Posted on 30 June 2008. Tags: clothes, ego, hair, jewelry, no fashion, no hair, no jewelry, no tattoos, no watch, rebellion, rebellious, self confidence, social, society, tattoos
I frequently get asked a question by new friends and old friends once they realize it. “Why don’t you wear any jewelry or even a watch?” I’ve got this idea in my head that jewelry, watches, hair, clothes and tattoos don’t add anything to “me” that I want added to me. Like shaving my head… [...]
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Posted in beliefs, life tips, reality, social interactions
Posted on 29 June 2008. Tags: fun, funny, happiness, happy, life, living, motivation, optimism, optimistic, smile, smiling
Thirty One Reasons to Smile Big Today! 1. Burger King strawberry milkshakes are still being made on another planet and imported. 2. You woke up hungry. And, there’s food available you just have to go get it. 3. You’re not doing hard-time in jail. 4. If you have been to jail you learned a lot [...]
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Posted in happiness, optimism
Posted on 27 June 2008. Tags: cheating, cheating on husband, cheating on spouse, cheating on wife, ego, marriage, pride, relationships, removing hair, shave head, shaving head, social experiment
This applies to a man or a woman, though a woman would probably have much more success with it. What have you got to lose? Just your marriage if you don’t try it! Cut off all the hair from your head. In 1996 as I began to meditate I realized something about the way women [...]
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Posted in amazing experiences, bad habits, control your life, life tips, love, reality, social interactions
Posted on 26 June 2008. Tags: add, adhd, attention, attention deficit disorder, brain, concentration, gingko, ginkgo, ginkgo biloba, help attention, improving concentration
I’m really of the anti-supplement mindset. I’ve used them in the past especially when doing triathlons and bicycle racing but for the last 8 years I’ve stayed away from any kind of supplements. I guess I think I’m always eating enough variety and it’d be a waste of time to take more of what I [...]
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Posted in amazing experiences, genetic issues, life tips, mind
Posted on 25 June 2008. Tags: absorption, being in the moment, being in the present, bliss, buddhism, consciousness, ecstasy, ecstatic, exstatic, flow, flow state, focus, happiness, jhana, jhanas, joy, meditating, meditation, meditator, mindfullness, mindfulness, present moment, pure, pure consciousness, purity, state of flow, vipassana
One topic of great interest to me is flow. Flow is that state where a person is totally involved in doing something, so much so that no ego, thought or anything extraneous to the ‘doing’ exists for that person. Runners experience it. Graphic artists experience it. Engineers and artists experience it. Anyone that is doing [...]
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Posted in 4th dimension, awesome experiences, happiness, mind
Posted on 24 June 2008. Tags: blogging, career, control of life, control your life, freedom, game of life, happiness, inspiration, jobs, life experience, lifes work, living life, living on little, motivation, on top of the game, optimal life, optimal living, optimizing life, personal development, reality, successful blogging, surfing, tough decisions, tradition, ultimate job, unquestioned beliefs, work, working
Does the ultimate job exist for you? For most of us the ultimate job would be to collect a huge salary for doing something fun. My penultimate idea of the ideal job would be surfing. No, not competing, that’s hard work. I just mean just soul surfing at say, Launiopoko Beach Park in Maui every [...]
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Posted in beliefs, control your life, fear, success
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