Day four of the new year and I’m rounding Cape Horn into a lovely, calmer sea. Every new year I round into an undiscovered ocean, a place uncharted and wide, with a coastline at the port side of the ship running north into expected warmer climes. Deep ocean swells lift the ship with energies from far to the north-west, crashing in heavy breakers and surf onto the beach a mile away. Sometimes there are favorable winds blowing offshore and up along the land, wind pushing out to sea and towards the equator of mid-year, a place I know I’ll get to should I avoid shipwreck, scurvy or disease. Someday, a year from now, I’ll round another Cape Horn into some other new year sea. But ’till then, there’s good and necessarily sailing in this year’s sea, and time to stay on deck, work hard, and enjoy this chance again to sail another day.
The Good Life Meditation is my daily recitation and reminder of personal objectives and principles used in pursuit of a purposeful life in spite of a universe of seeming indifference. Learn more about The Good Life at my website GoingAlone.org or by reading my book Going Alone. And visit our Discord at: https://lnkd.in/gFgfGmY6
OBJECTIVES: 1. Be Always Ready to Die 2. Make Good Use of Time and Resources 3. Develop Good and Sound Life Principles 4. Cultivate Good Emotional Reactions 5. Perform Good Actions 6. Recognize True Limits and Opportunity 7. One Thing Slowly
PRINCIPLES: 1. Principle of War 2. Principle of Reason 3. Homunculus 4. Anchorhold 5. Home of Good and Evil 6. Principle of Purpose 7. Atomic Principle 8. Principle of Nature 9. The Pirate Ride 10. Principle of Maturity 11. Social Principle 12. Public Speaking 13. Temperance 14. Life Will Not Go Well 15. The Horror Show 16. That Which Must Be Borne 17. The Feast of Offal 18. Distraction 19. Agency and The Great Indifference 20. The Best Seat in the House 21. The Restless Man 22. The Path of Wildness 23. The Great Life Adventure 24. The Risk of Avoiding Risk 25. Sin and Damnation 26. Complete Oblivion 27. The Season of Philosophy 28. Bullseye Aim 29. The Uphill Climb 30. Arena and Utility 31. Nothing IS enough 32. The Principle of Fun
My name is Kurt Bell.
You can learn more about The Good Life in my book Going Alone.
Be safe... But not too safe.