The Ramblings of the Titanium Don

Who Are You Trying to Impress?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Who are you trying to impress? You may find the answer to this enlightening. I have spent a great deal of my life working to live up to the expectations of others. Some of this has been in my real day-to-day life, while some has been in my hobby life. In either case, the notion that I needed to impress person ‘x’ or group ‘y’ would dominate

What Control Do You Have?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   You can take control by giving up control. One of the most dominant messages of society is control. There are any number of examples of this you can look to. Control over immigration; shifting control of industries away from federal regulations; controlling the media to be more favorable to one opinion or the other. Everywhere you look, there are attempts at assuming, creating, destroying, or otherwise shifting

Who Should You Prove Yourself To?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   You are worthy. You are deserving. There is nothing you have to do to prove yourself to anyone. It’s all-too-easy to get caught up in living up to the expectations of others, real and imagined. You want to be a good friend, lover, parent, sibling, child, human being, etc. Then, looking at the actions of others and seeing both good and bad, you hold yourself up to

It Is Never Too Late

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Change can happen at any time. You get to decide when to choose. It is never too late to take a new path in life, and change things for the better. There is, in our society, something of a timeline for things. In your late teens and early twenties, for example, you are expected to either get your college education or vocational training. In your late twenties

Positivity Sets Your Frequency

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Positivity can raise your frequency to improve life daily. Everything is energy. Whether it is the smallest subatomic particle or the largest star in the cosmos, the base of everything is energy. All energy vibrates and vibrates at a frequency. Like an older radio with a dial, you can tune into various frequencies, and sometimes you will get static while other times you get signal. Higher frequency

Does Everyday Mindfulness Lead to Positivity?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Positivity can be created and found with everyday mindfulness. Mindfulness is the practice of being aware of our selves.  It is being aware of our own thoughts, feelings, and actions.  When we are mindful and aware of these, we are capable of creating virtually anything. I know that this can seem like it’s totally untrue.  But it is true, because feeling positive or negative is a choice.

Do You Have a Choice?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   You always have a choice.  Even when you decide not to choose, that’s still a choice. No matter what situation or experience you are having, good or bad, you have a choice.  Why?  Because you can decide how to think, feel, and act upon whatever happens to you. Every single day we face choices.  Get out of bed, or hit snooze?  Watch TV or read?  Workout or

Responsible and Accountable is a First Step in Forgiveness

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   While it is important to be responsible and accountable for your thoughts, feelings and actions, there is a massively important aspect of this notion we cannot ignore. When you have accepted responsibility and accountability, you need to forgive yourself. Forgiveness can be difficult in many ways.  When somebody does something awful to you, directly or indirectly, it may not be so easy to forgive them. But in

Why Be Mindful?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Why is being mindful all the rage in the self-help world?  I can tell you that there is more than one answer, and they are likely all right, and all wrong at the same time. The concept of mindfulness and being mindful takes in a lot of different approaches.  Meditation, psychiatry, self-help and philosophy all apply the idea in order to better ourselves and enrich our lives.

Five Truths About Heart and Head

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   The heart and head will sometimes pull you in different, opposing directions. Your feelings will try to take you one way, while your thoughts attempt to take you another.  Oddly, despite these both coming from you, they can make you feel as if you are an outside observer. When you can reach that place, and be the detached, outside observer, you can best determine how to synchronize