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When Will Then Be Now?

Exploring how to be present in the moment to consciously create reality with some positivity.

One of my favorite comedy movies is Mel Brooks’ Spaceballs. This Star Wars parody features a lot of Ludicrous Speed gags (see what I did there?) silly one-liners, puns, and great characters.

There is a great exchange between two of the bad guys, Dark Helmet and Colonel Sanders, that happens as they search for the heroes. For this search, they watch the videocassette of Spaceballs. In the process they reach the exact moment of the film they are within, which gets surreal and leads to this:

Dark Helmet: What happened to then?

Col Sanders: We passed it.

When?

Just now. We’re at now, now.

Go back to then!

When?

Now.

Now?

Now!

I can’t.

Why?

We missed it.

When?

Just now.

When will then be now?

Soon!

As amusing as this scene is, it’s something I know many of us struggle with as we go about our day-to-day lives. Moments come and go, and in the jumble of linear time and the progression of past, present, and future it’s easy to question when then will be now.

Or is it when will now be then?

The word “then” can be both past and future tense. Past tense such as “back then they were happy,” and future tense as in “first you write, then you publish.”

When will then be now? When will now be then?

It is a part of human nature to look backward to see where you have come from and how you have gotten to where you are now. It is also in human nature to look ahead and see where you are going. This, however, makes this moment, the now, get lost in the noise of the then in either direction.

The most ironic part of this is that now is the only true reality that there is. Why? Because the past is colored by your individual perception of it. Likewise, the future is made of the unknown because it has not happened yet.

Every individual moment of your life is unique. The only person who is experiencing your life is you. You probably share your life in various ways with other people along the way, yet nobody but you is inside your head. All thoughts, feelings, and actions belong to you.

How do you practice being in the now rather than fretting over the then, be it past or future?

Mindfulness.

When you practice mindfulness you work on being aware of what you are thinking, as well as what and how you are feeling and the intention behind actions you choose to take.

Practicing mindfulness isn’t hard, but it is a product of making now be now. This awareness is a matter of recognizing current thoughts, feelings, and actions, which is ultimately in the now.

In other words, you recognize how and what your conscious mind is doing, rather than letting your subconscious drive the bus.

Consciousness creates reality

The then of the future tense will be now, soon. But the then of the past tense has become a matter of the past that has passed by. Focus in either direction can leave you spinning like a top. When and where you might stop is completely random…and you could also fall off the tabletop into who-knows-where?

You have the power to make then be now. It’s a matter of mindfulness. This is not a quick-fix because there are no quick-fixes. Still, there are possibilities and opportunities to consider and work with that can drive your life to amazing places.

Consciousness creates reality. When you are mindful and aware of your consciousness, you gain control and influence over your thoughts, feelings, and actions. Then can be now, now, rather than soon if you work in the now.

Still confused? Then let me suggest one way to work on this. Find something positive that makes you feel good, puts a smile on your face, makes you laugh, or provides hopefulness. Focus on that positive thing for 2-5 minutes. Meditate on it, or if it’s a video watch it multiple times. Be completely present as you observe that positive thing.

I make no guarantees because there are none to be made. But I believe that taking a moment to be completely present in the now and focused on positivity, can be a force for good. This can help you see how then being now, and being at now, now, can make today better.

Finding positivity in the present isn’t hard, but it does require action

Knowing that you can be in the now, now, rather than soon, you have numerous options to work with mindfulness to make this moment into something. When you choose to be aware of your thoughts, feelings, and actions, you become conscious of them in the present, and that ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more reasons to feel positivity and gratitude. That can be the impetus to improve any number of aspects of your life for the better, generating even more positivity and gratitude.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness leads to love. Love is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

This is the three-hundred-twelfth entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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You Only Can Help You

You Can Only Help You

It’s important to be there for your friends and loved ones…but this is more important.

There is only one you. The only person who knows what’s best for you is you.

Yet if you are a caring person, you are probably a giver. As such, likely you put yourself last.

What’s more, it’s all-too-easy to believe that any other option is an act of selfishness. Of course you come last. Other people in your life, your friends and especially your loved ones, can and should come first.

But that’s not entirely true. While it’s important to be kind, generous, and helpful, when all is said and done, no matter your intention, you can only help you.

Let me be blunt here. You can and should do things to help other people. Lend a hand, hold doors, be a shoulder and an ear and even an opinion when asked for one. Do good things for people to help them. But know that when all is said and done, no matter what and how much you do for anyone – you can only help you in the end.

What does that even mean?

Inside your head, you are all alone. There is nobody but you in there thinking, feeling, and choosing how to act and not. Of course, there are times you will receive information from other resources, people, and things that will enter into your head. Even so, you’re the only one in there sorting through them.

Nobody else can make you do anything you do not choose to do. No matter what anyone says, the only person capable of thinking, feeling, and acting for you is you.

By this same logic, only you can help you. Even when you are being helpful and assisting someone else, it is still you taking action. Even when that person receives your assistance, it’s still on you.

This is particularly applicable to advice, information, opinion, knowledge, and other intangibles. When you help someone else they decide if they are going to accept what you give them or not.

No matter how much help you offer anyone else, when all is said and done they only take what you give them by their choice. Their decision. Thus, any and all assistance you gave is just a notion that someone else can make use of to help themselves with whatever the situation or matter is.

When someone else is offering you help, especially the intangible, even when you take that help, it still comes down to you being able to help you. You choose, you decide to take what you are given and apply it. Or not.

Taking this one step further – when you help someone else you also help you. How? By making yourself feel good, valuable, worthy, and otherwise content and unselfish for being a helper.

This is the power of gratitude.

Gratitude will help you and everyone

When you are grateful for the things you have it allows you to draw into your life more of the things you desire for yourself. Gratitude is incredibly powerful.

Unless it is not genuine, gratitude is pure, unadulterated positivity. It is more than an emotion, it’s almost a living entity in-and-of-itself.

