Now
01 September 2025
I am focusing on 4 things:
- Seeking Reality in everything I experience and discover.
- Improving my fitness.
- Defining my Next Career.
- Subtracting waste from my Life.
Seeking Reality has changed, and continues to change, my life! The discoveries and wisdom that I gain are endless.
Improving my fitness relies on the awareness that Physical, Mental, Emotional, and Spirtual fitness are all part of the Whole.
I am getting more exercise than I have in the recent past, yet it remains a struggle. It may always be that way, since stuggle is a part of learning.
The bombardment of our brains with all kinds of useless information, along with the attempts at manipulating our feelings and thoughts, are detrimental to us. A mind constantly flooded with these things is a mind that cannot think deeply about anything - yet it needs to. Emotions are wasted on that drivel instead of being used to do the work they are meant for.
Instead of the bombardment, I am considering the wisdom of "The Unexamined life is not Worth living." Is doing that hard work? Yes! And, it is Satisfying Work!
Spirituality is found during the search for Reality. It is distinct from faith and is a deep part of what makes us to be. I have heard people argue that becoming more spiritual will destroy their faith - and that is true. There are many things that we take on faith that are wrong and misleading and the spiritual side of us helps to discern that.
Defining my future.
I have made a lot of progress lately on that one. While it isn't fully defined yet, I have a way to proceed. I can say this about it; my future involves helping others discover for themselves the world within and without. I can only be a guide; a person who points the way; what any person discovers must be their reality, not mine.
Subtracting is a part of the first three.
I have been looking at my life and Subtracting things. My goals were long-delayed because I kept adding things without stopping to think about them, what they are, and what - if anything - they really mean to me. Check out the post To Move Forward, Subtract for some of my earlier thinking on the subject.
Subtracting, and getting back to the idea that I need to focus on one thing at a time, is leading me to do a lot of cleanup in life.
One change from last year is that I now have more space to focus on what I enjoy doing. That is only possible because of the things that I have subtracted.