I leave today for a week-long solitary retreat. 

 I'll post about it when I get back.

I'm currently doing the experiment of focusing my work toward manifesting my life purpose. Basically, this experiment is a summary of all the media on success I've studied. I have noticed significant healthy shifts in my thought and emotional patterns since beginning this study on reality. However, it's important to have a plan on how to deal with self-induced stress.

Patience is likely the most important element in manifesting our potential. Without patience, we quickly become overwhelmed with doubt, fear, and anxiety that disguise themselves as motivation to hurry up and make "it" happen. The deeper truth is that "its" always happen in their own time. This insight is important to keep in the fore-mind; otherwise, we start slugging coffee and speed up our already anxiety-ridden through. Then we make an important phone call resulting only in spreading more speedy anxiety around the world. Usually, these calls don't end the way they were visualized.

We have to ask ourselves how acting this way is really living from our purpose? The answer is NO.

There is another method to serve as an alternative to sitting at our desks two shades shy of a panic attack. Take plenty of breaks that are intended to reduce stress and return to our commitment of living from while manifesting our purpose. For me, these breaks include a steady jog around the lake, sitting meditation, journaling, making a list of what's going right about today, listening to my favorite song, and writing my wife a love letter.

Meanwhile, I come back to "work" and do an hour of research, make an important phone call, or write an email all from a relaxed and mostly positive place.