The Round Year

Category: Patterns

Do What Matters

Every time you put effort and energy into a task, ask yourself: ‘What will this accomplish?’ It doesn’t make much difference whether your endeavor was useful, financially rewarding or simply meant to entertain: whenever you engage in an activity that ...

Protect Your Peace

December 28, 2024

We waste untold amounts of time and energy on things of no consequence. We don’t see that in the present, as the situations always present themselves as urgent, critical, and dire. Very few tasks are truly urgent and most things ...

Voices of the Past

Who are we, without even knowing it? How many people speak with our voices, think with our minds, quietly guide our beliefs and our actions? If we dig a little deeper into our identity, we’re likely to find our parents’ ...

Action and Reaction

February 22, 2024

In physics, every action has an equal and opposite reaction; the same applies to the realm of the mind. Every thought you nurture, especially profound beliefs and openly expressed convictions, will create both its intended result and its conceptual opposite, ...

About Focus

January 7, 2024

Focus is the ability to ignore all signals save one. Your mental capacity stays unchanged, but it’s solely focused on one objective. Focus runs on emotions and excitement, not willpower. If you need to force yourself to pay attention, your ...

Honor Your Gift

December 29, 2023

Those born with exceptional traits often remain unaware of them until adulthood, as we tend to take our own mental and physical capabilities for granted and assume everyone else is the same. What is a gift? It is an innate ...

Child Themes

Intent is not precise, nor is it linear, it loosely aims for the direction you plan while bringing about many echoes, counterpoints, and unintended results. Their effects continue long after the flame of their original intent has died out, often ...

Don’t Tell Me What I Think

Maintaining control over your mind when the latter is challenged in the battle of influences, inducements and restrictions we call daily life is a critical survival skill. People fight to win this battle because they don’t understand eliminating mental spam ...

Our Inner Worlds

Where are you right now? You may think you are at home, tending to mundane activities, but part of you is still at work, unable to let go of the problem you’re trying to solve, at the beach, dreaming of ...

Earning It

February 14, 2023

Understanding is a tough mistress who makes you deserve her favor: it demands focus, effort, humility, time and patience. Whether gained through years of painstaking trial and error or learned from other people’s experiences, there is no shortcut to knowledge. ...

Reality Talks Back

February 9, 2023

We call them omens, signs, kismet, synchronicities, and they simultaneously hearten and distress us, because they dismantle our illusion reality is random. We call it God’s will and surrender to it, or fate, and fight it at every turn, proud ...

Living Ritual

February 9, 2023

What is a ritual? Any activity which carries or can carry symbolic meaning. Rituals appeal to our desire for recognizable patterns, our need to place ourselves into a familiar frame of reference that connects past, present and future and inside ...