Friday, August 30, 2019
Now Versus Toward
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The moment a writing instrument arrives in my hand the imagination is lifted into areas that will one day need to be explained. Visionaries, writers, builders, CEO's to planners face the daily grind and hurt of setting goals that will or won't be met. I'm very upfront with walk and way with being a time freak. If what I planned is not met with the proper time laid out I make it known because I don't do well with failure. On this podcast I break it down. The world lives by one clock controlled by the word "Toward" We're always working toward something. Our heads are so far up the backside of the future that we can't find faith and purpose in what's presently happening. We moved toward this moment. If it's not living up your personal expectations that's ok we'll push ourselves toward a newer journey. Taking pictures of a future not already designed weakens the walls of requirement. To stand tall and steady I need to understand the depth of the present. Is it sand or is it a rock? Now versus toward.
Thursday, August 29, 2019
Pick Up The Phone
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How often do you meet someone that got to do what they wanted in their everyday life? Most can't say that even in retirement. To do what you want to do requires work, dedication, loyalty and determination. By the time you locate the space to start the process of wanting to do what you really want to be becomes a chore because you're tired, beat up by bosses that are only interested in their success or you're so far behind the curve that catching up with a sliver of success is too much of a reach. On this podcast we talk about the calling. Nothing kills me more than hearing how much money people spend on education and rarely does anyone go into the business they studied for. Paychecks always win. Then we spend the rest of our lives complaining about how we should've, could've and needed to become but chose not to. Pick up the phone and answer the call. Get your hands, feet and face dirty with a new experience. Get excited about making mistakes and generating a new age of yourself. The one thing they forget to teach you in any place of learning is how fast we become old. Take a chance on yourself. Build a new path by trusting the call. Pick up the phone. Life is always moving in forward motion. The problem is in how we put an E in front of the journey. Emotion. We've lost so much making other people money that we don't have the courage or strength to push down the walls and mountains. Forward emotion is an obstacle and yet it makes you clearly aware of what's truly a success story. Just saying you did it can be the greatest payoff on the planet. You did it. Now answer the next calling. Get away from being everybody's go to person. What's the return on your investment?
How often do you meet someone that got to do what they wanted in their everyday life? Most can't say that even in retirement. To do what you want to do requires work, dedication, loyalty and determination. By the time you locate the space to start the process of wanting to do what you really want to be becomes a chore because you're tired, beat up by bosses that are only interested in their success or you're so far behind the curve that catching up with a sliver of success is too much of a reach. On this podcast we talk about the calling. Nothing kills me more than hearing how much money people spend on education and rarely does anyone go into the business they studied for. Paychecks always win. Then we spend the rest of our lives complaining about how we should've, could've and needed to become but chose not to. Pick up the phone and answer the call. Get your hands, feet and face dirty with a new experience. Get excited about making mistakes and generating a new age of yourself. The one thing they forget to teach you in any place of learning is how fast we become old. Take a chance on yourself. Build a new path by trusting the call. Pick up the phone. Life is always moving in forward motion. The problem is in how we put an E in front of the journey. Emotion. We've lost so much making other people money that we don't have the courage or strength to push down the walls and mountains. Forward emotion is an obstacle and yet it makes you clearly aware of what's truly a success story. Just saying you did it can be the greatest payoff on the planet. You did it. Now answer the next calling. Get away from being everybody's go to person. What's the return on your investment?
Tuesday, August 27, 2019
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 167
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I'm far from being the only one that asks this question and we'll probably spend the next 50 billion years still trying to locate the answer. What wakes us up in the middle of the night? On this podcast we talk about a 1:50 am stroll through the forest to do nothing but write. A forest is a very scary place to be alone. You truly can't see what's watching you. Will you be tripped by unseen vines? Snakes, owls, raccoons! Oh my! I've never kept my love for trees a secret. Native American's see them as great storytellers. A tree is extremely willing to sacrifice its life so that you have a place to write. And in return what are we sharing? The very late night extremely early morning walk without a path didn't come with a payoff. Just an open view as to how other things live around humans. How it survives without cable television, prepackaged foods, free music downloads and endless amounts of water. I think the one thing that stands out most about the words put down on paper is the writers need to know why had been woken. In his own handwriting style he asks "God was it you?" Big question with no answer. Laughing it off he blamed his lack of hearing on how noisy a forest is until just before sunrise. Writing and or being creative outside your normal comforts helps to clear the mind body and soul of habits shaped by mundane everyday-isms. When something feels out of the ordinary. Take the call. Be present in your now. Mindful of how getting knocked off the path builds inner strength by way of trusting the moment.
