Ikkuma

JULY 10, 2017

“Happiness is an abstraction; above all else, I choose resilience.” – Gary LeBlanc. I’m not sure what year it started. The need to be stronger. The drive to not let anything in. To not be vulnerable. When we were kids our emotional thresholds hadn’t yet been tested. The early blows hurt hard. We didn’t yet know how to insulate ourselves from failures.

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Ikkuma

JULY 10, 2017

“Love is the absence of judgment.” ? Dalai Lama XIV. A post on self-judgment may be a little heavy for the younger reader, but I wish I had read this when I was growing up. So feel free to share with your son or daughter. 6:45am, Wednesday morning… … I woke up this morning and wasted 5-minutes erasing stupid emails (Judgment #1). … Making my lemon and water in the morning, I dropped a piece of the bottle cap in the lemon juice bottle… “Jesus LeBlanc!!

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Ikkuma

JULY 10, 2017

This morning (Sunday) I woke up. Had a coffee. Read. And went to church for the first time in ages (more on that in another post). One would think that I had control over each of these decisions, but did I? How do we choose to do anything we do? What influences our ‘conscious’ decisions? Consciousness. Despite how theoretical physicists and philosophers may define consciousness, I’m working through my own understanding.

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Ikkuma

JULY 10, 2017

‘Being present’ has become a luxury in our modern, distracted lives. Matt Killingsworth of Harvard, estimates that nearly half of our waking hours we aren’t present, we’re ‘mind wandering’ – often lamenting the mistakes of our past, or obsessing over a future that has yet to materialize. Research suggests that regardless of what’s on our mind while we’re ‘not present’ – good or bad – we would be happier if we lived in the moment.

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Ikkuma

JULY 10, 2017

On May 10th, 1869, at Promontory Summit, Utah, the last spike of the First Transcontinental Railroad – connecting the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads – was driven by Leland Stanford. The railroad took 6 years to build, was 1,776 miles long, and hundreds of lives were lost. The Golden Spike was the ceremonial last spike signifying the completion of the railroad.

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Ikkuma

JULY 10, 2017

In modern times we equate power with stature. Money. Title. Accomplishments. With the advent of social media, the ostensible benefits of the life that go with this power are hard to ignore. Beautiful trips. Nice cars. Opulent houses. Don’t get me wrong; meeting your basic needs makes life much easier. But it’s been shown that once you do meet these needs and gain a little more freedom, happiness begins to drop off.

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Ikkuma

JULY 10, 2017

You’ve probably heard the adage that you are the sum of the five people you spend time with (thanks to Jim Rohn). This is easy enough to understand but do we actually take the time to question with whom we spend our time. And even if we do, how do we go about judging if they are good or bad for us? Aren’t we supposed to avoid judging others? Do we just go with our gut?

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