The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
I feel as if I live in multiple worlds sometimes. See if this is familiar for you in any way. First, there is Professional Me. I hold a job, I pay my bills, I do the necessary things one does to live in this society. I also happen to be involved in civics, as I serve as President of a local Chamber of Commerce. Second, there is Author Me. I keep this blog, I write and edit novels. I constantly
I am something of a modern Renaissance Man. First and foremost, I am a writer. Almost five years ago I began Pathwalking. This is my personal philosophy on how to choose my own destiny, so that I might live the life I most desire to have. I started Positivity more than two-and-a-half years ago. One Monday morning all I saw was lamentation for the new week, and a deluge of negative posts across social media. So I decided that I
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