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The Empowering Nature Of Willpower Lessons spurred by Cormac McCarthy & Jocko Willink   "But more than one of his friends describes McCarthy as a "chameleon, able to adjust easily to any surroundings and company because he seems so secure in what he will and will not do."   I came across this description of Cormac McCarthy in a 1992 article in New York Times by Richard B. Woodward . The article precedes McCarthy's masterful elegiac Western,  All The Pretty Horses . The novel was his first widely celebrated success and kicked off his Border Trilogy , which to my mind, is one of the greatest trilogies in fiction. The quote shook me. This depiction of the elusive author speaks to the power of self-awareness and the comfort of self-identity.  It says much of the equanimity born of a relationship of trust with oneself brought about by discipline. Ex-Marine turned motivation speaker Jocko Willink's counterintuitive credo,   "DISCIPLINE EQUALS FREEDOM" f...

Happy New Year and welcome to 2018 my fellow AllOnederers. As the symbolic significance of year's transitions entice us into hopeful changes of habit and pursuits of our ideals, this post I've been thinking about seems prime time to share. One of the things I value more than anything is my writing and musical creation craft.  However, our priorities are really expressed through how we spend our time.  As Kristoff Krane expresses with beautiful brevity on his new 2017 release, "Kairos part 1 ": "There's nothing more true than "You Are What You Do" " I often find myself having a difficulty carving out time to simply sit down and work on a recording project or a writing endeavor.  A mix of my own ADHD and codependency (Note: Self-observed and described) implores me to say "YES" to every plan and event offer or request that a friend or family member asks of me.  The trouble is, often I'm thinking in the back of my head ...