By MC Salmon, IMMachines.com

✍️ A Note from MC Salmon

I think we all feel it — that strange tension between collapse and creation.
Gold and silver prices are spiking, the news looks like a late-night sci-fi rerun, and half the internet is predicting either a digital utopia or total economic meltdown before lunch.

And yet… here you are. A creator. A builder. A person with something to give, still showing up to make meaning out of madness.

I’ve come to believe this is exactly what awakening looks like. Humanity is being brought to the precipice — not for punishment, but for perspective. We’re meant to see what no longer works, so we can build what does.

This post is my attempt to bring a little humour, calm, and structure to the storm. It’s inspired by The Survivor Blueprint — a list of practical wisdom for when personal survival feels at stake — but rewritten for creators, solopreneurs, and digital visionaries trying to keep their cool (and their income) while the world rearranges itself.

Take what helps. Laugh where you can. Build what matters.
Because this, my friend, is how you surf the shift.

1. Welcome to the Great Awakening

Some call it collapse. Others call it disclosure.
But if you look closely, you can see the real pattern — a global spring-cleaning of consciousness.

We’ve built our lives on shaky systems: fiat currencies printed from thin air, media built on fear, and “success” defined by exhaustion and corruption. The White Hats might be cleaning house, but for creators, this is a golden opportunity — literally and spiritually — to build new systems that work.

“When the old world wobbles, the real builders quietly start sketching the next one.”

You don’t need to panic-buy beans or bunker gold (though a little silver never hurts – my asset of choice). What you need is a clear mind, creative order, and spiritual common sense — the tools to keep moving forward while everyone else argues about the sky.

That’s where your inner systems come in.
And yes — that’s where tools like IMMachines GPTs can help. They don’t replace intuition; they organise it.

If you don’t believe there is ‘a Great Awakening’ then the announcement by Kier Starmer that you will have to have a digital ID by 2029 or you will not be able to work in the UK should be it!  The practical implications are that the Government wants total control over YOU.  The digital ID will be connected to Central Bank Digital Currency which will control what you can spend your money on and your money will have an expiry date so you cannot save it, your health records will include mandated vaccines, there will be carbon credits that will restrict your right to travel and so on.  Look to the Social Credit system in China, where even your bodily organs can be removed without your consent. Resisting Digital ID is the final frontier for protecting our freedom.  The fact that Tony Blair is promoting Digital ID should be warning enough.

2. The First Rule of Survival: Keep Your Frequency Steady

When the world tilts, the most valuable skill isn’t finance — it’s emotional regulation.

Money moves in cycles, politics moves in waves, but consciousness determines whether you surf or sink. The Survivor Blueprint’s first principle is simple: don’t match the chaos.

Laugh. Breathe. Ground.
Because panic shortens your decision window, and poor decisions shorten everything else.

Here’s what works:

  • Stay rooted in rhythm and routine. Go to bed on time, even if the markets don’t.

  • Move your body. The body is a truth-teller; if you ignore it, it will start speaking in symptoms. I personally go to the gym.

  • Create daily. Not for output — for orientation. Writing, sketching, or speaking resets your nervous system and gives a sense of purpose.  I am always surprised by the direction my creativity moves once I get started.

“When nothing feels stable, your daily rhythm becomes your first currency.”

That’s why I use my From Chaos to Clarity GPT every morning. It helps me structure the day so my mind stays calm and my output stays aligned. That’s not “AI dependency.” It’s intelligent delegation — handing the mess to a tool so you can focus on meaning.

3. Accept That the Old Game Is Ending

The fiat system is wobbling because it was never designed to stand forever.  All fiat systems eventually collapse when their value has been devalued to nil.
Governments have been printing promises while productivity stagnated, and people are waking up to the math. The mainstream story calls it “economic uncertainty.” But what it really is… truth catching up.

That’s not the end. That’s correction.

Trump calls what’s coming The Golden Age — not because it’s easy, but because it’s honest. Humanity can’t move into higher awareness while clinging to fake wealth, fake media, and fake self-worth.  The Quantum Financial system will be asset-backed on the blockchain, diversified so that Banks and Government cannot control us, tokenised and free of fraud and inflation

Creators, coaches, and solopreneurs have a special role in this transition: to model what real value looks like — wisdom, creativity, service, and authenticity. The “digital gold rush” isn’t in crypto coins. It’s in character and the return of fiscal integrity.

“Integrity will become the new currency — and only those who’ve practiced will have any.”

Your systems, your content, your offers — these are your stores of value. Keep building them. Keep teaching. The new world will need teachers, storytellers, and systems builders more than ever.

4. Prepare Without Fear

Preparation doesn’t mean paranoia. It means stewardship.

The Survivor Blueprint reminds us: hope for the best, prepare for the potholes. That means:

  • A small emergency fund (real cash, not digits that can freeze).

