Have you ever forgotten a great idea simply because you didn’t write it down? How many great ideas have been lost throughout history because there wasn’t a notepad nearby? What kind of a world would we live in if nobody ever lost a great idea again? Exactly. For a year and a half, I’ve gone…
Travis Webster-Booth is a prose-wielding, personal development maniac with an uncommon spiritual curiosity. Learn more»11 Ways to Make Every Day a “Right Side of the Bed” Day
Everyone knows what it’s like to wake up on the wrong side of the bed. You know those mornings when the first thing you think about is how much the day is going to suck? Or the first thing you hear is somebody complaining in the next room? Maybe you’ve even made a habit out…
Thirty Days of Conscious Thought: An Experiment with the Spiritual Diary
“Just as the gardener cultivates the plot, keeping it free from weeds and cultivating the flowers and fruits which are required, so may we tend the garden of our mind, weeding out all the wrong, useless, and impure thoughts and cultivating toward perfection the flowers and fruits of right, useful, and pure thoughts.” -James Allen,…
The Spiritual Mantra: How to Dramatically Improve the Quality of Your Ideas
Researchers say we have at least 15,000 thoughts every single day (others claim we have several times as many). How many of those thoughts are actually useful, positive or uplifting? I’ll go out on a limb and say, “not many.” In fact, the vast majority of our thinking appears to be repetitive and unproductive. We…
10 Books That Changed My Life
“How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book! The book exists for us perchance which will explain our miracles and reveal new ones.” ~Henry David Thoreau Books can change lives. When read with an open mind, they often do. They present new ideas, and offer…
Early Rising + 2 Hours of Meditation: Days 27, 28 & 29 of 30
Well, as much as I’d love to say that I’ve been going strong on all fronts, I’m afraid shit really hit the fan these past few days with regards to my meditation practice and sleep cycle. Essentially, I’ve been busy with a very exciting ghost writing project in the personal development field, which has had…
Early Rising + 2 Hours of Meditation: Days 26 of 30
Today was a wakeup call: “Travis! You aren’t getting nearly enough sleep! You need to get serious about going to bed between 10 and 10:30.” On this particular occasion, I had stayed up about an hour past my bedtime to see some friends. I paid hard for it, sleeping some 10 hours and waking up…
Early Rising + 2 Hours of Meditation: Days 24 & 25 of 30
Two awesome days of zafu meditation have ensued since I last updated, and that’s been a really great thing. I’ve nailed my early rising routine on both occasions, the only caveat being that after day 24′s meditation…. I promptly got back in bed and caught a few more hours of shut-eye. Oops! At least my…
Early Rising + 2 Hours of Meditation: Days 23 of 30
Day 23 went the way of a recurring issue I’ve been having: I nail the meditation, but am thrown off the early rising by various issues. Today, the problem was technological- some kind of automatic update threw off my alarm, and I didn’t come to until 8 (instead of the intended 5:30). That was particularly…
Early Rising + 2 Hours of Meditation: Days 21 & 22 of 30
Another pair of good and bad days in my quest for habit reinvention, showcasing the immense difficulty in adopting such a rigorous habit that, as my previous posts have demonstrated, is often in conflict with other events and experiences in my life. Day 21 was excellent. I traveled down to CT to visit a friend…
