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A Year of Contemplation

You’re a Product of Your Training (Day 90)

3/31/2019

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hThis month’s central focus has been awareness, an alloy of “paying attention” and “self-knowledge”. Over the last four weeks we’ve sat together with the contemplations, quotes, and ideas, essentially cross-training in the discipline of awareness.

We’re the products of our training.

Gods be praised, we’re training in something meaningful and healthy. I can remember times in my younger life when I wasn’t as mindful toward my “training”. I mean, sure, I spent hours upon hours in the dojo… and as such, I was the product of that discipline. I also spent a lot of time in bars (as an employee AND as a customer), trying to get both paid as well as “laid”. I spent time in high-pressure, less-than-ethical sales, training myself to talk people into spending money they don’t have for shit they didn’t need, all for the sake of filling my pockets with money.

I was training myself to be selfish and self-important… and that’s what I became.

Whatever we train in will become ingrained within our bones. If we train our discipline, we’ll become disciplined. If we train our cruelty, we’ll become cruel.
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If we train with improper form and technique we’ll think we’re doing great when we’re really not… and it takes awareness to know the difference.

Practice makes perfect? Not really. My wife says that “practice makes consistent”.

Perfect practice makes perfect.

Although unattainable, in training, strive for perfection.

(See y’all tomorrow)
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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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