It’s another work week and 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, 2026 = Day #30
- NO CHANGES TO MUST DO DAILY TIL DAY #31!!!
- ✅ #01: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 320.1 lbs. = 41.8 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: <>
- ☐✅ #05: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! <>
- 🌾 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)! <>
🔝 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! (None!)
- ☐✅ #11:🔮READ The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <>
- ✅ #12: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: (Various!)
🔝 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: <> |
| 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
Monday, January 12, 2026 felt like one of those days where nothing “huge” happens on the surface, but something important quietly locks into place underneath. I named the day out loud, almost like a stake in the ground. Not a restart, not a dramatic new beginning — just a continuation. A fresh week, a clean runway, and a decision to keep moving forward.
I had a small but meaningful food win today: the biscuits. They turned out genuinely delicious, not just “diet acceptable,” and that matters more than people realize. When food tastes good, it stops feeling like punishment and starts feeling like a lifestyle. It becomes repeatable. It becomes sustainable. And that’s the only kind of plan that actually works long-term.
Once I realized how good the biscuits were, my brain naturally went to optimization. I’ve got PB2 and strawberry jam, and I started wondering if putting those into the middle would take the biscuits to the next level. The answer was a clear yes — that combination would be more than good. It would be excellent, especially if done in a way that keeps it warm and satisfying without turning into a mess.
That led into another real question I wanted clarity on: Andrew Taylor’s SpudFit diet. Specifically: does he allow sugar? I wanted to understand the rule-set cleanly instead of guessing. The answer is basically no — strict SpudFit doesn’t include sugar, because the simplicity and “blandness” are part of what makes it work. The point is satiety and compliance, not stimulation and cravings.
Then came the surprise win of the day: one more subscriber. I looked at the list and saw a new confirmed person on January 12, which brought the total up to three. That might sound tiny to someone else, but to me it is proof. It means a stranger clicked, confirmed, and entered my world. It means the system works. It means the machine exists outside of my imagination.
What made it even more interesting is that this evening at Staples, the guy who gave me the business cards actually asked about them. That’s the exact kind of moment that tells me the cards are doing their job — creating curiosity. It’s entirely possible he was the one who subscribed, and even if he wasn’t, the timing itself felt like a little nod from reality that traction is starting.
Tonight I also put cards around Walmart and Popeye’s Chicken where I went for dinner (see photo to the right). That felt like the right kind of grassroots action. Those are high foot-traffic places where people are waiting, sitting, and staring at their phones. It’s the perfect environment for someone to scan a QR code and sign up, even if they do it later that night or the next day. Cards don’t always convert instantly, but they plant seeds.
Somewhere in the mix, I asked about Rick Rubin’s diet. I’d heard he talked about taking six protein shakes a day with low carb soup and salad and then fish and eggs at night. That kind of approach is intense and stripped down, and yes, it exists — but it isn’t really the world I want to live in. It may work as a strict protocol, but it feels more like endurance discipline than freedom.
And that’s the real turning point I felt today: potato diet sounds better. It’s simply a better fit for me. Potatoes are real food. They’re comforting. They create satiety. They don’t feel like suffering. They allow me to eat until I’m full without feeling like I’m fighting myself. That is a rare and powerful advantage.
So I asked for what a potato diet should look like for me personally, and we built it like a system: potatoes as the base, minimal fat, two liters of hydration per day, a practical dinner structure, and even a controlled joy option like PB2 and jam without collapsing the whole plan. It felt like designing a repeatable engine instead of chasing another temporary idea.
By the end of the day, what I really had wasn’t a perfect day — it was momentum. Food that works, action that plants seeds, proof that subscribers can happen, and a diet strategy that matches my nature instead of fighting it. Nothing about today was random. It was Becoming, continuing quietly, one small win at a time.
