What Does Self-Empowerment Mean to You and What Steps are you Taking to Empower Yourself?

This week's @abundance.tribe's QOTW is a challenging one as it's made me take a step back from recent life events and really think about where my life is going over the next 30-40 years, until death means this particular self is no more.

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I have a narrow and a deeper understanding of the term 'self-empowerment'.

In the narrow sense, which is kind of self-empowerment 1.0, this involves being free from oppression - from larger scale institutions and being in a situation where I'm able to meet my own needs independently and resiliently - this doesn't necessarily mean being an isolationist, rather it means being in a situation where I've got sufficient wealth and resources that I'm then able to interact with people freely to meet our mutual needs and wants.

The deeper sense of self-empowerment, self-empowerment 2.0 if you like, means giving up the self, going beyond it, transcending it, which kind of makes a nonsense of the term 'self-empowerment'.

I've kind of been going great guns with the self-empowerment 1.0, not so great with self-empowerment 2.0.

So I'll focus mainly on self;-empowerment 1.0 here!

Self-Empowerment 1.0 progress - independence and resilience

Moving to Portugal has just been a great leap forwards in helping my financial independence - once my land sale completes (hopefully next week) and my car gets matriculated, I'll be in a position of being able to live with very limited income required.

I'll have minimal bills and other outgoings and 5 acres of land to use to start to meet my own needs - Having some land is key to self-empowerment I think - it's going to mean I can be mostly self-sufficient in food, energy and water needs, and I can probably even generate a small income if necessary from said land.

Doing up the land will also empower me in the sense that I'm going to have to skill myself up - by building structures, energy and water systems, upping my allotment game to a full of food-forest system and chickens.

The less dependent I am the more empowered I am I think.

Financially I've got some diverse income sources now - my house back in the UK, my main blog and resource sales, Hive and LEO income (of course) and now my Defi yield farming is looking pretty good too - I think earning through blogging is very empowering - it gives you a sense of achievement.

Having a diversified crypto portfolio which is yielding is something that's important too - the more money i've got coming in, the more projects I can develop on the land.

Self-Empowerment 2.0 - When back to it?

The problem is I've been BUSY lately with getting my transition to Portugal sorted, then getting my crypto sorted, and so meditation and any idea of transcending the self have kind of gone out the window!

I do KNOW the self is an illusion and that there's a bit of a problem with working and blogging and building up an identity and then getting land and that becomes 'my land' - even if all of this helps 'me' to be 'free' - 'I' kind of get attached to all this stuff and this could mean problems later on down the line when meditation kicks back in again.

Ultimately I say I'm empowering myself by increasing my independence, but it's just a stop-gap, just a meantime thing, just putting off the inevitable deep-dive into the deeper realisation that this thing I call myself is intangible.

So ultimately I'm not empowering anything, it's not possible.

Damn, there's a realisation for you!



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