Gratitude empowers two-ways. Both when given and received. It opens pathways to positivity because it expresses a depth of love that is ultra-high frequency.

Gratitude as an aspect of love is important. This is because love is the highest energetic frequency generator that there is. Not love in the romantic, soulmate notion, per se. Love, as in the abstract, all-encompassing notion.

In its most unfiltered form, love is the sun on your skin, the purring of a cat, the wagging of a dog’s tail, falling rain, your heart beating, and other life-affirming matters. Gratitude is an expression of love that is employed by thinking, feeling, and acting mindfully thankful.

To help you and anyone else it is important to take an approach of gratitude. When you are not grateful for giving or receiving you disempower yourself. You dismiss what you are expressing gratitude for as unimportant and take away its power, too.

If you are offering to help someone it should be coming from a place of abundance and gratitude. Doing so out of a sense of obligation or resentment won’t truly help them or help you.

What is the nature of help?

To help is to offer assistance. This can be done on numerous different levels, from the physical to the mental to the emotional to any combination of the above.

You can help someone to move an object, to learn a skill, to understand an emotion, or to do something on a physical, mental, and emotional level all at once.

Help, however, apart from the physical, is the providing of a notion, idea, or example for someone else to make use of. You cannot do anything FOR anyone else, just as nobody else can do anything for YOU.

Hence why only you can help you. But you can offer insight, advice, information, wisdom, warning, or what-have-you.

This doesn’t apply to the physical because in many instances a thing cannot be done without the assistance of another. For example, it frequently takes two or more people to move a couch, a bed frame, or a body.

When it comes to helping with the intangibles, you are limited by what the other person gets from what you give, and how they make use of it or not. Hence why it’s important to acknowledge that when all is said and done you can only help you in the end.

For example, no matter how much I write about my Pathwalking philosophy, or explain the technical aspects of fencing, or try to help you understand yourself better, only you can gain insight from the help I offer – if you so choose.

And that’s the crux of help. No matter how much you give, if the recipient decides not to make use of it you can’t do anything further. So when you do all you can to help your friend do something to change their life, and they don’t use it, you can’t take it personally.

Giving is not sacrificing

Finally, it’s extremely important to recognize the difference between giving and sacrificing. Some people, in order to help, sacrifice to do so. At the end that doesn’t help you or anyone.

Why? Because giving is from abundance while sacrificing is from lack and scarcity. When you help from a place of giving you are saying, “I have plenty, let me share with you!” Whereas when you help form a place of sacrifice you are saying, “There’s not enough, let me give up what I have to you.”

Sacrificing will inevitably lead to resentment. So not only do you not help whomever you were aiming to help, but you don’t help you, either.

When you sacrifice you deny abundance, and tell the Universe that you see the world as full of lack and scarcity. That, in turn, disempowers you and everyone else, too. If you are sacrificing to help someone you are likely not really helping them and most assuredly not helping you, either.

Finally, this is not a matter of selfishness. Recognizing that you can only help you just means you don’t give too much of yourself away and sacrifice to assist someone else. You not only remain empowered but make it so you can be an empowerer.

You only can help you. Yes, it’s important to be there for your friends and loved ones…but this a consideration too important to be ignored. When you do help – and you totally should – do so from a place of abundance, gratitude, and empowerment.

Can you see how you only help you when you help others, and that’s not a bad thing?

This is the four-hundred and twenty-first entry to my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly articles are ideas for – and my personal experiences with – mindfulness and walking along the path of life to consciously create reality. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. I further desire to empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me. Feel free to re-blog and share this.

The first year of Pathwalking, including expanded ideas, is available here. My additional writing, both fiction and non-fiction, are available here.

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Monday: Mayhem or Mystery?

Mayhem or Mystery? How you will approach the workweek is a choice you get to make.

I began to write about positivity every Monday after encountering an over-abundance of negativity. Lots of people lamenting the end of the weekend, complaining about work, whining about adulting, and the usual anti-Monday anti-work and/or school complaints.

If you go into a Monday expecting it to suck, chances are good you will not be disappointed. So why not, instead, look for ways to expect Monday to be full of promise and possibility?

Your Monday can be full of mayhem or mystery. Or maybe it’s clearer if I present this idea without the alliteration as problem or potential?

It’s easy to fall into the “Mondays suck” mentality. Whether or not you believe in the Law of Attraction, odds are pretty good that if that’s what you think it IS what you experience. When you go into something expecting lousiness that tends to be what you get. Why? Because you are expecting it. Also, because you are looking for it.

So when the choice is mayhem or mystery, do you really want the mayhem/problems? Or would you rather take an approach of seeking mystery/possibility?

Choose your own adventure

Life tends to be what you make of it. So when you approach it with distress, uncertainty, and other negative thoughts and feelings that are going to be your experience.

I know that things happen to you along the way. Lots of things occur that are way outside of your control, many of which suck. Traffic, sick kids, flat tires, angry and rude people, oversleeping, and other matters over which you have ZERO control can and will happen.

That’s part of how life goes. When it is not how you desire it to be you can approach with resignation and continue to expect it to be crap…or stop, pause, take a deep breath and choose to look for positivity instead.

I know this can seem like an impossible task. But it’s not. There are always positive things to be found. Frequently, they are quite minor and seemingly insignificant. However, that doesn’t mean they are not there to be found.

Positive things can include a friend or loved one being available to talk, the warmth of a morning shower, sunlight, the song you play in the car on the way to work, or gratitude for having a job – even if it’s imperfect. Any and all of these can be a spark of positivity in a potentially drab and negative world.

There are always negatives to be found, of course. But the choice of where you put your focus is wholly on you. What adventure would you choose, that of mayhem or mystery, negativity or positivity?

