DISCIPLINE

Discipline is about choosing what you want in the end over what you want now. 

Every great life is built on discipline. 

Discipline is doing the work even when your feelings say, ‘Not today.’ 

When you practice discipline daily, something powerful happens: your confidence grows, your focus sharpens, your self-respect increases.

Each disciplined action sends a message to your brain: ‘I can trust myself.’ And when you trust yourself, your potential begins to unfold. 

Discipline builds momentum. Small actions repeated consistently create massive change. Improving one skill at a time, you don't need to do everything at once; you just need to do something every day. 

Discipline creates structure. Structure creates freedom. The more disciplined you become, the less your life is controlled by fear, laziness, and distraction.

Discipline is about delaying pleasure.

Your mind will resist discipline at first. It will look for comfort, it will look for excuses. That is normal. But every time you choose discipline, you strengthen your will. Over time, what was once hard becomes automatic, what was once painful becomes normal, what was once ‘impossible’ becomes your life-style.

Discipline turns intention into action. 

You don't need to be perfect, you don't need to be extreme; you just need to be CONSISTENT. Even on slow days, even on tired days, even when progress is imperceptible.

Start today. Do the same thing tomorrow, and the next day… 

Your full potential is just waiting for your discipline to unlock it. 

When you commit to discipline, everything changes. 

— Basically plagiarized from a YouTube video by the name of Discipline unlocks your full potential-stay consistent and change everything., by Philosophers Legacy TV.

SLOW DOWN

Don't be in such a rush. There’s no hurry. Take your time. Take care of your body's needs, first. Eat, breathe, rest. Don't run your engine if it's running hot. Let it have a break. Water it, fuel it, let it cool. Don't beat your horse until it's dead. All work and no play made Jack a dull boy. Look inside. Listen to your heart. Use your intuition. Stop. 

Don't be afraid to stop activity altogether. Practice cessation of activity– EXTERNAL activity– and mental chatter will slow down, and finally stop. 

Stop trying to get there too fast. Stop trying to get there too quickly. Stop trying to get there too SOON. Whenever you arrive will be perfect. 

There's no such thing as ‘too late’ or ‘too early.’ Everything is in GOD's time. THAT's perfect. If you’re ‘too late’ arriving, then that's just the way it was supposed to be! So relax. Relax, and try to match God's speed, God’s tempo.

This is all a dance. There is such thing as ‘harmonious.’ There is such thing as ‘in time.’

Have the patience to wait. Don’t be so anxious. Don't worry about what OTHERS think; consider only God. 

Try to match the steps of God's dance. 

Take some pains. No one said it was going to be easy; it was not. And there will be haters. And there have always BEEN haters. That doesn't mean anything. Just ignore them. Turn your eyes even more inward. Keep em inward. Because one day, all those haters are going to regret all the time they wasted hating. Don’t be like them. You don't have to love them; just ignore them. Remain focused. Keep your gaze inside. Watch yourSELF. Because there will be some day when all your efforts will be rewarded and all of their hating will come as what it was: irrelevant. 

So take your time. Slow down, and try to dance the dance that God choreographed for you. 

And even love is irrelevant, in a certain sense, to what you have to do. Don't be pulled in by either positive OR negative praise. Ignore it all in your heart. It's all so much spit in the wind. Listen only to the outer & the inner guiding of the SPIRIT. And hold tightly to it. Hold onto it as if for dear life. For in reality, it IS life. 

Have no fear, except for that of THE LORD. Don't worry about anything but HIM. In the end, HE is all that matters.

15 Idea Strands

The world today is too damn noisy.

People need to get down with the present moment, and solutions, not to forget what's true.

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Meditation is minimizing activities. If you can't control your mind and your breath, what can you control? Sit as still as you would in bed, asleep. Only you're wide awake. This activity, when undertaken on a regular and frequent basis, trains your mind in accepting that we are really simple creatures with a simple purpose, and that purpose is to survive. 

Close your eyes and let your mind RIDE. 

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Gray is doing grrreat. Gray is the best. She's the best cat. She's smart. She's good. She's cool. I frequently tell her, ‘You're the best!’/‘You're smart!’/‘You're good!’/‘You're cool!’/‘You're the best cat!’

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I would like to take full advantage of this opportunity, while it lasts. The Time Timer helps IMMENSELY.

I would like to take advantage of every moment I am given.

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THANK YOU ALL

I LOVE YOU ALL

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Crying 

Sighing

Blowing like the breeze

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Poetic writing this morning with a pen and a paper. A poet with a pen I am, waxing literary and poetic.