Friday, August 23, 2019
Written Reminded But Not Forgotten
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Being a creatively driven open hearted person puts my awareness on constant alert. And yet there are times that I feel like I've lost my insight. I once studied a book called The Blind Gorilla. The pages paint the stories of many who were in the same moment at the same time but the experience was totally different, What each person saw didn't always match the other stories. One featured event was about two police officers chasing a criminal that came face to face with a chain link fence. The events that unfolded from there is what created the chaos. The officer's stories didn't connect. No matter how hard each of them tried to picture the moment as it truly was. They weren't the same. Because I'm a daily writer I'm given the incredible opportunity to revisit experiences. Not because I live in the past. I grow from all things that have passed. On this podcast we go back to September 16, 2016. Almost three years ago. The writer was talking about how Elevation Church's Code Orange Revival was brilliantly designed to invite in what was required. Being on those pages made me question why I've not remembered it. It took a journey through daily writing to find myself back in one of the biggest moments of my life. Here's my Blind Gorilla. In this recording studio. In front of me everyday. The wristbands that were handed out during those ten days at the Code Orange Revival. They're right here! Yet this morning I started things off by being disappointed with myself for not always carrying with me the words that were brought forward from the experience. What about you? What's in those caverns and canals you've created that hold a sharper image and or answer to what's become your "Now"? Rather than searching through the daily arrival of a new sun. Maybe just maybe the avenues of peace could be sitting right there on an invisible page from a past day thought to be long gone and forgotten. Approach it not by a need to live in your past. Learn from all things passed.
Being a creatively driven open hearted person puts my awareness on constant alert. And yet there are times that I feel like I've lost my insight. I once studied a book called The Blind Gorilla. The pages paint the stories of many who were in the same moment at the same time but the experience was totally different, What each person saw didn't always match the other stories. One featured event was about two police officers chasing a criminal that came face to face with a chain link fence. The events that unfolded from there is what created the chaos. The officer's stories didn't connect. No matter how hard each of them tried to picture the moment as it truly was. They weren't the same. Because I'm a daily writer I'm given the incredible opportunity to revisit experiences. Not because I live in the past. I grow from all things that have passed. On this podcast we go back to September 16, 2016. Almost three years ago. The writer was talking about how Elevation Church's Code Orange Revival was brilliantly designed to invite in what was required. Being on those pages made me question why I've not remembered it. It took a journey through daily writing to find myself back in one of the biggest moments of my life. Here's my Blind Gorilla. In this recording studio. In front of me everyday. The wristbands that were handed out during those ten days at the Code Orange Revival. They're right here! Yet this morning I started things off by being disappointed with myself for not always carrying with me the words that were brought forward from the experience. What about you? What's in those caverns and canals you've created that hold a sharper image and or answer to what's become your "Now"? Rather than searching through the daily arrival of a new sun. Maybe just maybe the avenues of peace could be sitting right there on an invisible page from a past day thought to be long gone and forgotten. Approach it not by a need to live in your past. Learn from all things passed.
Thursday, August 22, 2019
Just Here To Listen
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The process of continuation has always been my fascination. A single sheet of paper required a seed from a different tree to become your present place of reality. Native American Spirituality teaches us that what we do today affects the next seven generations. Who then made your mood in this moment? How will your actions and reactions be met over the next decades? On this podcast we walk down a path of celebrated moments of chapters past while learning how to recognize what we're missing in the present. We're all overtaken by bad days and moments. We hold onto them like sticky gum on the bottom of your shoe. So many have said that peace cannot be met unless we've seen war. Is the same true about silence? I've been to some pretty noisy places and felt completely silenced. Each of us fall to pieces on a daily basis. A piece of you here. Another piece over there. Questions and concerns cause another piece to fall off. Where do you turn? How do you run? Is it away or to? Whom do you rely on the most? Your inner self? That in itself is a very touchy subject for many. Yet the one thing that's been with you the entire way is the one we try to keep from trusting. Those inner voices and feelings. Oh heck no! I daily write not once but twice each and every 24 hour period. Not to cleanse or to set free. Nope. Just here to listen.