Decide on mayhem or mystery

When things happen to you – and they will – you have to decide if they will have a lasting impact or a temporary one. Do you hold onto the bad and let it be your day, or release it and seek positivity instead?

There are times when this seems really ludicrous. It feels like the idea of influence, choice, control, and any decisions are out of your hands. But that’s simply not true. Why? Because nobody is in your head but you. There is no one who can be mindful of what YOU are thinking, feeling and acting upon – save you.

This is mindfulness in action. When crap happens you can let it enter into your psyche, overwhelm your subconscious mind and let it be your day. Or, when crap happens you can see it, acknowledge it, then decide to release it and move on.

Manic maddening Monday of mayhem – or – mild mitigated Monday of mystery? Your day, your mindset, your decision, your choice. No matter what happens or not it’s up to you what kind of day you will have.

What kind of day/week/life would you prefer to experience?

Finding positivity on a Monday isn’t hard, but it does require action

Knowing that you are empowered to decide if you will have mayhem or mystery on any given day, you get to choose what today looks and feels like for you. When you decide to release the negative and not let it overwhelm your psyche, and seek out the positive that ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more reasons to feel positivity and gratitude. That can be the impetus to improve any number of aspects of your life for the better, generating even more gratitude.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness leads to love. Love is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

This is the three-hundred-eleventh entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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How did I End up Here?

The path I am on has not changed, but I did not expect to end up here. This is, however, an unexpected good situation.

While on more than one occasion I have found myself at a crossroads in regards to my life and direction, this is different. It’s not a crossroads, nor a path, but an unexpected destination.

And I am trying to wrap my head around how I managed to end up here.

For the past 10 months, I have been actively working on consciously creating my reality. I’ve been writing full time and working on developing and growing my audience. Recently, my focus shifted to developing my brand, which will help me with marketing and overall growth.

Unfortunately, this has not been as conducive as desired towards paying the bills. My wife and I had an agreement in regard to my continuing with this work and additionally needing a more traditional job to pay the bills.

I applied for a job and got a call on my resume. But they didn’t want me for the job I applied to. No, instead, they wanted me for the very thing I desire most to do with my life. Writing.

This experience gains me two things I most dearly love. It allows me to write and to help people. Still, it has brought me to a place that I never imagined I might end up at.

That’s both awesome and a little daunting.

Square peg in a round hole

The most basic breakdown of my employment history is exactly this. I am a square peg trying to shove myself into a round hole. Traditional workplaces and I tend to mesh poorly, and that is not just a matter of conflict, but more a matter of discomfort on both ends.

In a big business situation, I tend to uncover flaws in the mechanisms that drive the machines. I then desire to help fix those flaws, which tends to go against the way things have always been done. The ensuing conflict results in dissatisfaction and other negativity.

When I am in a small business situation I tend to wear multiple hats, which is satisfying…except my lack of ownership limits the reward potential. In more than one instance I didn’t fit in with the rest of the small team in one way or another – such as being a minority employee or the lone liberal in a sea of conservatives.

Given the nature of this current opportunity, I was very certain I was a square, oversized peg. And yet, I end up finding myself in a situation full of potential and possibility. That’s super exciting.

In my experience, most artists have this exact same issue. A lot of that is because conformity and art frequently don’t mix. There is a necessary feat of daring-do to create something new, original, and unique.

You tend to stand apart as an artist, walking paths that take you to unusual places others may not easily understand.

Still, society at large needs you. That’s because art in any form helps a society to grow and change. The square pegs still fit in somewhere.

We all end up in unique places

Every single human being on this planet thinks, feels, and acts according to their own personal mindset. How they reason, logic, believe, and approach life is singular.

Yes, there is a collective consciousness into which we all pour ideas and notions about reality. This is how you accept what is considered normal, societal ways of being, and so on.

There are individuals who drive the collective consciousness. They are empowered by other people to do so. This can be conscious or subconscious on the part of those people. But that’s how religious, spiritual, political, military, and business leaders become such leaders.

When people shift their faith, belief, and perception away from such leaders and their perception of how the world works, you get change. Sometimes this is because a man nails a thesis to a door, sometimes because a woman leads others to be empowered to get to vote, and sometimes it’s because more people find their own personal empowerment rather than giving it to those so-called leaders.

Most of the artists I know are self-empowered. They have a vision, whether that’s in words, wood, steel, or paint, that they are driven to share. Overall, because of the nature of their drive and focus, they tend to end up in places they may not have intended but that support and enliven them.

The biggest difference here is awareness.

Mindfulness and drive

When I began to develop and then practice my Pathwalking philosophy eight years ago, it was a singular notion. My inner voice said, you are a writer – practice your craft more frequently. That, in turn, opened me up to paying attention to my mindset.

At first, I didn’t recognize it as mindfulness. Now I can see that conscious reality creation is a product of mindfulness. Conscious is aware, reality is my perception, and creation is what my end product and life experience will be. Aware perceptive experience is just another, more clunky way of saying mindfulness.

Mindfulness is awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and actions. That awareness brings you into the now. This is because when you are aware you are conscious, and that opens you up to empowering yourself.

Most people don’t realize that they mostly live in their subconscious. Why? Because you’re on your phone, tablet, or computer even in social settings. You’re frequently distracted from the now and inattentive, as much as you might think the extreme immediacy of social media and the tools to get you there is a product of the now.

I totally do this myself. I get sucked into the distraction and become inattentive. It’s unbelievably easy to stop being mindful and allow matters of the subconscious to play a dominant role.

For example, how much control and influence do you have when it comes to economic and political shenanigans around the globe? Apart from voting, it’s very little.

Yes, climate change is a massive threat to society. You can’t do anything to change the minds of the deniers. But you can practice reducing your own carbon footprint and supporting companies that take proactive stances to impact this.

Mindfulness is the key to the car. Practicing it is driving it along a path.

