The Philosophy of the Titanium Don
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Category: Pathwalking

How Do You Engage Active Conscious Awareness?

Practicing mindfulness is equally easy and challenging. Let’s get factual, shall we? Every single human being on Planet Earth is of three minds. Each of these has a job to do as part of your holistic, overall being. No one can function without the other. The first is the unconscious mind. This is where your brain controls the pumping of your heart, the working of your lungs, digestion, synapses firing, and all the necessary things that allow you to live.

What Are You Doing and Why Are You Doing It?

Not an easy question to answer. Everyone faces expectations when it comes to doing things in life. Things tend to be done in one of three categories. By and large, people tend to focus on doing for others and the world. And by the world, I mean that nameless faceless entity that encompasses world affairs, politics, environmentalism, and so on. While the narrative in the collective consciousness tends to imply (or sometimes state outright) that you should put others (and

You Can Only Open Your Mind

The minds of others are outside your power. I don’t know about you, but one thing that drives me batty is closed-mindedness. It’s especially frustrating and infuriating when you see someone holding onto something illogical, unreasonable, hurtful, and harmful out of fear, ignorance, distrust, uncertainty, or some combination therein. Then, to add insult to injury, it doesn’t help that political parties, business leaders, religious leaders, would-be demagogues, and others weaponize that fear, ignorance, distrust, uncertainty, or combination therein. The divide

You Are What You Believe That You Are

It really is that simple. Who are you? That can be an incredibly loaded question. Who you are might not be a simple, singular answer, either. This might or might not be familiar to you: At work, you put on a specific mask, attitude, and persona. When you’re with family, the face you wear and the person you project is who they expect you to be. With friends, depending on the group, you’re the clown or the voice of reason.

Why Bother Making Choices and Decisions To Live Your Life?

Because only you can – and it’s way bigger than you probably think it is. I’ve been working to find, choose, and/or create my own path for nearly thirteen-and-a-half years. As I’ve explored what goes into this, I’ve shared all sorts of ideas, concepts, and tools that have helped me to become calmer, more centered, more balanced, and frankly happier in my life. Over the course of this effort, the inescapable truth I come up against is this: Change is

It’s Only Too Late When You Decide It Is

Life is all about learning, experiencing, potential, and possibilities. No, I’m not about to get all spiritual on you or otherwise hooky-spooky. This is not some impractical, pie-in-the-sky idealism I’m sharing. This is drawing back the curtains and opening the blinds to really, truly see what’s out there. Almost all the ideas of lack, scarcity, and insufficiency are bullshit. They’re not true, they just exist because someone is trying to make money, control people and things, or are based on

Goals Are The End, Not the Process

The process is how you achieve a given goal. I’ve been postulating for a while now that the Meaning of Life is this: TO LIVE. That means to experience all that life has to offer, take an active interest in who, what, where, how, and why you are, and make choices and decisions to drive your experiences. The more I analyze and explore this idea, the more I’m convinced that TO LIVE is the Meaning of Life. The grand and

You Always Do More Awake and Aware than Asleep

Sleepers aren’t necessarily dreamers and are never doers. I know people who have lucid, involved, detailed dreams. They tell me about crazy happenings they experience when they sleep. I rarely remember my dreams. Once in a very great while, something lingers from my sleep, but more often than not, dreams elude me. Over the past decade-plus, this idea has come into the collective consciousness where being “woke” is somehow a bad thing. What does that even mean? People use the

Who I Am Today Is Not Who I Was Yesterday

I’ll be someone else tomorrow. Driving with friends to a fencing practice more than three hours away, as we talked about the usual people and things in our lives, certain thoughts arose. Things that used to bother me, upset me, or otherwise set me off just don’t anymore. This is not a bad thing, because who I am today is not who I was yesterday. Giving this consideration and thinking about all the work I’ve done to become the person

Maybe Today Is Not Your Day

Tomorrow might not be your day, either. Yet you’re always empowered. Have you ever started your day excited, enthusiastic, and optimistic? You woke up feeling refreshed, invigorated, and ready to tackle the world? That would be amazing, right? I’ve been writing about this life philosophy, Pathwalking, for 13.4 years. Six hundred and ninety-six weeks in a row, without fail. For all that time, I’ve been refining my understanding and approach to conscious reality creation, mindfulness, positivity, and making choices and

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