Murray "MJ" Blehart/Malcolm Bowman

You’re the Protagonist of Your Life Experience It’s incredibly easy to forget that.

Today, I'm sharing this idea.
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#protagonist #mindfulness #pathwalking #life #lifelessons #choices #decisions #woke #awareness #selfawareness #yourstory #lifestory #paths #empowered #empowerment #change #control #you

Don’t Beat Yourself Up When You Lose Focus Because you will lose focus from time to time.

Today, I’m exploring a problem I know lots of people contend with.
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#focus #losefocus #losingfocus #creativity #creative #creatives #creativework #art #arts #artists #writer #writers #beatyourselfup #mindfulness #beherenow #acknowledgement #selfawareness

Right and Wrong Matter Less Than Choices Made When you don’t choose, you cede your power.

Today, I'm exploring why choosing at all is so important.
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#choices #choicesmade #mindfulness #selfawareness #positivity #selfcare #lifelessons #decisions #empowerment #change #control #selfcare #right #wrong #labels #power #beherenow

Your Path Begins Within You, Not Without Only you can choose via your head, heart, and soul

Today, I'm exploring how choices you make come from within, not without.
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#withinyou #choices #decisions #life #pathwalking #mindfulness #paths #beherenow #mindful #selfaware #empowered #empowerment #selfcare #decisions #change #control

Branding, Marketing, and Sales, Oh My! Follow the (hopefully) golden-brick road.

Today, I’m tackling a challenge for professional artist types.
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#branding #marketing #sales #creative #creatives #creativity #writing #writers #art #arts #artists #entrepreneurs #creativework #mindset #turningpro #headspace #approach #authors #work #becreative

You Can Choose to See the Dark or Seek the Light The decision is yours.

Today, I'm sharing an easily overlooked truth.
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#positivity #befor #mindfulness #empower #empowerment #choices #change #awareness #selfawareness #life #fear #resistfear #choose #nontoxicpositivity #takeastand #makeastand #kindness #decisions #you

No Path In Life Is Obstacle-Free Are they obstacles or unique opportunities?

Today, I'm exploring working with and through obstacles on your life path.
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#obstacles #lifepath #Pathwalking #paths #choices #decisions #opportunities #potential #possiblities #lifelessons #selfawareness #empowerment #mindfulness

Why Did The Creative Life Choose Me? Whatever the reason, I’m deeply grateful and exploring that here.

Today, I’m exploring living my creative life.
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#creativelife #creativity #creative #art #arts #artists #creatives #writer #writers #author #authors #storytellere #authorpreneur #entrepreneur #empowerment #mindfulness #choices #selfawareness

Pause And Clear the Schmutz Off Your Glasses A simple act with a deeper meaning.

Today, I'm sharing something simple with a deeper meaning to it.
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#pauseandclear #positivity #mindfulness #nontoxicpositivity #awareness #selfawareness #selfcare #pause #clear #reflect #empowerment #empower #choices #lifelessons #selfcare #beherenow #change

Who Do You Think You Are? No, seriously, who do YOU think you are?

Today, I'm posing an important question for your consideration.
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#whoyouare #whoyouthinkyouare #mindfulness #consciousness #selfawareness #pathwalking #choices #empowerment #selfcare #ego #comfortzone #decisions #mindful #selfcare #notselfish

Forgotten Fodder book 5 cover - Turncoat's Gambit. New novel published 9/30/25

Forgotten Fodder Book 5 goes live today!
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#novel #newnovel #book #books #author #authors #writer #writers #scifi #sciencefiction #forgottenfodder #clones #crime #amwriting #publishing #selfpublishing #authorpreneur #reading #readers

Nothing Lasts Forever That’s more positive than negative.

Today, I'm exploring the positivity in the truth that nothing lasts forever.
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#forever #nothinglastsforever #beherenow #mindfulness #positivity #change #control #choices #decisions #empowerment #selfawareness #you

Why Be Mindful of All the Distractions? When you’re distracted, you become disempowered and cede control of your life.

Today, I'm exploring navigating all the distractions bombarding us.
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#distractions #mindfulness #choices #decisions #empowerment #selfawareness #lifelessons #awareness #woke #awake #aware #Pathwalking #fear #distracted #beherenow

Being Your Authentic Self Is Everything Especially when reconciling who you desire to be.

Today, I’m exploring empowerment from being true to myself.
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#authentic #empowering #empowerment #truth #truetomyself #art #arts #artists #author #authors #writer #writers #writing #choices #creativity #mindfulness #beherenow #clarity #authenticself #life

What Will Today Bring? Applied nontoxic positivity can help answer this question.

Today, I'm exploring a question that provides considerable empowerment.
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#today #mindfulness #choices #decisions #positivity #nontoxicpositivity #change #lifelessons #selfawareness #woke #awake #aware #beherenow #empowerment #selfcare #awareness #you

Why Be For Rather Than Against Things? Because conscious reality creation is a neutral force in and of itself.

