Hello Kind Reader

You may have noted that I have been posting less than usual recently. Me too.

I intend to post more and better in the future. I note that a significant number of my intention have gone awry. I'm told that some have been completely forgotten.

For a time I may be posting even less. I have my reasons.

From early in my life I seem to have craved more novel people, places, and happenings than many of my contemporaries. As I've matured such cravings have become a bit more selective, but remain.
As I have moved well beyond retirement age I have made a comfortable retire place for myself..

However, I find myself, as a manner if speaking, going to sleep. I'm not as alert and aware of the life right around me as I would like to be. It seems that I need a more stimulation to be alive to my life and to live it abundantly.

Soo, I have decided to put myself in a environment in which I find the people, places, and doings novel. It may turn out to be one of my bigger mistakes, but these days I have begun to busy myself to that end.

Once I settle a bit, A BIT, in a new and novel place, I intend to post on that which I guess may interest you and which I also find of some interest. When you comment on the nature of your interests in 'comments' below guess to better effect.

Wake Up!

A friend of mine, who knows awareness has been important to me, recently gave me these reminders.

First he suggested that I ask and answer questions like these a bit more often:
What's going on with me?
What's going on around me?
Why do I need to be more awake?
Hey, what's happening here?
Why am I doing this?
What am I doing?

He suggested that when I was less than happy with my answers, I might benefit from giving some consideration to a couple of the following sentences:
~ In a world of change and diversity, the more asleep I am, the more out of touch I am with what I am doing.
~ The more asleep I am, the more unaware I am likely to be of the consequences.
~ The less awake I am, the more unaware I will be regarding how what I am doing is effecting me and you.
~ The less alert I am, the less I know how often I create my own problems.
~ The more awake I am to the reality of the situation, the more power I have to alter it.

He reminded me that being awake to what I say to myself, gives me opportunity to consider its probable importance. He suggested that I occasionally interrupt my my inner conversation by interjecting phrases like:
~ Waite a minute.
~ Hold on.
~ Let me think about this.
~ I can't believe I said that!
~ I better believe I did that!

He added that he sometimes tells himself believable things that he can do.
He says, I can:
~ give myself another instant of awareness.
~ give myself and instant of self-awareness.
~ give myself another moment of self-conscious awareness.
~ give myself a chance to appropriately change approaches, attitudes, directions.
~ give myself and edge at this decision point.
~ stop this thought, talk, doing.
~ decide that it is good to continue thinking, saying, doing, this.
~ modify or change that which I have been doing.
re-view and re-evaluate that which I am doing.
~ learn to be more aware.
~ train and teach myself.
~ be more alert to what I am saying to myself and to others.
~ practice being more aware of that which is going on around me.
~ practice being more alert to that which is going on with me.
~ learn a new skill.

By the time he got this far I had fallen asleep.

Affirmations

~ I am ready and willing to learn to be sound and balanced here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be well pleased to observe, experience, and learn here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to have my intent and purpose clearly in mind here..
~ I am ready and willing to learn to reconsider my plan and design here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to let myself be a bit happier here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to be promptly aware of good that occurs here.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to learn to be promptly aware of a wrong now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to act promptly on a good now.
~ I am in the drivers seat here.
~ I don't have to be in the drivers seat this season.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to steer in the direction of my own best interest here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to decide how to play the cards here.
~ I am willing to aim to achieve the most appropriate result today.
~ I am ready and willing to be grateful for the intelligence of my outlook here.
~ I am ready to learn to better consider the nature of of an intelligent outlook here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be grateful for my energy now.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to be watchful and alert in my meditation here.
~ I am ready and willing to see how I am righting myself right here and right now.

The Smallest Improvement

~ I am the creator of my own life conditions today.
~ I tell myself the truth today.
~ I meditate upon the matter at hand here.
~ I propose to consider the nature of a persistent problem of mine here and now.
~ I am ready to learn to be fit and trim here.
~ I am ready to learn to improve the condition of my body here.
~ I am ready and willing to learn to describe a satisfying way of using this talent here.
~ I intend to come to a fuller understanding of the law of cause and effect right now.
~ I am ready, willing, and able to better see cause and effect working in my life here and now.
~ I am ready to learn that I am unable to impart my own highest understanding today.
~ I don't feel hurried to finish today.
~ I am willing to tell something of that which I know of the law today.
~ I am ready to learn to begin promptly today.
~ I am ready to learn to be a bit more alert toady.
~ I propose to learn to express myself more clearly this week.