Conscious reality creation is not always straightforward

While it is important to set a goal at the end of your path, it’s also important to keep it flexible. The journey itself is going to be full of twists, turns, obstacles, detours, and other oddities. These might just shift you to another point along the way that could end up being amazing.

The world is, frankly, pretty bat-shit crazy right now. That can be truly frightening, disheartening, and otherwise upsetting. Yet you have the power to change it, still.

The big picture of the world is made up of a collage of smaller pictures generated by the perception of reality of the seven billion people on the planet. If your perception is negative it will join the other negative pictures and be amplified. One small dark picture in a sea of light images is quite different from a sea of dark images all together.

Practicing mindfulness is a choice. Deciding to choose a path to take for your life is a choice. Yes, they will impact the change you experience in your life. But as change is constant and inevitable, wouldn’t you rather have influence and control over it than to just let it happen and maybe overcome you?

In this instance, the path I am on has not changed, but I did not expect to end up with this new experience. This is, however, an unexpected good situation for me. I intend to see just where this can go and how it can allow me to consciously create the reality I desire to live within.

Did you ever end up somewhere unexpected but awesome?

This is the four-hundred and twentieth entry to my Pathwalking philosophy. These weekly articles are ideas for – and my personal experiences with – mindfulness and walking along the path of life to consciously create reality. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. I also desire to empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

Thank you for joining me. Feel free to re-blog and share this.

The first year of Pathwalking, including expanded ideas, is available here. My additional writing, both fiction and non-fiction, are available here.

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Living in this Moment

Right now, at this moment, how are you feeling?

One of the key tenets of the practice of mindfulness is being in the now. Rather than looking back to the past or forward to the future, often subconsciously, you put yourself in the now, consciously.

When you are conscious of where you are, what you are doing, and what you are thinking and feeling that is practicing mindfulness. Mindfulness is awareness, primarily of yourself…but that also better opens you to be mindful of the world around you, too.

And I don’t mean “the world” as in the broad, wide world at large. This is not about the big picture and the abstract, disconnected matters that beg for your attention. This is specifically about mindfulness of your immediate surroundings. The environment in which you are in right now.

This moment, as you are reading this, is one-of-a-kind. It is unique. And it will never happen again. To be sure, you will likely have moments like this moment, close and extremely similar to this moment, but it is going to soon be in the past and will not be experienced in the exact same way again.

This can be good because it means when bad things do happen they can and will pass. If this moment is a bad moment it will end and be no more. But that also means that if this moment is a great moment, it, too, will end and be no more.

Life is in a constant, never-ending state of flux. Change is inevitable and that tends to scare people. But the truth is that change is growth, evolution, and a chance to learn new things.

Mindfulness of the moment

When you practice mindfulness one of the elements of this is being in the here-and-now. When you are aware of your thoughts, feelings, and actions that is mindfulness. That awareness is not subconscious, but conscious, and is in the now.

This is because real awareness is a product of this moment, the now. Much of what people say they are “aware” of is actually pretty abstract. Political happenings, the results of the playoff games, warmongering, and other world occurrences are not real products of the now. Yet people often take them as being something they are aware of.

It’s important to understand why this is. Why are these things not true awareness? Because they are not within your immediate environment. They are not happening to you directly, they are indirect and abstract.

Why abstract? Because perception is individual. How I perceive the world at large is different from how you perceive it, and vice versa. Hence, Einstein’s quote:

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

The reality that people claim to be aware of is not their personal picture, just the persistent illusion of reality that forms the collective consciousness of the word. Your individual reality, this moment in which you read these words, is wholly yours and where you truly are aware.

There are cultures that have specific practices that are meant to put you entirely and completely in the now, in this specific moment. Among the most common and well-known practices are Yoga and meditation.

The emphasis of these practices is being present, in the moment, aware of your breath and breathing. Specifically…being in the now.

What are you thinking? What and how are you feeling?

If at this moment, as you are reading these words, you are in a bad environment and/or not a mental place you would prefer to be – you can change it. I recognize that if you’re on the job taking a break from your work or goofing off to avoid work, that may be unchangeable. But you can change your focus.

If at this moment, these words resonate with you and are making you think and feel differently than you were before reading this, that means your awareness has changed.

Yes, it really can be that simple. Mindfulness is a practice that can be done from moment to moment. When you are in your subconscious, mindfulness can shift you to consciousness.

You are empowered with a lot more ability to find and/or create the world you live within than you may easily recognize. You can live in this moment at any time, and if it’s not how you desire it to be you have the power to alter it. If this moment is full of negativity, you have the power to exchange it for positivity instead.

Finding yourself in the moment isn’t hard, but it does require action

Knowing that you have the power to be aware of your thoughts, feelings, and actions, you can choose to recognize that you are in this moment. When you become aware of this, and you can see how you can alter, change, and even control your reality at this moment, that ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more reasons to feel positivity and gratitude. That can be the impetus to improve many aspects of your life for the better, generating even more gratitude.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness leads to love. Love is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

This is the three-hundred-tenth entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

Please visit here to explore all of my published works – both fiction and non-fiction.

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That Didn’t Go How I Expected It To

That situation didn’t go how I expected it to, and that’s not a bad thing in this case.

You can make all sorts of plans for your life. There are innumerable paths you can choose. Yet no matter the path nor the plan, sometimes it doesn’t go how you expected it to.

Sometimes this is not so good. Often, it’s not a bad thing at all.

Perfect example. Recently, I applied for a job as a receptionist. No, not the work I would ideally be doing, but I really needed to find something stable to bring in more funds. And no, I have not given up on being a full-time writer…I just had to consider an alternate income stream.

Anyhow, they called on my resume. But they didn’t want me for the receptionist job. No, they actually read my resume and had something else in mind.

The company owner really wanted to bring on some sort of in-house writer. Someone who would learn and understand the company philosophy and direction. He thought I might be a good fit.

