Archive for January, 2009

Goals

Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 | Anything, Hmmm | No Comments

We had a time management seminar today, and what I thought was going to originally be quite boring and bland, surprised me in being fun, informative, humorous, and motivational, though the latter was probably more likely due to the speaker, Guy.

As a result, I’ve decided to write down my goals for the year, and this month. Beyond that, long-term goals will also be added.

So, for my yearly goals:

  • Get battlerig.net to a point where players can actually play the game.
  • Complete mymodelcase.com. I really love working on this project, there is absolutely no reason I can’t finish it.
  • Begin playing in tournaments for LOTR (The lord of the rings tabletop game)
  • Pay off at least $10k off my car.
  • Improve my memory and commitment to projects.
  • Take up at least three physical activities on a weekly basis (like yoga, kickboxing and… i dunno, something else)
Monthly goals:
  • Get 400-500 pts worth of Uruk-Hai ready for my first LOTR game at the end of February. Play is to be at the Northern Knights games club in Thornleigh.
  • Finish agro-dive-imports.com.au. This is a client project that’s been going on for some time, it’s time to wrap it up. I got a really good go on this last night, and hope to have most of it completed end of the week, with client feedback and minor style tweaks.
  • Get registrations completed on mymodelcase dev site.
  • Find a place to move into with P
  • Start yoga classes
Long-term goals:
  • Pay off the car
  • Buy a house
  • Take P somewhere beautiful, either Fiji, or Thailand.
That’s it for now. I plan to start documenting my monthly goals, maybe as a separate area of the blog, so I have a single place to document it all. Looking forward to my progress this year :)

A Brisk Conversation With Death

Thursday, January 15th, 2009 | Anything | 2 Comments

You’d probably think from the title of this post that maybe I had had some catastrophic accident, allowing me to greet death face-to-face, but no that’s not it at all. Recently in my spiritual travels I’ve witnessed what some refer to as “the source”, the source of all creation, existence in it’s primitive yet wildly misunderstood and brilliant form, or at least I think that was what it was.

My good friend Orion some time ago spoke about a point during his meditation where he was approached by a bright, white light. From the sounds of it, this is very similar to what people experience when they die, or at least pass over for a few moments. I too have now experienced this briefly, but not as part of a meditative practise (which is why to me this is so interesting).

I was at my desk a few days ago and was very heavy in thought, trying to figure out how best to attack the current problem I was handling. My thoughts settled on a particular plan of attack but seemed to get stuck on one particular aspect of the solution. As I focused more intently on what the solution could be I seemed to “space out”, and completely lost track of my train of thought. However, rather than try to bring myself back I simply let go and stared off into nothingness. Moments later, I was greeted by a white spot in front of me which grew brighter, and seemed to be nearing before dissipating again, as quickly as it came. As soon as it was gone, I strangely felt excited, my heart was racing and yet I was perplexed… What was that?

Will talk to my friend Orion shortly regarding this, as well as a few others.