The Ramblings of the Titanium Don

Are the Practical and the Hooky-Spooky Related?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   How do you navigate the waters between the practical and the hooky-spooky? This is the question I have begun to really focus on of late.  For a long time, I delved deeper and deeper into hooky-spooky resources and ideas.  The Law of Attraction, energy healing, connections to earth energy, and seeking and connecting to source energy all get lumped into this. There is a lot of bits

Most Decisions Are Not Permanent

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Few decisions that we make are truly permanent. I know that, for me at least, on more than one occasion I either made no choice, procrastinated about, or did not fully commit to a decision.  Why?  Because what if I made the wrong one? This is why recognizing that few decisions we make are truly permanent is so important to really living our lives. No matter how

Are Extremes Real or Artificial?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   The world is seldom the extremes we are presented. There are many reasons why this is so, but the extremes of our world, the polar opposites, are seldom where anyone or anything actually exists. I believe that a lot of the emphasis on the extremes is because they seem easy.  Either/or situations can be made to feel simpler than having more choices on the table.  What’s more,

How Are Willing and Willful Similar and Different?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Recognizing the difference between willing and willful is important. Each of these ideas has its own time and place.  But when they are misused, they can be detrimental to anything you might be attempting to create. What are willing and willful, and how do they differ? Dictionary.com gives us this: Willing (adjective) disposed or consenting; inclined cheerfully consenting or ready done, given, borne, used, etc., with cheerful readiness Willful (adjective) deliberate, voluntary, or intentional unreasonably stubborn or headstrong; self-willed Willingness is the presentation of inclination and consent;

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

How is Accountable Mindful?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Being accountable is an important aspect of mindfulness. When you are mindful, you are choosing to be aware of yourself.  You are aware of what you are thinking, how you are feeling, and actions you are taking from there. When we are mindful of ourselves, we need to be accountable.  Why?  Because the only way to improve our lot in life is to be accountable for being

What is Self-Help?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   The key to self-help is right there in the name. Self.  Help.  As in you help your self. Ironically, despite this idea of working with ourselves to help ourselves, people still seem easily inclined to give up their power, and turn to others to improve their lives. There are certainly plenty of times where we need the help of others.  Doctors can treat illnesses and prescribe needed

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.

Why or Why Not?

This post contains affiliate banner links. For more info, see my disclosures.   Do you ever find that you are asking yourself why or why not a lot? Often the topic can be similar, but it’s just a matter of approach.  Why take that chance?  Why not take that chance? Why is a question we ask constantly, pretty much all of our lives.  Why is the sky blue?  Why are those people holding hands?  Why did he/she/they dump me?  And

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

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