The Weekly Vitamin with S.A. Thomas: Wall Street Wisdom & Staten Island Stories 3.2.25 - Blog Post
- Steven Thomas
- Mar 2
- 5 min read
Updated: Apr 14
From the Desk of a Wall Street Moron
Quote of the Week: Consciousness is an end in itself. We torture ourselves getting somewhere, and when we get there it is nowhere, for there is nowhere to get to.
- D. H. Lawrence
Haiku Of the Moment:
Karmic Penny Bank
Rolled Over and Then Under
Covered in Savings
Song Of the Week: Too Long - Daft Punk
A Meditative Start:
Can you feel it? At last the long wait is over, the weight is off my shoulders… As Daft Punk’s final song on their early aughts ‘Discovery Album’ croons, the times are changing. Maybe you’ve started to feel that energy bubbling up again, as the heaviness of the deep winter starts to thaw and the earth begins to shake off its yearly slumber. Perhaps you are in tune with this awakening, but for most of us, excess energy can be quite alarming. Energy is not good or bad, it just is. This week the team is taking some time to feel the feels, as they say. Waking up is wonderful as the opposite can be devastating (or is it- wrong topic S.A.) Well, it is wonderful, and again, that’s neither good nor bad- say it with me, it just is. Judgement brings expectations, and those wittle tings can be very dangerous for the psyche. As a Father, Husband, Wall Streeter, AND, Creative- it seems impossible not to have expect-ations. Yet I do. Constantly. When I become aware of them it gives me the opportunity to adjust my perspective. This weeks’ meditation , for those working along at home, is to check on those expectations. Are they in-line with your current reality? Do some adjustments need to be made? Either your actions or your thoughts likely could use a hug. We do not have to be victims to the onslaught of information that attacks us as soon as we open our eyes- unless that is a gorgeous 11 month old baby crying “da-da” because we get to love that creation- but please let me sleep child. Regardless of what is grabbing onto your leg (hey phone, leave me alone), creating (there’s that darn word again) space to just sit with it is one of the many medicines you can take for yourself. Its been TOO LONG and the bath of Discovery awaits us all. Maybe you want to be Harder , Better, Faster, Stronger, like Superheroes, flying through the air with Aerodynamics like the Crescendolls with Nightvision. Nobody wants to Short Circuit and we are all Voyagers looking Face to Face and realizing, there’s Something About Us. And here we are, waking up and getting to do it One More Time. My , Mind is set is set so free, to get the best of me… Can you feel it ?
Pro -just the- Tips:
Give yourself a hug- internally or externally- like the one handed clap, it still vibrates loudly .
Energy is neither good nor bad- it just is. The power is in perspective.
Money doesn’t sleep, but you aren’t made of money- so sleep – rest- recover
Being ON TIME costs nothing and yields EVERYTHING. PAY attention to that.
Real Talk:
Attachments. We get them on emails. We get them in text messages. We get them inside of menus. They are all over. Considering those attachments is a pre-requisite to success in any field. What are you attached to? Lets start simple. Your name. You are pretty attached to that I assume? So attached I would say, that if someone started calling you by another, you may get angry. Its Steve with a V , not a PH, thank you very much. No, my name is not Thomas, even though Outlook switches it and it looks like Thomas, Steven on your end. Clearly my email signature lays that out. Sheesh! What a simple attachment, a name, that emotionally can cause feelings within. Remember we weren’t born with names, we got attached (given) to them pretty early on though. What’s even more of an early attachment? The Breath. We are VERY attached to that, from that first cry, and that remains until our last gasp. If it gets hard to breathe, whether its because you are physically being choked or maybe just mentally, you are going to have an emotional survival type of response. Probably worth it – if you want to live. Those two examples of very basic attachments spread across reality. If you leave this planet, I may have an attachment to your name as well. I may feel something (hopefully grief and hopefully I can let that go) but nonetheless, feel it. Can you feel it? Real Talk for this week is to think about the simple and the complex attachments. Be-coming aware, is how we Be-gin to wake up.
Mental Health Moment:
This week, just a poem on attachment as I try to practice what I preach:
My attachments-
to the results
render me
illogical an
d emotional.
Release is the prescription and meditation the medication.
Where does attachment
end,
and nothingness begin?
It's too late to be too early,
and sometimes one wants pancakes for dinner.
Hunger is attached
to Desire, as wood is attached
to the fire.
Was this the agency of the tree,
or attachment
to its roots?
Uniquely unspecial and routinely respectful,
strung together
from dust on the counter.
Act in accord to the dance, and accept the arrival.
The fortunate fate of the father,
or mother,
or awareness of faith,
and the magic-
hidden.
In plain sight my attachment
stares, I trip on some stairs, this illusory experience "is" not fair.
It is not white.
It is not black.
It's smudged into existence, by agreement.
Agreements adapt.
Energy in motion and logic themselves are my attachments
and without them ...
…I wouldn't know...
Attitude of Gratitude: Today, I am grateful that I have figured out a way to consistently get to the gym. Physical fitness has for TOO LONG (sorry I’m not sorry) evaded me and moved down on the priority list to some other responsibilities. But I have to eat that elephant, one bite at a time. Going to sleep earlier and getting to the gym before work seems to be a game changer that I am so grateful to have found. A very special trainer at Ageless Bull Athletics who is as dedicated to me as I am to myself makes all the difference. Miles of Gratitude for those who make a stand for others to be their best. What a choice to make.
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