Three weeks have gone by and this is not at all what I expected from that job application.

The unexpected can be amazing

Consciousness creates reality. It really does. My whole focus has been on writing full-time and walking that specific path. Yes, overall I desire to be writing blogs and articles and books of my own. But I have allowed room to write ANYTHING that comes my way.

The Universe is giving me EXACTLY what I desire. I have a freelance gig that leaves me open to my own work. It pays well. My time is flexible. And thus far they are really happy with what I am giving them.

What’s more, this is also making use of several other skills I have been cultivating over the last few years. For example, I have been doing a bunch of work in WordPress for the company. All of my websites are in WordPress, too…so I might have some knowledge here.

Why did I apply for that job? I don’t remember. Something about it caught my eye so I sent in my resume. The Universe saw the effort I was making and I am now getting an unexpected return on investment.

Writing is my passion. It doesn’t seem to matter if the work is entirely along the lines of my personal knowledge-base, or just a chance to craft words on a topic I can learn about. I love to do this, and every hour I have spent on this unexpected job has flown by.

Be open to Possibility

The ultimate lesson here is that you need to always be open to possibility. It’s not just a matter of one door closing and another opening – sometimes what’s on the other side of the door is not entirely what you expected it to be.

To be fair, this can also be a bad thing. More often than not I think that’s how it trends. But when potential is presented to you unexpectedly it’s breathtaking.

Not what I expected from the action I took. But the Universe knew what I truly desired, and put me where I needed to be.

THAT is how letting go and releasing your intention works, by the way. It’s acting with intent without expectation, necessarily. You ask for what you seek and decide that you will find it.

Am I committing revisionist history with this notion? No, I really don’t believe so. I told the Universe what I was seeking for my life, and for my path. Even though I took an action that wasn’t necessarily intended to aid that path, I have still been walking it. It just turned out the potential detour has been the right route for me to take.

Anything is possible. My whole focus has been on earning my living as a writer. So while this is not where I expected this to go, it really shouldn’t be too big a surprise, either. That’s what I have been seeking.

Believe in yourself

When you surrender your desire to the Universe, it can and will give you what you seek. But despite space being a vacuum, the Universe doesn’t work from a pure vacuum, either.

Mindfulness is the source of all manifestation. Conscious reality creation IS mindfulness in action. Thought, feeling, and action are mindfulness, and that’s how you consciously create anything.

When I say the Universe doesn’t work out of a vacuum I am talking about intent. You could say, for example, that you want to be an astronaut. That’s a cool idea. But unless you make choices that work with that intent and will get you there, it won’t just *POOF* happen.

Let’s go smaller. I could desire to be a writer all I want. It might be my ultimate goal to become a bestseller and an influencer. Very cool. Could I become this if I never write a word? Is it likely if I don’t practice the craft and work on improving my skills and abilities with wordsmithing?

That is why you can’t just have expectation in the vacuum. There needs to be thought, feeling, and intentional action. And with that, it is also important for you to believe in yourself.

It’s so easy to see your flaws. Your imperfections. All the ways that you are mistaken. Errors. Foul-ups. And other negatives. But that’s a snapshot of who you are, not the whole picture.

You are amazing. You are worthy and deserving of whatever dreams and goals you pursue in this life. Why? Because you are a good person who seeks to do no harm to others to better yourself and find and/or walk your paths.

You are empowered with the ability to do just about anything you desire. Believe in yourself and that will go a long way.

Reality check

I can’t deny that some pretty awful stuff is happening in the world at large. Spend any time online and you’re going to be inundated with news and information that is pretty upsetting. Multiple really foolish people are doing terrible things and not (yet) facing the consequences of what they’re doing.

If I focus on this stuff, issues way, way outside my control, I’ll lose sight of my life. Frankly, my life is the only thing I can exert any real control, influence, or change over. This is the practice of mindfulness.

You may not have expected something to go the way that it did, and that may have been excellent. Or maybe it wasn’t. But when good things happen, don’t feel guilty in the light of the worldwide issues out there. The single best way that YOU can do anything about the big picture is to make your smaller picture as clear and bright as possible.

The big pictures are made up of smaller aspects. Ergo, your life, as a portion of the big picture of the world, should be as good or great as you desire for it to be. In that way, you can spread positivity and encouragement outwards.

You can make all sorts of plans for your life. There are innumerable paths you can choose. Yet no matter the path nor the plan, sometimes it doesn’t go how you expected it to. Sometimes it goes far better, and you deserve that experience.

Has an experience that wasn’t expected to go a certain way gone better for you?

This is the four-hundred and nineteenth entry in the Pathwalking series. These weekly articles are ideas for – and my personal experiences with – walking along the path of life to consciously create reality. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. I also desire to empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

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Positivity in the Face of “Reality”

Is it possible to find positivity in reality, given current world affairs? Yes.

Let’s face it. There is very little good news about the world right now.

Australia is burning, and it’s pretty scary. President Trump is threatening to commit war crimes and has illegally assassinated a foreign leader. Climate Change is not being addressed as the threat that it should be. The ultra-wealthy are getting richer at the expense of pretty much everyone else.

I could go on, but I think this is all pretty damned depressing enough, don’t you? So in the face of all of this “reality” happening, can there be positivity?

Yes.

How? Because this is the big-picture stuff. Yes, it is important to be aware of it and do what you can about it (for example, donate to help fight the fires in Australia; vote in elections; attend protests, call and email leaders, etc). But you cannot allow it to override your immediate existence.

Is that selfish? Yes and no. In that it is a matter of self-care, I guess it might be a little selfish. But you have one life, one opportunity to exist on this planet. Wherever you are, in the here-and-now, those big-picture matters are most probably abstract and way, far outside your control.

What you are thinking, how and what you are feeling, and all the actions you do and do not take, though, belong to you and only you. Mindfulness. And mindfulness allows you to find and/or create some positivity in your corner of reality, right here and right now.

