First, I want to thank everyone who took the time to reply to my 13th hour post. It was a statement of what I wanted to do with some extra time in my life but it was also a search for what I needed. I know it didn't come across that way, a little trickery on my part. The end result was, I got my answer and someone won a free $200 zClassic from me for the help.
I started writing the 13th Hour originally just to put my thoughts down. As I was writing it, I sat reflecting what my thought was. What was my 13th hour and why was I thinking I needed more time. That is when it dawned on me that it was me that was allowing my time to be consumed. I run around like a chicken with my head cut off after having 10 kids but I have never been a person that wasted time. That was my problem I realized as I continued writing.
What has consumed me so deeply that I was allowing life to slip by? Was it the endless hours on steemit.chat talking to folks I have never met? Was it searching steemit.com for hidden gems. Was it searching Youtube for any sort of quality video's to watch? Was it watching endless TV? Was it chasing the markets for another dollar? These all quickly came to mind, so, I knew that none of these were the cause of my issue. I have always done these things with the exception of adding in steemit in place of private forums and steemit.chat for previously used message boards. That's when it hit me.
I was missing my daily detox. That is how, I have been able to juggle everything I do, for 21 hours a day and have been doing so for over 30 years. I have been neglecting my daily meditation. Not the type of meditation (daydreaming) that the internet has made popular where one reflects on the day or thinks on things they are feeling. True meditation. Thoughtless, rhythm breathing while being motionless while slowing down the heart. This has always been a thing I have done since before my teenage years. I have lost that somewhere in the last few years and it has effected my daily mojo extremely. Mainly the problem has been that I really have had too much other real life to deal with that my own personal well being had been pushed to the back burner of life. The case in hand was a death, which is also one of the best uses for meditation.
My daily fix of random was also missing. I just took my 15 minutes of brainlessness right here right now in the middle of writing this to to find the example above of needed randomness..........
That is the concoction for 3 hours of sleep or less a day. That is what works for me.
I also hoped that my post could jar some responses that would lead me to some new users to follow. I was blessed with three new users that I had not had the pleasure of really checking out their blogs in full. I had to pick one winner from these three and had to use their responses only to pick and it was one response that made my light bulb click.
The three new users I now follow are:
@littlescribe who I have had some conversations with in chat and have grown fond of. I do hope you find time to write your book again.
@jaichai who has overcome his fears and become a force to be admired and respected, as I am sure his daughter feels the same way
and
@nevies who is doing a fathers job for his little brothers, I applaud you for stepping into that role
And the winner is: @jaichai who's words " I am guilty of feigning an "important msg" to get away from someone now and then. " are what made my mind have clarity. The person I needed to get away from in order to get back my 13th hour is in fact myself.
@jaichai please provide me with a zClassic wallet address outside of bittrex as I am unable to send from bittrex to bittrex.
Every time I get back on here and see what your doing it reminds me of how and when we met, I so appreciate your thoughts. You are one of the good guys, the reason the world hasn't yet been torched!
peace
jax
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Well steemit does have you to thank for bringing me to this wonderful platform. We just have to work this one like the last one and keep opening up everyone's eyes until they "get it". I admit, I do like a good challenge. Thanks Jax!
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Congratulations @jaichai, that was deserving.
Thanks so much @erodedthoughts for organizing something as thoughtful and deep as this. You got us all meditating, man.
Thanks for the follow and the honourable mention, I've followed right back.
Let us all steer clear headed and sober; "steer", mind you, not "stay". Lol.
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Thank you for doing what you do, it is a man who will take on the role of protector and teacher when the calling is needed even within a family. Someone is owed a thank you for how you turned out.
To be honest the post did not start off as a contest, I changed it and added the zClassic a few minutes after posting it. I am very glad I did.
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I love the compliments, thanks.
Nice of you to slip the zclassic in at the 13th hour, man.
