Tomorrow’s events:
High Pitch: Conversations in a New Key w/ Bonnitta Roy, Ria Baeck, Ece Utkucan Anderson, Schuyler Brown, and more. November 5th, 12th, 19th, and 26th. 12:00 PM ET. RSVP here.
Shame Breakthrough Bootcamp w/ A.J. Bond. Every Thursday @ 6:00 PM ET. RSVP here. 60 mins.
Newly posted event:
Sensocracy: Heaven or Hell on Earth? w/ Alexander Bard. November 12 @ 10:00 AM ET. RSVP here.
An event to get excited about:
Willow Monastic Academy Launch Party! w/ Jasna Seishin Todorović. November 7th @ 1:30 PM ET. RSVP here.
Jasna returns to The Stoa this Saturday for the launch party of Willow, which is the Canadian branch of The Monastic Academy for the Preservation of Life on Earth.
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November 4, 2020
I am tired at the moment, and my shoulder is sore for some reason, and I have some annoying heart palpitations, probably because I drank way too much caffeine yesterday. All these are dispreferred indifferents, and all of them are opportunities.
Yesterday was fun. We had the “It Is (Maybe) Not the End of the World Election Party,” which started from 7:00 AM and went past 1:30 AM, and all of The Stoa facilitators did a session. This was pretty awesome. Where else will you find a free day long party where all of this badass stuff occurs?
I could not attend all of the events, as I was burned out by the end of the night, but my boy Isaias ensured everything went smoothly. It warms this steward's heart knowing that people are improving their lives by discovering new ideas and practices, while having lots of fun in the discovery.
I posted an event this Sunday called “Getting Senseful With the Steward,” and the intention of this event is for me to get into the right relationship with the sense of community that is forming at The Stoa. I wrote in a previous entry that I do not like the term “community,” and think the sense of community phrasing is more accurate.
There are various relationships at play for me. Beyond the relationships with individuals, there is my relationship with this sense of community that is forming, and there is also my relationship with those supporting me on Patreon. There is also my relationship with those who just read my journals, or just watch the YouTube videos, and the latter often seems pissed at me for having the comments disabled.
I want to get right with all of these relationships. There is also the relationship with the daemon, which is the relationship that brought me here in the first place. My sense is that getting into the right relationship with the daemon serves as a forcing function for me to become virtuous, which in turn gets me into the right relationship with everyone and everything.
I am viewing this project as an opportunity for me to practice my Stoicism, or to put it another way: an opportunity for me to become eudaimonic. I do not view this as a selfish exercise, because getting into the right relationship with the daemon allows one to give their gift to the world, or at least that is my working theory.
The “Stoic Hustle” was the session that launched the election party yesterday, and it is a productivity psychotechnology that I got from the folks at Ultraworking. I view it as a way to get into communitas via getting shit done. It works amazingly well for me, and I did get a lot of shit done yesterday. I got to inbox zero again, and I finally got caught up in all of the administrative tasks at The Stoa.
Something happened after this: a flood of ideas and insights came, and they all felt delicious, and they were all actuatable. Most importantly, they all loudly and clearly said “heaven yeah.” This tells me something: the daemon will flow through me if I am in the right relationship with getting shit done. In order for this to happen, I need to slow down, and not take on more than I can handle.
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+1 for slowing down and taking time to smell the roses, otherwise we will not properly be present with what we have.