The Ramblings of the Titanium Don

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Writers are often classed into one of two categories: Planners and Pantsers. Planners are the ones who create an outline, sometimes with immense details, and plan out their work to a greater or lesser degree.  They know their characters, locations, plot, beginning middle and end.  They have most if not all of their work pre-planned, and they know where they are going throughout the writing process. Pantsers are the ones who are more apt to go with stream-of-consciousness.  They have

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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

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I have discussed the power of gratitude before.  But it is SO important to Pathwalking, it really bears repeating. It is almost impossible to improve upon what you have in life, whether it is something material or immaterial, if you are not already grateful for what you DO have. Great or small, tangible or intangible, important or unimportant in the grand scheme of things, it is absolutely necessary that you have gratitude. There are times gratitude feels hard.  When you

Words of Encouragement for EVERYONE

You are pretty amazing. It doesn’t matter what anyone else tells you – you are pretty amazing! You know that thing you do, that only you can do so well – keep doing it! I don’t know you.  And with some exceptions, you probably don’t know me, either.  But that doesn’t make this statement any less true.  You are pretty amazing. We all need words of encouragement along the way.  Everybody has bad days.  Everyone gets brought down because of

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Perhaps circumstances have put you in a bad place.  The question is – what do you do about it? This is a key aspect of Pathwalking.  Rather than being a victim of circumstance, the goal is to make your situations as you wish them to be.  But a huge challenge to this goal is often the circumstances therein. You certainly did not ask to lose the job, be incapable of paying the debt, be trapped in that relationship, be living

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Are you grateful for the opportunity to walk your own path? This question is of far greater importance than you might think.  Without gratitude, it is impossible to gain anything.  Walking your path will inevitably fail. Yes, that is a very broad statement.  But it is completely true.  Every self-help teacher and new age guru, almost every spiritual leader past and present will tell you that gratitude is absolutely necessary to achieve anything.  If you are not grateful for what

Gratitude

Thank you. These are two words that mean more than almost any others you can say.  They convey gratitude.  And gratitude is something we all too readily take for granted. It is pretty much impossible to get anywhere in life without being grateful for where you have gotten to, and for what you have. And yet gratitude is something that just does not come easily for many people.  We get so caught up in the bad news, the insanity of

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