The process of continuation has always been my fascination. A single sheet of paper required a seed from a different tree to become your present place of reality. Native American Spirituality teaches us that what we do today affects the next seven generations. Who then made your mood in this moment? How will your actions and reactions be met over the next decades? On this podcast we walk down a path of celebrated moments of chapters past while learning how to recognize what we're missing in the present. We're all overtaken by bad days and moments. We hold onto them like sticky gum on the bottom of your shoe. So many have said that peace cannot be met unless we've seen war. Is the same true about silence? I've been to some pretty noisy places and felt completely silenced. Each of us fall to pieces on a daily basis. A piece of you here. Another piece over there. Questions and concerns cause another piece to fall off. Where do you turn? How do you run? Is it away or to? Whom do you rely on the most? Your inner self? That in itself is a very touchy subject for many. Yet the one thing that's been with you the entire way is the one we try to keep from trusting. Those inner voices and feelings. Oh heck no! I daily write not once but twice each and every 24 hour period. Not to cleanse or to set free. Nope. Just here to listen.
Wednesday, August 21, 2019
Finding Victory In A Day Of Doubt
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You can be the greatest listener and leader. You can be brilliant in your place of business sense. A superstar with unbelievable talent and skills or a normal everyday person just trying to get through the moment. We all face a day of doubt. Not fear! Doubt! Not depression! Doubt! The dictionary says its a feeling of uncertainty. A lack of conviction. It messes with the image projected. It's hard to be what others expect when the system of choices are dried by the desert heat caused by doubt. On this podcast we dive into an actual moment of having to walk into a new Broadcasting class blessed with twenty individuals who already think they're stars. A mountain of energy that consumes the process of needing to be a great. A day of doubt. Red Bull and coffee can't fix this situation. It heightens the energy to believe even more in the hollowed out holes of experience. Doubt does a lot of damage not only to yourself but to the team required to feed the day an endless amount of success. How do you move through this storm? It's a choice. The activation of what brought you to the dance fuels the mind to become part of the delivery and not the excuse as to why something is late. I don't believe in Debbie Downers and Buzz Kills. Those wearing such labels are in days of doubt and use other descriptions to best wear the mask of madness. Find the victory in the moment by knowing who you before all others. Ultimately you have the choice to grow beyond what many can't explain. I keep two daily journals. I hit those pages at 4:30 am and go to a completely different journal at 4:00 pm. This episode of the podcast clearly displays how working your words can take your day of doubt and turn it into a moment of empowerment.
You can be the greatest listener and leader. You can be brilliant in your place of business sense. A superstar with unbelievable talent and skills or a normal everyday person just trying to get through the moment. We all face a day of doubt. Not fear! Doubt! Not depression! Doubt! The dictionary says its a feeling of uncertainty. A lack of conviction. It messes with the image projected. It's hard to be what others expect when the system of choices are dried by the desert heat caused by doubt. On this podcast we dive into an actual moment of having to walk into a new Broadcasting class blessed with twenty individuals who already think they're stars. A mountain of energy that consumes the process of needing to be a great. A day of doubt. Red Bull and coffee can't fix this situation. It heightens the energy to believe even more in the hollowed out holes of experience. Doubt does a lot of damage not only to yourself but to the team required to feed the day an endless amount of success. How do you move through this storm? It's a choice. The activation of what brought you to the dance fuels the mind to become part of the delivery and not the excuse as to why something is late. I don't believe in Debbie Downers and Buzz Kills. Those wearing such labels are in days of doubt and use other descriptions to best wear the mask of madness. Find the victory in the moment by knowing who you before all others. Ultimately you have the choice to grow beyond what many can't explain. I keep two daily journals. I hit those pages at 4:30 am and go to a completely different journal at 4:00 pm. This episode of the podcast clearly displays how working your words can take your day of doubt and turn it into a moment of empowerment.
