Welcome to Day #1 of my Daniel Day-Lewis Experiment! Having said that, item #1 on my “ToDo List” also welcomes you: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
🔝 DAILY CORE PRIORITY PILLARS (“Nice To Do”)
For the next 30+ days I will be doing the “Daniel Day-Lewis Experiment” (and keeping notes here)! Having said that, I do want to keep some physical and mental exercises core to each day, outside of this experiment. Here they are:
Physical ToDo’s:
- ✅ #01: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 314.6 lbs. = 47.3 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #02: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title (Down More Each Day)!
- ☐✅ #03: 🌾 Metamucil: (3 servings/day): <>
- ✅ #04: 💊 Take Vitamins: (11:50 pm)
- Progressive Multi Men 50+ (one capsule)
- Silica + Biotin Supplement (one capsule)
- Omega-3 (1000–2000 mg/day) (one capsule)
- Resveratrol (two capsules)
- ✅ #05:💧 Collagen Supplement: (11:52 pm!)
- Every day – 10g collagen (2 scoops in 1 cup water)
- ☐✅ #06:🧴 Face Moisturizer Routine: <>
- (AM) Cleanse → “Splash of Water”
- (PM) Cleanse → CeraVe SA Cleanser
- (PM) Moisturize → CeraVe Renewing SA Cream
- ✅ #07:🧴 Dove Pro-Retinol + Firming Cream: (11:56 pm!)
- Daily (1–2 times per day)
- Once in the morning after shower (most important)
- Optional second application at night, especially on belly/flanks
- Use every day even on non-brushing days for consistency
- ☐✅ #8: 🫗 DRINK ? cups of water each day! (To Drink:💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧) ==> (Drank: 💧💧)
Mental & Ritual ToDo’s:
- ✅ #09: 🧠 Work with ‘ChatGPT‘ for Understanding (CustomChat1978,fsTsECWDdOLUdtPeR)! (Yes!)
🔝 WEEKLY CORE PRIORITY PILLARS (“Nice To Do” Daily)
| Day | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Monday | ☐✅ 🪥 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <> |
| Tuesday | ☐✅ 🚿 Shampoo + Conditioner Routine — Aussie Miracle Moist Shampoo for 30–60 seconds, rinse, then apply Being BIG HAIR Volumizing Conditioner to mid-lengths and ends for 2–3 minutes before rinsing cool. <> ☐✅ 👕 Laundry Day: <> |
| Wednesday | ☐✅ 🪥 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <> ☐✅ 🥗 Record “Weight Loss” Video: <> ☐✅ 📹 YouTube SHORTS VIDEO Creation |
| Thursday | ✅ 📹 YouTube SHORTS Upload @ 5:45 PM (Calm Goose Spit “Short” Uploaded!) |
| Friday | ☐✅ 🪥 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <> ☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG VIDEO Creation |
| Saturday | ☐✅ 🚿 Shampoo + Conditioner Routine — Aussie Miracle Moist Shampoo for 30–60 seconds, rinse, then apply Being BIG HAIR Volumizing Conditioner to mid-lengths and ends for 2–3 minutes before rinsing cool. <> ☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG VIDEO Creation (If Needed) |
| Sunday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG VIDEO Upload @ 5:45 PM |
📋Additional Daily Notes
I woke up slow today, body heavy from the COVID shot a few days back. The soreness in my arm has faded, but the fatigue hung on like a gentle reminder to stay still. The sky outside was gray, rain streaking the window, the kind of weather that says, don’t rush anything. I decided to take that as my cue.
Today marks Day 1 of my 30-Day Daniel Day-Lewis Experiment — my commitment to live, as fully as I can, in the identity of the man I’ve been becoming. Not acting, not pretending, but inhabiting. The word I drew for the day was Presence, and it turned out to be prophetic. My body didn’t want motion; it wanted awareness. Even getting out of bed felt like a scene shot in slow motion.
By late afternoon I logged my core rituals: weighed in at 314.6 lbs — down 47.3 from the start of this long road — took my vitamins, collagen, and evening skin routine. I noted the times in my tracker, not out of compulsion but as continuity; these habits are the scaffolding that keeps the character upright.
The rain kept falling, so I stayed in, editing a few lines for this log. Eventually I decided to honor a simple impulse: coffee. I drove to the McDonald’s (see photo to the right) near Thrifty Foods on Ryan Road, reciting the mantra as I opened the door — “Today I live from the end. I’m already him.” Right then, a gust of wind and a spill from the roof drenched my hair. Baptism by drizzle.
Inside, I chose to pay in cash — a Loonie and a nickel from my car instead of the usual tap. Brennan, a new kid at the counter, handled the order. I joked that he’d moved “to the Big Smoke now.” We talked briefly about the wild Cliff Street location, then he dashed to the back and a manager handed me my coffee. I found a seat, still damp, Kindle and notebook on the table.
No drama tonight — no coincidences, no mysterious signs, no Evie walking through the door. Just teenage boys at nearby booths, fryer noise, and the hiss of rain outside. Yet, as I sat there with my small coffee and one of my homemade oatmeal-squash cookies, I realized that’s the lesson: the Calm Multimillionaire doesn’t wait for magic; he rests inside it. The miracle is the quiet itself.
Later, scrolling YouTube, I drifted into Neville Goddard and Tim Grimes videos — the perfect bridge between imagination and relaxation. Grimes’ words landed: “The more relaxed we are in life, the more good stuff comes to us.” That feels like the secret these thirty days are meant to uncover.
Outer Scene: McDonald’s lights on wet pavement, steam from a paper cup, the sound of traffic fading in rain.
Inner Scene: Presence over performance. Calm wealth, quiet certainty. The man who has already arrived, sipping coffee while the world hums gently around him.
