Now
Gratitude
Can you give gratitude for every moment? Acknowledging what just happened?
Can you love the present and everything about it? Can you love yourself and this moment unconditionally? To love everything is the experience - in the present moment - as it unfolds - without judgement or comparison to the past? Without anticipation or envy for the future?
Hit Reset
When you are 100% focused on what you are doing right now. This instant is the most important moment in your life. Nothing else exist when you are living in the moment. Remember: What's important now is all the matters. What's important later will reveal itself in time. Time = Awareness. Where is your awareness right now?
Contact meMarch 2023
Doing
- Podmatch Onesheets
- Tech Brew & The Reads
- ChatGPT Prep for CWC (Talk in May)
- Prep for CCWC (in October)
- Getting ready for our trip to Portugal/Spain
Covid Booster- Annual Bloodwork
TODO
- Drop podmatch onesheet page into site template (header/footer)
Reading...
- Work on Your Game
- The Keys
- The Path of Least Resistance by Robert Fritz
- Not Fade Away
- This Year I Will
Writing...
2017-03-17 06:05
- Tweaking the CSS for this site header fonts
2017-03-03 07:13
- Developing an Advance Reader Feedback Loop for ReviewerPerks.com
Working on now:
- Escaping the rat race by my 55th birthday (2025).
- I'm establishing a clear engagement process for new clients. - Exploring Fritz Structural Thinking
- I'm building an online course for Uke202.
- I'm marketing myself to writer's conferences.
- I am gearing up for our next TechBrew event and my first TechReads podcast.
Location
Professional Title
Catalyst for Miracles
What do I do?
I help writers become authors, authors become publishers, and publishers become smart marketers. My other passions in life are Yoga, Ukulele, and Meditation.
Why?
Why do I do what I do? Because doing what I do allows me to live on the beautiful California central coast, near friends, family, and a community I love.
What should we read?
I try to read a book/month. Most contain wisdom worth sharing. This year, I am working on Letting myself Go. I will revisit Trying Not to Try and discovering more about Wu Wei everyday. Visit my Kindle reading page here.
Related URLs:
- Google+
- Medium
- YouTube
- Cal Poly
- Cuesta College
- SelfPublish.org
- AuthorDock.com
- PubWriter.com
- Self Published Success
- Ukulele Songbook
- 50 Interviews
- ePubReview.com
- kdpcampaigns.com
- reviewerperks.com
More thoughts on Now
Most of the time, we are thinking about the past or the future. We are lost in a thought that may be related, but not immediately needed in this moment.
For example, when a yoga class begins to feel hard, thoughts such as the following tend to arise:
- How sore will I be later?
- Why don't I have more energy?
- Was it something I ate?
- Maybe I need more coffee.
- OMG, these people are amazingly fit.
- Mantras such as 'When the comfort ends, the challenge begins.'
And on and on...
But there are moments within my practice of 'doing' where I am thinking about nothing but the 'doing.' I am struck by the analogy of a circuit - it doesn't waste energy thinking about where it's been or where it's going. It puts all of its energy into the point it's at. Where the circuit lights up is where ALL it's energy is.
I'm not saying we should be like programs. There is definitely benefits to 'day dreaming' and letting our minds draw possible connections to what is happening now. In fact, all of my great ideas stem from my mind drifting away from what is happening now.
But there's a real power to putting all your thought energy into what you are doing. To do your best work, you must focus all of your energy on the task.
When a thought arises, what do you do? Do you have a reliable capture system?
Is this what meditation really is? Focusing on the NOW.
If so, the opportunity to meditate presents itself at all times. :-)
Didn't you just say you were happiest when you were meditating?
Then if you can meditate at all times, you can be happy at all times!