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Hey everyone, I'm jumping back for a while.

I've been working my a** off for the past 4 months, on hiatus from regular life, living like a monk dedicated to hard work. And it's a good time.

So here's my thoughts on magick from the last few months.

People who believe in something so strongly and act in accordance to what needs to happen, they will achieve it. They walk their vision into reality.

Never let ego get in the way of an opportunity to admit you were wrong and seek to do better. (This is how you grow)

Visualize your goals, the clearer the better, and delineate what it will take to have them. Oh, also, have goals. Specific, measurable ones that you can compare to reality and give an exact grade on how well you're doing compared to that.

Magick is wonderful but ultimately it should be used as a method to create Results, if those be wealth, power, stability, or just inner peace and happiness.

tl;dr
Work hard and take action and you will create magick that the powerful people in this life already use.



Also, I'm not here enough, as I'm sure you've all noticed. So I'm gonna take applications and recommendations as to who to make Captain in my place, so that this place gets the attention and love it deserves.

I think the consensus is that we of the old guard are lazy buggers, except for some diligent brothersuckers *cough*JoshandObscurus*cough*. I always end up asking myself that same question - that if I get pretty good results when I halfass something, where would I be if I really applied myself?

All of this makes me wonder if it's time for a Do Stuff Week.

Oh, and I vote Subrosian, because he doesn't have enough on his plate.

Me? Seriously? I'm probably the laziest person here. I haven't done anything spiritually productive in months. And I don't have all the "real world" responsibilities that you guys have to use an excuse.

I'm having the same problem of getting back into the swing of actually practicing. I find that it's just a lot easier to think than do. Plus I've been working on a different skillset for a few months.

I just can't help but think that perhaps we've all just grown up too much. Life has a way of bringing you down, especially when it comes to the things that we used to discuss all the time.

Between grad school, finding a new place to live, and finding a job, I've had little time...though I did happily go to my first pagan outing ever! Had a blast, did some stuff, and picked up a nifty staff. smile

I'll try and post on here more often as my life allows me to dedicate more time to magic.

I think both of them are ridiculously busy. I know Sub is. Mitsh I hardly ever see or talk to anymore, so it's a good bet with him as well.

I drift in and out, more or less, on a regular basis to check up on the guild. It seems nothing has gone horribly wrong in a fair bit of time, I don't think anything has gone wrong in my time here which essentially started just at the tail of the guild magic war rumor thing. The guild doesn't seem very self-destructive, or if it is it doesn't seem self-destructive enough that moderation is really needed.

My first thought for (Vice-?) Captain was Mitsh, then anyone of a moderator level who somewhat frequently checks the guild. I'm not concerned about having a captain who constantly makes new threads, but if it's essentially the same or a little more active, that seems good if atleast not bad. I can see how fresh-life/energy/activity would be 'a good thing' for this/a guild though, maybe we could develope a department to decide/brain-storm on what to do regarding that. Maybe they'll decide on what to do for advertising and or getting new blood to join, or whatever else they deem necessary.

S.M.A.R.T. Goal Setting: A Surefire Way To Achieve Your Goals

I home school my kids. These days my goals are more on the lines of, "get The Boy through Math without him wasting half an hour alternately complaining and staring out the window." Or "convince La Princesa that she can in fact go to the bathroom on her own while I administer a Spelling Test for The Boy."

I guess with hermetic magic it's a little more reasonable to set quantitative goals, but mostly with what I do a "concrete" goal would look something like: "increase the number of lucky coincidences per day." Which, really, is there a way to determine accidents NOT had? Fair enough, I am branching out into semi-shamanic work with horses, which is a bit more quantitative (are they better-behaved afterward or not?). But there are a lot of variables there I don't have control over, too, and can't rule out as a possible greater influence than my work.

Oh yeah, and make Mitsh be Captain. Ya see that, Mitsh? I just tossed you right into the wood-chipper there, didn't I?

I think the fact that I have had yet to post on this thread and haven't been posting in general shows how capable I am for such a position.