The Ramblings of the Titanium Don
Explorations of Conscious Reality Creation, Mindfulness, and Other Matters
The New Year is frequently used as an opportunity to get a new start to things. Many people make resolutions, which amount to often grand plans for sweeping changes. Years ago, I decided that while resolutions are all well and good, they are soft, non-committal, and easily disregarded. This is why I started instead of creating New Year’s Resolutions, to take New Year’s Actions. I began to blog regularly five years ago, as a result of my 2012 New Year’s
This has been an interesting year. In some respects this goes with the Chinese curse of “May you live in interesting times”. In some respects it has simply been full of odd and unusual, fascinating things. In some respects it has just been interesting as opposed to uninteresting…and in some ways it’s very much Joss Whedon’s definition from Serenity: Mal: “Define interesting?” Wash: “Oh god oh god we’re all going to die?” Much of the latter is due to the
I’m not feeling it today. I have attempted more than once to start this post, and every single start has stumbled. I get maybe an intro paragraph, and then can’t go forward. Why am I not feeling it today? Because I have gotten too caught up in outside influences. Because the madness of the world around me is interfering with my own thoughts and feelings, and I can neither shut it out nor replace it with something more useful, something
This is where it all began, five years ago: How can I make a difference? This question comes up for me fairly often. I want to help other people see the world in the way that I see it. NOT in a ‘my way is the one true way’ idea at all. On the contrary – I want people to disagree with me. I want them to consider these words, and reject them if they disagree. I want them to
Change cannot be made without actions. That’s just the way the universe works. I can think it and feel it all I like…but unless I act upon it, it will not change. It will remain an idea, a plan, a possibility – but nothing more. Some actions are harder than others. Sometimes this is due to excuses, sometimes due to distractions, and sometimes just outright laziness on my part. I began, almost a year ago, to include a Goal Log
There is a difference between being influenced by outside forces, and getting assistance from them. For some people this is not an easy distinction to make, but it’s a very important one. We are constantly surrounded by outside influences. Most of the social media sites are a part of this. They are striving for our attention, they want us to do and think and feel certain ways, which may or may not be compatible with what we REALLY want to
We all have comfort zones. We all have those places we retreat to or that we like to snuggle up in that are familiar, comfortable, expected. We have comfort zones in our lives where we can operate on auto-pilot, and get along. Of course, sometimes these comfort zones, while comfortable, are unsatisfactory. You can be in that relationship that does not thrill you, work that job that pays the bills but does not stimulate your mind, stay in that city
I frequently write about how we alone can control our thoughts, our feelings and our actions. Yes, they can be influenced by outside people and things, but they are still under our own direct control. Feelings in particular can be heavily influenced from without. Feelings are frequently reactions to stimuli, so much of the time it is the things outside of us that cause us to experience emotions. If someone compliments you, kisses you, smiles at you, invites you to
One of my favorite books is The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho. I have read it more than once, and listened to it countless times (the audio book is brilliantly narrated by Jeremy Irons). Nothing I have ever read has resonated with me like The Alchemist. Doesn’t matter if we’re talking fiction or non-fiction, this book speaks to me like no other. It is not a long book. But it is very, very deep. Although it is a work of fiction,
It’s unhealthy to ignore the outside world completely. We need to be aware of what is happening in the world. While there is something to be said for the bliss of ignorance, knowledge IS power. The problem is, it can be very hard to stay focused when you are inundated with a barrage of upsetting information. How do you find and maintain a happy medium between knowing what’s going on, and being completely drowned in data? The mistake I keep