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Journey, Not A Destination
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Brit suggested I talk dirty to you to snap me out of my bad mood
mud pies were as dirty as I could come up with...
I only drink beer and soda. It makes muscles.
Thanks for stopping by.
So THAT's What i'm doing wrong -
: guzzles a pint of guiness:
Brit suggested I talk dirty to you to snap me out of my bad mood
mud pies were as dirty as I could come up with...
Ahhh, now I understand the dirteh talk.
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for some morning air. Have a nice day.
for some morning air. Have a nice day.
The only thing you are going to get in here is a lot of hot air.
Hey I resemble that remark...
wow deep thoughts from Steve...
interesting quote - not sure i really agree with that - i'd prefer it to be who we want to be - cuz who i am right now - isn't all that...
nice quote though - a daily feature to look forward to?
interesting quote - not sure i really agree with that - i'd prefer it to be who we want to be - cuz who i am right now - isn't all that...
nice quote though - a daily feature to look forward to?
Hmmm, you are assuming that self image is set in stone. In reality, it is a very "transformable" thing. Change how you see yourself and your world will change.
And since it seems more and more people are reading my journal, I wanted to post a couple of things I have written in the past and posted in this forum elsewhere. For those who have seen this, please disregard.
The Walk
Life is a walk of many steps. The beginning of the walk is birth. The opposite end is death. We are forced to walk straight ahead. We don’t have a choice of turning around and gaining “extra” ground. In the grand scheme of things, it is a very short journey from one end to the other.
You have a choice. You can either focus on where you are going or you can focus on how you are getting there. Far too many people focus on the destination rather than the journey. Life is about living, not looking. I don’t know about you, but I would rather play in the game than sit on the sidelines! Goals and aspirations are great. If all you do is dream about them, do you really expect to accomplish anything?
Life is what you make of it. Sadly, I think many people are so caught up in their daily schedules that they never take the time to do a little self-analysis. People spend more time laying their outfits out for tomorrow’s workday, making grocery lists, and watching television than they do thinking about their lives. When they become this tied up in following The Routine, the possibility of change becomes nonexistent. These individuals become detached from their subconscious minds, which is the mechanism that guides us through life.
Many of us become cattle and are herded in a multitude of directions by higher powers, have them be the need of finances, family and friends, lack of confidence or direction, fear, society, etc. The list is endless. There are so many vehicles that drive us to places that you don’t want to be in life. Sadly, many of us cave in to these higher powers and lose control of the steps that we take. When this happens we lose touch with the fact that we are in the driver’s seat. We create this delusional scenario where we have no choices in life. We are stuck in our present situation with no options. This is damnation in my opinion.
I, myself, was completely on autopilot a couple years back. I was out of control and never even knew it. I was not sad or upset with life. I was simply not controlling my destiny. I was turned onto some great mentors who asked simple questions like:
· Are you truly happy with your life?
· If you could change one thing, what would you change?
· What are you not doing that you should be doing?
There are a lot more. When I started asking myself these things I was shocked to realize the answers. I don’t know what surprised me more: the fact that I really wasn’t happy or the fact that I didn’t even realize it!
Ignorance is bliss is some cases, but I don’t believe this is one of them. Sure, if you continue down the same path being guided by outside forces, you don’t have to end up miserable. However, life is too short not to milk it for everything its got!
I believe that our thoughts are things. They create our realities. We become what we think about most. Think about the destination enough, you are soon going to end up with death staring you right in the eyes having never truly lived a full second along the way. Always waiting for something to happen is going to leave you with a big let down at the end of the day, that I promise you.
Do you pay attention to what you think about?
As short as the journey is, there are many steps we must take to get from one end to the other. The steps we take, though they must be forward, are within our control. This is the piece of the puzzle that many people lose sight of once life mutates into “the real world” and we become adults with busy schedules.
In the walk of life, pay attention to your steps. It is fine to trip and fall. Pick yourself up and start walking again. If you fall and stay down, life keeps on moving. It doesn’t stop and wait for you to ready yourself. I believe a large majority in our society is in the “down” position. There are not enough people walking.
Think about who you are and how you want to be remembered. Do you have goals? Are you actively pursuing them? What holds you back?
