The Ramblings of the Titanium Don

Please Stop Being Complacent With Your Life

Complacency leads to losing awareness and control. Despite numerous messages to the contrary, you control your life. What does complacent mean? In this context, it’s losing touch with/awareness of yourself, due to a sense of comfort and satisfaction that everything is as it should be. And maybe it is. For a while. But inevitably, it won’t be. Comfort zones cease being comfortable and familiar. That sense of satisfaction stops feeling satisfying because of tangibles, intangibles, or both. Why? Because of

Give Up, Push Through, Or Find Another Way?

No matter the obstacles, you always have a choice. Life is seldom simple. Very rarely do you get to go from point ‘A’ to point ‘B’ smoothly and obstacle free. And every time you come across challenges and obstacles in your life, you can give up, push through, or try another way. That doesn’t always feel true. There are plenty of times when it feels like you’re stuck, trapped, and without recourse. The trouble is, you always have choices –

Trigger Warning: Do You Control Your Triggers or Do They Control You?

What I’m exploring here might upset people with various triggers. But please read on. I’m all for warning about content. Some people have sensitivities that should be acknowledged and addressed as such. I think it’s good to be sensitive to this. Now I’m going to get controversial. Some people will do everything in their power to avoid their triggers. I get that, I really do. I have some triggers, too. But this becomes problematic because avoiding triggers allows them to

How Is Empowerment So Easy/Why is It All So Hard?

Creating and/or finding empowerment can be so easy…but why is it also so hard? One of my all-time favorite books is Paulo Coelho’s The Alchemist. If you have not read this book – I can’t recommend it enough. I don’t know that it matters what genres you typically read – this book is just amazing. The central premise is the idea of living every day with purpose – and finding your way even when the way is blocked. This is

Positivity Is a Choice to Empower Taking Control of Our Lives

Positivity is less about how we feel than about how we choose to approach our lives. How easy is it to feel bad? To find negativity in the world? To see darkness, sadness, and hopelessness? Too easy. Surf the internet. Watch cable news. Shouldn’t take more than a minute or two to start down that path. Because it is so extremely easy to find the bad and the negative in our world today – they often become dominant. And if

Choose When You Get to Choose

You get to decide to choose – or not – when faced with a choice. For the longest time, I was really good at deciding not to decide. I would stand with a choice before me – and overthink the crap out of it. I’d explore every possible “what if?” scenario, fear getting my choice wrong and having to suffer due to that – until the choice was no longer mine to make. Opportunities passed me by. Things happened outside

Outrage Culture Serves Nobody

Outrage culture is tearing our society apart. There have been a lot of different talking points about cancel culture. Most of this is fed by false ideas of erasing, this, that, or the other thing for “political correctness”, “woke culture”, and other such notions. The idea of cancel culture is thoroughly divisive, too. But the real issue, to me, is not this notion of cancel culture. The real problem is the pervading outrage culture. People find reasons to get outraged

Today Is a New Day

New day, new options, new choices – what will I do? When I woke up this morning, I had a choice. Focus on the problems, concerns, issues, and various negatives in my life. – Or – Seek, find, and/or create options, solutions, potential, possibilities, and positives. Choosing positivity over negativity cannot be in denial nor disregard for negativity. That’s how toxic positivity comes into being. This is about approach, intention, and action. But before I get into this, there is

Yes I Can Empowers

The empowerment of Yes I Can is amazing. I don’t know about you, but No I Can’t makes me feel low, down, and dejected. It’s not a pleasant sensation. On the other hand, Yes I Can makes me feel good, up, and enthusiastic. It’s a very pleasant sensation. Positivity and negativity, at their core, come down to YES and NO. While there are certainly times when saying NO and stepping away from a situation is the way to go –

The Problem With Neutrality

Maintaining neutrality over positivity or negativity doesn’t serve you when it comes to choices and decisions. For years, I have espoused the values of conscious reality creation, mindfulness, and positivity in my Pathwalking philosophy. When it comes to positivity, however, many quickly jump to toxic positivity. In the simplest of terms, toxic positivity is positivity used to disregard, ignore, and erase negativity at the expense of true awareness. If the opposite of positivity is negativity – and it is –

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