I'm SO SO SO excited!

The ties to all the conventional b/s that have been forcing me from my own path will have dissolved completely.  I'm well on the way with my uni work and can actually enjoy it more having liberated myself from the unnecessary expectations other people have of me.  

I downloaded alpha and theta sound waves which are helping a lot I think.  I'm not quite ready to stop taking my dexedrine yet but I think sound and meditation might actually work for me soon.

The deadline is Friday.  I'll be in full flight then!

 

How We Move Life Forward

Like Richard Dreyfuss says in the Crazy Ones video, '...they push life forward'. I thought that thought was directed to someone else, but...

OK... No sooner does inspiration to write this entry arrive when the mundane side of life demands attention, ie. the desk job. But managed to slip in a few thoughts during a calm spell...

What is your favorite time?

Morning
27% (14 votes)
Noon
2% (1 vote)
Afternoon
4% (2 votes)
Evening
27% (14 votes)
Late Night
40% (21 votes)
Total votes: 52

Meditation

Hi all.

Without sounding too arrogant, I think of my mental state this time last year to what I am doing now, and wonder how the heck I accomplished it. Call it the Davinci 'thing' kicking into high gear in addition to help from Garett, and other forms of self-help therapy.

I owe Garrett a lot of credit for starting me on this perpetual quest. He nudged me several times --No, more like insisted-- between early 2007 (if memory serves) to early 2009 to join this site, take part in the forum, and buy the audio files. I was in the middle of what I am calling a major turning point in my life, initiated by a major depression. The type where you are too weak to leave your bed, your thoughts scattered, going at warp speed and none of these thoughts are making sense.

trapped

I'm trapped between the priorities of my mind and heart.  I went with my heart in a massive way for the first time this year at the cost of my degree, and parents faith in me.  I now have a few weeks (extension given to me due to diagnosis of ADHD) to finish the written work of incomplete modules. (my only complete module was my graduation short film which I willingly devoted my life to for months at the cost of all other university work).  But I've come alive through following my heart; the thought of wasting another day grabs me by the throat and hurls me towards life before this journey began...a wonderful, charming life it was, but I wasn't really living it.

But, I'm no brat...

spoilt, yes...ungrateful, no...selfish...in many ways, but in many ways not-Which are more important?

Finding Balance

 

I enjoy the energetic atmosphere of the day, but where would I be without the calm coolness of the night?

Yin YangWe are often taught to love the light and fear the dark, but I have come to view things differently. A friend of mine recently remarked that it seems like we are able to see much farther in the day time than at night, but this is truly not the case, because at night we are able to view the stars and galaxies so many light years away.

I am using this simple day/night example as a metaphor. This idea can be applied to most everything. That is because one of the most important things in life is finding balance. I like the stress of working hard and trying to accomplish great things, but I also need the time to rest, relax, and recuperate.

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Class of 2010: Epic FAIL? …Why nobody wants Class of 2010 grads.

No jobs for a misled, mis-educated generation.

According to the Wall Street Journal, hundreds of thousands of new college graduates are entering a U.S. work force that has no use for them. While two million college grads remain unemployed, kids with $200k educations get to compete for jobs waiting and busing tables, delivering pizzas, serving as bouncers at night clubs and baristas at Starbucks. Those who've gone the distance to earn Ivy League law degrees may be joining other Ivy League law grads working as census takers, file clerks, and substitute teachers. Sorry Class of 2010, nobody wants you.

If you're a recent college grad, you've likely spent your entire academic life training to be irrelevant in our new economy. Not only that but you're likely to be tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt for an "education" whose economic bubble just burst.

And when you fly

Those of you that know me know that I have come from humble beginnings.

Now I am living my dream (and the dream of others), strange phenomenons begin to take place.

Not many people have travelled down this road, and not many people understand.  Even fewer know of the sacrifices that have had to have been made along the way.  On some of my days off, I am just happy to hide somewhere and enjoy my own peaceful solitude.  I rarely talk to people unless I have to.  In a way I should make an effort to catch up with friends and family, but I feel as if I don't have much to say anymore about anything to anyone.

