Think It, Say It, Plan it, Realize It

I decided to rent a car in Kauai, it was our first stop on land.  The ship skipped Maui as early on the cruise, we had to retreat as a passenger became Ill and needed to be evacuated by helicopter.  I drove through the country side en route to a blow hole.  The ride was more interesting than the destination and I took some amazing pictures of the interior of the Island.  When I arrived back on ship I was hungry, grabbed some food and sat at the bar on the back of the ship.  There was an empty stool at the bar and guy around my age, who I had bumped into a few times sat down.  Long story short, he is a life coach and lives in LA.  He is a cruise enthusiast like myself.  He took me to a place on the back of the ship, right below where we were and told me this is where he meditated.  See the photos!   I told him about how it was life coach I had a few years ago, helped me decide to take this trip.  I was reading a couple of interesting books, one was the "The Four Hour Work Week" by Timothy Ferris.   This is a great book on how to manage your time and life in a more efficient and fulfilling way.  One of the suggestions is to take mini retirements when you are young.  The point is to enjoy travel and have it part of your life, rather than to do it at the end of your life.  The other book I was reading was called "How To Be Idle" and the premise was how to cultivate and use idle time.   This philosophy goes against standard American norms of working and being involved in activities.  It extols the virtues of rest, hanging out, conversing, having tea (I already did that one) and meditation. 

On that note, I explained to Bryan, the life coach that I just met that I had lost the capacity to meditate.  His response was, in true life coaching speak, "You say you have lost it, if you keep thinking this then you will have lost it."  I told him that I thought this type of positive speaking was hokey but I would entertain the idea.  He mentioned that what you think and what you say become what is.  We talked about books a bit and I had mentioned I brought with me the "Artist Way,"  he said that he wrote morning pages (basically 3 pages of free flow thoughts in the morning that are a tenet of the book).  As the sunset on Kauai, I realized that I thought about this trip, wrote it down in my morning pages, I talked about it, I planned it and now I had realized it.

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