http://eric.parthonsoftware.com A journal of personal growth Sun, 14 Feb 2010 10:57:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en So I've been 'gone' for quite a while, seven and a half months in fact. There's so many reasons for it, but the main one was just reaching the end of the path in regards to personal development, at least the absorbing of. I came to the conclusion that the next ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2010/02/14/absence/ What is value? Value is the act of giving another, something that is useful for them that they then don't have to go out and get themselves. That something can be a gift/object, or a deed/action, or even just a kind word. Anything that they value for themselves, is something of ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2009/07/28/creating-value/ I was reading a post, as you do, about flow and just discovered a unity meditation that I had no idea about. I started by picturing a figure, made of light, surrounded by stars, patterns and music. It was rather peaceful and serene. Then all of a sudden, the figure breaks ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2009/02/27/suprising-unity-meditation/ Wow. It's been a long time. I could say I've been busy, or slack, or distracted, but it's really a complicated mess of all these, plus wanting to say something grand, but not sure how. For now though: Personal updates. I stopped polyphasic sleep after day 14. I would follow the pattern for ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2009/02/11/updates-on-things/ Wow, this is hard. One of the hardest things I've done. It's day 5, from when I started, unfortunately I crashed hard on day 3, sleeping through my alarm in the morning for a total of 7 hours. That will set me back, but I'm not sure by how much. Right ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2009/01/16/polyphasic-sleep-day-5/ Polyphasic Sleep that is. Due to circumstances, I find myself with a lot of free time, no fixed schedule, lots of project work to be done and a messed up sleep cycle. So I decided I may as well try out polyphasic sleep. I've wanted to do it since Steve first ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2009/01/13/going-poly/ It's been a hell of a couple of months, that's for sure. Not many of my goals were worked on, but lots of insights discovered and lots of walls broken down. At the same time I've been inspired to play, and create the next year. So here is the list ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2009/01/10/new-year/ So yesterday, I got my exercise done, and I wrote 3000 words in my novel, but I didn't look for a new job. Today I've done none of the above yet, but I'm going bowling later and writing more of the novel. This experiment has been really strange. It's almost like ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2008/11/04/more-ups-and-downs/ Life is full of them! I don't know why I should have thought my new life would be any different. I might have changed, but the world still goes on. I took on drawing and writing, learning french and playing piano. I crashed out quite bad. A few days on each, ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2008/11/03/ups-and-downs/ So I've been doing some thinking about how well my Weekly Beginnings have been going, and the first one was a complete success, but the ones after it haven't been. I've been exercising daily, but I've forgotten about the push-ups. I've started writing a novel but I forget about finding ... http://eric.parthonsoftware.com/2008/10/08/weekly-beginnins-redux/