All I am grateful for

In a Nutshell

Spiritual

• Presence, Surrender, Spaciousness
• Spirituality, Self-realisation
• Meaning, Purpose, Vision
• Love, connection, wonder, beauty, sacredness, oneness

Abundance, Health, Freedom

• Abundance: Rental, dividends, RA, donations, gifts
• Health & Vitality
• Freedom (time, wealth)
• Energy (dex)

Love & Connection

• Family
• Friends (old friends, hiking, spirituality)
• Mack and Liza
• Ally in my life
• Dani, Lizzy, Shona, Nicky, Caroline
• Humour

Home

• House, balcony, plants, 3 rooms, partition
• Waverton, Sydney, Australia
• Cape Town, South Africa

Wisdom & Insight

• My job: a treasure hunt for truth
• Wisdom: Wisdom Trove, Life is God's movie
• Compass
• The Internet, Chat GPT, Macbook Pro, Evernote, Wordpress
• Reading

Wonder & Beauty

• Nature, wildness, wildlife, animals, birds, plants
• Hiking, camping, hiking friends
• Travel
• Photography, Canon R5, iPhone
• Life Trove, Wonder Trove

Pleasure

• Movies & documentaries
• Music
• Food

Grateful for

• Priceless Moments
• Priceless things

The ultimate dream lifestyle

• Far better than “About a Boy"
• Mobile life with gadgets (coffee shops, digital nomad)
• A treasure hunt for truth. Imagine how much great philosophers would give to do this!
• My business is the holy grail of quotations and wisdom
• Plenty of travel and photography, adding to my blog
• Great sense of purpose, building a legacy
• Time to devote to spiritual connection and purpose
• Free of corporate stress, time free
• No dependents
• My job a treasure hunt for truth and the possibility to make a dent in the universe (real difference)
• Immersing myself in genius

Most people

• Work under high pressure to deliver to high standards in little time
• To enrich others (mostly) or create legacies for others (if lucky)
• Commute 1 hour plus per day into work
• Work is often unmotivated
• Got mortgages to pay
• Worried about losing job

Living now in history

• Age of internet - wisdom accessible
• Age of oneness to wisdom (Eastern spirituality)
• We are living through the most exciting, challenging and most critical time in human history. 
• Never before has so much been possible; and never before has so much been at stake.  Peter Russell
• No world wars
• Good medical
• Technology revolution: digital age
• Still wild places, nature
• Movies
• Digital photography
• Unlimited movies and series to download - constantly replenished.

I'm not 

• I'm not in the midst of severe depression and despair 
• I'm not in the midst of severe anxiety and overwhelm 
• I'm not in constant emotional pain 
• I'm not in constant physical pain 
• I'm not desperately ill or have a desperately ill loved one 
• I'm not in acute grief, having lost or about to lose a child or loved one 
• I'm not having to worry if my money's going to last till the end of the month 
• I'm not wondering where my next meal's coming from - or for my loved ones 
• I'm not living in a slum or on the street 
• I don't have a life to look back on where I didn't experience anything or have no- one love me 
• I'm not trapped in a mindless, boring, repetitive job 
• I'm not stuck in a gruelling job that sucks up all my time and energy or requires a long commute 
• I'm not stuck with dependents who need or require me to constantly earn and support. 
• I'm not drowning in debt 
• I'm not stuck in a mindset that sees no meaning or purpose to life 
• I not without the use of my limbs, sight, hearing 
• I'm not addicted to alcohol or hard drugs 
• I'm not being horribly exploited by others 
• I'm not uneducated and illiterate 
• I'm not physically or mentally disabled 
• I'm not trapped in a loveless, abusive, unkind relationship 
• I didn't have an abusive, unkind upbringing 
• I'm not obese, short or physically unattractive. 
• I'm not living in the midst of war and violence 
• I'm not living in an opresssive country where I have no human rights 
• I don't live in a brutish, violent, oppressive time in history.  The Goldilocks era of internet and abundance. 