This philosophical walk that I speak of is comprised of millions of miles. Choose what you focus on. Think about what you think about. Life is the 6 inches that are in front of your face. Moving forward without paying attention to these inches is devastating. Opportunity is knocking on our doors every single day. The option to take advantage of the opportunity is up to you. It is not going to hand itself to you. It is there for the taking everywhere we turn.
What lies between now and then is up to you. What steps are you willing to take?
The Walk
Life is a walk of many steps. The beginning of the walk is birth. The opposite end is death. We are forced to walk straight ahead. We don’t have a choice of turning around and gaining “extra” ground. In the grand scheme of things, it is a very short journey from one end to the other.
You have a choice. You can either focus on where you are going or you can focus on how you are getting there. Far too many people focus on the destination rather than the journey. Life is about living, not looking. I don’t know about you, but I would rather play in the game than sit on the sidelines! Goals and aspirations are great. If all you do is dream about them, do you really expect to accomplish anything?
Life is what you make of it. Sadly, I think many people are so caught up in their daily schedules that they never take the time to do a little self-analysis. People spend more time laying their outfits out for tomorrow’s workday, making grocery lists, and watching television than they do thinking about their lives. When they become this tied up in following The Routine, the possibility of change becomes nonexistent. These individuals become detached from their subconscious minds, which is the mechanism that guides us through life.
Many of us become cattle and are herded in a multitude of directions by higher powers, have them be the need of finances, family and friends, lack of confidence or direction, fear, society, etc. The list is endless. There are so many vehicles that drive us to places that you don’t want to be in life. Sadly, many of us cave in to these higher powers and lose control of the steps that we take. When this happens we lose touch with the fact that we are in the driver’s seat. We create this delusional scenario where we have no choices in life. We are stuck in our present situation with no options. This is damnation in my opinion.
I, myself, was completely on autopilot a couple years back. I was out of control and never even knew it. I was not sad or upset with life. I was simply not controlling my destiny. I was turned onto some great mentors who asked simple questions like:
· Are you truly happy with your life?
· If you could change one thing, what would you change?
· What are you not doing that you should be doing?
There are a lot more. When I started asking myself these things I was shocked to realize the answers. I don’t know what surprised me more: the fact that I really wasn’t happy or the fact that I didn’t even realize it!
Ignorance is bliss is some cases, but I don’t believe this is one of them. Sure, if you continue down the same path being guided by outside forces, you don’t have to end up miserable. However, life is too short not to milk it for everything its got!
I believe that our thoughts are things. They create our realities. We become what we think about most. Think about the destination enough, you are soon going to end up with death staring you right in the eyes having never truly lived a full second along the way. Always waiting for something to happen is going to leave you with a big let down at the end of the day, that I promise you.
Do you pay attention to what you think about?
As short as the journey is, there are many steps we must take to get from one end to the other. The steps we take, though they must be forward, are within our control. This is the piece of the puzzle that many people lose sight of once life mutates into “the real world” and we become adults with busy schedules.
In the walk of life, pay attention to your steps. It is fine to trip and fall. Pick yourself up and start walking again. If you fall and stay down, life keeps on moving. It doesn’t stop and wait for you to ready yourself. I believe a large majority in our society is in the “down” position. There are not enough people walking.
Think about who you are and how you want to be remembered. Do you have goals? Are you actively pursuing them? What holds you back?
This philosophical walk that I speak of is comprised of millions of miles. Choose what you focus on. Think about what you think about. Life is the 6 inches that are in front of your face. Moving forward without paying attention to these inches is devastating. Opportunity is knocking on our doors every single day. The option to take advantage of the opportunity is up to you. It is not going to hand itself to you. It is there for the taking everywhere we turn.
What lies between now and then is up to you. What steps are you willing to take?
true 'nuff...
I love the above entry - it's very true and really well written...
I love the above entry - it's very true and really well written...
Another thing I wrote.... just so everyone knows I am not all "fitness and nutrition." I have other thoughts too.
Carl Jung said, “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
Focus. Focus on your true feelings, emotions, and beliefs. Be proactive instead of reactive. A life of reactions based on your surroundings is slavery IMO.
