Item #1 on my “ToDo List” kicks off this Sunday in the Comox Valley: (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. – 311.1 lbs. = 50.8 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #02: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title (Down More Each Day)!
- ✅ #03: 🌾 Metamucil: (3 servings/day): (3:17 pm!)
- ☐✅ #04: 💊 Take Vitamins: <>
- 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: (3:17 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: <>
- 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
- ☐✅ #08: 🫗 DRINK ? cups of water each day! (To Drink:💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧) ==> (Drank: )
Mental & Ritual ToDo’s:
- ☐✅ #09: 🧠 Work with ‘ChatGPT‘ for Understanding (CustomChat1978,fsTsECWDdOLUdtPeR)! <>
🔝 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 |
| 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 (“Zevia From a Martini Glass” video went live!) |
📋Additional Daily Notes
It’s raining again tonight, that soft Comox kind of rain that turns the streets into mirrors. The fall colors are out in their glory (see photo to the right)!
I sat outside Thrifty Foods with a bag of chips and French onion dip, watching the lights reflect on wet pavement, feeling the familiar weight that comes when everything slows down and the thoughts start stacking. I had promised myself that by Day 4 of the Daniel Day-Lewis experiment I’d be lighter, freer, more him. But instead, I sat there wondering if, in the end, I’d done all this work just to stay the same—another man chasing something that keeps moving away.
The thought hit harder than usual tonight. Maybe it’s the rain, or the quiet of a Sunday evening when the whole valley feels like it’s closing its eyes. I thought about the years I’ve spent trying to be good—always wanting to be the one who gives, the one who helps, the one who gets it right—and yet somehow ending up feeling like the world’s punchline. The guy who held the door open while everyone else walked through to a better life.
It’s a strange thing, to be 65. The words people said decades ago — they still echo sometimes, like the rain hitting the car roof. You’d think time would wash them out, but it doesn’t. It just teaches you to drive with the noise. I’ve built a life on trying to transcend that noise, and most days I do. But some days—like this one—it catches up.
I told myself, enough. No more “Law of Attraction” shortcuts, no more pretending a cashier’s smile is the Universe sending me riches. I just wanted to know what’s real, what actually makes a man happy.
So I started over, right there in the car. Instead of planning or proving, I listened—to the rain, the hum of the parking lot, the simple fact that I was still here. It reminded me of why I began this 30-day journey in the first place. The Daniel Day-Lewis Experiment was about inhabiting the calm multi-millionaire—acting the role until it became real. It taught me presence through performance. But tonight, I feel the next phase opening: the Stillness Experiment.
This new chapter begins tomorrow, not as a character study but as a kind of undoing. No camera, no scene to hit—just stillness. If the DDL experiment was about embodying, the Stillness Experiment is about allowing. No proving, no pushing—only noticing what’s already alive in the quiet. Eckhart Tolle would call it the “Power of Now”. Neville would call it living from the end. Both point to the same freedom: peace isn’t something I earn; it’s what’s left when the noise drops away.
Later tonight, my thoughts turned toward my daughter. She’s fifteen, brilliant, sensitive, and brave. She told me she feels like she was put on earth for a mission—something huge, something only she can do—but she doesn’t know what it is yet. I understand that feeling too well. The weight of wanting to do something meaningful while fighting the noise of life, school, and time running out.
She reminds me of someone. Greta Thunberg, maybe. My daughter admires her, and I see why. Greta has autism and ADHD, and she’s turned what the world calls “too much” into a superpower. That realization inspired me to imagine something for her—a moment that could really happen, one day, somewhere quiet, somewhere safe.
It’s late evening in our story. My daughter is sitting in her room, working on homework with Batman, her shy black cat, perched high on his cat tree. A knock at the door. When she opens it, Greta Thunberg stands there, rain jacket damp, eyes steady and kind. She steps in carefully, keeping her voice soft so Batman doesn’t bolt.
Greta says, “When I was your age, I felt like I had a mission too. I didn’t know what it was, only that the clock was ticking. I saw other people laughing, fitting in, moving forward—and I felt stuck. Like I was too serious, too much.” My daughter nods, because she knows exactly what that feels like.
Greta continues, “I used to think time was running out, but it wasn’t. It was just noise running out. Once the noise quieted, I could hear the real thing—my own direction. That’s how I found my voice. And that’s how you’ll find yours.”
Batman blinks slowly from his perch. Greta smiles. “I love animals,” she says. “They’re the best mirrors. They teach us to just be. You never have to explain yourself to a cat; he already knows who you are.”
My daughter asks, “Do you still get overwhelmed?”
Greta laughs gently. “All the time. But I’ve learned to come back to one thing—a tree, my breath, my dog. It reminds me that belonging doesn’t mean being understood by everyone. It just means being connected to life.”
She tells my daughter about being diagnosed with autism and ADHD, about how people saw those things as obstacles. “They’re not,” she says. “They’re sensitivity. You and I—we notice what others miss. That can hurt, but it’s also where your strength is. The world needs people who feel deeply enough to listen.”
When Greta leaves, my daughter sits quietly, the room filled with a calm that wasn’t there before. She writes one line in her notebook: “Maybe my mission isn’t to save the world—maybe it’s to love it.”
And that’s where this Sunday ends. A night that began with chips and French onion dip in the car turned into something softer, truer. Tomorrow I start the Stillness Experiment. No acting, no performing, just being. The kind of presence that my daughter is already learning, maybe even teaching me.