How and why does that matter? Because that reality, your corner of it in the here-and-now, is the most real reality there is.

Your reality is your perception of it

If you get focused on all that bad news out there, the so-called “reality” of the world at large, then positivity is going to be a challenge. That may be an understatement.

I can see that it may look like there’s no hope. How, in the face of this insanity, can you even consider positivity? Because that’s the best way to counter the madness.

Reality is an illusion. Einstein told us this:

“Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.”

The reason is simple. Because every single person on this planet, all 7 billion-plus of us, perceives reality uniquely. So how I perceive the world and reality is not how you perceive it.

No, you can’t just deny the existence of negative things in the big-picture world “reality.” But you do not need to give them 100% of your attention, either.

Why? Answer me this – what can you do about any of it? Is there a single thing that you can do, right now, this very instant, to change those pictures?

Unless you are one the people who can directly impact these matters, there’s nothing really impactful you can currently do.

But the corner of reality that you occupy, right now, as you read this, is yours. You can choose to be depressed and hopeless inside of it…or you can choose to find comforting things and hopefulness inside of it.

It is not an act of selfishness to make the most of your personal, present reality. Every bit of positivity attracts more positivity. Rather than getting sucked into the ever-widening gorge of negativity in the world, build ladders out of it and bridges across it with positivity.

Mindfulness is the key

This will likely require you to take a leap of faith. But you have the power to change the conversation. It is possible for you to take control of your personal immediate reality. That control over your own reality can impact the greater reality of the world at large.

All that is inside your control is your mindfulness. Your awareness of your thoughts, feelings, and actions are the only real things you can control. Does that seem insignificant? Well, it’s not.

You can choose to let all of this negativity dictate your life…or to take a different path. The present moment, as you read this right now, is your reality. Real, true, reality…more so than news of world happenings. So you can use that to choose how you will see and approach your day today.

Your mindfulness and awareness of yourself can help you to find and create positivity, even in the face of crazy, scary, depressing world affairs. Even in the face of the abstract “reality” of the wider world.

Change your immediate reality for the better, and that can be a means to change the big picture reality for the better, too. You are empowered thusly.

Finding and/or creating positivity isn’t hard, but it does require action

Knowing that you have the power to find and/or create positivity in the face of the often-overwhelming big picture “reality,” you get to choose to do so – or not. When you work on positivity in your immediate reality, which is the truest reality in which you exist, that ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more reasons to feel positivity and gratitude. That can be the impetus to improve many aspects of your life for the better, generating even more gratitude.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness leads to love. Love is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

This is the three-hundred-ninth entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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New Years’ Action 2020

Action and actions are more powerful than resolutions.

My very favorite line from the entirety of Star Wars comes from Yoda.

“Do or do not, there is no try.”

For a long time, I didn’t fully comprehend what he meant by that. However, after a lot of years of sitting with and studying this statement, I get it. A try leaves room for failure and incompletion. Doing leaves no such space.

This is not about the physical act so much as it is about the attitude. If you try, you are saying “I’ll attempt,” which leaves room for doubt and failure. If you do, you are saying “I’ll do,” which brokers no argument.

What if you do and still fail? It will happen. Odds are, I’d wager, that you still learned something along the way.

With the New Year, people tend to make resolutions. They “resolve” to do something. It might be to eat better, go to the gym, call their parents, or some other idea they’ll “try” for a time. It’s a soft, flabby idea that is easily dismissed.

It is for this reason that, back at the start of 2012, I chose to take a New Years’ Action, rather than make a resolution. That action? Write one blog post per week.

Eight years later, I am still writing this once-per-week article about Pathwalking, which has evolved to better explore my personal philosophy of conscious reality creation and mindfulness that comes of it. That, in turn, evolved to my current daily writing practice.

Actions are powerful

When you take an action, any action, it is powerful. You don’t just consider or think about an idea. It is on you to do something about it. You act.

Action is powerful. It is also one part of the practice of mindfulness, along with thoughts and feelings. Actions belong to you and you alone, in that you are the only one who can choose to take them…or not.

There is nobody but you inside your own head. The thoughts, feelings, and actions belong strictly to you and nobody else. While that might be a cause to feel lonely it’s actually a very good thing. Why? Because that means you get to choose what is best for you and what you will do.

It gets too easy to not act. Why? Because you might fear that if you take the wrong action there will be consequences. You might be right, there may be consequences for wrong action. However, there may be consequences for inaction, too.

Not acting because you are concerned about what may go wrong means you do nothing. When you do nothing you yield control. That might mean you are giving control up to the Universe, to another person or entity, or simply away. It means you are not acting in your own best interest.

Hence why I chose, eight years ago, to take action instead of making a resolution. The consequence of that action? I opened myself up to writing more and improving my skills as a writer by doing that work. I also witnessed how action is key to the manifestation that comes of conscious reality creation.

New Years’ Action 2020

Rather than resolve to do something this year I am going to act upon something new. This means there will be more focus on what I am doing, but I believe that this will be totally worthwhile.

I want to share my planned action with you here for two reasons. First, as an example of taking a New Years’ action and doing something to create a change. Second, and more selfishly, for accountability.

Here is my action put out in the world. If you know me in the real world you can ask, are you doing it? Hell, you could even message me and ask – but the point is that putting it out there gives it more energy. This makes it a more real action because it is there.

Unlike blogging once a week or anything that requires a physical element, this is a more self-directed action. I will actively monitor how I speak about other people.

In conversations with friends and loved ones, I will actively work to not gossip, not talk about other people in any way that I would not speak to them directly. Ergo, if I think someone is being a moron, rather than discuss it with other people I would tell them they are being a moron. Or keep it to myself.

It is far too easy to think badly of people. There are so many things to criticize, and criticism comes far too easily. So, I am going to act in my own best interest and be less critical of people.