Paul Gaugin said, “I shut my eyes in order to see.”
At night, while I drift between consciousness and unconsciousness, is when I am closest to my mind and the things it says. It is the time where I can most easily see the truth about myself. Closing my eyes allows me to step away from all the business that clutters my life and my mind, and see my reality. It is a time where I am most happy, and a time when I am most scared. Happy because I realize that there is so much more left to life. So many things I am destined to do. Scared because of fear of failure. I see so many choices that I will have to make, many that are difficult. Will I be man enough to face up to these fears and move forward? When my eyes are closed, my mind shines while it haunts me.
Maori Proverb said, “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
I truly believe that if I always let the light into my life, good things will come to me. Too many of us are living in the shadows. We, ourselves, too commonly cast shadows over our realities of which hinder our progress. We carry huge loads that hover over us. These loads consist of our insecurities, our fears, our doubts, our regrets, our faults, and our misconceptions. What if we forgot about these things? What if they did not exist? What would you do differently? Would you enhance your life? Would you progress?
These loads we carry blind us of the reality that we can succeed. When you clear your views of all these hindrances, possibilities and dreams vanish and absolutes and realities are born. Move forward into the light.
David Searls said, “Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the Horizon as the end of the ocean.”
I say something along these lines probably too often in this forum. My journal title speaks it. But I think it always bears repeating. To live life for some end-cause is worthless. Life is too short. Don’t be someone that lives their entire life chasing some imagined “ultimate happiness.” You could find yourself with 99 years of unhappiness behind you and one shocking year of regret in front of you. The time to live is in the moment.
Albert Einstein said, “The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Have truer words ever been spoken? There have been times in my life where my mind has completely controlled me. Other times where it has guided me. Control, IMO, is bad. Guidance is good. I have no say in control. With guidance, hopefully I did some initial input with self-talk that swayed the direction my mind guided me toward. You are the operator of this marvelous computer called your subconscious, only if you choose to be.
Until you make the choice to take control, what you see as reality will always be a by-product of your surroundings. If the choice is made however, it will be like the light from one hundred suns illuminated your path. It will feel as if once, you were blind, now you can see. Your thoughts will become your realities.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
I know many that say, “But I don’t know what I want to do with my life. I don’t know who I really am. I don’t have a passion to chase.” This thought process drives them into a frantic search to find “themselves.” All the while, life is passing them by. Stop. Searching is pointless. You will not figure out what you are supposed to do until you truly connect with your inner-self, your mind. There is nothing to find. What you are searching for is already contained inside of you. To know that you do not know is sometimes good. At least you have something to progress toward. To pretend to know, when you really do not, is disease. False hope and realities will lead to let downs. Kristin Zambucka was not lying when she said, “Turn your gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.”
Jim Morrison said, “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
Are you free? Just because you are not bound by someone else’s hand, does that make you free? I would rather know my true self and be bound by another, than to go through life with the ability to do anything, and never act or take advantage. To be a stranger to myself and never even realize it would be my ultimate disappointment.
All these words I have written, you would think that I have my life figured out. I DO see the light. But that does not mean that no work is to be done to get to where I want to be. If anything, the more clearly the light shines, the more work that is exposed. Seeing and believing that your wants can be obtained is a very important step. But, there are so many more steps. Each one will be accompanied by fear. Fear of the unknown. Every single step that I know I must take, cannot be taken, until I battle my fears along the way at every single stride.
There have been numerous times, and I am sure there will be more, when I have caught myself standing still. I was immobilized by my fear without even thinking. You see, just because you don’t see or recognize your fears, that does not make them disappear. Consciously, you may block them. Subconsciously, they will always be there based on your belief system. If you don’t give them the respect they deserve, you could find yourself standing still for a very long time. Stagnation is imprisonment. E.E. Cummings had it figured out when he said, “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.”
My last rational thought of the day is based on this quote. And yes, all remaining thoughts will be irrational since I will be sitting at a desk in an office for a job that I hate.