Tuesday, August 20, 2019
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 166
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In Paul Stanley's new book Backstage Pass he brings up the differences between having a dream and holding onto a fantasy. One is real while the other keeps generating mental images of something you're probably not going to hold. Being part of a dream means you accept the pitfalls that go with the itty bitty victories. Whereas a fantasy keeps the door open for false actions and reactions that are materialized to help calm the fears connected to failure. I don't have a relationship with fantasy. The day I met actor Bradley Cooper was a dream come true. I didn't sit back and think of the potential of there being a meeting. Everyday I worked hard at what I was doing that eventually led to that door being open. I've never fantasized my podcast network would be as big as Marc Maron or Conan O'Brein. The dream was to be exactly what podcasting is... A niche. Hitting one million was a hell of a journey and well worth the tests and struggles. In your own everyday place on the planet learn to become aware of what having a dream is about versus the fantasy. Too often we see the musicians, actors, acrobatics and all others on America's Got Talent fantasizing of winning. What are they hoping to achieve? That one million dollar check and a date in Vegas? What happens when it's over? Do they try for American Idol of NBC's The Voice. Fantasies aren't real. Invest in making your dreams come true. Keep them real and extremely close. Protect what you're being called to accomplish. Don't let the fantasy of success be the apple you bite into and inside sits a worm. A true dreamer would eat that worm and shout out, "Give me more!"
In Paul Stanley's new book Backstage Pass he brings up the differences between having a dream and holding onto a fantasy. One is real while the other keeps generating mental images of something you're probably not going to hold. Being part of a dream means you accept the pitfalls that go with the itty bitty victories. Whereas a fantasy keeps the door open for false actions and reactions that are materialized to help calm the fears connected to failure. I don't have a relationship with fantasy. The day I met actor Bradley Cooper was a dream come true. I didn't sit back and think of the potential of there being a meeting. Everyday I worked hard at what I was doing that eventually led to that door being open. I've never fantasized my podcast network would be as big as Marc Maron or Conan O'Brein. The dream was to be exactly what podcasting is... A niche. Hitting one million was a hell of a journey and well worth the tests and struggles. In your own everyday place on the planet learn to become aware of what having a dream is about versus the fantasy. Too often we see the musicians, actors, acrobatics and all others on America's Got Talent fantasizing of winning. What are they hoping to achieve? That one million dollar check and a date in Vegas? What happens when it's over? Do they try for American Idol of NBC's The Voice. Fantasies aren't real. Invest in making your dreams come true. Keep them real and extremely close. Protect what you're being called to accomplish. Don't let the fantasy of success be the apple you bite into and inside sits a worm. A true dreamer would eat that worm and shout out, "Give me more!"
Monday, August 19, 2019
Peanut Butter Coffee
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No matter what. I write every morning before the sun rises. It's my daily discipline. Not because I want to do it. I have to do it. Every now and then there's an Easter Egg waiting for me. A surprise thought. An exciting idea that could easily grow into newer shapes of creative energy. I'd say in all things that I do it's either written about first in journals or it's broken down on the pages to better understand the mindset and where the next foot step will be placed. On this podcast I go back to September 2016 to one of those days where holding onto a writing instrument was the last thing I wanted to do. You still have to answer to the discipline. The moment you teach yourself how not being in the mood is an answer is when you'll start leaning on it once a month then weekly then daily. Even when you aren't in the know of how your mind body and soul will act or react to a moment of emptiness do it any ways. In martial arts we'd do one more push up or V sit up. We'd reach beyond what we think we know only to realize through choice we were able to grow. You're not designed to love all the things you do or want to do. Do you respect it? Do you allow what you do to have a voice and say? This is why I daily write. I want to have conversations with the inner core. It might see and feel things that you're ignoring because the outside shell is trying to live up to its image. And in those moments just release. Nobody has to understand it. That's what this day of writing was clearly geared for. None of it made sense. It wasn't supposed to. I still obeyed and heard the truer purpose and plan of the daily discipline.
No matter what. I write every morning before the sun rises. It's my daily discipline. Not because I want to do it. I have to do it. Every now and then there's an Easter Egg waiting for me. A surprise thought. An exciting idea that could easily grow into newer shapes of creative energy. I'd say in all things that I do it's either written about first in journals or it's broken down on the pages to better understand the mindset and where the next foot step will be placed. On this podcast I go back to September 2016 to one of those days where holding onto a writing instrument was the last thing I wanted to do. You still have to answer to the discipline. The moment you teach yourself how not being in the mood is an answer is when you'll start leaning on it once a month then weekly then daily. Even when you aren't in the know of how your mind body and soul will act or react to a moment of emptiness do it any ways. In martial arts we'd do one more push up or V sit up. We'd reach beyond what we think we know only to realize through choice we were able to grow. You're not designed to love all the things you do or want to do. Do you respect it? Do you allow what you do to have a voice and say? This is why I daily write. I want to have conversations with the inner core. It might see and feel things that you're ignoring because the outside shell is trying to live up to its image. And in those moments just release. Nobody has to understand it. That's what this day of writing was clearly geared for. None of it made sense. It wasn't supposed to. I still obeyed and heard the truer purpose and plan of the daily discipline.
