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the work is done for you | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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the work is done for you

Whether you post every day or never, regardless of the type of art you make or “even” when you “just” do you and feel creatively aligned that way;
It’s all exactly as it should be.

It’s the story you are here to tell.
—

Over the past nine months I have witnessed my creativity shrink from doing whatever I wanted to being chained to a meticulously orchestrated content planner, making optimal use of my limited time.

Creativity had to give, because I needed more space for other things.
It was a long and strenuous process, but ultimately I hacked it.

And now that I have it all contained and timeboxed, I am surprised by how much I like it.
Unexpectedly, this planning has turned out to be a huge success.
It’s such a relief to no longer be writing by the seat of my pants.
This feels much more gentle and luxurious, like a spa.

But it does make me wonder, how is this possible?

How can someone who always allowed herself to spill the story the moment it was hot and needed to be told with urgency, how can I trade that for becoming the train conductor version, writing pieces scheduled days in advance;
And not miss any of it?

Am I even still an artist now that I run a content production line?

But the strange thing is, my videos and posts appear to have gotten better.
There is no loss of spontaneity or dullness or anything.

And I’m more consistent.
I’ve cherry picked the easiest pieces, and dropped all items that take 5 hours. Without knowing how to ever put them back into my schedule, so there was a price.

But overall, yeah!
Love it!

But then I realized that the reason I feel it’s “all” still there, is because the essence of our work and our message is never ours to begin with.
It is given.

What you call your work, is actually handed to you, by purpose, from calling,  or by some invisible Force.

Whether you have 8 hours or 2 to create a piece?
It is all the same to them.

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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bargain a better deal | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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bargain a better deal 

The danger is never in overpaying for things you really want;
It’s in giving your time, attention and emotional labor, where no agreement was ever made.

—

“Hell, it’s everywhere, isn’t it?!”
I have no idea if I have actually said this out loud, but I’ve thought it.

Because the bad news is that once you have transformed one area of your life, stripped down all layers of socially conditioned paint and veneer
– but not before testing it for lead!
Because you know very well the majority dates from before the 70s when they took this toxic ingredient out-
– the lead-reference serving not just as an instruction to refurbish your vintage furniture, but also a metaphor of the most toxic ingredients being taken out of social conditioning in the 70s-
– just saying!-
And you repair all the damaged wood, and pamper it with oil or wax and new coloring, and you’re just so proud when that whole area of your life is finally shining as a one of a kind original!

When?
Oh no….fuck…..
Yes, Rock Star.
A whole different area of your life falling apart.

With that little corner piece shining bold and bright, it is suddenly painfully obvious how bland, old, out-of-use and dangerously unattended to other parts of your life are.

Absolute relics, and from a life you cannot remember ever agreeing to.

Once you redo one area of your life, you will find all other areas are like brown, mid- 20th century furniture with lead paint and BROKEN LOCKS (this was again a metaphor), dusting away in your basement or shed.
Meaning taking up space in the margins of your life, where other people dumped them, or you took them on board without questioning.

And now they’re…..there.

Want to know who put them there?
Throw out those beliefs on who you owe whatever, or on what was right and wrong in 1953, and find out.

The ones who object to you throwing it out;
They, put them there.

~Suzanne Beenackers
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retry from alignment | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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retry from alignment

None of us are alike.
We come with different appetites, and are built to carry different things.

The ones you’re built to survive, are the ones that are on your real path.
—

It’s the Lion’s Gate Portal today, the 8th day of the 8th month. And I no longer remember what it stands for, but it was positive, and it was powerful because the 8 is the number of power.

So if you were born on the 8th or on the 17th or 26th (which add up to 8) then you are marked for great power.
You’re able to handle it, to carry its weight.
And should feel right at home today, the 8th of August.
But the portal is for all of us, and let’s just call it an alignment portal.

Because the word Manifestation (portal) implies you’re building something from scratch, stomping it out of the ground with your own willpower.
The exact thing we don’t want to do.