How is this an action rather than a resolution? Because I will be maintaining a physical accountability journal. Every day I am going to check-in with myself to keep tabs on my mindset.

This action is truly one of mindfulness.

Mindfulness is action

Practicing mindfulness and being aware of your thoughts, feelings, and actions is in-and-of-itself an action. Why? Because when you are focusing on what is inside your head you are in the now.

The now is the only time that is utterly and truly real. This is the reality that you perceive and can impact in any way. Since nobody else can think, feel, or do for you it’s entirely up to you to work with. Nobody else is inside your head but you.

Frequently, we are subconscious in our thoughts, feelings, and actions. What does that even mean? It means you go about your day as if by rote, just going with the flow. To be fair, there are times where that’s a perfectly great option and can be purposeful.

But if you are looking to make any changes in your life, or take control over what is happening directly to you, mindfulness is necessary. The act of being more aware of your own mindset can be a pretty daunting action, in especial if you have not been really aware up to now.

My New Years’ Action is a mindfulness practice. This is me not subconsciously talking about others negatively and thus putting more negative energies out there. Instead, this is me considering not just what I say but what I am thinking about when it comes to other people in my life.

I need to put a caveat here. This is not an utter elimination of criticism and critiquing the world I live in. Sorry, President Trump is a narcissistic asshole and too many Republican politicians are selfish, arrogant, awful people to just be ignored. Also, they are all part of the big picture, over which my influence and control are nearly non-existent.

Indirect versus direct action

This is specifically about the people who are a part of my life. My friends, my family, coworkers, associates, and people who I actually interact with. Rather than get into snark-fests, gossip, and other downward spirals about people I know, I will actively either step away from such…or take a more direct approach.

It may be unpopular, but when necessary I am going to be direct with someone if their actions are impacting me and mine. This is not about changing how someone else is thinking and feeling – because I can’t. Nobody can. This is about acting in my own way when another’s actions (or inactions) will impact my life in some way.

My New Year’s Action for 2020 is to practice more mindfulness, specifically in regards to how I react to, speak about, and think about other people. To be sure, this is going to be a challenge, but worthwhile. And I am convinced that actions are more powerful than resolutions.

Are you planning anything different for your New Year?

This is the four-hundred and eighteenth entry in the Pathwalking series. These weekly articles are ideas for – and my personal experiences with – walking along the path of life to consciously create reality. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. I also desire to empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

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New Year, New Choices

The New Year brings new choices

The end of the year is here. What do you desire for 2020?

For far too many people I know, 2019 was an awful year. Whether it was deeply personal matters, health issues, family problems, or the impact of the numerous awful actions on the part of the government, this year was rough.

We are about to hit 2020, a year that brings us to the beginning of a new decade. Also, you’re going to see a whole lot of references to the 1920s and fashions of that time, flappers, and so on. Hell, I’m attending a “Roaring 20’s” themed New Years’ party myself.

The upside is that the New Year represents an opportunity. You can decide if you will approach it in fear and concern, or in excitement and possibility. Do you see problems or opportunities? Trials or challenges?

Of course, things are going to happen that will be way out of your control. For example, the election in November is going to be particularly impactful, but that’s 11+ months ahead. People will enter and leave your life, some by choice and others not so much. There is a whole lot of unknowns you can’t predict or do anything about.

Focus on that, and you will probably find the coming New Year none-too-different from this year. Why not, instead, focus on the potential of the New Year to make new choices?

Life is always a matter of choices

Every single day you make choices. Some are big, but the majority are small. Yet they are still choices.

Get up with your alarm or hit snooze? Shower in the morning, after work, or not at all? Eat a cereal bar or oatmeal for breakfast? Leave for work at 7:15 or 7:20? Wear the green shirt or the blue? And this can all happen inside the first hour or less that you have been awake on any given day.

Sure, most of those choices won’t impact your life in the grand scheme of things. Or will they? If for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction, who’s to say what the simple choice could lead to?

For example, you choose the blue shirt rather than the green shirt. Waiting in line for a coffee, a famous film director, envisioning a character in a blue shirt sees you, and it hits. They have to have you in their new film! All of a sudden, you go from your regular day to getting swept up into a big Hollywood production and a fabulous acting career.

Yes, I know, that’s totally far-fetched. But it’s not utterly outside of the realm of possibility, either.

The point here is that even the little choices you make can be impactful in unexpected ways. Thus, if you have made certain similar choices day in and day out, why not use the New Year to make new choices?

Sure, I can think of all kinds of reasons not to. However, I can think of even more reasons to choose new and differently.

If you are dissatisfied with your life, and you wish to change any aspect of it, you have to make choices to do so. Great or small, choices are the key. Using the New Year as the impetus to make new choices is not a bad notion in the slightest.

Choose your actions

Back when 2012 began the New Year, I did something different. I made a New Years’ Action. Not a resolution, an action. I decided upon a thing I would do and did it.

It was not a resolution, nor some undefined idea to be tried or attempted – but an action to be taken. New Year, new choices, and I choose to start blogging every week. That would lead me to where I am now, blogging daily. I made a new choice and took a new action to go with it.

Mindfulness is awareness of thought, feeling, and action. Specifically your own. Since you have no power or control over anyone other than yourself this is important to acknowledge.

From here, you can see how the only person who can choose what is best for you, and that which you desire, is you. There is nobody else who can do that for you, just like nobody else can feel your feelings, think your thoughts, or enact your actions.

It is up to you do decide if you will simply mark the new calendar year with a celebration, then continue as you have…or with the New Year, make new choices.

If you are not living life as you most desire to, why not take advantage of the opportunity and choose anew?

Goodbye, 2019 – don’t let the door hit your ass on the way out. Hello 2020, what can we do together to rock this?