  • A backup plan for your digital assets (and your mindset).  I have backed up as many of my online assets as I can – website, list and Google Drive onto an external hard drive.

  • A community of like-minded people who don’t lose their humour when the Wi-Fi flickers.  Truthfully, most of my community is online because I have found them hard to find in physical form in my locality.

And here’s the part most people miss: mental and spiritual readiness are survival tools too which is why so many of my posts have a spiritual aspect to them.  We are fighting a spiritual battle, and have been for centuries, we just didn’t know until recently that we were under attack.

When everyone’s shouting, you’ll be the one listening. When others freeze, you’ll adapt. When others panic, you’ll prototype.

That’s what creators do. We improvise, iterate, and ship.
Even in collapse, creativity is commerce.

“Preparedness isn’t hoarding things — it’s practicing calm.”

Use your GPTs to simplify, not amplify. Automate the admin. Delegate the chaos. Save your mind for decisions that matter.  My Act As If Engine GPT may assist you!

5. Simplify Everything (Especially Your Thoughts)

When survival feels threatened, the mind starts building towers of “what if.”
What if I lose my income?
What if the banks fail?
What if I can’t provide?

Stop. Breathe. Simplify.

Here is what Victor Frankel says in his book ‘The Meaning of Life’:
We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts
comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but
they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the
human freedoms—to choose one’s attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one’s own
way.
And there were always choices to make. Every day, every hour, offered the opportunity to make a
decision, a decision which determined whether you would or would not submit to those powers
which threatened to rob you of your very self, your inner freedom; which determined whether or
not you would become the plaything of circumstance, renouncing freedom and dignity to become
moulded into the form of the typical inmate.

The truth: you don’t need to control everything. You just need to choose one’s attitude and control what’s next.

The Blueprint calls this “focusing on immediate, meaningful action.”
I call it micro-stability.

  • Make one clear plan each morning.

  • Do one meaningful task completely.

  • Finish something — even small — every day.

Completion breeds calm. It tells your nervous system: I can handle this.

One IMMachines user told me they start each morning by asking their Business Problem Solver GPT a simple question:

“What’s the most stabilising thing I can do for my business today?”
That question alone pulls your attention out of anxiety and back into agency.

“The mind loves to catastrophise. Systems love to clarify. Choose systems and just take the next step.”

6. Redefine Wealth

Gold and silver might rise. Fiat might fall. But wealth isn’t metal or digits. It’s adaptability, creativity, and community.

You can lose your portfolio and rebuild from scratch if you have those three. You can’t buy resilience — you build it, one mindset habit at a time.

The Blueprint says: “You can’t eat status.”
Too many people traded real self-reliance for digital applause. Now the applause is fading, and they’re rediscovering practical wisdom — cooking, growing, trading, building, helping.

The new wealth will look like:

  • People teaching what they know.

  • Communities pooling resources.

  • Creators monetising experience, not illusions.

And those with clear, automated systems — the creators who’ve turned their knowledge into digital assets — will thrive fastest.

“When fake money dies, real value stands taller.”

7. The Rule of Calm Commerce

When survival instincts kick in, business owners tend to overreact — slash prices, chase trends, or abandon their mission. That’s the economic equivalent of running into traffic during an earthquake.

Stay still. Feel the ground. Move only when stable.

The best “recession strategy” isn’t panic-selling; it’s refining your value system. Who do you serve? What problem do you solve? What transformation do you deliver?

If you can articulate that clearly and consistently, you’re already in the top 5% of businesses — because clarity is currency.

That’s why systems like the Offer Optimiser GPT exist — to help you sharpen your offers so they cut through noise even when markets wobble.

“When others shout louder, whisper truth. The right people will still hear you.”

8. Nourish the Body, Not the Panic

Survival talk often jumps straight to food storage, but forgets the first rule: you can’t digest dinner if you’re marinating in fear.

Yes — stock a few essentials, plant something edible, keep some cash. But also remember to eat slow, laugh with others, and take walks without your phone.

Because your energy is the battery for every system you run.
No calm creator ever emerged from a sleep-deprived doom scroll.

The Blueprint’s advice translates perfectly here: fuel before fear.

  • Eat real food.

  • Drink water not alcohol.

  • Get sunlight before screen light or sunscreen.

  • Movement overcomes worry.

“Your nervous system is your first economy. Guard it like gold.”

9. Don’t Lose the Humour — It’s Oxygen

We’ve all seen people who are so serious about “awakening” that they forget how to smile. Don’t be that monk.

Humour is sacred medicine.
When you laugh, you open your chest. You breathe again. You remember that none of this — markets, governments, or memes — is as permanent as it looks.

“Laughter is rebellion disguised as joy.”

In The Survivor Blueprint, humour appears as resilience — the ability to step back and see absurdity in the drama.
Because honestly, watching central bankers pretend they know what’s happening is comedy gold.

