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I saw it in one of those free libraries, one of those little cubbies people build on their front lawn, in front of their house, to encourage people to take and leave used books in their neighborhood.
I took "Giant Steps" by Anthony Robbins, "365 Daily Lessons in Self-Mastery."
It's one of those coffee table books or inspirational books you leave in your kitchen or dinging room to open up to a new page every morning to be inspired.
The first thing it says is to be consistent in something and to make a decision on something and it's better to make a decision in public so you go do it.
It's great stuff to think about to make my life more actionable and to build momentum to making inspired change.
I like it and will be reading it everyday for a year I guess to garner more motivation in my life.
If you're up for something like this too, check out the book.
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Okay. it's not that whacky.
It's a graphic novel called "Happy!" written by Grant Morrison(Batman, The Invisibles) with art by Darick Robertson.
I bought it off Amazon because I really wanted to read it.
You've probably heard of "Happy!" the TV series, Season 1, with that actor from "Law & Order: Special Victims Unit" episodes--Yeah, that guy.
When I was younger growing up in Brooklyn in the 1980s I really liked buying comic books. Not DC and Marvel, but independent ones.
I used to go to a comic book store in Park Slope and stay there for hours. The DC and Marvel comics were in boxes in the middle of the room, but I'd go around the walls and look at the many indie comic books up there on the shelves.
Some were not for children, but I was 5' 10" and had a mustache by the sixth and seventh grade, so I bought any I fancied.
I would usually only buy ones with great artwork that pulled me in.
Recently, I ordered the graphic novel "Happy!" off Amazon, a physical copy. No digital.
It's by a publisher called Image Comics.
It's rated M for Mature.
It's about a dirty cop turned hit-man who sees a little girl's invisible friend, a cartoon horse.
Rollerball the movie was originally a short story written by William Harrison in the 70s called "Roller Ball Murder."
The movie was made in 1975 and Harrison is credited as writing the screenplay, too.
The short story got published in Esquire and a director read it and eventually talked to Harrison to make "Rollerball" the movie.
There was a remake in the 2000's but apparently it does not live up to James Cann's version where he plays the character Johnathan E.
I ordered the old paperback off Amazon recently and sat down to read Roller Ball Murder. It is 20 pages and is done in 1st person present tense.
It's creatively done with a certain sparseness and you can clearly see how the movie is way different, with more details, but after I read the short story it's obvious why it was picked up as a film.
It's genius.
The rest of Harrison's stories are also done in 1st person and it feels like a lost treasure when I hold it in my hand and read them.
If you like reading origination stories of popular movies like I do you can order a copy on Amazon for yourself.
I just put water from the tap in there, filter it, and drink clean water.
If you've never heard of this type of water filtration it's great. There's a ceramic filter at the top, the water drips through it and goes through a mineral cartridge filter.
These types of devices claim to remove contaminants from your tap water, different chemicals, chlorine and they even add micro-nutrients and bio-energy properties.
Here's one I found on Amazon that even has mineral stones on the bottom and a magnetic spigot.
You do have to replace the parts of the filter every 6 to 12 months and buy them again, though.
If you're new to learning about the healing properties of water, there's a great book about a man in Japan who made water healthy just by suggesting positive words to glasses of it. It's an incredible book and it will convince you, too, to clean your tap water before you drink it.
I talked to an interesting woman at a hotel bar yesterday.
I was at the hotel bar because my friend invited me to a free real estate seminar. I'm not really a real estate person, but my friend is always talking about ideas with me, so naturally I'd be willing to tag along with him to a seminar on real estate. Good friends do stuff like that for each other.
I got dressed up in a yellow tie, beige blazer, black pants and a pair of green Van sneakers I bought "new" the day before at Nordstrom Rack. I even wore a watch I designed myself on Zazzle.com.
I dressed up because my friend told me he wanted to buy a suit for job interviews, so naturally, I turned around, pulled all my "good" clothes out of my closet and now I've been wearing them for the past two days, just because.
Anyway, I sat at that hotel bar drinking happy hour beer and writing things down in my journal when a husband and wife couple sat down next to me.
The two were regulars because other servers were saying "hi" to them and smiling.
She ordered a drink and said the words "on the rocks" and "dirty" in the same sentence.
I just sat there writing in my journal, writing about the high hotel ceiling, the liquor on the shelves with spotlights shining down on the bottles like they're actors on a stage, writing a hotel scene that I will be using in a new story.
I even started writing about the couple, making up stuff, because I was curious.
All the while I sat sending and taking messages on my "dumb" phone, scheduling future interviews I'm going to do for my GoshDarnBlog.com site.
The husband asked me, "Still working?" as if I should leave it at all at the office because it's past 5 o'clock. I didn't tell him I was a writer, but closed my eyes and laughed and said, "My work's never over."
After thirty minutes sitting next to the couple, a woman in a baseball cap recognized them and said, "Holy Cajoly!"
I thought it was funny, "Holy Cajoly? I've never heard that one before!" I said.
The wife had heard it before and commented on how there's always something new to learn. She was interested in talking to me more and told me she channels energy. I told her I was a creative writer and tried to get her email for my list, but instead just gave her a business card.
She wanted to tell me what she sensed. I was hesitant, but after explaining my hesitation from past unpleasant experiences with new age people; like I'd been to an event once where we did one on one exercises with audience members, where more than one person told me I was depressed, which was way wack for me, but I decided to let her tell me about my vibration or whatever.
