Happy Moon’s Day. It’s the 5th night of Yule. This night is sacred to community. A Feast usually done this night with a potluck, mead, friendship bread and gingerbread people. Tonight is about remembering the virtue of Hospitality.
Journal Entry:
It being the last full week of the year, I am thinking about the changes to my routines and goals and so forth. This has really been a very difficult year looking back on it with deep lows and high highs. Nothing really in between was present. I suppose this is going to be a reflective week and I need to watch that. The Grey is still around and being overly focused on the negative can bring that down with more power.
What I want to do this week is have shorter journal entries and put more writing in the bottom part of the stuff on each journal entry to talk about changes and what I am trying to do there. This is the last full week of the year, so it needs to be done.
Honor:
“Honor is the feeling of inner value and worth from which one knows that one is noble of being, and the desire to show respect for this quality when it is found in the world”
Principle – Be positive about my future
I don’t see any need to change the Principle concerning this Virtue. As far as honor goes think more about my future and less about the past. In that sense I feel some sense of value to my wife and family. I feel valued by the co-workers but at the same time the work I do is not something I can or want to do forever. I need something a little more significant from my perspective.
Courage:
“Courage is the bravery to do what is right always.”
Principle – Act with Courage at the right time.
No need to change things here either. Things are working well and I feel more brave and it is going to be needed more and more as this next year starts to unfold.
Truth:
“Truth is the willingness to be honest and to say what one knows to be true and right. It is often better to not say anything at all if one cannot be honest.”
Principle – Pursue knowledge, wisdom and truth at all times.
No need for change here either. I simply need to get better about being truthful with myself and others. Or just keep my mouth shut. Mostly I am just trying to dedicate myself to study more and reading.
Morning Routine:
- Review Nine Noble Virtues (NNV) and Principles
- Meditate on the Virtues
- Review Goals
- Review Bucket List
- Full Body Stretch
- Breakfast
- Supplements and Medicines
- Shower and Personal Hygiene
- Get Dressed for the Day
I already made changes here and this routine is the most solid I have. I really need to make the meditation part a little more formal but the routine itself is solid and works.
Bucket List:
- Go Back to Budapest, Hungary for a vacation.
- Get My Tattoos.
- Actually Get Drunk.
- Smoke a Joint.
- Hike the Northern Lakeshore Trail along the Pictured Rocks National Lakeshore in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan.
- Write My Novel.
- Learn Latin.
- Learn Hungarian.
- Weightlifting – Bench 225 lbs, Squat 315 lbs, and Deadlift 405 lbs.
- Start my own business
One of these things has to come off this list by June 30th. I don’t want to change anything here and perhaps what I do need to do is put a collage picture on the wall with representations of all these things. That should be side by side with one with my goals.
Weightlifting:
The only change needed here is I need a new gym and need to get back into lifting. This will probably happen after the new year or near the end of this one.
The Rabyd Skald – Wandering Soul, Bard and Philosopher. The Grey Wayfarer.
Skaal!!!
The Grey Wayfarer 