Today, I'm sharing something small that can make a big difference.
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#befor #beingfor #choices #decisions #mindfulness #kindness #compassion #empathy #caring #beherenow #selfawareness #pathwalking #for #against #empowerment #reason #fear #empowering #humankind

It’s Okay to Find and Create Joy — Even Now The doom and gloom need pushback.

Today I’m exploring the importance of finding/creating joy, even now.
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#joy #joyful #abundance #creativity #art #arts #artist #artists #writers #writing #creatives #creating #creativity #empowerment #choices #change #doomandgloom #fightfear #beherenow #you

Are You Being Manipulated by Fear More Than You Realize? Unless you’re being actively mindful, the answer is probably yes.

Today, I’m exploring resisting being manipulated by fear.
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#fear #fears #afraid #fearbasedsociety #control #positivity #mindfulness #consciousawareness #life #lifelessons #choices #decisions #selfawareness #beherenow #reason #reasoning #courage #empowerment

Why Can’t You Undo or Redo It? The past has come and gone, and change is the only constant.

Today, I’m exploring a truth that lots of people take issue with.
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#undo #redo #change #choices #mindfulness #selfawareness #present #beherenow #Pathwalking #paths #philosophy #lifelessons #control #changing #mindful #empowerment #power #truth #theuniverse #you

Am I Too Late To the Party? Is it a party or is it something else entirely?

Today, I’m exploring a question I ask myself about authorpreneurship from time to time.
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#writing #writer #writers #author #authors #authorpreneur #authorpreneurship #selfpublishing #creativity #creativework #myprocess #theparty #beherenow #art #artists

Did You Make a Poor Choice? Guess what? You can make a new one now.

Today, I'm exploring one of the big truths of being human.
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#poorchoices #choice #choices #choosing #mindfulness #positivity #nontoxicpositivity #selfawareness #selfcare #lifelessons #awareness #onlyhuman #decisions

Thank you!

Is How You Handle Change Yours to Control? Yes, because nobody else is in your head, heart, or soul.

Today, I'm exploring the aspects of change under our control.
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#change #changing #control #choices #choice #selfawareness #awareness #mindfulness #Pathwalking #paths #selfcare #life #lifelessons #befor #empowerment

Rinse and Repeat: Setting up My Next Book Sharing the process of turning an idea into a published novel.

Today, I’m sharing the work that went into setting up and self-publishing my next book.
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#selfpublishing #publishing #authorpreneur #writing #writer #writers #author #authors #indieauthor #creativity #arts #artists #books #nextbook #marketing #business

Why Do I Keep Promoting Nontoxic Positivity? Because the world doesn’t need more negativity in it.

Today, I'm sharing why I believe in the power of nontoxic positivity.
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#positivity #nontoxicpositivity #choices #decisions #mindfulness #approach #negativity #neutrality #selfcare #selfawareness #subconscious #beherenow #you #empowerment #abundance #mindset

Today is Another Day Here, and That’s Good Each day you have is a new opportunity if you see it that way.

Today, I'm exploring the good of being here, now, for another day. :-)
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#pathwalking #paths #mindfulness #choices #life #lifelessons #selfawareness #anotherday #today #beherenow #empowerment #opportunity #potential #good #bethegood #kickass #takenames

Making Art Is Not Fiddling While the World Burns False equivalencies do nobody any good at all.

Today, I’m exploring why making art is empowering and not selfish, even now.
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#makingart #art #arts #artists #writing #creating #creativity #creators #empowerment #fightfear #reason #falseequivalency #selfawareness #notselfish #mindfulness #change #power #you

The Unknown is Only Scary If You Choose to Be Afraid of It The unknown is not positive or negative; it just is.

Today I'm exploring an important truth of life.
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#unknown #theunknown #fear #mindfulness #positivity #choices #empowerment #power #life #selfawareness #selfcare #fightfear #nofear #decisions #scary #notscary #life #lifelessons #beherenow #you

Storyteller’s Log, 21 August 2025 - MJ Blehart - Author Storyteller’s Log, 21 August 2025. I’ve gotten back into the swing of things, and this week is seeing a lot of progress on my work.

Welcome to my seventh Storyteller's log entry.
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#storyteller #author #authors #writer #writers #creator #creators #creatives #creative #creating #writing #sharing #art #arts #artists #work #working #personalshit #writerslife #amwriting

How Do I Balance My Need to Help with What I Can Actually Do? I need to recognize and accept what I do, don’t, and can’t control.

Today I'm sharing how I'm striving to find balance as a natural helper.
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#balance #mindfulness #pathwalking #paths #life #choices #empowerment #fear #fightfear #reason #empathy #help #helper #helping #guiding #life #selfawareness #woke #mindful #you