She said we are all unique. 1 in 8 billion people, and each one of us is unique! I was learning this idea, just now, and finding my own way.
All true really.
"We should all make life more simple and not delve so deep into the intellectual side of things."
I knew this already being such a nerd writer myself. "Thinking" will give you high blood pressure because it's where stress comes from, so that makes thinking bad for your health!
"If you go for a walk you're creating new energy. You can receive new thoughts for story ideas. You can reset your body."
She also said when you die you realize you've wasted a lot of time being negative, which you're allowed to do here on the earth plane, but in the end you discover there's only good energy out there... everywhere.
I told her there was a Black Eyed Peas song I heard years ago, an intro to their album, that had a similar theme. I made a dj mix with that song as the intro once that got on a podcast.
The idea that there's invisible energy out there, waiting for all of us to accept the unconditional love, is a great message to hear.
"It's all about flow," she said.
The most interesting thing she said was how when you sit around and do nothing the energy from the past is old and you need to get new energy "flowing."
Since it's springtime now, it's easy for all of us to go out and access all this. Go for a walk and see what's available for you out there good energy wise.
Last night a friendly dog on a leash wagged its tail and sniffed me when I went out walking.
For some further study on this subject you can read a book called "Flow" on Amazon.
"Chaos is inherent in all compounded things. Strive on with diligence." - Siddhartha Gautama, founder of Buddhism
I have a Buddha poster on my wall.
A good friend gave it to me a while back. It sits on my wall so I can easily look at a list of quotes.
The quote above is from that poster and I always look at that one and think about it.
Chaos is everywhere, in every "thing" and you can't get away from it, this quote seems to be saying.
Then it's like "strive on player," and the big smiling Buddha statue reaches out to give you a fist bump.
Diligence means "conscientiousness, hard work, concentration, effort, care, rigor, meticulousness, thoroughness."
Notice how it doesn't say "ignore" the chaos or drop a bomb on the chaos or destroy the chaos so it doesn't exist anymore.
I grew up Christian, so it's not always easy for me to understand what the "Buddha say."
My cousin's husband was in my place one time. He's a minister. He said, looking at my Buddha poster, "They got almost everything right."
Meaning they got everything right but Jesus? That would be a great bumper sticker. "Honk if you like Buddha, but love Jesus." Etc, etc.
Yesterday chaos for me was some stranger, who I didn't know, on Facebook, who made fun of me because I got my degree at a Buddhist/writing school called Naropa.
I didn't engage because "sticks and stones," but this whole idea of "destroying" another person through violence, whether words or weapons, really freaked me out for a good minute.
Meet Caitlin Berve. She's a published author, an editor, a blog/vlog poster and she even teaches.
She's an avid reader and writer of young adult fiction, modern fairy tales, and any story genre you might find advertised down at your local Comic Con.
Her company Ignited Ink Writing can help you polish that writing project that needs "fixin" if you ever want to hire her.
If you go to her website and sign up for her newsletter she'll send you writing prompts in your email inbox!
Currently she's working on fiction and plans to have her works self-published in the future.
She made a YouTube video about manuscript formatting.
Follow her advice and present yourself professionally!
He's got big teeth, a deep voice and is seven feet tall, everyone knows him, he's Tony Robbins! But have you ever sat down and read on of his bestselling motivational books?
Unlimited Power and Awaken the Giant Within by Tony Robbins
These two books are a great start to getting introduced to Tony's philosophy on how to live a better life. His books will show you how to change your psychological makeup and make you feel good.
I remember one exercise I learned from him was smiling at strangers when I walked down the street. I also remember a great story he told about how to deal with grumpy clients. He just sat there smiling and listening to the client until he calmed down and then they inked the deal!
Jim Rohn was his mentor at a young age if you're interested in learning about him, too.
There's nothing more creepy than having a dream that you're paralyzed in your bed or being aware of a presence in the dark, but these two things commonly happen when encountering little green men. These two books go into great detail to give you the skinny on Alien abductions.
"Communion" by Whitley Strieber
Mr. Strieber has seen things most of us haven't (thank goodness)-- actual aliens.
The best time to read this book is late at night so you're afraid to turn the light off when you finally want to go to bed. This book will freak you out because it's claimed to be a true story!
Communion was also a movie starring Christopher Walken.
"Walking Among Us: The Alien Plan to Control Humanity"
Dr. David M. Jacobs has interviewed many abductees under hypnosis and has a book out.
According to him, it's not sleep paralysis, it's an abduction phenomena. The aliens literally pull abductees through windows and walls and of course then their are those alien "implants" that come up on the x-rays.
The yellowed pages, the binding on the verge of collapse that only an old printed book copies can provide.
Then there's the lighting you seek out in the living room, in the den or at that lamp by your bed. You adjust your eyes to that weathered paperback instead of using your tablet tonight.
He wrote many stories about Mars and traveling there. His stories have been turned into the TV shows on "Ray Bradbury Theater" and The Illustrated Man was a movie, too.
You can really sink your teeth into this collection. Every story leaves you thinking about it for hours.
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I saw it in one of those free libraries, one of those little cubbies people build on their front lawn, in front of their house, to encourage people to take and leave used books in their neighborhood.