Making new choices isn’t hard, but it does require action

Knowing that you can take advantage of the New Year by deciding to make new choices, if you desire to change, why not go for it? When you take action you are practicing mindfulness, which can help build greater positivity and choose new and better choices for your life, which ultimately empowers you. When you feel empowered, your mindfulness increases, you become more aware overall, and that tends to spread to other people around you.

As such, you can build more positive feelings and discover more reasons to feel positivity and gratitude. That can be the impetus to improve many aspects of your life for the better, generating even more gratitude.

Gratitude leads to happiness. Happiness leads to love. Love is the ultimate positive attitude. An attitude of gratitude is an attitude of positivity that begets even more good energies – and that, like you, is always worthwhile.

This is the three-hundred-eighth entry of my Positivity series. It is my hope these weekly messages might help spread positive energies for everyone. Feel free to share, re-blog and spread the positivity.

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Have a Happy Holiday

Have a happy holiday. Whatever you celebrate – or don’t – have a good day!

This time of year is overwhelmed by holidays. Lots of people celebrate something, be it Christmas, Yule, Hanukkah, A’phabet Day (or No “L” Day), Grav Mass Day, or what-have-you.

There are also people who celebrate nothing at all.

Whatever the case may be for you, I want to wish you a Happy Holiday. And even if you celebrate nothing at all, have a good day.

So let’s talk about the people who get offended by not wishing everyone a Merry Christmas today. Or, on the other side, those who would be offended by being wished a Merry Christmas. The question for either is – why does it matter?

There are so, so many things to get upset and offended about in the world. Most are far larger than what phraseology one uses to wish you a good day. Getting upset because you were or were not wished a Merry Christmas is rather silly in the grand scheme of things.

I was born and raised Jewish and grew up in the Midwest of the USA. My contemporaries were largely Lutherans who celebrated Christmas. As a kid growing up in the ’70s and ’80s, I was frequently wished a Merry Christmas.

A little more inclusivity is nice, but the spirit of the notion is what really matters. Merry Christmas doesn’t mean “F*#k you if you are not Christian.” At least, for the most part, that’s seldom the intent I have encountered.

By the same token, using Happy Holiday and the like is not some “War on Christmas.” It is not “F*#k you if you ARE Christian,” it’s a recognition that there are other beliefs out there.

Religious freedom is not about persecution

Historically, however, that’s not true. A lot of historical matters of people seeking “religious freedom” was actually more about them having the power to be the persecutors.

Take the Puritans, for example. They loved to persecute anyone who didn’t follow their ethos. In England, they were the persecuted. When they got to America, however, they got to be the persecutors.

Witches were burned. Native Americans were chased off their lands. They held certain very strict beliefs that have continued to impact American society today. Don’t believe me? Notice how offensive people find naked bodies versus bloodied, beaten, and murdered bodies.

The misunderstanding that comes with religious freedom is that there is no one, single, absolute religion. There are many. Christianity in-and-of-itself is comprised of more denominations, sects, organizations, ideals, and religions than can easily be listed. Islam and Judaism are also not a single ideal.

When you impose your will on other people in the name of religious freedom you are not expressing actual freedom. That, in turn, creates rifts, divisions, and other problems in society.

Wishing you a happy holiday persecutes nobody. It is an expression of freedom in that it recognizes no single idea, no one notion, yet bids goodwill to all.

The spirit of the season

When someone starts in on the whole idea of “put Christ back in Christmas,” they may believe they are being inclusive and/or fighting being excluded. But that’s not the case.

Christmas is not now, nor has it ever been, a purely sacred holiday. If it was, then the commercialism that starts at the end of October wouldn’t be what it is today. But by that same token, the spirit of the season is not sacred, either.

History shows that the Church placed the birth of Christ on the 25th of December in order to override Pagan holidays. Yule is a perfect example. Yet yule logs, wreaths, and trees have come to be symbols of Christmas, haven’t they?

Holiday lights? Hanukkah is the Festival of Lights, celebrating the miracle of a single jar of oil for the eternal flame in the temple lasting 8 days. Yet displays of light have also become associated with Christmas.

When all is said and done, however, this is not so important. The spirit of the season – being kind to one another, opening your heart and mind…these are far more important. The spirit of peace and goodwill towards others is the best reason for the season.

It doesn’t matter what you believe – or not – you have the power to be a good person. You get to choose to be helpful to others or not. You decide how you will act towards others. It’s up to you if you will make the most of the spirit of the season and work on having and making a happy holiday.

I don’t know about you, but I enjoy the positive energy that this idea brings out.

Have a happy holiday and/or a good day

Life is precious. You and I have only a short span of time that we will be here, on this planet, experiencing this life. Maybe today is special because it’s a holiday, but maybe today should just be special because it’s a day.

To me, every day that I get to experience new things, grow, learn, and change is exceptional. Life may be difficult and challenging sometimes, but that’s all part of the experience.

While you don’t generally live at the extremes, you still need them to understand all that lies between them. Good and bad, fat and thin, black and white, male and female, yin and yang, all of these extremes are the endcaps. You and I exist between them, possibly leaning towards one or another.

It is entirely up to you to choose how this day is going to be. Good day or bad? To be certain, there are going to be happenings that fall far, far outside of your control. But that’s typical. When it comes to that which you can control, you get to decide how you will think, feel and act.

In truth, that’s everything. Your thoughts, feelings, and actions are you. They make up your mindset, your headspace. That is where you truly exist.

As Yoda said,

“Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.”

That is you. It is me. Maybe today is a special day, and maybe it is a day of good memories or bad. But it is a day, and you have a choice as to how it can and will be for you. Your approach is the key to your experience.

Hence why I bid you, whatever you celebrate – or don’t – have a good day!

This is the four-hundred and seventeenth entry in the Pathwalking series. These weekly articles are ideas for – and my personal experiences with – walking along the path of life to consciously create reality. I share this journey as part of my desire to make a difference in this world along the way. I also desire to empower myself and my readers with conscious reality creation.

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