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I am sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry to anyone who feels like I may have wronged them. Take it up in prayer. I frequently take up THIS prayer: ‘God grant us serenity to accept what we can't change’ (which includes the entire Life-Death Situation, along with history (the past, done with, over and done for). I'm sorry about everything I did wrong, but it really is over with and done for, so there is NOTHING that we can do to change it! Let's ALL just let it go and move on into the future, embracing, actually, THIS PRESENT MOMENT, so precious, so magical, so MIRACULOUS. I forgive everyone THEIR wrong-doings, and strive not to bear even the slightest grudge! I strive to be the blemish free lamb. For if we cannot forgive, how can we expect our Father in Heaven to forgive us? I ask God daily (or nearly daily) to forgive me of all sin, absolve my guilt and let me overcome my past regret. I trust that he is enacting this in my soul. Unless you are a Buddha or Jesus Christ Himself, you must do the same. We are all, on this mortal plane, I believe (except the fully realized and fully awakened Buddhas and Jesus Christ Figures), perfectly imperfect. ‘Mother Mary, pray for us sinners.’ All in need of repentance. Only YOU know if YOU have been doing PERFECTLY.

Wisdom, Understanding, Counsel, Courage, Knowledge, Piety, and Fear Of The Lord: the seven godly virtues according to Isaiah: the seven godly virtues we should all be praying to be developed in our souls!

Aside from following the Ten Commandments, we should follow the whim of the Holy Spirit. It is how we know what to do in life’s more subtle situations, when the clear jurisdiction of the Ten Commandments does not apply clearly and specifically. The Holy Spirit manifests itself in your conscience, your intuition. And in fact, you should sublimate the Ten Commandments SO MUCH that they become second-nature, and then you don't even have to think about them, and they come from withIN, to get yourself to incorporate the Holy Spirit. And then, this way, maybe you won't sin, anymore (assuming you are now). Just understand: all is forgiven, and then do your best NOT to sin again. Commit to it. Decide on it. Commit to it, make up your mind NOT to sin, to do PERFECTLY, to just DO AS WELL AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY DO. THAT’s sinlessness: trying. making the effort, GENUINELY trying. A little knowledge won't hurt, and where does that come from? Studying books and reading, as well as a daily routine. A HABIT OF DOING GOOD.

THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK! 

THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK! 

THINK, THINK, THINK, THINK!

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What do you know about being left-handed? Left-handed people approach on genius. Left-handed, left-handed, left-handed, left-handed. Left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left, left. THINK outside of the box. THINK creatively. REALIZE 

What QUESTIONS are you asking? What QUESTIONS are you asking? What QUESTIONS are you asking?

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MOTION AND THE LACK THEREOF

If you are alive, you are MOVING, so you might as well get down with it and never pretend to stop it. If you could, it would be only in your MIND, and maybe THAT's exactly what we should ALL be striving for, maybe THAT's exactly what we should ALL be striving for.

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EMBRACE THIS PRESENT MOMENT 

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AMBITION–

the right KIND

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Another day in paradise

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CONSERVE

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Understanding, grace.

Thoughts/Ideas from 12/22/25

POWER HATE OFF

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BODIES HAVE NEEDS

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MAKE ALLOWANCES 

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The stronger you are, the more life you will have.

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The more you tolerate, the better off you will be.

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Life is a little bit hard. Life is a little bit tricky.

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IF IT’S TOO GOOD, IT’S BAD.

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WHEN YOU EAT, YOU’RE IN THE DRIVER’S SEAT.

New Ideas

Don’t worry. Your soul will never die. The soul is immortal.

The music never ends.

Life goes on and on and on and on.

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Give Everything to God.

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God ultimately just wants you to get right with Him.

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It’s punishing out here.

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God is the abstract matrix of goodness.

Three Defeats

Defeat the temptation to submit to the herd mentality with internal understanding. 

Resist the automatic obeyance of the mandates of organized religion with genuine faith. 

Defeat the urge to comply with the lawlessness of the government with love, fearlessness, and courage.

3 Thoughts/3 Moods

I’m scared.

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I’m sorry if I’m a dork. It’s embarrassing.

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I employ common sense.

Comments On Breathing

Breath support!

Support with the diaphragm, but don’t be afraid to get your mouth: tongue, throat, cheeks… involved.

Don’t overcomplicate things.

Make your breath as even as possible.

Make your breathing as open as possible.

Why not reverse the direction of your breathing instantaneously? All it would take would be the decision to do so.

Exercise the rapidity of your reversals.

I’m trying to clean Up my breathing.

BREATHING MANTRA

Be prepared to exhale when you are inhaling, and to inhale when you are exhaling.

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Always be prepared to reverse the direction of your breathing.

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Already have the thought in your head of exhaling, when you are currently inhaling, and the thought in your head of inhaling, when you’re currently exhaling.

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The outbreath is contained within the inbreath, the inbreath within the outbreath.