👍
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congrats @jaichai . Upvoted your comment as soon as you wrote it. Well deserving. Great idea and very nice @erodedthoughts
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Dude i missed the last post but yes... dude yes having your YOU time is essential! But really?! only 3 hours of sleep a day??!? That's crazy! Youre a saint for all you do in your real life and here in the 'virtual' one!!
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I have what is known as the short sleepers gene so sleep is irrelevant. I am not even tired most nights when I do go to sleep. It allows me a lot of extra family time so it is a blessing to be honest.
A saint? I do not think I have ever be described that way, lol
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To have 10 kids and do everything you do yes.. saint status ;)
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I haven't meditated for many many years, but maybe I should get back to it if that's part of the concoction that allows for just 3 hours of sleep a night. That would give me a 13th, 14th and sometimes 15th hour a day. I'm glad you discovered what has been ailing you and can now get on a path back to normality - as normal as possible with ten kids anyway.
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True meditation is life changing and time in deep meditation is 10x's better than any sleep rhythm one can achieve during sleep.
It's funny, I know a lot of people think we are crazy for ten kids. Since we have been together we have accomplished much together. We own our home, both hold 4 year degrees (will both continue after youngest is 2), own our own home-based business, are on the PTA, kids do sports and still find hours a day to just be together. I think the real key is choosing to find a way to work from home to be with them instead of settling to work for someone else and allowing a daycare to help raise them. We have done all this starting the family at 17 y/o, so anyone can do it if they choose to do so.
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I don't think you're crazy, and if I wasn't already 50 I'd probably be pushing for more kids myself (I have 4). It's funny, but my busiest days are also my most productive typically. It's like you know you have to maximize every minute, and so you do.
Do you have any resources to get started with true meditation? I could use some balance in my life, and I think meditation could certainly help, at least from my experience of decades ago, and from what I've heard from others - and now from you.
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I started with rock stacking as a kid. Did not know what I was doing but it was an easy way to calm the mind, followed by what I thought was a joke "Think of the sound of one hand clapping"
A free resource you can start with is www.zenthinking.net it doesn't state everything but gives you a place to start as well as some thing simple.
http://www.zenthinking.net/blog/a-meditation-the-beautiful-nothingness-that-i-am
I have also found tones easy to help clear the mind as it drowns out other sounds like these found here.
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Awesome, thanks man. Funny you started with stone stacking, I used to do that a bit as well when we lived in Thailand, but only when we went to the beach.
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You could also check out here on Steemit @thereikiforest, reikiart
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Thanks @nevies
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That's a very interesting thought. I used mediation before when I was suffering from depression. Although writing is a better conduit for me but sometimes when I get writer's block I take that moment and empty all thoughts and emotions and lie still, eyes closed and enter nothingness to calm myself down.
Don't get me wrong I love the interactions here in Steemit and I do just random things and click on random topics and random users and it has surprised me.
Have a good day.
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I honestly hate writing and find this site to be a lot of work. I do enjoy it though. It has been an outlet for me that I am not used to. I am normally much more comfortable in a chat type setting than story telling. So I try to work here at least once daily, to work through my discomfort. It is slow going but I am liking the results.
Thanks for checking me out, that's all one can ask for is a chance.
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Really i think you write really well and your thoughts and musings interesting.
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Thank you. My main grip is Grammar Nazi's, like my wife, who reads my stuff and tells me I needed to use all sorts of comma's and semi-colons. I am a big talker so getting something out isn't to hard, making sure everyone else knows what I am talking about is my main issue.
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Lol then you should never meet my Matriarch who taught English and I would never show my blog.
Both of us would get all red marks hahhaha
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I feel for you, lol. Mine is bad enough but it's probably due to me correcting her C words, when she says them, how she was taught as a kid from the city.
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Hahahahahah
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This post has received a 1.36 % upvote from @booster thanks to: @erodedthoughts.
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Jerry, your service sucks and then you beg me for more shit on my post.
lol, 10 steem for a $12 vote. Good times, I was just trying to fix the large votes you had sitting ready to vote on. Bought 1 for me and one for someone else, so somebody didn't get 65% of your vote.
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