Acceptance video

I finished my next video on acceptance and posted it as you can see below.  I’ll come back to this topic again as I think it’s such an important point for people to fully absorb into their deepest being.  I has brought me so much peace and serenity and it’s never not worked for me when I actively choose to think about it.  I hope you are enjoying the videos, I’m learning as I’m going.  I do realize that my voice is calming and my demeanor is the opposite of excitable.  That may be an issue, but it’s hard to show a lot of emotion when pitching methods for increasing peace and serenity.  I maybe could use some kind of catch phrase!  We’ll see where this goes, maybe I don’t need to do this every day.  I do happen to have time right now, so it’s not been so hard to do.

Enjoy the video and if you do please share it!

Acceptance of what is brings peace and serenity

I’m working on my next video and I have a number of ideas of direction, but I’m not sure how to convey my ideas in a way that will make sense to some one who isn’t familiar with acceptance.  At least how I go about accepting things.  I know as I sit here tonight and write that I’m struggling with it a bit, probably because I’m not completely happy with being stuck here at home.  I feel like life is on hold for a while until this virus stuff passes, but that’s not entirely true because I yam doing different things to help move things forward.

I need to accept things just the way they are.  Anything less creates problems for me, it also has a tendency to show me the way to the next thing.  The part of acceptance that is tricky is that you don’t need to like what you are accepting, but you sort of have to be at least OK with the situation as it stands at the moment.  After things are accepted, then you can make the choice of moving on and either leaving it as is or making changes. You can only change a limited amount of things.  The limit is what you can change yourself or in yourself.  You can’t change other people or how they think.  You can’t change the weather.

To do this I need to say to myself, this is how it is and how I got to this place may or may not be my doing, but it is what it is.

Using that to then improve my life is not so obvious, but if I can see it as a dualistic pair like good and evil or up and down, it begins to dawn on me why that is the important part.  It is part one of the change.  Part two is then taking the action to change what I can.

To wrap this up I’m going to end on the serenity prayer, if you haven’t heard it before it goes like this.  “God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference.”

New video to watch

I posted the second video, I show off my indoor plant collection, which is something I would have never have thought about sharing even though I have posted a lot about my outdoor farming and gardening.  I show my 20 year old plumeria tree which I take out in the summer and some of my other favorite plants.  So take a watch, I hope you like it!

It’s supposed to snow tonight so if it does I’ll shoot that and if it snows enough I’ll have to take some pics too!

Video blog up and running

Well I didn’t quite get it done in a day, but close.  I just posted my first entry in my video blog.  You can watch it below.

I hope you like it, I realized that I either forgot or didn’t do about a dozen things while I was editing it, but I’ve never been one that lets perfection stand in the way of progress.  I’ll get better at this and from some of the garbage videos I’ve watched out there I think this isn’t terrible!  Hope you like it and keep checking back for more.  I plan on posting a new video as often as once a day.  I probably should set a more reasonable goal, but I’m going to aim high and try to really kick this off with a big push.

Video Blog

So I'm stuck at home during this corona virus insanity.  It's been OK so far, but my daughter is getting on my nerves a bit.  I want some time to be alone and to be able to think, but it's not been happening.  One thought I had this morning was to start doing a daily video for the blog.  I want to be able to make a short video that focuses on something other than all the BS that the news and many others are feeding us.  It all started a week or so ago when a friend of mine asked me to help him make a video about corona virus masks.  It was fun to do and really surprisingly easy.  It's a good video, but not great.  I'll share it here to show you since making a shield to protect yourself when you are out and about is probably not a bad thing to share and he would like it if he knew that more people might be able to see it.

I'm going to think about this a bit and hopefully start putting up daily videos that help me remember to do good things like enjoy the beauty of the world.  Things I have been doing, but maybe could be doing better.  I'll still keep writing, but this might help push me in the right direction and help me share the peace that I have with the world.