The Ramblings of the Titanium Don

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Is Pathwalking realistic? The short answer of course is YES.  The long answer is much more complex.  It is fundamental that you have belief in order to make Pathwalking work.  If you do not believe in your path, if you do not believe in yourself, if you do not believe that the choices in life are yours to make, then Pathwalking cannot work. Belief.  Faith.  Conviction.  Hope.  Trust.  Give it whatever label you wish.  Without this emotion, without this feeling,

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As we began to explore last week, Pathwalking is about more than just the mind and spirit.  The body cannot be ignored. This week I am going to focus on my approach to improving the body temple as an equal part of the mind/body/spirit trinity.  The four aspects I am focusing on in order to better treat my body in regards to Pathwalking are Diet, Exercise, Meditation and Sleep. Diet.  For me, this is not about restricting certain foods or

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Pathwalking is about more than just the mind and spirit.  The body cannot be ignored. Throughout this process I have explored ways of thinking, ways of feeling, ways of acting and being.  But it is not just a mental, emotional and psychological discipline…Pathwalking also has a physical aspect that can easily be neglected. For some exercising the body is easy.  For others, the spirit moves readily.  And for still others, it’s the mind that gets the greatest workout.  And while

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Life is a day by day experience. Every day brings with it something new, something different, something unique.  Every day presents a new challenge, a new opportunity, new duties and new privileges. How we approach each new day, right from the start, is going to have a major effect on the day’s outcome.  It is so very easy to forget this fact, and equally easy to let it drag us down to somewhere we would rather not be. If you

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Some days it feels utterly impossible to walk a path of my own choosing. There are days when the notion of living a life of my own choosing seems equally dissatisfying as letting life live me.  It just seems like too much work, too much effort, too much focus. I sit in front of my computer, pondering researching something or writing something or some other useful thing…and I have no desire.  Expending any effort seems like a struggle. I move

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We are all creators.  We live in the world we make. This is so very easy to disbelieve.  Circumstances put us in places we never wanted to be, and we don’t always live in the world we would make.  But the statement is still true. “If you will it, it is no dream.”  – Theodore Herzl I Pathwalk because I do not want to be a victim of circumstance, and I want to make my own world.  I want to

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Time factors into so very many aspects of our lives. So many of the things we do in our day are dictated to us by time.  There is a time to sleep, a time to wake, a time to eat, a time to work, a time to play, time for this, time for that. And of course, on the other side, there is a lack of time.  Running late, out of time, too late, the time is getting away from

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“Shallow men believe in luck. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson. Luck is an interesting topic.  Many people believe that it is luck, good or bad, that makes our lives. Luck of the draw.  Luck of the Irish.  Good luck.  Bad luck.  Lucky in love.  Unlucky in love. Pathwalking is about finding and making your own path in life.  Luck has nothing to do with this. Yes, I will not deny that sometimes it is

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One of the most often used phrases people throw around is “forgive, but don’t forget.”  While many are champions of applying this to others in their lives, this is somewhere many of us fail at when it comes to ourselves. Last week I talked about the “forgive” portion of this, but did not get into the “don’t forget” aspect.  To put it simply, the importance of forgiving without forgetting is to avoid repetition in errors. I can forgive myself for

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One of the most often used phrases people throw around is “forgive, but don’t forget.”  While many are champions of applying this to others in their lives, this is somewhere many of us fail at when it comes to ourselves. What do I mean by that?  We are good at forgiving but forgetting when others do wrong by us, but not so good at this with ourselves.  When it comes to our own mistakes, errors, stupidities and such, we are