Momentous things

• Volvo
• Shirley: “Seven Principles of Spiritual Success”
• Rosemarie: “Conversations with God.”
• Nerium
• Jilly on Internet
• Cosgrove: Dex
• Chris advise for DIY
• Yogi with bipolar
• Sue Apple
• Entheos

Freedom

• I'm free to do what I want, go where I want, pursue my passions and purpose. 
• Freedom of money and time.
• Freedom to do what I love and be fully alive: create, hiking, nature, photography, tennis, movies, growth, spirituality, travel 

Safe from harm

• Nose at Silvermine
• DIY accidents
• Hawkesbury jump
• Mania suicide and foot stab. 
• Car step into
• Mack and car
• Mack’s leg in car, Mack crossing roads

House 

• Amazing house, maintained, with great balcony right on park that brings me income. 
• Proud of house again - ability to fix it up.
• My balcony, and all the plants
• Wonderful balcony, right on park, amazing area with beautiful walks
• Able to keep despite divorce
• Mum's generosity
• Rental income - extra room
• Increasing in value
• Did it up, no car needed, and $70K in the bank
• Didn’t put money in shares (huge crash)

Sydney and Waverton

• Botanica
• Yogi, Jilly, Chris, Aimee
• Ball’s Head, Berry Island
• Nightjars, possums 
• Brennan Park

Spirit 

• Meaning and purpose in my life
• No longer at mercy of thoughts
• The experience of self realisation, love, so deep, so vast, all there is. The lottery.
• Getting to witness the transformative power of love in my life as my love grows. 
• Ability to let go through yawning, feeling, crying, stretching. 
• The experience of Wonder.
• Music - and the ability to cry and feel love.
• Revelations
• Awakening to Consciousness and the growing peace of Being and Letting Go (revelation, creativity, love, joy, inspiration) 
• Eckhart Tolle, Nic, Geraldine, Mooji
• My enlightened experience
• My awakening spirituality - realising Who I Am and my Completeness 
• Increasingly opening as a space for consciousness. 
• Learned to create inner calmness (meditation, yawning, crying, stretching) 
• Music - an expression of divine essence.  So, so beautiful. 
• Getting in touch with my emotions and allowing them to release and flow 
• The power of reflection, The Work
• Deep, deep priceless spiritual experiences that give me faith the power of Essence is real. 
• Trust and surrender to Life 
• My wonder in nature and the universe 
• Mindfulness and Eckhart Tolle 
• My pain - and the awakening it has brought 
• Jilly coming into my life (bringing HAI, Geraldine, Eckhart, Nic) 
• The taste of "being awake" in action (telling mum & Jo and Sue I loved them, calmness over Xmas, stillness on drives and walking) 
• Alexander technique at a young age - calmness, letting go, going with the journey, grasping 
• Spiritual mania and the movie experience
• Bliss and heart orgasm

Compass

• Mood charts
• Life in summary
• Progress
• Evernote
• How has helped Wisdom Trove

Transformation

• My potential to grow, evolve, transcend.  I'm on an adventure of transformation and evolution, only just tipped surface. 
• How I've grown in love.

My skills

• Awareness
• Synthesis
• Wordpress
• Writing
• IT
• Personal development
• Photography
• Revelations re life and existence
• Life wisdom

Wisdom Trove 

• Wisdom Trove - enjoyment, learning, potential for abundance, work from wherever, make family proud.
• The joy of it and all I've learned 
• The Ultimate Experience
• An idea for a business that has countless hours invested and something I love. 
• Joy of synthesis and quotes 
• Time and freedom to work on it
• What makes it possible: computer, internet, mindmanager, wisdom, people who share it, my passion, my synthesis ability, Dex, income
• The time I've had to collect wisdom, reflect on it, practice it - priceless gift. 
• The skeletons of it were not stolen with my computer 
• If you'd told me re this when I was 22, I'd have been ecstatic. 
• Yes, I spend lots of time on it - but no more than if I was working for someone. It's time I love, no commute, life lessons galore. 
• The best is yet to come - the distilling. 

Love and social

• Connecting with people, exploring, laughing, sharing. 
• The wonderful fellow beings in my life.
• I have a loving and generous family 
• Meet Up and hiking - and the social life it opens up. 
• Relationship with wonderful Jo
• Jo, Mum, Mike, Matt, Sam, Antony
• Jilly, Sue, Brendan, Russell, Andreas, Srini
• Mack with Liza 
• Grandparents 
• Ally in my life:  17 years of a loving partner 
• My family sections on blog - help me to love and remember loved ones. 
• Letters to loved ones 
• Generosity of mum 

Appearance 

• Being tall and happy with way I look 
• Teeth capped by dentist. 
• Still got hair and look ok without. 
• Physique

Passions 

• Wisdom Trove 
• Nature, walking 
• Spirituality, growth 
• Reading 
• Photography  
• Joy of movies 
• Mindmapping 
• Blogging. 
• Tennis

Life Trove

• A full life lived and recorded despite pain
• My blog - sense of purpose for many years. 
• My blog did not lose its photos. 

