The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
Sometimes I am far better at the planning than I am at the actual doing. “Don’t plan the plan if you can’t follow through.” – Dr. Horrible. The thing about plans is that they are nothing but words. Without action they are nothing but ideas. I can plan until I am blue in the face, but unless I take action I have nothing but ideas here. This is why I began to take New Year’s Actions, rather than resolutions. What
We are not in competition. I have written about this before, but given the monstrous, and seriously ugly, conclusion of the race for the Presidency, it bears repeating. We all got swept up into this thing. Whether because we read the news and supported or didn’t support a candidate, or if we were simply drawn into the current by unavoidable conversations, posts on social media, and so forth, we all found ourselves looking differently at one another. We found ourselves
Frequently I have claimed to suffer from ADOS. ADOS = Attention Deficit…Oooooooooh, Shiny! (I do not claim this phrase as my own, someone else I know put it out there, not me – but I use it rather a lot). This is not so much a medical disorder, as it is an inability to focus or keep one’s eyes on the prize or to get pulled in a million directions or… Be right back. Something else has my attention at
There are always going to be days where it feels like it just does not matter. But they are a lie. It matters. YOU matter. I have those days when I get out of bed, and no matter how much sleep I have gotten I am still feeling totally wiped out. And no matter how much coffee I consume, I still feel like I would much rather crawl back into my nice warm bed and sleep more. Of course, this
We’re all familiar, I think, with the phrase, “I love it when a plan comes together!” Conversely, though, nobody is fond of when the plan falls apart. What do you do when your best laid plans go pfffffffft around you? As with anything else in life, you have a choice. You can lament your failed plan, moan about it, whine about it, get upset and angry and kick at the stones along the way…or you can accept the lesson learned
It’s not that there always needs to be a fixed destination. Life is about the journey, after all, so it is certainly both logical and even necessary that from time to time you walk a path, but the goal is not wholly clear. Yes, it is important to have an idea, to have a plan. But sometimes there are days where you just are on the paths, walking along, and though you have an end goal in mind, it is
Where does the time go when it’s not around here? Ever feel like you are always chasing time? Like no matter what you do, there is seldom enough or it runs out or expires or what-have-you? Of course, it doesn’t help that time is completely and totally subjective. The great scientist Albert Einstein famously said, “Time is an illusion.” Douglas Adams even expanded upon that in The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy with “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.”
Consciousness creates reality. I write that a lot. Why? Because this is the truth. Consciousness creates our reality. What we concentrate on, give thought and feeling and energy and action to, we create. We manifest things into our life, and we build or destroy our personal world. I know that for a lot of people this seems like total BS. We live in a world that seems to be beyond our control. We didn’t manifest our debts, our illnesses, the
There is a fine line between narcissism and self-promotion. The former is when absolutely everything is all about YOU, and in no way beneficial to anyone else. A narcissist practically screams, “Look at me! LOOK AT ME! See the things I am doing? Pay attention to me!” The latter is somewhat about you, but it is also about sharing. There is some benefit for other people. A self-promoter says, “Hey, I did this thing. Please take a look at it.
Decide to decide. I cannot tell you how many times in my life I have found myself at some crossroads or other because I refused to decide to decide. Decision making is only challenging if you choose for it to be so. For a lot of my life, I was the King of Indecision. I totally should have bought myself a crown. When I made the decision to take action for the New Year, nearly five years ago now, it