do much work on my store, or my substack. Yes, so this is another thing I have been doing. I have a list of several articles to write. I've written a few, but will delete my spiritual ones, as I've decided to use Substack for more substantive topics. I wrote one that I think was pretty good. I've been formulating others with the help of Chat GPT. For years, I've been using my obsessive curiosity to study how the world works. I've explored a variety of areas, from how money works to how power is wielded globally. Psychology is another area of mine. I try to understand how people operate and think. My new inner peace has set all judgements aside giving me much more clarity in this space. So, I've got a backlog of things I want to say and some pretty good ideas for how to change things for the better, once we experience the big collapses that are setting up.
What are the big collapses? Well, the US dollar has already started to collapse. Gold was $2600 at the start of the Trump administration and now it's just under $4400. There are several reasons....from the breaking of economic alliances and lost of trust in the US... to countries like China accumulating gold for it's aim to gain world's reserve currency status (will never happen)... then there's gold speculation (people trying to profit off of all these problems Trump created). So far, it's not destabilized the US. There's a competing list of what will though. From the commercial real estate crisis that's looming to the AI bubble bursting...we are positioned for some big shocks. I am not afraid of these. This is the best thing a kundalini awakening does to a person. What I'm thinking about is putting ideas out in the universe to make the world a better place after the big crises happen. That's when new ideas will be heard. Will my ideas be heard? Unlikely. I consider myself a little butterfly just flapping my wings a bit. And the small breeze I create may remain just that. Though, sometimes a bigger wind can be created if others pick up on them. Putting things into the ether may or may not make a difference. . You never know. If they don't land anywhere, that's okay. It's nice to just voice them.
So, why will these things not be my focus today? I'm feeling an energy today that is special. There's a song playing inside my head. It's "within you and without you" by the Beatles. It's obviously a George Harrison song. Why it's there, I don't know. Its a new moon today though and there might be a variety of things contributing to today's energy. I cannot spend all day in my head today. I think I need more stillness and meditation. I wrote this blog but this is all the intellectual effort I'll put out. My ears are ringing intensely. They always ring since my awakening but today it's louder and at a very high pitch. So, probably a good idea to do yoga, breath work and meditation. Saturday and Sunday will be busy. I'll leave tomorrow morning around 9 am and be back home Sunday afternoon around 3 or 4 pm. I won't leave my cats for longer than that.
One thing that's happening in my current environment....it's an abnormally warm day here. Almost 50F. I live in a town house with a metal roof and the snow and ice slide off and make very loud bangs which startle me every so many minutes. When it slides off and lands on the ground its not so bad, but there's a lower roof and when it lands there, that causes a big bang sound. This might challenge whatever meditation I do.
I'm signing off for now.
Thank you for reading..😊
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