My abundance 

• I have a great house - close to city, beautiful area, rentable, allows dogs, next to park -  that generates an income 
• Money lasting with good income 
• My health 
• I live in a top 3 city and my family does too 
• Powerful strengths and skills (passion, synthesis, writing, presenting, html, Internet, focus) 
• Some money when I retire 
• Generosity of mum (house, furniture, DIY, Cape Town trips)
• Jo's wealth R15 mil.  I've caught up! 
• Moved money to Australia to earn income 
• Inheritance from Grandpa 
• Top 5% of wealthiest nation on earth 
• Abundance of time 

Financial 

• My financial abundance. Top 5% wealthiest of richest nation on earth. No dependents, house paid for, rent, dividend income. Freedom. 
• Bank balance healthy 
• $ 1000 + per month dividends
• Mum's amazing generosity
• Got through Ally finances and tax issue in tact 
• The investments I sold for Ally were at a good level 
• House and e-trade in Australia before $ Aud powered ahead
• I moved money to Australia at 72 cents  
• I moved money to Australia to earn income - it changed my life 
• Consider Yogi, Chris, Nerium
• I didn't get a mortgage and put money in stockmarket
• Some car accidents closely averted (Porsche, lane swap, hold back) 
• RA (60K) plus mum’s loans

Rich past experiences 

• Lived a life rich in experiences (travel and living in different places) 
• Lived a full life despite depression - many experiences 
• Volvo and Cambridge, tourleading, Nepal, 1997, South America 
• I have experienced hell and survived every time! And lived a very full life in beween. Just look at the blog. 
• A for Celta & Matric 
• Ally came into my life and enticed me overseas 
• Finances pushed me overseas and tourleading 

When I needed it most 

• Volvo 
• Tour leading job  
• Pill 
• Liza coming into Mack's life 
• Teaching got me going again 
• Meeting Ally 
• Meet Up 
• Jilly 
• Brian Johnson Entheos 
• Mindmanager 
• Conversations with God 
• Seven Laws of Spiritual Success 

Health 

• I'm healthy, my body gives me freedom to do what I want. 
• Physical health has been so good. 
• No arthritis. 
• Wrist been fine. 
• My shoulder is fine - even for tennis 
• My wrist ok with tennis. 
• Shimmering sight - I thought I was going blind! 
• No cancer in family 
• Feet not effecting me

Dex

• Coming when I needed it. 
• Life without double pill is fine 
• Spreading pill over day made all difference in the world 
• Life without double pill absolutely fine when relaxed (holiday) 

Possessions

• Macbook Pro,  iPhone,  iPad pro
• Speakers
• Headphones
• House
• Kindle 
• GPS 
• i-Phone lost in rain, new iPhone, Mac
• Sue getting Mac
• Camera and lenses

Thank goodness 

• Discovered re divorce financial when strong. 
• Financials with Ally went ok, and she got what she thought was fair - and I feel all right about it. 
• Wisdom Trove wasn't stolen - or my photos (backup and not taken) 
• No pregancies (Ally, Niki, Dani) 
• I did not write ugly on class register 
• Shoplifting - got away with it!! 
• Discovered my memory card was corrupt before Kruger 
• Mack not shut in car door or run over 
• I didn't hit rock in Hawkesbury leap 
• I didn't get run over. 
• Dani has period 5 days late!!!  Oh my God, so glad I didn't know.  Thank you. 

Pain 

• Pain, when it comes, only seems to last for day or two.
• I'm not in the midst of intense suffering like I have been. 
• My pain - lead me to essence, being, awakening, amazing insights to my egoic conditioning 
• The release of crying - being able to cry at last. 
• My agitation is a huge blessing.  It's forcing me to practice calmness and letting go. 
• The opportunity to observe myself in pain and learn 

Sex 

• Has been good for most of my adult life including prime years. 
• Didn't get anyone pregnant. 
• Nothing physically wrong. 
• Dani didn't break up early on. 
• Dani and I ended on a relative high.  
• Xanax, hold base. 
• Testosterone high