The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Despite the ongoing work feeling never-ending and tedious – yes, it’s still worth it. Who I am today has taken me a long time to forge. What’s more, there’ve been numerous false starts, mistakes, errors, and total fuck-ups. Yet here I am – who, what, how, and why I desire to be. But that’s not the end of the story. It’s never the end of the story until literally, the end – as in the death of the current meatsuit
Yes – but no. Traveling companions on your life path are also on their own path. I’ve been married since May 2015. My wife and I have been together since the spring of 2011. I can’t imagine my life without her as a part of it. While in many ways we’re traveling along the same path – we’re not. Yes, we live together, do lots of different activities together, and are a partnership in this life. Yet still, our paths
Are we taking the same path we might have taken before? There are nearly 8 billion people on this planet. Each and every one of us have our own paths to choose from in this life. At a minimum, that means there are 8 billion paths. Given that we all have more than one path to choose from, that number is probably exponentially higher. There are more likely billions upon billions, if not trillions of paths to choose from. Some
Everyone is flawed and imperfect. Do you embrace or resist your flaws and imperfections? Nobody is perfect. And I mean NOBODY. It doesn’t matter who you are, where you came from, or anything else at all that you can think of – NOBODY IS PERFECT. What’s more – perfection, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder. That which you might identify as perfect I might see as an imperfect, ridiculous mess. And vice versa. Everyone has flaws and
Mindfulness, of course, is the key to finding and/or creating silence. I read a lot. Every morning, I spend about an hour reading. A chapter or two of fiction, and a chapter or two of nonfiction. Most of my nonfiction reading is along the same lines I blog about. Mindfulness, self-awareness, self-encouragement, psychology, and like topics. I read this to increase my knowledge base and find new ways to live this life on my terms. And live it as fully
It’s not the rejection you fear so much as the suffering that’ll come with it. Nobody likes to suffer. Suffering – mentally, emotionally, physically, or spiritually – is unpleasant. The pain that comes with suffering – tangible or not – is unpleasant, distressing, uncomfortable, and just plain awful. But do you know what’s worse than suffering? Often – the fear over how and what it’ll be. Frequently, we don’t recognize suffering as our fear. It gets cloaked in another, more
When you own up to a mistake accountability is empowering. I presently work 3 jobs. First and foremost – I work for myself. Writer, editor, storyteller, podcaster, blogger, etc. I’m taking action and doing things to build the life I most desire to have for myself. Secondly, I’ve been working for this amazing entrepreneur for the last year. She has multiple businesses and tons of amazing ideas. I am both her personal assistant and the managing director of her brands
It’s worthwhile because it’s the only thing we can genuinely control. Ever find yourself thinking about something utterly outside of your control? I don’t just mean a random, passing thought. What I’m on about is giving deep, analytical thought towards something over which you have zero control. For example – politics. Apart from voting, protests, phone calls and letters to our representatives – there’s nothing we can do. When it comes to the world stage, there’s even less that we
An abundance mindset often stands against real and imagined aspects of reality. I recognize and acknowledge that my life is good. Not to brag, but in the grand scheme of things, my life is good. I have an incredible partner, jobs I like, a career I love, friends, a roof over my head, and many things above and beyond basics. For this, I am deeply grateful. So many people in the world are not in this position. There’s room for
Genuine mindfulness lets us recognize fear and uncertainty and how to handle them on our paths. Fear takes many forms. Often, it’s disguised as uncertainty, trepidation, self-doubt, general doubt, brain weasels, and the like. Fear isn’t necessarily a bad thing. It has served the human race well in protecting us from harm. But the things we needed fear to protect us from have changed. A lot. We are no longer prey to anything but other human beings. Fear that protected