‘Cause if it’s aligned then it’s already there.
You just need to get back to the Self naturally equipped to carry it.

But there is a catch;
The levels to which this society has managed to derail and misdirect everybody from their natural let’s call it “power grid” into a Sunday school version of being a good little capitalist consumer languishing away in the prison of a job you do not like-
is unprecedented.

We are uprooted not from location, but from our power.
We no longer have access to it.

And so like caged animals we start overeating, showing repetitive behavior, we think in loops and our thoughts go from the vastness of the planes to the confinement of our cages.
Slowly, we die.

This day;
Drop the bars you’re holding up yourself.
Walk away from the terror of small mindedness.
Burn the learned concept of what is good, and attune to the wisdom of your inner flame.

The truth of who you really are will set you free.

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stop messing with purpose | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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stop messing with purpose

Beneath the doubt, the fear, the constant checking;
Behind the yearning for validation, recognition, someone to lean on or even just to lean with!

You know why it is you’re here.

—

Today I walked the streets of a rebuilt Roman neighborhood.

I got lost in their alleys, I ate at their inn, I discovered their city villa, centered around the small enclosed courtyard of stone.

I missed the penis sign which had made me wonder years ago, if it was supposed to depict a brothel.
A rebuilt brothel which we had not entered because it had been under construction, but now that I was there, seven years later, I forgot to go into the building and check.
I did not remember.

But I also climbed the wide white stairs of the palace, a wooden throne at its center which the visitors could not sit on.
But it was clear this palace and the large square surrounded by walls, belonged to the ruler of the village.
The palace and its stairs a stage, more than a functional way to enter a home.

And I stood there, in front of an imaginary crowd who had gathered to see their new ruler and I said:
“I shall be your first female senator, and I am your ruler! You will all bow to me!”
And this was after I had already lingered at a high terrace balconies overlooking a hill, saying:
“I could order the troops from here.”
And in my mind I could already hear a horn.

It were playful thoughts and probably inspired by role players who were at the site. I could see roman soldiers left, right and center.
But still the moments lingered in my mind.
They were fiction, yes, but fiction that resonated.

And I realized that whatever it is we do believe we are here to do, it deserves to be lived like that.

We need to find our point of focus, of power, of truth.
To live it, to speak it, to wear it.

Until we can hear the sound of the horn.

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offer where it can happen | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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offer where it can happen

Most of us do not create physical art, but immaterial.
And we call it a service or a business, because that makes it more trustworthy.

But we know it’s art.

The art of offering a space where others feel alive.
—
I just had the unexpected pleasure of visiting one of the top trucker🚚🚛 rest stops of the Netherlands:
Frans op den Bult

And coming from someone who knows absolutely nothing about trucks, but who has definitely visited quite her share of restaurants, I can say I have never encountered anything like it.

And that renaming it to:
The Frans op den Bult EXPERIENCE
would hold up.
Because I was mesmerized.

Yet technically, it was simply a restaurant, which had been accommodated to truckers.
While also doing an outstanding job of feeding hungry tourists and for a price they will not be getting anywhere else within the borders of this country.

Which has begged the question;
What is it that makes them SO alluring I treat them with theme park reverence?! 🎢🏰🎡

Now I’m not going to cover the setup for truckers but just to give you an idea:
-high drive through arches made of steel poles, and welcoming banners in their characteristic blue with white lettering
-safe parking for 160 trucks
-sanitary facilities incl showers
-best tables of the house reserved for truckers

And yes, I think what makes them so appealing is because they needed a system that served truckers.
But that the trick is it’s working like a charm for all visitors.

Because they created a system that HOLDS you.
A framework, not just literally with those high drive-through gates, but figuratively.
And you feel that.

They see you, welcome you.
But before you are allowed into the restaurant you are cleared and given a pass.

The pass literally means:
“YOU are now allowed to pass.”
You’re crossing a guarded border and entering a different world.

And that?
Is what people pay for.

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shame, your final reckoning | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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shame, your final reckoning

When you’re almost there!

