The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Recently I read The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz and his son Don Jose Ruiz. This is the follow up to the wildly popular book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. These two books present the idea that we come into this life open, but along the way we make “agreements” with how to live. We relinquish control to outside influences, and we allow our belief system to be massively complicated and colored by the world we live
Nobody wants to disappoint anyone else. Just like all the other feelings, you cannot control whether someone is disappointed or not. Yet we all work incredibly hard to make certain we don’t upset and disappoint the people in our lives. Whether friends, family, coworkers or even the Powers-that-be, we are all constantly striving not to disappoint. We change the way we approach things, we change our intentions, we shift our schedules and we sacrifice to avoid disappointment. Not surprisingly, the
Other people do not determine your worth. You do. The old adage is true – you cannot please everyone all the time. You are going to do things that are going to upset and alienate and maybe even infuriate other people. It cannot be helped – this is just a part of human nature. Choosing your own life and walking your own path is going to have pitfalls and perils, ups and downs and so on. People will not understand
Sometimes The Universe just kicks you in the teeth. There are times when no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you struggle, no matter all the good you do and all the positivity you generate, you do not win. We have all been disappointed when our expectations were crushed. I don’t know anybody who has not experienced this. That time you got sick when you were supposed to take a great trip or that date that did
Everybody deserves respect. I believe that many of the conflicts across the globe are the result of a lack of respect. The rich do not respect the poor and vice versa. The religious do not respect the atheists and vice versa. The conservatives do not respect the liberals and vice versa. I could go on and on, but no doubt you can see how easy it is for us to disrespect our differences. We all deserve to be respected, despite
Are you true to yourself? Do you treat yourself in the same manner you wish to be treated by others? Do you respect yourself? Do you hold yourself in high esteem? Do you like yourself? Do you love yourself? It never ceases to amaze me how little we ask these questions of ourselves. We are so keen to learn how those around us are doing, how our friends and family are feeling, how our coworkers are handling stress – we