Friday, August 16, 2019
Reaching To Get On Base
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One of my greatest weaknesses is depth of thought. It happens when you race through the teen years believing all things adult are going to be as poetic as the words put down on paper. Word play. No need to put it in perfect pitch. Hide the truer meaning in a collection of sentences so that your future self can struggle with a better understanding. On this podcast I go back three years to 2016 to meet up with a daily writing page filled with what seems to be dark poetry when in fact it's a physical path of accountability. The writer draws the image of so many that live their life via the last email sent by the boss. The person that stands at home plate and never takes a swing at the ball only to complain about the game not being fun. Those that have vision and make decisions without ever gripping the process of seeing it through. How and when? Why and where? We don't try to find out. We let others decide for us. Back to the home plate. There we are with what we think is a winning attitude. This time around we're going all out to reach for the fence. No! Just get on base. With experience you'll gain in strength. The journey will make the home run a greater victory. Reach to get on base.
One of my greatest weaknesses is depth of thought. It happens when you race through the teen years believing all things adult are going to be as poetic as the words put down on paper. Word play. No need to put it in perfect pitch. Hide the truer meaning in a collection of sentences so that your future self can struggle with a better understanding. On this podcast I go back three years to 2016 to meet up with a daily writing page filled with what seems to be dark poetry when in fact it's a physical path of accountability. The writer draws the image of so many that live their life via the last email sent by the boss. The person that stands at home plate and never takes a swing at the ball only to complain about the game not being fun. Those that have vision and make decisions without ever gripping the process of seeing it through. How and when? Why and where? We don't try to find out. We let others decide for us. Back to the home plate. There we are with what we think is a winning attitude. This time around we're going all out to reach for the fence. No! Just get on base. With experience you'll gain in strength. The journey will make the home run a greater victory. Reach to get on base.
Thursday, August 15, 2019
The Power Of Now
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I'm sure it goes against every Christian rule book but I've spent an entire life studying every shape of spirituality and religion. Combining the knowledge of each layer has been an exciting journey of growing forward and outward. If you've ever spent any time with me you've heard me blurt that thought out. Growing forward and outward. I'm never going anywhere. I'm growing everywhere. How? The power of Now. Being present in what's Now. Aware of not the past or future but what is here in the Now. Extremely difficult because it's too easy to want to be what you used to be. You have to be what you'd like to be. Yet in the Now you are... If you don't like it make the move to change it. Be in the Now. The Stock Market sucked yesterday. Today could be brighter. The word recession scares the hell out of me. Instead of putting energy in a future I can't predict I'm in control of my Now. Think about it! Even the big dogs who trade on the market can't control what's happening. If they could there would never be a bad day. What's in your Now? How can you control your Now? Stop telling people how much your boss sucks. They all do! Be positive in all things negative. Grow from your darkness by teaching yourself to see every shard of light. If all you experience is sunlight you'll never know what a bright idea is. The Power of Now. It's a lifestyle made available by choice. Winning is a choice. So is losing. It's up to you to decide what is or isn't going to become your moment.
Wednesday, August 14, 2019
Reflection
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Sometimes the man behind the curtain has to come out and come clean with how this entire process works. The show The Choice are physical pages daily written. I never sit in the studio and decide what's going to be shared. I go page by page. Whatever's there becomes the seed planted on that particular day. I don't walk away from the bad days, sick days or misguided mistakes. What we are designed to do is learn from the steps. Some are too big while others are often compared to baby steps. When you come back to the daily writing several months and years later the picture of the atmosphere can look a little scary or out of tune but you still take the time to listen to what was handwritten in the page. The reason why I bring this up is because on this podcast I land on one of those moments where my heart didn't know what to do. The page read September 11, 2016. In real time it's August 14, 2019. Why would I want to share a page with so much weight? Because what was written in that moment pretty much paints how it really is on any given day.