I never used to be like this, but that is the way it is.  Of course, I spend more time with my fiancee than anyone else, and with my in-laws, and make sure they enjoy my company. 

Over Valued Ideas

There seems to be a consensus among the Doctors, that I have an overvalued idea. I am more interested in this characteristic as it is a symptom of some “thought disorder”.  

An Overvalued Idea is a non-delusional, non-obsessional, abnormal belief which is in itself acceptable and comprehensible but which is preoccupying and comes to dominate their thinking and behavior.  The idea is not perceived as “external’ or ‘senseless’ but will generally have great significance to the patient.  Overvalued Ideas may have a variety of contents in different disorders (concern over physical appearance in dysmorphophobia, concern over weight and body shape in anorexia nervosa, concern over personal right in paranoid Personality disorder).

Digits of Separation: How (does) technology interfere with human communication?

Question: How do you perceive direct human-human communication versus the increasingly common (perhaps even dominate) human-machine-human communication?

Digits of Separation

Digital communication. Digital interrelatedness. Digital security. Tech culture persuades us that a desktop consists of pixels on a computer screen and that we can look at windows for hours without ever seeing the outdoors. Conscious human perception, as fallible as it may be, now has an often ignored digital layer. We very often speak—and think—in two languages, constantly translating what machines relay into our beliefs about people and the natural world. If technology intercedes most human communication, how much human communication actually takes place? Futhermore, in what cases can digitally-relayed communication completely overtake information from other, natural sources?

 

The Law of Attraction and my attempts at letting go!

They say for the Law of Attraction to really work in your favour, you need to align your unconscious expectations with your conscious mind.  This can be really difficult when your consciously trying to find employment, but your unconscious has a deep desire to create massive change in the universe.

Trying very hard to let go of the need to know what's going to happen in any given situation - that human/ego craving for security, is the very thing that's blocking my progress to progress.  When I'm in the vibration of needing things to happen, I'm in a state of vibrational blockage from that very thing that I'm after.  Training the brain to let go of control and just to allow events to happen is one of the hardest things to learn.  As much as I want to bring my precognitive visions to life, I still have the energy blockage of 'lack of money' burning my vibratory flow. 

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Q&A: Fear of goals, life and fear of death

Question: hey garret! a very important question for me here. i really dont understand the life and death instinct. and i especially dont understand the "fear of life" and the "fear of death", oh and the fear of goals. it just dosent make sense to me. i just don't understand the physcological language in the way it was writen in the book. can i ask you to explain all this to me in a simpler way please? it's the only thing in the book that i dont understand. everything else is fine for me. thanks in advance and god bless!

Business blog...

I shut down my business the end of February and gotta say I'm starting to miss it.  I haven't been sitting around doing nothing, I've actually been very busy, but it's the intangibles about business that I'm missing.  The banter with customers, the rush from closing the big deal and the thrill of uncertainty are not a part of my everyday life anymore.

I'm also missing the money but I'm not too concerned about that.  Money comes and money goes.  It's all over the place.  It changes hands billions of times per second.  I just want to make sure it passes through my hands every once in awhile.

Raming Speed

Life moves pretty fast lately.  Sometimes I don't even time to check in with my favorite bunch of eccentric, genius, crazy ones.

The run down: I had enough of work.  Sure, I had been saying it for years, but as the saying goes "When have suffered enough you will change."  Apparently I met my personal suffering quota and thus turned my inner DaVinci in a new direction.  Doors just started opening for me and paths that would have seemed too difficult before were suddenly illuminated.  

I was fine, till someone spoke to me:(

 So, for the first time in a dogs age, I woke up at 6:30 am. Everyone was still sleeping...nice and quiet. I had a shower, got dressed into some grubbies with a strong notion to do, if anything at least a few minutes of stretching. 

Tim gets up, everything is fine. He brings me a cup of coffee, everything is fine. He tells me he's getting into the shower, keep an eye on the door for our business delivery (we work from home), everything is fine.

Yesterday, I turned the spare bedroom into a lil get away for myself...something away from my bedroom, though there is a bed in this room if I did decide I wanted to take a nap. Something about coming to this space, and it's not my bedroom. I have my laptop set up in here, my music, my stuff.

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