PresentFocus "Explorations in Awareness"
The Past is Unchangeable -- The Future is Unknown -- Make Change in the Present -- Focus to know your Future
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The only constant in life is change
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You have found a site designed to help each person find deeper meaning in daily life,
which results in an enhanced sense of self satisfaction. This is the place where you can
learn to find purpose in everything you do each day and connect your daily activities to
a broader life's purpose. The great existential psychologist Victor Frankl refers to
finding purpose as fundamental in his approach to psychotherapy, which he calls
logotherapy in his book "Man's Search for Meaning". Frankl sees mental distress as
caused by a lack of purpose in life, and that purpose defines a reason to live. I also
have this view that purpose is fundamental to a healthy life. However, my basis and
how I construct my argument is different from Frankl. Find a place of being with
purpose and all your goals are attainable. The caveat is that you may find your goals
change as your efforts gain focus.
My view is that if you lack purpose, then your efforts are at best random, which will
produce random results. However, I am not offering psychology or a program that,
when completed, promises everything. I take purpose to a whole new level, by
teaching the skills required to link smaller daily purpose with larger senses of purpose
and ultimately to define and link to an all encompassing life's purpose. Then you will
find every effort, even at the smallest level, connects to your life's purpose. You
become completely aligned in all your actions. Certainly we do not want to find
ourselves pondering how a decision between penne or spaghetti pasta connects to the
meaning of life. Establishing appropriate connections between levels of purpose, allows
you to innately understand the quality of any action.
Unlike other "programs", there are no secrets or magic sequence of steps to follow that
will bring you everything you want. Those programs are no better than sales pitches
with unknown costs at the back-end. That being said, each approach has something to
offer. What I offer are the details that "ground" the other approaches such as The Law
of Attraction. The magic I bring into the process of introspection is an integration of
many great thoughts and theories already developed. In addition, I build on previous
work, as any good scientist does, to present new theory that brings understanding of
existing knowledge to a new level.
As you likely know, self-improvement is big business and those who think they know
something are quick to apply capitalism in an effort to make as much money as the
market will bear. You may ask what is wrong with this approach? Well, humans are
not meant to survive in isolation. We are social creatures who, for good health, need to
love and feel loved. It is the fundamental reason that equality is more than just an idea
and helping others is more than just a money making opportunity!
The uniqueness of each individual is so precious, that no person should be judged
against some perceived notion of their value. Each person is priceless and has
something special to offer. The truth of any person is that no person has ever existed
like them and no person will ever exist like them. Each person deserves the
opportunity to reach their maximum potential. This site is about helping each individual
reach their maximum potential, even in a world that speaks of equality more than
promoting equality.
The first difference here is that all the articles are free, with nothing held back. As the
site continues to develop, more and more information will be included. The "Writings"
section contains articles and titles of future articles to be posted. The only the only thing
that will cost anything is my time, including attendance of any classes that I offer. Even
then, I will only ask for the minimum amount to cover costs. Eventually my goal is to
make everything free and for good reason! I am not here to make money, I am here to
help.
Organization
The organization of this site respects the unique nature of each person who visits.
Everything I present here is interrelated; however, the material is not designed with a
beginning or an end. Several links are included in each article that refer to other articles
and to other websites, depending on the subject matter. The idea is that a person starts
with what most interests them and follow the links that are most relevant. In this way I
respect the unique nature of each person's experience that eventually lead them to this
website. I do not supply all of the valuable information available on the various topics
that may be of interest, so in many cases I will provide links to sites I am not personally
involved with. My goal is to give, not to acquire. To give is an expression of love and
to acquire is an expression of desire. The way I look at it, to give is the only true
desire! If someone already said it, then I will point the way. Happy reading.