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The exhale itself is a preparation for the inhale; the inhale, itself, is preparation for the exhale.

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Inhale for as long as you’d like to inhale. Exhale for as long as you’d like to exhale. 

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Never fear. When the time is right, turn your breath around.

My time here in Savannah.

Had a good stay with my parents in Savannah. Was stressed, but all in all pleasant. The main problem was the dog. Today, the final day I had in town in Savannah, Ben and I managed to knock out something that I have been struggling to knock out for quite some time, years: a recording of my 6 best songs:

HOW DO YOU SHOW YOUR LOVE?

THE ASTEROIDS

THIS IS NOT A JOKE, MY FRIEND

HAVEN’T FELT THE LOVE OR THE JOY SOMETIMES, I KNOW

SONG IN Fm

WHEN THE NIGHT DESCENDS

Some songs Ben Austin and I put together today.

Please listen to them.

All 6.

The first is the worst.

My favorite is probably When The Night Descends, in terms of recording quality.

I hope these can brighten your day. They all came out Pretty well.

— December 1st, 2025

(Recordings coming, perhaps, later).

3 New IDEAS

NEVER EVER VAPE AGAIN

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Irrelevant 

Unattached 

Noncontingent

Please everyone apply these words to anything that may require their application.

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Instead of covering up all your problems by getting drunk, live a life that doesn’t need to be covered up. 

Facebook

Facebook: what a service.

Christ calls for silence 

REDUCE BOOK INVENTORY 

I need to 

REDUCE BOOK INVENTORY 

I need to 

REDUCE BOOK INVENTORY 

Reduce book inventory into what you think you will actually read. 

What will I actually read?

Esperando, cómo, como cuando...

There’s no point in trying to revive, in complaining about, or in even trying to Touch the past; it’s dead, it's been turnt to gold, and buried.

God is a gunner of the present, when it becomes past: every time the present becomes past, He kills it, so that even Trying to fuck with it is pointless. 

God also has the Midas touch: He touches the present when it becomes past, and, at that moment, it’s turnt to gold.

Finally, God is the perfect coffin-sealer on and the perfect undertaker of the present when it becomes past: when the present becomes past, He seals it in the perfect coffin, and perfectly buries it where no one can reach it.

So there’s no point in trying to revive, in complaining about, or in even trying to Touch the past; it’s dead, it's been turnt to gold, and buried.

A tribute to Malcolm Holcombe

I love this guy. I met him 3 times at 3 different performances he performed in Savannah, Georgia, 1 in the First Presbyterian Church, cerca 2001, and for 2 separate performances at The Sentient Bean, cerca 2005 and 2006 or 7, respectively. I bought his CDs A Hundred Lies, in the former setting, and I Never Heard You Knockin', in the latter. I have fond memories of spinning both, especially the latter, which I associate with a bacon, strawberry, and macademia nut salad on dark lettuce, with strawberry vinaigrette dressing my mom was making frequently at the time I used to spin that one, frequently. That record and that salad are forever linked in my mind.

I love the way he played guitar. His performance style was always an inspiration to me: so candid, a dedicated entertainer, genuine, honest, and sincere. Every time we would talk for a minute, and when I told 'im I played guitar, he told me to 'keep on pickin'' He was clear, kind, and truthful. Humble and down-to-earth. He was totally approachable. He didn't dress like some pompous performer, but in work boots, as I recall, flannel, I believe, and torn jeans.

I loved the way he played and moved and his impromptu style of throwing in a comment here and there that was relevant to the circumstance as well as an entertaining story here and there. He told stories of being a cook in Nashville backstage of a joint that played artists on the stage up front, and he would sometimes steal an opportunity to pop up up there.

He was like a barely contained storm up there on the stage; he looked like he was about to fall off of his chair quite a few times, or that his guitar was just about to drop out of his hands, but he always managed to regain a good grip on his seating in the chair and his guitar. I also love his songwriting, so much of it is so melodic and classic, and his lyrics have a way of skipping the bullshit and cutting straight to the point. I believe he was actually a musical genius: it's apparent in the way he could pick a guitar.

He was a great inspiration and I feel fortunate to have rubbed shoulders with 'im a few times, as it gives all of his music I hear a deeper meaning and a deeper resonance that I feel must all come from some deeper understanding of what he was really at as an artist.

Petty Fires Blind The Way Of Even We Who Refuse Wrong

Life is hard. Why can’t more people straighten up and fly right? Life is hard enough without them making it more difficult.

They clog the path with petty fires, then blame the smoke for why they can’t see.

I don’t understand why to all appearances they embrace Satan and refuse the right way. There is no simpler solution than just to do right.

But still we walk, lanterns in hand, lighting the road even they refuse to see.

—with a little help from Copilot

    (Me

    Copilot)

Title by me, also.