Confronted your most personal fears, rinsed your deepest wounds and even successfully finished your Passive Aggressiveness Combat Training, which we all know almost none of us master;

There it is.
And you can start all over again.

—

Shame and capitalism.

If I was in the business of giving advice to dictators, new gurus or even invading aliens looking for the best hook to implement either their nefarious or virtuous agenda (it works on both);

Or even if I was doing nothing more than writing a blogpost for one reader in 2025 or in a timeline far far away;

I would give all of them the same advice.

Study shame and capitalism, and you will have all you need to understand, infiltrate, and conquer humanity.

And although I would try not to brag, especially in the case of aliens because there is little point in inter-galactic comparison, but I don’t think I would be able to refrain from adding;
“Trust me on this”
“Thank me later”
or even:
“You’re gonna love it”

We will do everything for money.
And we will do everything to not be shamed.

Humanity has built its own mental prison, and one the majority of us are not even aware of.
Yet this framework is not just built, but also attended to and freely maintained by everybody, as we go about unconsciously living its law.

We’ve all been both victims as well as henchmen, accomplices, and to both capitalist repression as well as shaming others even when it is just by parroting values that are based on exclusion.
On not being good enough and not worthy unless.

You think you’re finally making headway with this whole enlightenment thing and there it is…

(Shame:)
“You didn’t think it was gonna be that easy, did you?”

(You:)
“You know, for a second there, yeah.
I kinda did.”*

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~Suzanne Beenackers
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you decide the rules

Just because everybody’s afraid of the darkness of the sea;

The razor sharp ridges
Unexplored trenches and underwater caves

Doesn’t mean that includes you.

—
I’m on the cusp of two incredibly big changes in my life.
One professional, one private.
And in areas that have been challenging for me in the past.

They used to come with a whole bag of unsorted emotions, but the general label was that the professional bag carried more anger and frustration, and the private one loss and sadness, but also love.

This particular professional bag was one of the oldest ones I had.
I had never chosen it, or I had but in a “this one is the lesser of all evils” kind of way.
The bag came with the promise that I didn’t need to choose yet.

Whereas the private bag was one I had chosen very deliberately, and much more recent than the professional one.
I had made great sacrifices for her, as it came at great cost.
You could say I still I am still living the consequences of insisting this luxury bag to be mine.
Would not trade it for the world though.

And now both bags have been cleaned out, figuratively speaking
– although maybe it would be cool to select two bags from my collection to represent this new phase! –
and this summer they will step into this new life with me.

And in the words of Carrie Bradshaw, I couldn’t help but wonder:
Do they still carry that same baggage? The same emotions?
Somewhere deep inside the pockets.
Sewn in, between the seams.

But although only time will tell, I don’t think so.
Can’t find any residue, they appear to be clean.

And it mirrors the mental clarity I have now.
It was never about what anyone or anything tossed inside of them.
Not about unwanted baggage.

It’s about you treating them with dignity.
Knowing them inside and out.

And in return they’ll give you their power, their secrets and their darkest sorcery.

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consciousness is king | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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consciousness is king

The world has changed.
What was once true is no longer enough.
The war for our minds has intensified, and needs to be rebuilt from within.

Today.

—

I make it into a game.
With stories about difficult situations which I hear or read
– and I’m the first to admit my own stories and difficult situations are the last to be subjected to this. In many ways I am a rookie! –
I try to identify what the underlying cause was that lead to this.

Not to see if it could have been prevented, or whose fault it is. It is not that personal, and it has nothing to do with the human or emotional side, which is a parallel story in my mind. 

No, what I mean is that at some point, and this can be days after I have heard it, I will scan the situation from a bird’s eye perspective.
What was the underlying conflict of interest?
Who was in power?
Were they held accountable for their actions?

And what it comes down to is that there is always a lack of information.
Rarely can things be explained in a straightforward way. The motivations can only be attributed indirectly, by tracking their actions back.