Humour keeps your energy circulating. It keeps your friends close. And it makes your message human.

That’s why your content — your writing, your offers, your AI-powered systems — should carry a hint of lightness. The world doesn’t need more experts; it needs warmth in motion.

I carry this quotation by Ralph Emerson around in my wallet:

Finish every day and be done with it.

You have done what you could.

Some blunders and absurdities crept in.

Forget them as soon as you can

For tomorrow is a ‘New Day’.

10. Service Over Survival

Here’s the paradox: the more you focus on personal survival, the smaller your world becomes.
But when you focus on service — genuinely helping others find calm, clarity, or skills — your own survival strengthens automatically.

The Survivor Blueprint teaches that purpose multiplies resources.
When your work helps others, you plug into a larger current. Opportunities, ideas, and allies start appearing as if by design.

“In serving others, you secure yourself.”

This is how the IMMachines ecosystem came to be — born from the question, “How can one creator help thousands build systems that keep them calm and productive?”
That question alone creates a field of abundance around it.

When you lead with purpose, money becomes a by-product of usefulness — and usefulness never goes out of style.

11. The Spiritual Side of Systems

Many people think spirituality means detaching from structure. But real peace loves order.
Nature runs on systems — breath, tide, heartbeat, sunrise.

When you create systems in your business and life, you’re aligning with the same intelligence that moves the planets.

“The Divine isn’t allergic to spreadsheets — it invented Fibonacci.”

That’s why the Creator’s path now includes tools like GPTs — not as distractions, but as extensions of consciousness. You don’t use them to escape the human journey; you use them to express it more clearly.

A system is simply love organised.
When you automate a process, you free up time to connect, to create, to serve.
That’s sacred efficiency.

12. The Golden Age Is Built, Not Announced

There’s a lot of talk about “the Golden Age” — about a reset, a return to truth, a freeing of humanity. I believe it’s real. But here’s the twist: it won’t appear on a news ticker. It will appear through us.

Every time a creator builds something honest, every time a coach helps someone grow, every time a solopreneur trades panic for purpose — the new world stabilises a little more.

“The Golden Age doesn’t arrive. It uploads — through human hearts in sync with truth.”

Yes, the world must reach the precipice to wake up. But once awake, the builders will already have frameworks waiting — calm, ethical, creative systems designed by those who never stopped believing in a better way.

That’s what you’re doing when you build in chaos: you’re quietly laying foundations for peace.

Ralph Emerson also said this:

Do not be too timid or squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.

13. Rehearse Gratitude Daily

Gratitude isn’t naivety; it’s neurological hygiene.
It’s how you wash fear from the brain.

Each morning, list three things working right now — even small ones:

  • Your breath.

  • The roof that still holds.

  • The friend who sends you memes at 2 a.m.

Gratitude is the currency of stability. It tunes your attention toward what’s real and expands your field of resourcefulness.

“Fear shrinks your options. Gratitude multiplies them.”

Even when the economy shakes, the laws of gratitude don’t.
Practice it, and you’ll notice how quickly ideas, allies, and calm start finding you.

14. Turn Survival into Practice

If you treat this time as an emergency, you’ll burn out.
But if you treat it as a practice, you’ll evolve.

Every challenge — financial, emotional, or spiritual — becomes an invitation to refine your systems, strengthen your faith, and simplify your priorities.

The Creator’s version of The Survivor Blueprint isn’t about hiding in the hills. It’s about:

  • Learning to pivot calmly.

  • Creating from stability, not scarcity.

  • Building assets that serve people and feed your soul.

That’s survival evolved into mastery.

“The storm teaches what the sunshine forgets.”

15. How to Hold Your Light

At the end of the day, the most practical survival plan is still a spiritual one: stay conscious.

Conscious of your breath, your choices, your impact, your humour.
Don’t outsource your awareness to panic merchants. Don’t measure your safety by headlines.

You have more power than you think — and more allies than you see.

Your calmness is contagious. Your systems are stabilisers. Your creativity is currency.

“Be the quiet one who laughs while building something useful.”

Because that’s who leads us into the next era — not the loud, but the lucid.

And when the smoke clears (as it always does), the world will look for the builders who never stopped believing, the creators who turned fear into frameworks, and the ones who could still make a cup of tea and a good joke while empires wobbled.

🌅 Epilogue: A Creator’s Benediction

If the world feels upside down, remember: that’s what awakening looks like halfway through.
You are not here to merely survive it — you’re here to translate it into wisdom.

Keep your hands open. Keep your systems clean. Keep your humour intact.
The water will settle, the gold will gleam, and those who stayed awake will build the foundations of the age to come.

And when someone asks, “How did you stay so calm through all that?”
You’ll smile and say,

“I had a plan. I laughed a lot. And I built things that mattered.”