Blog 81 – The 3 Day Fast
I’ve practiced intermittent fasting on and off for a while, although sporadically. Today, I am starting a 72 hour fast. Why 72 hours? The immune system creates new T-Cells and over repeated intermittent fasts re-builds and fortifies itself. This seems like a pretty good idea to me. Also, calorie restriction extends life span, and helps […]
Day 80 – Managing Our Patch of Now
It’s always Now. Now is our moment to moment contact with reality. Where the rubber hits the road you might say. In thinking about the concept of Now, I was struck with the image of a shiny steel ball rolling on a glass surface. Rolling represents time itself. The tiny point of contact where the […]
Day 79 – Just Knock, The Door Will Open
Knock and the door will open. Start looking for something and you will find it. As they say, be careful what you pray for. I think this phrase rings true because opportunities and people and situations will appear when you are clear on what you want. Here are few of the things I am looking […]
Day 78 – The Problem With Problems
Yesterday, I wrote about being Outcome Focused and the positive dynamics associated. Today, I will warn against the pitfalls of being Problem Focused. Being problem focused is fine if you want to maintain a steady state, where change is not desired. For example, the cooling system in my old van keeps the engine from overheating. […]
Day 77 – Be Outcome Focused
Be outcome focused. If you are interested in how to live, then listen up (I’m writing to myself and my kids here, so please don’t think I am telling you what to do, but you are welcome to listen). Being outcome focused is an important and powerful habit of mind that ties directly into my […]
Day 76 – See Challengers not Persecutors
How we perceive threat determines our physical and mental response. For example, if we perceive that someone is persecuting us, and we label them in our minds as a persecutor, bad things tend to ensue. First, it becomes easy for us to vilify a “persecutor” and justify strong negative emotion and retaliation toward them. After […]
Day 75 – Language Games and Gestures
Wittgenstein was a 20th century genius who made significant contributions to philosophy, mathematics, and especially linguistics. His insights into how humans use language and words to achieve a particular endeavor had a profound effect on me. I realized that words are just tools for achieving outcomes. What you use a tool for frames the nature […]
Day 74 – Driven by Life-force, and Gratitude
Instead of writing this morning, I would prefer sleeping. But, I am here nonetheless thinking about what is worthy to write. Being over concerned with writing something “worthy” would stop me from moving forward. Hmmm. I think that creative endeavor requires production. Creating good art requires making a lot of bad art. Maybe 10% will […]
Day 73 – Courage ?
Have courage. What is courage? Why should we have it? This is the rabbit hole that has opened before me as I write today. Courage seems to be connected to resisting impulsive actions that result from fear. For example, fear can cause us to relinquish our responsibility to change things that we should. So, not […]
Day 72 – This is Big, Don’t Miss It
I found a pearl of wisdom from Victor E. Frankl; I want to share it with you. I think his insight here is tremendous, and valuable to anyone. Especially to leaders at any level, including teachers, therapists, and parents. It’s found within a fragment of a lecture he gave in 1972 where he uses a […]