So you know someone is “pushing” for a certain outcome, and pushing can mean neglect and not doing anything and waiting for it to fall apart.
But it usually stays a mystery why this is the outcome that person or party wants. 
We don’t know.
And more often than not, I have concluded that in all likeliness this person or party does not know themselves either.

So the non-dominant party does not only face the problem of being overpowered, but by a party who is acting from instinct, like a wounded animal.

We used to have a prime minister in the Netherlands, who in one of his more honest moments confessed that no one was going to give an explanation about a certain situation.

Well, newsflash!
No one ever is.

The only chance any of us ever have, is not by understanding the darkness of our enemy;
But by becoming the light, within.

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what you carry is sacred | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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what you carry is sacred

The world no one sees, the history no one knows, the shapeshifting of identities like quicksilver.

Comforting emptiness where your truth once stood. A curious fox sniffing out the ruins.

A rustling sound;
Incoming ideas!

—

Nine times out of ten, when I want to tell someone about all the exciting things that happened, I hold back and realize there’s nothing to tell.
Because nothing actually happened.
It was all internal, or what also happens frequently, it was incredibly small.

Like I already rescued three bumblebees this year, with a nectar filled keychain I got for my birthday (beevive).
I stick a little twig in the bottle, then hold it in front of the disoriented bumblebee running around on the bike lane.
And then as they start licking it off as if their life depends on it (and it probably does) I get them to climb the twig and transport them, twig and all, to a green spot in the shade.

Even if Axl Rose from Guns N’ Roses then ran into us, blocking the lane, that day would still be more emotionally charged because of the bumblebee.
But Axl Rose would make the better story.

Recently someone asked how my life was now that I had less time for my writing.
I said it was completely doable, but being productive does knock all the creativity out of you.

Which wasn’t totally true, it was more like a worst-case scenario.
IF, I would still invest in Instagram worthy activities that actually “are something” and are cool to tell people about?
THEN my creativity would have died.

But I no longer do that.
Yet I look forward to the weekend!
It means I get to spend copious amounts of time in my inner-world.

Your gift, your creativity, your art, is the tangible, visible thing you create. Yes! 
But your real creative work, is so much vaster;
It is ALL, of what you carry inside of you.

And just showing up there and engaging, alone or with a friend or friends who share it;
That, is your work.

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the foundation to whatever is you | What Do Rock Stars Need To Hear Today

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the foundation to whatever is you

There isn’t anything you need to learn, acquire, get into your life, stumble upon or get past, in order to reach your goal.

You need to embody it.
—

I took a look if I could find a quote, I think it is from Zig Ziglar – someone I do not know anything about other than that I frequently run into their (20th century?) legacy in the form of quotes.

I remember one of the quotes being about 3 areas of life:
To be.
To have.
And to do.
But instead of Zig Ziglar the Google search brought me to an incredibly complicated (to the point of frightening) concept of:
“Auxiliary verbs”
Verbs which apparently were be, do and have.

It reminded me of why English class always made me feel my English was somewhere between poor and rudimentary.
I can only imagine how the kids who had not grown up bilingual must have felt.

However, this does unexpectedly prove my exact point in the matter!
Because auxiliary verbs?
They don’t actually do anything.

I do remember when to use have, and I HAVE USED it daily.
Or is it AM USING it daily?
Either way it’s not the simple past tense of “I used it daily”
because then it means I no longer use it.

What I also do every day is find errors like this in my writing.
In particular on Substack, where the whole post is sent out to readers.
Not just a link.
Whereas my regular blogs and posts on Instagram are very forgiving, because I can still adjust the text and the post-with-errors is not still visible in people’s Inbox.

However!
Does it matter?

Is the quality of my writing defined by my ability to correct every auxiliary verb before I post?
No.

It’s in the person I am, the ideas I have, and in the relentless drive that pushes me to my computer every day.

Just looked up Zig Ziglar.
The Be, Do, Have philosophy is indeed his core message.

You have to BE the right kind of person first.
Then DO the right things.
And then you will HAVE what you want.

BE. Do. Have.
And in that very specific order.

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