Sometimes the man behind the curtain has to come out and come clean with how this entire process works. The show The Choice are physical pages daily written. I never sit in the studio and decide what's going to be shared. I go page by page. Whatever's there becomes the seed planted on that particular day. I don't walk away from the bad days, sick days or misguided mistakes. What we are designed to do is learn from the steps. Some are too big while others are often compared to baby steps. When you come back to the daily writing several months and years later the picture of the atmosphere can look a little scary or out of tune but you still take the time to listen to what was handwritten in the page. The reason why I bring this up is because on this podcast I land on one of those moments where my heart didn't know what to do. The page read September 11, 2016. In real time it's August 14, 2019. Why would I want to share a page with so much weight? Because what was written in that moment pretty much paints how it really is on any given day.
Tuesday, August 13, 2019
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 165
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Look... Nothing swipes the air from my lungs faster than reading another story about a comedian, actor, musician, famous chef or canvas artist that's stolen the life from the origin of ambition. I can't figure out why it feels like so many creative people are giving themselves permission to turn off the lights. Is it the world of social media? We get news and information so quickly that we no longer have enough space to allow word of mouth reach the human ear? I don't know. Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Gone too early. Nobody called it a suicide. The history of entertainment has endlessly been overthrown by stories of those who've let go. On this podcast we talk about those moments. Here's what makes it different. I don't speak only of creative people. No matter what you do in the everyday world you use that head and heart to get the process accomplished. Being creative is an everyday real thing for all people. We have to stop asking about what went wrong and begin the journey of recognizing the path before the storm. I hate television weather people because they aren't that good at predicting why we elected to stay inside while the sun shines so beautifully bright. We try to predict our own storms. I'm feeling like something isn't right. Guess I should keep to myself. What we need to be doing is respecting ourselves. Shout it out loud! Let your system of decisions and choices hear how much you truly care. Yes life feels like it sucks more often then expected. Respect yourself. Let your voice be heard without other people's judgement. I openly admit that it bothers me when the preachers layout the ground work of a happier life when you bury your heart in the book. It's a brilliant beginning but life itself shows there's no guarantee. Recovery from the remnants of dark storms isn't about the decision of going to Heaven or Hell. Respect yourself. I say three things every morning at sunrise, "I am not lost. I am not in fear. I am grateful for this moment." In my heart there's a lot of God but this isn't about that. This is about reaching all creative people on every path. No judgement here. Respect yourself.
Monday, August 12, 2019
Release
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Its funny how we are taught as children to have an open heart and mind. As life moves forward we become stuffy and bloated with all these things we've collected because nobody comes along to teach us how to release. We horde our experiences. Mine! Mine! Julia Cameron writes about the letting go process in her book The Artist Way. She teaches us to clean out the closet. That doesn't necessarily mean the physical itty bitty room in your house. It means your head and heart. Clear it. Set things free. Learn to develop a dropping off point. Forty plus years of radio and I thought in order to make it to the top we're supposed to collect the experiences. Laugh out loud. What you were given last week and the months before are outdated. Having a cleared process of discovery gifts your path with new age success. It's a huge change in your lifestyle. All things in your everyday are moving in forward motion. To be present with its purpose and power you have to be ready to release. Get rid of it. Which sounds like a negative until you begin to put focus on who is receiving it. We float the Catawba River several times a year. The water is released from the dam. Without it we would float in one place. Your mind body and soul are no different. That burst of energy from all things being held back allows you to grow forward. Giving yourself permission to let go helps open the door for you to also rid the body of the negatives. Once free from those weighty objects the senses begin to find new fields of growth. Hard to picture in the beginning but incredibly beautiful when you realize that what you hold isn't as special as you think.
Friday, August 9, 2019
One Thought Away From Being Afraid
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The title says it all. One thought away from being afraid. Of what? Of whom? Of where? We've all heard the term one paycheck away from homelessness. One thought away from being afraid is no different. We automatically put stuff in front of us to keep that ill feeling of reality from entering our systems of choice. On this podcast we bump up against those way and means that take over the way we think. One thought away from being afraid. I do a podcast everyday called The Daily Ray Of Light. At the end of every episode I literally say "We are not in fear. We are not lost. We are grateful for your presence." I have to remind myself every chance I get how we are one thought away from being afraid. And when we do feel that fear that's when we fight like hell to break free of its curse. We act like dogs trying to cover it. We try to fly into the sky like bright red cardinals. Once you are bitten by fear you can't easily shake it off. So how do we grow beyond the impact. The majority of us accept the concept of being one thought away from being afraid. I'd rather be twenty or fifty thoughts. Its completely out of our hands because we're allowing so many others to control the way we act, think and become. It's in their ability and ultimately it becomes your choice to activate their methods of mind play or stay truer to your walk and way. One thought away from being afraid.
