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Hello there! This is the
"Being
Yourself For A
Living" newsletter coming to you from
Johannesburg, South Africa. For more, visit BEntrepreneurING.com.
Recently I found myself doing
some
clearing out and cleaning, which I do often, and then I remembered that
it is spring! Spring cleaning does the soul and the efficiency of
business a lot of good, whatever time of year you do it.
Getting your house in order primes you for prosperity.
INSIGHTS
* New Book *
INSIGHTS by Robin
Wheeler has gone to print and will be released at the end of October
2007. It
comprises
55 insights to awaken your spirit and boost your business.
Written
between January 2006 and August 2007, it is my fourth book, and my
first in four and a half years. Further details will follow soon.
"Robin is a very
gifted writer and this text is inspirational. I wish him every success
with this great book - I have no doubt that it will be very well
received."
Valda Strauss - Freelance Editor
BUSINESS PRESENTATION & LIVE BAND * New Concept *
Coupled with the release of my new book, I have launched a unique
product on the speaking circuit, a combined business
boosting talk by
Robin Wheeler and a live show
by The Black Hotels. Read more here...
Reply
to this email to
book Robin Wheeler & The Black Hotels.
THE
BLACK HOTELS
The launch party for
our debut EP Beautiful
Mornings is on 29 September 2007 at The Bohemian in Richmond,
Joburg. Please join us if you can!
We will be playing live in the venue where we played our first gig, and
the long-awaited CD will be
available for the first time on the night. It will be in shops
around South Africa and at our shows from then onwards.
Stay in touch on our MySpace page.
We also have a new website to complement that: www.blackhotels.co.za.
Watch some footage of us playing the Oppikoppi Festival in August on
YouTube here.
Review from the
Oppikoppi Festival 2007:
"The Black Hotels are my new
favourite band. Intelligent, understated
country rock, with a calculated lofi feel and, incredibly, more than a
hint of Neil Diamond in the vocals.
Critics have been comparing them to
the Velvet Underground and Interpol, but you'd have to throw Jim White
into that mix to get the full feel. And as with many good bands, you
spend the first half of the set using the references to try and get a
handle on them. By the end of the set, they just sound like The Black
Hotels."
Chris Roper (www.24.com)
DIARY
FROM THE
ROAD
13 August 2007
One day last week we spent 14 hours in a television studio
at M-Net
shooting
the live final of a reality TV game show. We arrived at 9am
to set
up drums and then soundcheck, ran through our song on stage a few
times, did two full show rehearsals, and went live at 8.30pm.
Legends Wonderboom played two songs and The Black Hotels closed the
show with "One Weekend".
At the after party I hung with a few fellow musicians and networked
with
some journalists about the music, my new book, and my business
(non-stop being myself
for a living!).
The next morning early we left for the Oppikoppi
festival, 3 hours north of Johannesburg. It was a strenuous drive to
the
premier
musical gathering in the country, at times looking like a desert storm,
yellow and dry and clouded in African dust. When we arrived, a driver
helped us load our gear into a van and then drove us
through the VIP area to the back of the main stage.
We set up and had time for a quick lunch in the catering tent, another
way we were looked after by the organisers. A beer helped
loosen us up and then we were ready. We played a cracking show,
thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and really made the most of it.
Afterwards one journalist approached and said he was going to name us
the find of the
festival, and another from GQ magazine asked us for an interview.
This was peppered with people telling us they've heard our song Natalie
on
the radio and women named
Natalie coming up to us in glee.
On the way home,
someone called to tell me she was watching me on television, on an
entertainment show we
had filmed a couple of weeks back.
I reflected afterwards on a conversation I had on our nation-wide tour
a few months back, about when it is that you
actually become a rock star.
At Oppikoppi 2007, as we were leaving the stage, some fans at the
front,
who had been shouting for the drummer during the show, called out
for my sticks. When I stepped to the front and threw them
out into the crowd, I thought it might be happening!
QUOTE
"Success is not the key to
happiness. Happiness is the key to success.
If you love what you are doing, you will be a success." Albert
Schweitzer
TRY NOT TO
COMPARE
Each of us is unique and incomparable. There has never been and never
will be anyone like you. Nature has created you as you are to be who
you are, right now. That is all you have to do for everything to
be as it should.
Be yourself, and don't bring in
comparison. Don't compare yourself with anyone in any way. Comparison
brings competitiveness, insecurity and discontent. It promotes the
inauthentic, eats away at your well being and makes you vulnerable to
being used.
We are all complete
in our individual uniqueness and comparison takes us away from this and
onto the
inconsequential. It makes us seek in the outer, the false, and leads us
away from happiness.
So try not to compare and look
out
for
comparison everywhere because it is hidden in everything.
Give it a try
and see how much it helps, and how good it feels.
Robin
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