The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Are you who you desire to be? If not, why not? This is a simple question, certainly, but the answer is likely complicated. As children, we all have dreams and aspirations. You wanted to be an astronaut, or a firefighter, or a doctor, or an explorer seeking new lands and opportunities. The things you wanted to do as a child may have been realistic, or very out
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. What is Intention? Intention is focus. It is the focus on the action that creates reality. Mindfulness is about knowing your own thoughts and feelings. With knowledge of your thoughts and feelings, you can take actions to consciously create reality. But the actions need focus, direction, or specifically intention. So what is intent? Dictionary.com defines it thus: Intent (noun) something that is intended; purpose; design; intention the act or fact of intending, as to do something meaning or significance. When it
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Positivity is not selfish. I recognize that in the face of the world today, and all the insanity nationally and internationally, seeking out positivity for yourself may seem like a selfish notion. With so many people facing adversity, cruelty, devastation, tangible and intangible bad things, doesn’t it make you selfish if you seek positivity and good things? No, because there are limited things we can all do
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
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Getting head and heart in sync can build tremendous positivity. However, getting the head (thought) and the heart (feeling) aligned can be challenging. One way to get the head and heart in sync is to be more mindful. Mindfulness, or awareness, can take us to all kinds of incredible places. This is not awareness of the outside world…it is awareness of ourselves. It is a matter of
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. Being kind and supportive towards others is a sign of strength. Somewhere along the way, this has gotten lost. From the highest offices in the land to the poorest poor, we have become more uncertain and unkind towards strangers. All too often, people keep to themselves. But more than that, they are unwilling to reach out to other people for various reasons. Whether it is their intent
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The answer for me is simple. I want to be better because I know I am not at my best. What does that mean? That means that, on a deeply personal level, I am aware that I am not all that I can be. There is room for improvement, and I can be better than I am in many ways. Why be better? Because I desire more
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. To be better, the first step is to define the most important question – better than what? Better than whom is irrelevant. Why? Because the only person we ever need to be better than is our present self. Further, in truth, we cannot generally be better than anyone else. We are, in the grand make-up of the universe, all equal. Yes, when it comes to certain athletic
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The world is only a terrible place if you accept it as such. You and I, however, have the power to change it for the better. Yes, I know that this feels like a stretch, but it is still the truth. I am well aware that many terrible things are happening. Aware doesn’t even begin to cover it. Spend a minute scrolling through Facebook or Twitter or
This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures. The only real power and control we have is internal. All of the external expressions of power and control are never ours. They belong only to those who are wielding them, and will only continue to exist as long as people accept their own lack of them. Yes, when we go to the voting booth, we are choosing people to “represent” us. Some take that responsibility to