Wednesday, August 7, 2019
Going Deeper
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The most fascinating walk is the one left by the tip of a writing instrument. There's always something to explore when you return a different day and time. On this podcast I reach back to September 2016. The morning after meeting the 155 survivors of the Miracle On The Hudson. We were at the movie premiere of Sully. This is a story that will forever change lives beyond our time. To be present with them. To stand side by side. To share conversation. You take in the moment. You breathe in the atmosphere. Without my writing instrument it would already be gone and forgotten. It's nearly three years later! We aren't built to hold onto moments such as this movie premiere. It may come up as an oh yeah moment but to embrace the energy of the subject we talk about on this podcast would not possible if it wasn't for the writing instrument.
The most fascinating walk is the one left by the tip of a writing instrument. There's always something to explore when you return a different day and time. On this podcast I reach back to September 2016. The morning after meeting the 155 survivors of the Miracle On The Hudson. We were at the movie premiere of Sully. This is a story that will forever change lives beyond our time. To be present with them. To stand side by side. To share conversation. You take in the moment. You breathe in the atmosphere. Without my writing instrument it would already be gone and forgotten. It's nearly three years later! We aren't built to hold onto moments such as this movie premiere. It may come up as an oh yeah moment but to embrace the energy of the subject we talk about on this podcast would not possible if it wasn't for the writing instrument.
Tuesday, August 6, 2019
The Lyrics From Billy's Forest Chapter 164
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No day passes that we don't feel like we're being pushed or pulled toward something. It's an invisible energy that may or may not have a positive destination. We just know that we showed up and answered the call. I wish I had the strength or knowledge to walk a path where the reply to this so called pulling is, "Hey! I've got this handled." Most of us aren't designed like that. The other day I spent a few moments sharing a conversation with Mike Love from the Beach Boys. An open field of message sharing fed by streams of awareness. Which means what? Because we both have chosen to live the lifestyle of making meditation an important part of our process we were united in being mindful of the moment. My meditation is Nidra. His is Transcendental. Although they both are part of our present atmosphere each are separate walks and take a long time to understand as well as activate. Nidra is how I learned how to locate rest during those 2am to 5am pop out of a deep sleep moments. I put myself in a place of awareness so the mind can invite peace. It requires action. Being aware of the moment of now. Whereas Transcendental meditation already has you here in the now. Being present in all things not just when you wake up 1:45 am. Nidra isn't sleep. It's resting the subconscious. REM has a way of filtering sounds out. You hear them but don't truly react to them and or remember. Nidra is meditation in the way of awareness. Although you are in an extremely deep mental moment of release you hear and understand everything around you. Therefore an early morning moment of meditation can last anywhere between five minutes to an hour and twenty minutes. Transcendental doesn't require that much energy. You're already there. No matter which direction you're being pulled at work, home or everyday life in a plain world, being present in your now without having to use energy to stay here is learning a more peaceful expression of universal acceptance.
No day passes that we don't feel like we're being pushed or pulled toward something. It's an invisible energy that may or may not have a positive destination. We just know that we showed up and answered the call. I wish I had the strength or knowledge to walk a path where the reply to this so called pulling is, "Hey! I've got this handled." Most of us aren't designed like that. The other day I spent a few moments sharing a conversation with Mike Love from the Beach Boys. An open field of message sharing fed by streams of awareness. Which means what? Because we both have chosen to live the lifestyle of making meditation an important part of our process we were united in being mindful of the moment. My meditation is Nidra. His is Transcendental. Although they both are part of our present atmosphere each are separate walks and take a long time to understand as well as activate. Nidra is how I learned how to locate rest during those 2am to 5am pop out of a deep sleep moments. I put myself in a place of awareness so the mind can invite peace. It requires action. Being aware of the moment of now. Whereas Transcendental meditation already has you here in the now. Being present in all things not just when you wake up 1:45 am. Nidra isn't sleep. It's resting the subconscious. REM has a way of filtering sounds out. You hear them but don't truly react to them and or remember. Nidra is meditation in the way of awareness. Although you are in an extremely deep mental moment of release you hear and understand everything around you. Therefore an early morning moment of meditation can last anywhere between five minutes to an hour and twenty minutes. Transcendental doesn't require that much energy. You're already there. No matter which direction you're being pulled at work, home or everyday life in a plain world, being present in your now without having to use energy to stay here is learning a more peaceful expression of universal acceptance.