It is the part that I haven’t quite figured out in my own life, and therefore one of my biggest challenges. The burden that I carry on my shoulders so that others will not feel the weight really hinders my progress in life. What I am finding, which I am sure some of you know, is that you can’t truly please others until you have thoroughly pleased yourself. I am not where I want to be in life currently, not because I am lazy or stupid. I am off track because I spent my life trying to make others happy. I thought if I was the guy that brought happiness to others, then, I too, would ultimately be happy. If I made others proud, then I would feel accomplished.
In reality, other’s happiness and pride is dependent on their own beliefs and realizations. These beliefs and realizations have nothing to do with my own. I am left standing with a lot of happy people around me, feeling completely alone and failed. As these feelings progress, and I learned that they surely would, my own beliefs and actions began to change for the worst. I found myself on a slippery slope trying to create my new happiness in a world, which I created for myself, that opposes all that I truly want.
Life isn’t about them. Life, and I mean really living, not just breathing, is about YOU. If you can find your true happiness, then you can really please the people who matter most in your life. If you aren’t true to yourself, your happiness, and all the happiness that you provide to those around you is based on smoke and mirrors.
Carl Jung said, “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens.”
Focus. Focus on your true feelings, emotions, and beliefs. Be proactive instead of reactive. A life of reactions based on your surroundings is slavery IMO.
Paul Gaugin said, “I shut my eyes in order to see.”
At night, while I drift between consciousness and unconsciousness, is when I am closest to my mind and the things it says. It is the time where I can most easily see the truth about myself. Closing my eyes allows me to step away from all the business that clutters my life and my mind, and see my reality. It is a time where I am most happy, and a time when I am most scared. Happy because I realize that there is so much more left to life. So many things I am destined to do. Scared because of fear of failure. I see so many choices that I will have to make, many that are difficult. Will I be man enough to face up to these fears and move forward? When my eyes are closed, my mind shines while it haunts me.
Maori Proverb said, “Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.”
I truly believe that if I always let the light into my life, good things will come to me. Too many of us are living in the shadows. We, ourselves, too commonly cast shadows over our realities of which hinder our progress. We carry huge loads that hover over us. These loads consist of our insecurities, our fears, our doubts, our regrets, our faults, and our misconceptions. What if we forgot about these things? What if they did not exist? What would you do differently? Would you enhance your life? Would you progress?
These loads we carry blind us of the reality that we can succeed. When you clear your views of all these hindrances, possibilities and dreams vanish and absolutes and realities are born. Move forward into the light.
David Searls said, “Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the Horizon as the end of the ocean.”
I say something along these lines probably too often in this forum. My journal title speaks it. But I think it always bears repeating. To live life for some end-cause is worthless. Life is too short. Don’t be someone that lives their entire life chasing some imagined “ultimate happiness.” You could find yourself with 99 years of unhappiness behind you and one shocking year of regret in front of you. The time to live is in the moment.
Albert Einstein said, “The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.”
Have truer words ever been spoken? There have been times in my life where my mind has completely controlled me. Other times where it has guided me. Control, IMO, is bad. Guidance is good. I have no say in control. With guidance, hopefully I did some initial input with self-talk that swayed the direction my mind guided me toward. You are the operator of this marvelous computer called your subconscious, only if you choose to be.
Until you make the choice to take control, what you see as reality will always be a by-product of your surroundings. If the choice is made however, it will be like the light from one hundred suns illuminated your path. It will feel as if once, you were blind, now you can see. Your thoughts will become your realities.
Oliver Wendell Holmes said, “A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
I know many that say, “But I don’t know what I want to do with my life. I don’t know who I really am. I don’t have a passion to chase.” This thought process drives them into a frantic search to find “themselves.” All the while, life is passing them by. Stop. Searching is pointless. You will not figure out what you are supposed to do until you truly connect with your inner-self, your mind. There is nothing to find. What you are searching for is already contained inside of you. To know that you do not know is sometimes good. At least you have something to progress toward. To pretend to know, when you really do not, is disease. False hope and realities will lead to let downs. Kristin Zambucka was not lying when she said, “Turn your gaze inward. Correct yourself and your world will change.”
Jim Morrison said, “Expose yourself to your deepest fear; after that, fear has no power, and the fear of freedom shrinks and vanishes. You are free.”
