The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Why do you desire the things you desire? When you were a child, you believed you could do anything. Hell, you may even have believed that you could fly. You were open and eager and ready to explore and experience all the amazingness that life could offer you. Then, when you started school, depending on your experience, you either found even more paths to explore, and/or you
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Are you who you desire to be? If not, why not? This is a simple question, certainly, but the answer is likely complicated. As children, we all have dreams and aspirations. You wanted to be an astronaut, or a firefighter, or a doctor, or an explorer seeking new lands and opportunities. The things you wanted to do as a child may have been realistic, or very out
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Are you living life with direction? Everything in life is choices. We are constantly looking at decisions we can make, and options when it comes to our choices. Each of us can decide to be aware, or choose instead to make no choices at all. For a long time, I wandered rather aimlessly through my life. I went where the wind blew, changed jobs and relationships frequently,
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Recognizing the difference between willing and willful is important. Each of these ideas has its own time and place. But when they are misused, they can be detrimental to anything you might be attempting to create. What are willing and willful, and how do they differ? Dictionary.com gives us this: Willing (adjective) disposed or consenting; inclined cheerfully consenting or ready done, given, borne, used, etc., with cheerful readiness Willful (adjective) deliberate, voluntary, or intentional unreasonably stubborn or headstrong; self-willed Willingness is the presentation of inclination and consent;
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The heart and head will sometimes pull you in different, opposing directions. Your feelings will try to take you one way, while your thoughts attempt to take you another. Oddly, despite these both coming from you, they can make you feel as if you are an outside observer. When you can reach that place, and be the detached, outside observer, you can best determine how to synchronize
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The answer for me is simple. I want to be better because I know I am not at my best. What does that mean? That means that, on a deeply personal level, I am aware that I am not all that I can be. There is room for improvement, and I can be better than I am in many ways. Why be better? Because I desire more
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. To be better, the first step is to define the most important question – better than what? Better than whom is irrelevant. Why? Because the only person we ever need to be better than is our present self. Further, in truth, we cannot generally be better than anyone else. We are, in the grand make-up of the universe, all equal. Yes, when it comes to certain athletic
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The world is only a terrible place if you accept it as such. You and I, however, have the power to change it for the better. Yes, I know that this feels like a stretch, but it is still the truth. I am well aware that many terrible things are happening. Aware doesn’t even begin to cover it. Spend a minute scrolling through Facebook or Twitter or
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. When you had the opportunity, did you take action? What do I mean by that? It’s actually very simple. Did you do that thing you planned to do? The question is a matter of taking a plan – the thought; figuring out how to do it – the feeling; doing it – the action. A lot of us are really good at coming up with ideas and
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Creativity is an amazing power we each possess. Our unique ability to make our world; to build; invent; evolve; to start from a raw idea and conjure an amazing construct is incredible. While we have observed other creatures on this world capable of building and using tools, none has shown the skills and creativity we have to imagine and create wonders. We take so many aspects of