Friday, August 2, 2019
Corporate American God
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I do not read from the day I presently write. I ferment my thoughts. Not for a week but rather years. I return to the daily writing long long long after what was put down on paper because I live off what I've grown from not where I currently stand. It's safe. I feel secure. I broke that self created rule today because of a burning itch to try and figure out why we are endlessly being tested, challenged, turned upside down and shaken till there's nothing left in the core of feeling accepted. Upfront I need to make extremely clear that this is not an argument with God, the higher power and or universe. On this podcast I simply ask why preachers endlessly tell their congregations that your bad day, slip with love, lost job and all other things going wrong isn't the work of a devil but rather God testing your faith. He needs to know you are walking in his image and identity. I question that type of education. No friend or marital partner on this planet would last longer than a day if the only thing they did was put your relationship through a constant test. I didn't want to do this podcast today but after jotting it down on paper it wouldn't leave me. It's almost as if the greater power is shouting, "Do it! You aren't alone! Put it out there so others can think deeper, longer and with more understanding that preachers with their way of words are hitting followers with expressions that make God Corporate America.
Thursday, August 1, 2019
Activating Your Dark Clouds
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Nowhere is it written that having faith guarantees a greater day than those that don't. In fact the preacher people I'm close with say the opposite. While traveling this journey I've made it a point to be what I call a free form writer. Not just once but each time I daily write and or defrag in the afternoon. It's being truthful with your presence in the present. No matter what you're thinking, feeling, dreaming or facing, the expectation is to use the right words while writing. Not to right the situation but to be truthful to your place in the Now. We're all guilty of sharing a white lie with the images in the mirror. Everything from motivating yourself to have a great day to physically recognizing how dull your job is and how much weight you're carrying daily that deals with family matters. All of that junk is sitting in your trunk. So often we hear our business leaders and others shout out, "Open your heart!" I'm not sure we need to. There's already too much in there. Learning to clear your heart and putting to use the experiences is how to begin to move forward. Not opening your heart to newer ways and walks. Clear your heart. Clear your mind. On this podcast we talk about those huge mountains in front of your progress and the 15 brick walls behind it. Yet you're expected to somehow move it all. How? By activating your dark clouds. Those moody moments. The depressions and dents in your passion. They've all got experience attached to them. Learn from the atmosphere present and utilize the fuel those dark clouds carry. Free form writing helps us become aware of why the steps are through murky pits of muddied pasts we can't change. It's fuel that can be turned forward and outward. Your back feels nearly broken because you keep using the limited amount of energy you get the moment the morning clock sounds off. When that fuel is used up boom biff pow and zow we go down for the count. Free form your writing and thinking. Let the negative move through you. The longer you hold onto it the weaker you become. The only thing you have control of is Now. Utilize that space.
Nowhere is it written that having faith guarantees a greater day than those that don't. In fact the preacher people I'm close with say the opposite. While traveling this journey I've made it a point to be what I call a free form writer. Not just once but each time I daily write and or defrag in the afternoon. It's being truthful with your presence in the present. No matter what you're thinking, feeling, dreaming or facing, the expectation is to use the right words while writing. Not to right the situation but to be truthful to your place in the Now. We're all guilty of sharing a white lie with the images in the mirror. Everything from motivating yourself to have a great day to physically recognizing how dull your job is and how much weight you're carrying daily that deals with family matters. All of that junk is sitting in your trunk. So often we hear our business leaders and others shout out, "Open your heart!" I'm not sure we need to. There's already too much in there. Learning to clear your heart and putting to use the experiences is how to begin to move forward. Not opening your heart to newer ways and walks. Clear your heart. Clear your mind. On this podcast we talk about those huge mountains in front of your progress and the 15 brick walls behind it. Yet you're expected to somehow move it all. How? By activating your dark clouds. Those moody moments. The depressions and dents in your passion. They've all got experience attached to them. Learn from the atmosphere present and utilize the fuel those dark clouds carry. Free form writing helps us become aware of why the steps are through murky pits of muddied pasts we can't change. It's fuel that can be turned forward and outward. Your back feels nearly broken because you keep using the limited amount of energy you get the moment the morning clock sounds off. When that fuel is used up boom biff pow and zow we go down for the count. Free form your writing and thinking. Let the negative move through you. The longer you hold onto it the weaker you become. The only thing you have control of is Now. Utilize that space.
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