Category: Miscellaneous

Day 233: Doing It For the Right Reasons

Chris

I have learned over and over again, usually the hard way, why it is important to do things for the right reasons. Many times in the past I made choices for what seemed like good, sound reasons, and yet the experience sucked. Thinking it through afterward, my reasoning for those choices was always screwy. Garbage in, garbage out. If you do something for sucky reasons, expect the experience to suck! Tonight I was thinking about signing up for a half marathon that is coming up later in the year. It…

Day 225: Generate Beyond Your Circumstances

Chris

Sometimes it isn’t so easy to generate the sense of empowerment and joy you may feel you deserve. Sometimes it isn’t instaneous. You might have conditions in your life that are distracting, confusing, or discouraging. It is easy to be at the effect of these conditions. In fact, it is quite normal. But then again, it is normal for human beings to suffer and complain. It is more uncommon to generate who you are, by focusing on what you want, to rise above the fray of sufferers and become like…

Day 219: Takeaways from Seeing Abraham (Part 3)

Chris

We saw Abraham three weeks ago and I wrote about it here and here. Always more to reflect on. So here we go, part 3! “Calibrate to your Inner Guidance System” “Don’t calibrate to each other! You get all twisted into a pretzel! “Most people are calibrated to other people, and what you’ve come to teach is being calibrated to Source.”  Abraham-Hicks, 2/11/23, Sacramento, CA What this means to me: I believe that when Abraham made these statements they were talking to a man who was attending the workshop with…

Day 215: A Happier Life

Chris

I have this notion, or maybe it’s an expectation, a hope, of being happier over time. I guess it’s the idea of “making progress” in my happiness journey. Yet when it comes to happiness, I’m not sure the idea of progress is the best analogy. I’m not sure happiness proceeds in a forward-moving, linear way. It’s not like building a house or running a marathon, in which you can tell where you are at any moment towards completing the goal. Maybe happiness is more like an “on-off” switch. After all,…

Day 214: An Enjoyable Day

Chris

What a difference a day makes. Yesterday was the kind of day I was relieved to “get through.” However, this morning as I lay in bed I already felt good about today. The morning started in routine fashion. I had breakfast and listened to an online course on film scoring. The instructor recommended archive.org, a site where one can download old films and TV shows. This is great for film composers who want practice scoring for film. I got excited as I went onto the website and quickly found a…

Day 200: I Never Said I Was a Tech Wiz

Chris

For numerous years now, I’ve played “Toy Blast” on my phone. In this game, when you get to certain levels with multiple zeroes on them– such as “6000” or “7500”– the level tends to be something unusually fun as well as visually interesting, more of a spectacle than a challenge. The level might, for instance, feature an abundance Rubik’s cubes, which when combined together cause the entire screen (filled with squares of different colors and containing different items) to “explode.” This “explosion” is quite useful in finishing the level, and…

Day 191: Extrovert or Introvert?

Chris

On a whim, I just took a simple online test here meant to show how extroverted or introverted I am. The test told me that I am an “ambivert,” which lies in the middle of the two. This is not the first time I’ve heard this. Over the years I’ve thought a lot about my own personality, and not just in the extroversion-introversion sense. For awhile I was very interested in the enneagram, which describes nine different categories of personality (if you’re curious, I’m a six with a seven wing).…