First work week after Xmas here… Here comes item #1 on my “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
How I Live Now
A Short Personal Manifesto
I choose to live one day at a time, doing the small, ordinary things that make today successful. I eat simply, care for my body, and keep my commitments. I ground myself in stillness and integrity rather than chasing relief, certainty, or spectacle.
I walk forward without needing a guarantee. I build my life on what I can do today, and I stay open to what I cannot predict. I allow opportunities to reveal themselves as I move, knowing that some will matter and some will not—and that this is enough.
I choose character over performance. Service over display. Restraint over spectacle. I do not need to impress to be worthy, and I do not participate in what feels hollow, even when it is socially acceptable.
I let my nervous system learn safety through consistency. I refuse to renegotiate my values based on mood, fear, or fantasy. Improvement is allowed; abandonment is not.
I dream without fixation. I hold hope lightly. I do not turn another person, a future event, or a miracle into the meaning of my life. If love comes, I will meet it honestly and as an equal. If it does not, my life remains coherent, ethical, and mine.
I accept that extraordinary things sometimes happen, and I live in a way that does not require one. I stay open to what I can’t explain, while I build my days on what I can.
I move toward long-term aims—care for my family, service and charity, stewardship of resources—one step at a time, without rushing the ending. I live so that if I were to die today, or years from now, I would know that the truest version of me lived as well as he could at the end.
I walk forward. I keep my integrity. I see what opens. And I let life meet me where I am.
🔝 MUST DO DAILY!
- Sunday, December 28, 2025 = Day #1
- Monday, January 26, 2025 = Day #30.
- NO CHANGES TO MUST DO DAILY TIL DAY #31!!!
- ✅ #01: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 322.8 lbs. = 39.1 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #02: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #03: 🌀 Eat “The Complete Bowl”! (*** Foods: The Complete Bowl , Daily Results: Log Results )
- ✅ #04: 💊 Take Vitamins: (This afternoon!)
- ✅ #05: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! (This afternoon!)
- 🌾 Collagen (2 scoops)
- ✅ #06: 💧 Hydration Target Met (≈ 2L) with (Lemon juice: 6 tablespoons, Apple cider vinegar: 2 tablespoons, Himalayan salt: 1/4 teaspoon, Iodized salt: 1/4 teaspoon)! (Done!)
🔝 DAILY “NICE TO DO”!
- ☐✅ #07: 🧴 Body & Face Care (AM/PM)
- ☐✅ #08: 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
- ☐✅ #09: 🦵 Knee Routine (2-Minutes In-Bed or Desk Routine): <>
- ✅ #10: Record any Nighttime Whispers! (“The Meal That Was Brought”!)
- ☐✅ #11:🔮READ The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <>
- ✅ #12: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: (Kirk & Evie Night & Naps!)
🔝 WEEKLY “NICE TO DO”!
| Day | Focus Area |
|---|---|
| Monday | ✅ 👕 Laundry Day: (Done!) |
| 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: (Done!) |
| 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: <> |
| 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: <> ☐✅🧠 Read Dr. James Doty Book: <> ☐✅ 📕 Read “Little Red Book”: <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen “Maggie Murphy (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen Dr. K videos! <> ☐✅ 📷 Photograph Journals! <> ☐✅ 💻 Recover Hard Drive Data! <> ☐✅ 💻 Manus Software! <> ☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <> |
📋Additional Daily Notes
The day started quietly. Late morning. I was just waking up in Courtenay, BC, drifting in and out of sleep, when a strange dream lingered with me.
In the dream, I was at the White Spot in Courtenay with people who felt like family, though I couldn’t quite place them. Fred Armisen was there — oddly normal, almost background noise. Instead of ordering from a menu, a plate of roadkill was brought to the table. No shock, no reaction. It was simply the meal. Later, the dream shifted to a long desert road that felt Australian — wrong side of the road, unfamiliar rules — and then I woke up.
This evening I was sitting in McDonald’s, drinking a black coffee with Splenda, laptop open. Grinch toys displayed as I picked up my coffee (see photo to the right). Quiet. Peaceful. Watching the ordinary world go by. And I realized something important: this moment felt okay. Not euphoric. Just calm. Regulated.
From there, my thinking shifted away from manifesting and mythology entirely. I started looking at life through probability instead of promise. Clear intentions don’t summon miracles — they change you. They reshape your beliefs, your nervous system, the way you notice the world. When you’re calmer and more aligned, you see opportunities that were always there but invisible when you were tense or desperate.
That led to a deeper question: why do some people seem blessed and others don’t? And the answer, stripped of spiritual language, was uncomfortable but honest — starting conditions, nervous system regulation, randomness, and survivorship bias. Not fairness. Not virtue. Just momentum and chance.
From that clarity came something steadier: contentment as a starting point, not a consolation prize. Stillness as a way to see, not to wait. Small steps in the right direction — health, contribution, balance — without demanding guarantees.
We talked through what an honest life actually means — naming reality accurately, acting from direction instead of outcome, regulating before deciding, allowing small joys without guilt. We laid out a 90-day no-drama roadmap: stabilize the body, clarify the truth, position myself for honest choices.
Then I asked the question that cuts through everything: if bliss were the goal, what actually creates it over time? Not emotion, but ease. Not belief, but inputs. Health, stillness, contribution, competence, openness, reflection — done consistently, not perfectly.
At the end of it all, I wasn’t left with certainty. I was left with something better: orientation.
I finished my coffee.
Closed the laptop.
And planned my next small step.
Not dramatic.
Not mystical.
Just honest.
