OPEN MINDFUL

Are you an INDOOR or an OUTDOOR person? In general do your prefer, controlled climates, comfortable furniture, clean space, internet, cable and television. If you are an indoor person, what is your favorite indoor activity? Or are you an outdoor adventurer, whom enjoys hitting the trails, natural swimming pools, walking the edgy streets, lakes, and mountain tops? If you are an outdoor person, what excites you about nature, fresh air and life? There is no wrong answer here. Both are fine, as we probably are ALL a combination of them both. Let's remain OPEN MINDFUL to different ways, activities, and methods to live both indoors and outdoors. Personally, as a city slicker, I'm a hybrid. I truly do enjoy INDOOR air conditioning, art, cable television, privacy, internet, my bed, and the peaceful confines of a clean interior living space. Yet, I also really enjoy getting outdoors and mixing it up to. For example personally, my favorite outdoor activities are attacking the h...

Are you the reader, OPEN MINDFUL to the constantly evolving body? Through the course of life, we all undergo a vast and amazing physical metamorphosis. From an initial baby birth weight of around 8 pounds, to full grown adult-hood, we can admit there are some major human changes and growth that occurs in a lifetime. Are you progressive, and willing to happily accept the state of your current figure, tone and frame? Or, are you wrongfully fixated on the past or future? (For example, the high school physique, the model years, youth and manhood, the future-image post diet) Personally, I have been 6 foot tall and 1 inch since, I was just a 16 year old adolescent. I am grateful for it! Thanks parental units, especially mom. It helped immensely in making the varsity basketball team, as a sophomore, playing lacrosse at the university level & STILL in athletics to this present day. 6 foot 3 is probably the ideal height for a male, but I'm not going to daydream or nitpick...

I was thinking about writing and naming this article, "Addiction." Then I realized that addiction is characterized as a negative thing. Would you agree that addiction tends to lead to negative consequences? For example, some words or themes that come to mind in regards to addiction, are people whom become addicted to cigarettes (equals death) drugs (equals death) work, (loss of family, spouse and loved ones) alcohol,(sickness, loss of liver) shopping (loss of money) & diet. (loss of muscle & weight) So in general the term addiction, con-notates negative sentiments and themes. That is why, this OPEN MINDFUL entry is titled, "Moderation is the answer" Recently and personally, I myself, am trying to scale back a rather extreme lifestyle of work and play. Thus in turn, lower down the crazy. For example, if your life has you going 60 miles per hour, metaphorically, try 30 miles per hour. That is my suggestion for the day. This philosophical thought of th...

Have you ever noticed that there are 2 different distinct human cultures in regards to, "what time of day it is?" I mean, you could walk down the street at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and it is quiet, normal and calm. That same exact city street at 11 pm, and a different vibrant world erupts! Do you ever notice the major differences between daytime culture and night time culture? Which do you enjoy more? Which do you work in? Who wins in Day Vs. Night? In my experience, I have worked both time frame jobs & hours ( I personally helped run the OVERNIGHT, 11 am to 7 am, shift at a Luxury Hotel in the Meatpacking District of NYC ) yet currently work a predominately, DAYTIME job, in residential real estate. In general I have noticed and would charaterize DAYTIME with the following themes. Daytime tends to lend more to the formal, sober, straight forward, working world. From 9 am until 5 pm, it seems to me as though people are on a mission to produce, stay focused and...

I was thinking of giving the title "peer pressure" to this post, yet changed the focal wording last minute. I think the point ,we OPEN MINDFUL, readers would like to try and make today, is the power of social & ideological independence. Part of the joys, of the 1st Amendment in the U.S.A. is the right to free speech and personal liberty. Think about some of the worse periods in your life? What was the worst "section" of life for you? Personally for me, hands down it was the Middle School & Junior High section of life. Why? Numerous reasons. For example, middle school is a time for puberty and severe insecurity for kids, both young boys and girls. The insecurity causes a lack of confidence for youths both mentally and physically. Another reason, I loathed middle school, was the prevalence of peer pressure. If everyone was doing it, then the pressure on the next student was just as heavy. Thirdly, there were no gains in fun, or freedom in middle school. D...

The inspiration of this OPEN MINDFUL entry is the importance of defying stereotypes. If there is 1 thing, that I collected and has stuck with me, after college and to present day, it is that. Stereotypes are biased, inaccurate, and made to be broken. It is also easier to disrupt them in America, the inventive, free, righteous, land of the brave . There are numerous avenues to defy stereotypes. For simplicity focus today, we will gear towards age and class stereotypes. For example, just because you are a 21 year old human, does this mean you ought & have to be studiously stuck in college? If your a 35 year old full grown man or women, do you have to be locked down in marriage? Does a person alive in their 60's always have to be thought of as senior citizen or grandparent? I say no to all of these stereotypes, thus.... Live your Life! Do your thing! If a fellow human would prefer to skip college and go straight to the world workplace, so be it. If a 30's something a...

In general are you OPEN MINDFUL to different forms of style? Would you say, you tend to lean more towards trendy, modern new music, architecture, fads, fashion, style, clothing & dance or do you stick by the classics ? For example do you keep up and care about the constant evolving fresh pop culture or do you adhere your loyalty to the classic looks and sounds that have stood the test of time? This question, could also be framed with, are you a hipster, risk taker or a classicly faithful type. For example, in music, the trendy choice would be new songs on the radio, like Pharell Williams, versus the Classic Rock of say, Led Zepplin. Would you rather own & drive a zippy, flashy new sports car or a rugged time-tested truck or jeep? Would you rather live in an older established neighborhood, or a vibrant still being gentrified area? In my opinion, I think we should be OPEN MINDFUL to both modern/trendy & the classic. What do you think? Personally, I am a big fan of mo...