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Hello Monday, silence, opportunity of time. Hello awareness, choice, sensing, passion without fixation. What wants to be heard, expressed, fulfilled? What is mine to do today? What role at all

Hey self, what's on your mind? ... Nah, I don't want to keep up that rhetorical style.  (Awkward start, but no deleting! Plow forward) Nor reify IFS parts either — it's not

Sometimes I think about typing here, exploring something out in the open, and I shy away because of some concept of... wanting it to be high-quality, in case it might

This post hearkens back to my feelings about the dishwasher [https://www.bakejam.com/feelings-about-the-dishwasher/] over a year ago. Today I spent 6 to 7 hours of effort across 12

Hello to myself, writing from the middle of an Intentional Society session. I've just sent the boats out to sea, and we happen to have no day-trippers around other than

That's what my daily tasklist says currently - "consider blogging." Not to demand that I write, but to think about it in the context of setting my intentions for the

I heard a child's reactions upstairs: noises that conveyed emotional states. Shock, distress, anger, grief, a few seconds each, one flowing into another. This seemed to resolve without any parental

When someone asks you "to commit" to something, there are two interestingly different senses of the word to consider and disambiguate. The first is a synonym of "dedicate" - to

Hello, I'm still around! When I'm not here, you see, I'm over there [https://www.intentionalsociety.org]. It's been a fun couple weeks. We've just about hit critical mass, I

I did some one-on-one calls on Sunday for Intentional Society [https://www.intentionalsociety.org], getting more familiar with folks and quizzing them about their hopes for personal/ultimate outcomes and

I started using Complice [https://complice.co] six months ago now. Coincidentally, that was right after I glimpsed down below "values" to formulate my deep goals [https://www.bakejam.com/

I'm rolling around a few thought nuggets shared by participants in yesterday's inaugural IS [https://www.intentionalsociety.org] info session. One is that personal development/growth is at the center.

First, I notice it's been two weeks since I wrote here! I've been intentionally focusing on other things, but I didn't mean to stop entirely for this long. I notice

https://www.intentionalsociety.org It's like starting to roll a boulder uphill. Potential energy starts to turn into distance traveled. Once you push off, you want to sustain the effort

The pink arrow in the above picture (from here [https://www.electionbettingodds.com/President2020.html]) highlights the time (10:30 PM Pacific, 1:30 Eastern) I posted socially (for friends)

"I am bad." I named it and felt into it last night with friends - the presupposition that had suffused my worldview for over three decades of my life inside

This is for me. You're welcome to ride along. I have four current goal areas, all through a frame of being-ness in "my relationship to": 1. biggest self 2. nourishing

For the sake of posterity, I feel compelled to liberate this picture from the confines of LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/posts/rick-erickson-001_james-baker-and-i-interned-together-in-99-activity-6693281444250423296-RKgj/] and document what I haven't forgotten

I've written a few times about my "filters" - having my guard up and processing my feelings and thoughts through a layer of mental perspective-taking before speaking. When the filters

These are my recent thoughts on moving away from shame-based parenting instruction. I'm in the process of wandering away from the language of judgement - objective(ly framed social) judgement

It's almost 24 hours since the October surprise of the screenwriters of 2020 - Trump finally catches the virus. Six months ago I would have said "of course he's going

Looking back on about three months of working for myself, I've been more aware and more intentional about what my desires are each day. I've become a fairly good estimator,