Are you free? Just because you are not bound by someone else’s hand, does that make you free? I would rather know my true self and be bound by another, than to go through life with the ability to do anything, and never act or take advantage. To be a stranger to myself and never even realize it would be my ultimate disappointment.
All these words I have written, you would think that I have my life figured out. I DO see the light. But that does not mean that no work is to be done to get to where I want to be. If anything, the more clearly the light shines, the more work that is exposed. Seeing and believing that your wants can be obtained is a very important step. But, there are so many more steps. Each one will be accompanied by fear. Fear of the unknown. Every single step that I know I must take, cannot be taken, until I battle my fears along the way at every single stride.
There have been numerous times, and I am sure there will be more, when I have caught myself standing still. I was immobilized by my fear without even thinking. You see, just because you don’t see or recognize your fears, that does not make them disappear. Consciously, you may block them. Subconsciously, they will always be there based on your belief system. If you don’t give them the respect they deserve, you could find yourself standing still for a very long time. Stagnation is imprisonment. E.E. Cummings had it figured out when he said, “It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “It is easy to live for others. Everybody does. I call on you to live for yourselves.”
My last rational thought of the day is based on this quote. And yes, all remaining thoughts will be irrational since I will be sitting at a desk in an office for a job that I hate.
It is the part that I haven’t quite figured out in my own life, and therefore one of my biggest challenges. The burden that I carry on my shoulders so that others will not feel the weight really hinders my progress in life. What I am finding, which I am sure some of you know, is that you can’t truly please others until you have thoroughly pleased yourself. I am not where I want to be in life currently, not because I am lazy or stupid. I am off track because I spent my life trying to make others happy. I thought if I was the guy that brought happiness to others, then, I too, would ultimately be happy. If I made others proud, then I would feel accomplished.
In reality, other’s happiness and pride is dependent on their own beliefs and realizations. These beliefs and realizations have nothing to do with my own. I am left standing with a lot of happy people around me, feeling completely alone and failed. As these feelings progress, and I learned that they surely would, my own beliefs and actions began to change for the worst. I found myself on a slippery slope trying to create my new happiness in a world, which I created for myself, that opposes all that I truly want.
Life isn’t about them. Life, and I mean really living, not just breathing, is about YOU. If you can find your true happiness, then you can really please the people who matter most in your life. If you aren’t true to yourself, your happiness, and all the happiness that you provide to those around you is based on smoke and mirrors.
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Completely true actually. I speak so much in here about how to improve your fitness, health, physique, etc, etc..... however, all of this discussion is pointless if your mind isn't right to begin with.
I may only be 25, but if there is one bit of wisdom I would give to anyone before anything else, it is, you must spend time molding and building your mind. It is more important than any other endeavor in life.
Glad you liked that Mal.
I've said that frequently myself - that if a person isn't ready - nothing's gonna work right...
and here I was beginning to think you were just a pretty face, hot body and fitness expert....
and if ya beleive that I know of a bridge for sale -
Keep those thoughts coming - well rounded Steve is awesome
Britta Bear
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Steve quoted Jung...that makes me hot
Britta Bear
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Britta wants to talk to Steve about Jung some more...
I am impressed....
What interest do you have in Jung?
Most I share that article with have never heard of him.
Britta Bear
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Ya, I know!!! My therapist is the only one I can talk about Jung with and I can't do that cuz i would be paying her to have a conversation about a Swiss psychologist. lol.
Lets see....Recently I have been reading about Synchronicity...which to show how brilliant this man is...he made up the word....how many people get to do that (besides beyonce)? I am loving it...we(as humans) always talk about coincidence, but how often do people really think about what coincidence really is?
And the concept really applies to all of us, wether we choose to awknowledge it or not. I learned alot about Jung in a psych class I took a few years ago, but I am enjoying the Jungian psychology more and more as I explore it on my own.
Lets see....Recently I have been reading about Synchronicity...which to show how brilliant this man is...he made up the word....how many people get to do that (besides beyonce)? I am loving it...we(as humans) always talk about coincidence, but how often do people really think about what coincidence really is?
And the concept really applies to all of us, wether we choose to awknowledge it or not. I learned alot about Jung in a psych class I took a few years ago, but I am enjoying the Jungian psychology more and more as I explore it on my own.