The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Well done! Two powerful words that can change a negative into a positive. These two words can provide the compliment that tells you what you are doing or have done is appreciated, and that you have worth and value. Everybody wants to feel good about themselves. As much as our emotions are wholly our own, and we ultimately decide how to feel, no matter the outside influence…we still crave the satisfaction, the validation for whatever thing it is we are
Pathwalking can be as simple as 1-2-3. However, we have an amazing capacity for over-complicating our lives. Every day need not be a struggle. Many of the things we find challenging are only a difficulty because we MAKE them difficult. We are all hard wired with this need to have a system of beliefs. There are things we know, things we are absolutely certain of, and while some of these things are in fact solid and unchangeable, more than most
There are signs and omens all around us, and we often miss them. Yes, I am about to get hooky-spooky on you, but please stay with me. Once more I am going to explore an incredible paradox of our existence. Last week I wrote about the importance of critical thought. I explored why we all need to not just act, but really give time and energy to analysis and critical thinking, before we form opinions and make various decisions. However,
Critical thinking takes time and energy. We live in a society where things happen almost impossibly fast. We can communicate instantly across the globe, we can pull up the weather on our smartphones in seconds, we can research information across the internet with a few keyclicks and so on. We have come, as such, to expect instant gratification. We want what we want, and we want it NOW. We get caught up in our mundane routines, and we let them
Recently I read The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz and his son Don Jose Ruiz. This is the follow up to the wildly popular book The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz. These two books present the idea that we come into this life open, but along the way we make “agreements” with how to live. We relinquish control to outside influences, and we allow our belief system to be massively complicated and colored by the world we live
Nobody wants to disappoint anyone else. Just like all the other feelings, you cannot control whether someone is disappointed or not. Yet we all work incredibly hard to make certain we don’t upset and disappoint the people in our lives. Whether friends, family, coworkers or even the Powers-that-be, we are all constantly striving not to disappoint. We change the way we approach things, we change our intentions, we shift our schedules and we sacrifice to avoid disappointment. Not surprisingly, the
Sometimes The Universe just kicks you in the teeth. There are times when no matter how hard you work, no matter how much you struggle, no matter all the good you do and all the positivity you generate, you do not win. We have all been disappointed when our expectations were crushed. I don’t know anybody who has not experienced this. That time you got sick when you were supposed to take a great trip or that date that did
We all want to be appreciated. Whether it is something little or something big, we all want to be acknowledged. We all want to feel that our efforts and works are appreciated. The power of gratitude is important to our own ability to do and to have things, but we cannot deny the power of appreciation. We need to be grateful for things, but we also need to be acknowledged and appreciated for the things we do. I know no