It’s Thursday and the continuation of my “Minimalist” checklist! Here comes item #1 on my latest “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
Let’s try to focus on a few items and not get overwhelmed… They are, to start:
- ✅ #01: Maggie’s Manifestation: The Optimal State From Which To Manifest Anything You Want (Neville Goddard/Law Of Assumption) (At the 1:20 point she says the OPTIMAL STATE IS “I AM 100% OKAY WITH NOT GETTING THIS THING, BUT I KNOW I WILL GET IT”! THIS IS THE STATE THAT HAS ALWAYS WORKED FOR HER AND GOTTEN HER WHATEVER SHE WANTS!!!)
- ✅ #02: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 350.1 lbs. =11.8 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #03: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #04: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (“The Voice That Was Heard And Not Received”!)
And also…
- ☐✅ #05: 🍔 The “Weekly Food Diet” (This week? Only cheeseburgers & and Zevia to reset taste buds – but of course with water, black coffee, and black or herbal teas!): <>
- ☐✅ #06: 📜 Watch “History of Civilization” Videos: <>
- ☐✅ #07: 🌙 Finish Keith Moon Book: <>
- ☐✅ #08: ♟️ Perfect my “Chess Game”! <>
- ☐✅ #09: 🌊 Perform Terje’s Spirit Lab! <>
- ☐✅ #10: 👀 Watch Alison Coghlan’s videos! <>
- ☐✅ #11: 🎓 Learn AI via Coursiv! <>
- ☐✅ #12: 🪙 Read Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor“! <>
“VERY OPTIONAL” PROJECTS
I have a goal of getting the “Barn Suite” in order. Did any of these happen today?
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Label Filing Cabinet Boxes & Contents: <>
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Oil Cutting Board: <>
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Clean Kitchen: <>
- ✅ 🏚️ Assemble Corner Bookcase: (2026-04-06-Mon)
- ✅ 🏚️ Return Walmart Soundbar: (2026-04-06-Mon)
- ✅ 🏚️ Wash Bathroom Floor!: (2026-04-05-Sun)
- ✅ 🏚️ Clean bathroom toilet and sink area! (2026-04-07-Tue)
- ✅ 🏚️ Take Glass Jars to Garage: (2026-04-08-Wed)
- ✅ 🏚️ Wash “Barn Suite” Sheets: (2026-04-09-Thu)
And assembling my music studio?
- ☐✅ 🎹 Fix/Restore external drives: <>
- ☐✅ 🎹 Assemble drum kit: <>
And don’t forget the bookkeeping!
- ☐✅ 💾 Download OneDrive Data! <>
- ☐✅ 📷 Photograph “Physical” Journals! <>
And just for fun:
- ☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator (Take off/land Courtenay Airport!): <>
🔝 “VERY OPTIONAL” 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: (Waiting For Traffic “short” goes live!) |
| Friday | ☐✅ 📡 Social Media Posting/Updates: <> |
| Saturday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG Video Creation: <> |
| Sunday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: <> |
🔝 “VERY OPTIONAL” 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: <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen “Maggie Murphy (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen “Alison Coughlan (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen Dr. K videos! <> ☐✅ 📖 Read The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <> ☐✅ 📖 10 Books To Write! <> ☐✅ 🌎Read/Vision Board The World Is Waiting For You by Edwina Findley Dickerson: <> ☐✅ 💻 Manus Software! <> ☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <> |
📋Additional Daily Notes
Today started with me trying to tighten things up. I was focused on trimming a “short” narration script down to under a minute without changing any of the words, and then shifting into creating proper metadata for a short in my usual format. It felt like one of those days where I wasn’t starting something new, but refining what was already there—cleaning it up, sharpening it, making it more aligned with what I’m becoming.
From there, I moved into more practical things, especially around the newsletter. I kept thinking about how to promote it better in local Facebook groups without coming across like a spammer. I worked through different ways of wording posts so they felt natural, like I was just sharing something useful rather than pushing it. I also started thinking about how to make the newsletter itself stronger—adding Costco content, local deals in the Comox Valley, and even the idea of pulling a random tip each week from my “Top 100 Costco Money-Saving Tips” page and expanding on it. That felt like a real upgrade—something consistent, valuable, and easy to promote in places like local Costco groups. At the same time, I could see the growth starting to happen. My subscriber count moved from the mid-30s up into the 40s, with strong open rates around 50%. Nothing explosive, but steady. Real. The kind of growth that builds quietly.
Throughout the day, I found myself answering and thinking about a mix of local and practical questions too—where to find ethanol-free gas in the Comox Valley, how to respond to someone visiting the area with kids looking for hikes and things to do, and even helping craft a post for someone with a 19-year-old looking for non-sport, non-craft clubs like book groups, board games, writing, film, or poetry. It all tied back into the same thing—being helpful, being part of the local flow, adding value without forcing anything.
At the same time, I couldn’t ignore what was going on in the world. I was watching news coverage about tensions with Iran and thinking seriously about what to do with $800K. I went back and forth between putting it into something safe like Treasuries versus going with growth through something like the S&P 500. Then I started thinking more tactically—what if I placed limit orders on stocks like NVIDIA, Amazon, and Meta at 25% below current prices? That idea felt smart at first, but as I thought it through more, I realized the risk of waiting too long and missing the move entirely. It shifted into a more balanced approach in my mind—maybe a mix of investing now and setting staggered limit orders below, instead of trying to perfectly time a crash.
The most grounded parts of the day, though, were the simplest. In the morning, I was sitting at McDonald’s with coffee and pancakes (see photo to the left), my screen open in front of me, just thinking and working. It didn’t look like anything special, but I could feel it—that quiet sense that something is building. Later that evening, I ended up back at McDonald’s again, this time with a burger, fries, coffee, and a screen full of loud, urgent news. The contrast between the two moments really stood out. The morning felt calm, almost invisible. The evening felt noisy, reactive, like everything mattered right now. But sitting there, I realized again that the real progress isn’t happening in the noise. It’s happening in the repetition. In showing up. In these small, ordinary moments that don’t look like much at all.
Even something as simple as washing the “Barn Suite” sheets fit into that rhythm. Just another task, another checkmark, nothing dramatic. But part of the same system. By the end of the day, it all connected—the dream about not being received, the steady newsletter growth, the investment decisions, the quiet mornings and loud evenings. It all pointed back to the same thing for me: while the world feels urgent and chaotic, what actually changes my life is happening quietly, consistently, in the background of days exactly like this one.
