To kick off the weekend here comes item #1 on my “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
REMEMBER: The goal is to follow the diet and lose weight for the next month. Focus on that and on having fun! We can resume the building of “Seeds” once this month is over and life has stabilized!
DAILY WIN CONDITION: Complete any 5 items from the daily list. Anything above 5 is bonus.
🔝 SMART PIVOT (MIND)!
- ✅ #01: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 321.2 lbs. = 40.7 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #02: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #03: Record any Nighttime Whispers! <>
- ✅ #04:🔮Daily Practice for the Unified Manifestation System to stabilize your internal state before selling/teaching it! (*** UMS PROGRESS NOTES GO HERE ***): <>
- ✅ #05: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: (Kirk & Evie for night & naps!)
🔝 SMART PIVOT (BODY)!
- ☐✅ #06: 🌀 Eat Only “The Complete Bowl”? (*** The Complete Bowl ***): (Yes/No)
- ☐✅ #07: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! <>
- 🌾 Collagen (2 scoops)
- ✅ #08: 💊 Take Vitamins: (This evening!)
- ☐✅ #09: 🧴 Body & Face Care (AM/PM)
- (AM) Cleanse → “Splash of Water”
- (PM) CeraVe SA Cleanser + CeraVe Renewing SA Cream
- Dove Pro-Retinol 1–2× per day (belly/flanks)
- ☐✅ #10: 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
- ☐✅ #11: 🦵 Knee Routine (2-Minutes In-Bed or Desk Routine): <>
🔝 WEEKLY “NICE TO DO”!
| Day | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Monday | ☐✅ 👕 Laundry Day: <> |
| 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: <> |
| Wednesday | ☐✅ 🥗 Record “Weight Loss” Video: <> ☐✅ 📹 YouTube SHORTS VIDEO Creation: <> |
| Thursday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: <> |
| Friday | ☐✅ 📡 Social Media Posting/Updates: <> |
| Saturday | ✅ 📹 YouTube LONG Video Creation: (Consolidated video for tomorrow’s “Long” video!) |
| Sunday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: <> |
🔝 FUN, FUN, FUN!
| Day | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday Sunday | ☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <> ☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <> ☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <> ☐✅ 🗣️ Learn Tagalog! <> ☐✅🌙 Read Keith Moon Book: <> ☐✅ 🎧 Watch “Maggie Murphy vid. (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Watch Dr. K videos! <> ✅ 🌿 Etc.?: (Looked into Manus Software!) |
📋Additional Daily Notes
I woke up today feeling steady in a way that didn’t feel forced. Not euphoric, not anxious—just calm. That alone felt like a data point worth noticing. For months I’ve been working on resets, systems, and frameworks, and today it felt like something had quietly integrated. I wasn’t trying to fix my life. I was just in it.
After getting up, I went down the hill to “On the Run”, the little burger place attached to the garage at the end of our hill. It’s close to home, familiar, and oddly grounding. I sat inside and ate without rushing. On the table in front of me was my Amazon Fire tablet, open to Into the Magic Shop by Dr. James Doty (see photo to the right). I wasn’t actively studying it so much as letting it be present—ideas about compassion, attention, and the nervous system as a background hum rather than something to wrestle with.
While I was there, I watched a YouTube video by Julia McCoy about AI productivity, and that’s where Manus 1.6 really entered my awareness. She described it as a system that doesn’t just answer questions, but actually does the work—taking a goal, breaking it down, researching it, executing it, and producing something finished. The idea that an AI could compress forty hours of effort into minutes didn’t feel like hype today. It felt like relief.
What struck me wasn’t just the power of the tool, but how well it fit where I am now.
If I were to use Manus, here’s what it could genuinely help me with, in order of importance.
#1) First, and most important, it could turn long-standing ideas into finished artifacts. This has been my biggest bottleneck for years. I think deeply and thoroughly, but finishing costs disproportionate energy. Manus could take my accumulated notes on the AI Diet, Body Whittle, the Unified Manifestation System, or even my charity concept, and produce clean, readable drafts—documents that exist in the real world, not just in my head. That alone would be transformative.
#2) Second, it could compress research into decision-ready briefs. I have a tendency to go deep—Neville, Sinclair, Blue Zones, neuroscience, manifestation frameworks—and while I enjoy the exploration, it can turn into loops. Manus could research a question end-to-end and hand me a concise summary with tradeoffs and recommendations, letting me decide and move on instead of circling endlessly.
#3) Third, it could externalize system-building so it stops living in my nervous system. I’m naturally a systems thinker, but holding systems internally is exhausting. Manus could document workflows, maintain versions, and keep structure outside of me. That would allow me to use systems instead of being them.
#4) Fourth, it could convert decades of journals and conversations into usable material. I’ve written for years—daily logs, reflections, conversations like these. Manus could ingest that material and turn it into summaries, themes, essays, or even book-length narratives without requiring me to re-experience every emotional moment. That’s the difference between memory as weight and memory as resource.
#5) Fifth, it could support the charity vision in concrete ways. The idea of helping in the Philippines feels real, but it needs structure—feasibility studies, phased plans, budgets, and documentation. Manus could handle the research and drafting so the charity moves from intention to credible action.
#6) Sixth, it could reduce decision fatigue. Right now, I’m entering a maintenance phase of my life—weight under control, outlook stable, future-oriented. Manus could absorb the “what’s next?” friction by executing defined tasks without me having to constantly decide how to start.
#7) Seventh, it could accelerate content creation without emotional labor. Blog posts, outlines, summaries, metadata—Manus could draft and refine while I stay in editor mode instead of raw output mode. That feels sustainable.
#8) Eighth, it could act as a second brain for long-term planning. My 30-year plan, legacy thinking, and sequencing instincts could live somewhere external, updated and coherent, instead of looping internally.
#9) Ninth, paradoxically, it could help me stop over-optimizing. When iteration becomes cheap, perfectionism loses its grip. I wouldn’t need to get it right before starting.
#10) And tenth, quietly but importantly, it could give me permission to rest. When progress no longer requires strain, my nervous system can finally believe that things will move forward even when I’m calm.
Later in the day, my daughter and I went for a drive together. We stopped at the Real Canadian Superstore to pick up groceries, then went to Tim Hortons for snacks. We talked, drove, and kept things simple. Then we came home.
Nothing about the day felt dramatic. And that’s the point. The weight work feels steady. The charity feels future-real. Even the AI tools don’t feel like salvation—just infrastructure. I don’t feel the need for a reset anymore. I feel like I’m in a phase of integration.
Neville, Doty, systems, AI—none of it feels like competing belief systems right now. They’re just tools on a shelf I don’t need to keep rearranging. I’m not trying to optimize existence today. I’m just living it, paying attention, and noticing that things feel okay.
And honestly, that may be the most important thing I did all day.
