The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Breaking the routine is hard. When you have set up habitual ways of doing things, it is tremendously difficult to change them. We don’t recognize all of our habitual behaviors as habits. When we think of habits, we think of things like smoking and drinking and chewing off our fingernails and so on. But any routine we do on a regular basis is a habit. Oftentimes, when we get stuck on the path we are trying to traverse, or having
Who knows you best? Easy. YOU. Nobody knows you, quite like YOU do. You are the most cognizant of your strengths, your weaknesses, your hopes, your dreams, your fears, your goals, your moral compass, your ethics, etc. You are the leading expert on YOU. You, and you alone, know your every secret, every laudable and damnable detail of your whole entire life. You are your own most intimate companion. Why is this a part of positivity? Because you have the
Give up, change tactics, start over, or keep pushing on? Everybody experiences points where you realize that you have to choose. Give up the path you are on, change tactics for your approach to it, start a new approach to the path from the beginning, or keep pushing as you are. This can be a loaded issue, because there are pros and cons to all four options. Only you can decide which is going to be best in the given
When do you recognize you need some help? When do you stop and realize that no matter what you have tried, maybe you need outside assistance? When do you accept that maybe it’s time to ask for help, seek treatment, or start taking the medications to restore balance? This is a matter of Positivity. Knowing that you need help, and then getting it is incredibly powerful. Nothing is more positive than acknowledging limitations and then getting assistance to overcome them.
Writing makes me feel good. It doesn’t seem to matter what I write. It can be words for business, it could be web content, it could be this blog, or it could be my next great work of fantasy. Whatever it is, writing grounds me, centers me, makes me feel good and opens the channels of creative energy. Not everyone is a writer. But everyone has a thing, or even more than one thing, that produces this sort of feeling.
Coffee. Conversation. Tea. Meditation. Sleep. Holding the door for a stranger. Every one of these is equal in its power to generate positivity. Every one of these can elevate your mood and improve a given day. The seemingly inconsequential is easy to disregard, especially in the face of impersonal matters like terrorism, poverty and corruption; or more personal matters like jobs, bills to be paid, not feeling able to find enough time for loved ones and fun. What does the
The squirrels in my brain can be terribly distracting. What does that mean? When I am thinking about something, I frequently see not only the angle I wish to take, but alternative angles, results both good and bad, and all kinds of possibilities. Because of this, I frequently find it difficult to manifest precisely what I wish to. I woke up the other morning feeling anxious. I realized what it was that was causing me to feel anxious, but even
Monday morning. For most of us, a new work week lies ahead. How do you face it? Do you sigh, grumble, gear yourself up to take on challenges, deal with problems, and slog through the next five days? What do you expect of the coming week? Despite our routines, we still get to choose our approach. I began to write Positivity on Mondays because I am constantly bombarded with negativity in regards to the standard work week. Here we go
Surrendering to the Universe is not easy. If, like me, you are almost obsessed with the how and why of things, then simply surrendering to the Universe is a particularly loaded concept. It gets even more complicated if you are a skeptic or cynic. What does it mean to surrender? It means you have to have faith. This, too, can be a really loaded concept. We are frequently seeing around us people who are allowing their so-called “faith” to dictate
Community is about finding belonging. We all want to belong. We all want to find a place where we can have our people, surround ourselves with the like-minded to share experiences. That is how you form a community. Some communities are wide-ranging and spread out over a broader spectrum of interest, like a specific city or town. Some are more specific, like a religious institution. Some are particularly specialized, like a club or volunteer organization. It’s certainly possible to be