2025-10-30 - Mudsharks

Day #0794 – (Thu., Oct. 30, 2025) – (ChatGPT #0180 – Mudsharks Cafe) (-30.7 lbs.)

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This is the “Stillness Experiment” Day #004! Coming next? Item #1 on my “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).

By the way, here’s what ChatGPT said about this framework: This is an absolutely stellar 30-day framework — it’s comprehensive but still rhythmic, and it hits your mind–body–spirit axis exactly right.

🌅 Morning Grounding! The “Why”!

✅ #01: 🤔 Read & Reflect! (Neville + Tolle + Becoming Integration): (4:11 pm!)

This morning I stop chasing the man I’ve been trying to become. After one hundred seventy+ days of creating, refining, and reaching, I see that he was never somewhere else. He’s been breathing through every frame I’ve lived. Eckhart calls this Presence. Neville calls it Living in the End. Both point to the same truth: When I am fully here, I am already there.

The next thirty days are not about results — they’re about re-tuning the instrument through which results arrive. I’m teaching my nervous system that safety is not earned through striving; it’s found in awareness. When my body learns to rest, my imagination becomes fertile again. That’s what this Stillness Experiment will do — it rewires the baseline from effort to ease.

I breathe, and air fills my lungs without permission. That is grace — the same grace that moves money, love, and health into form when I stop blocking it with tension. Each calm breath is a rehearsal for peace, and peace is the vibration that makes everything grow.

If lack appears, I smile — that’s an echo, not a prophecy. If desire stirs, I feel it real for a heartbeat, then release it into faith. That’s the marriage of Neville and Tolle: imagination without grasping, surrender without apathy.

Every act today — sipping coffee, writing, walking, feeding the hens — is my quiet line delivery: “I am already him. The world is adjusting to the truth.”

Even my body is learning that truth. At 199 lbs I’ll feel light, strong, and unguarded — but that number isn’t a race; it’s the outer reflection of this inner calm. Peace in the mind becomes balance in the body. That’s the physics of Becoming.

✅ #02: 💫 What These 30 Days Will Do: (4:17 pm!)

  • Re-calibrate the nervous system from fight-or-flight to flow.
  • Dissolve the reflex to measure worth through doing.
  • Reconnect imagination with stillness, so creation feels effortless again.
  • Let the body find its natural weight and rhythm through peace, not pressure.
  • Restore joy in ordinary life — the proof that the work has integrated.

✅ #03: 🕊️ What Comes After: (4:18 pm!)

When the 30 days close, I won’t “return” to Neville — I’ll arrive there new. From presence, imagination becomes play again. From rest, action becomes art. Then I can choose the next experiment — perhaps the 90-day Creation Phase, or Manifesting Mastery Deluxe by Mr. TwentyTwenty, or simply the quiet rhythm of life itself — but it will rise from calm, not craving.

The goal after these 30 days isn’t transformation. It’s stability. A steady peace I can build anything upon.

So I move through today knowing: The work is no longer about Becoming. The work is remembering that I already Am. And from that awareness, all good things begin moving toward me.

🔝 DAILY PHYSICAL CORE!

Approved Foods For 30 Days!!! (1 gallon water per day + AS MUCH AS WANT OF: potatoes, non-starch vegetables, egg whites, oats, spelt flour, black beans, chickpeas, olives, PB2, berries, plant beverages, stevia + FOR COFFEE ONLY: plant-based creamer).

  • ✅ #04: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 309.9 lbs. = 52.0 lbs. total weight loss.)
  • ✅ #05: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title (Down More Each Day)!
  • ✅ #06: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! (7:18 pm!)
    • 🌾 Metamucil (1 tablespoons)
    • 🌾 Collagen (2 scoops)
  • ✅ #07: 💊 Take Vitamins: (7:05 pm!)
    • Progressive Multi Men 50+ (one capsule)
    • Silica + Biotin Supplement (one capsule)
    • Omega-3 (1000–2000 mg/day) (one capsule)
    • Resveratrol (two capsules)
  • ✅ #08: 💍 Ring Touch + Whisper! (7:19 pm!)
  • ✅ #09: 🤵 Cufflink / Collar Adjustment! (7:20 pm!)
  • ✅ #10: 😏 The Calm Smirk! (7:21 pm!)
  • ☐✅ #11:🧴 Face Moisturizer Routine: <>
    • (AM) Cleanse → “Splash of Water”
    • (PM) Cleanse → CeraVe SA Cleanser
    • (PM) Moisturize → CeraVe Renewing SA Cream
  • ✅ #12:🌾 Metamucil Drink (1 tablespoon): (7:30 pm!)
  • ☐✅ #13:🧴 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
  • ☐✅ #14:🌾 Metamucil Drink (1 tablespoon): <>
  • ✅ #15: 🫗 DRINK ? cups of water each day! (To Drink:) ==> (Drank: 💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧💧)

🔝 DAILY MENTAL CORE!

🔝 WEEKLY PHYSICAL & MENTAL CORE!

DayFocus 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 (Zevia Martini short went live!)
Friday☐✅ 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
Saturday☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG VIDEO Creation
Sunday☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG VIDEO Upload @ 5:45 PM

🔝 FUN, FUN, FUN!

DayFocus Area
Monday☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <>
☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <>
☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <>
☐✅ 🍳 Cooking: <>
☐✅ 🧹 Clean Barn Suite: <>
☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <>
Tuesday☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <>
☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <>
☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <>
☐✅ 🍳 Cooking: <>
☐✅ 🧹 Clean Barn Suite: <>
☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <>
Wednesday☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <>
☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <>
☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <>
☐✅ 🍳 Cooking: <>
☐✅ 🧹 Clean Barn Suite: <>
☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <>
Thursday✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: (Connect computer to internet. Set up light over table.)
☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <>
✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: (Practice fingerstyle plucking!)
☐✅ 🍳 Cooking: <>
✅ 🧹 Clean Barn Suite: (Clean and organize desk! Take night stand over to patio window.)
☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <>
Friday☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <>
☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <>
☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <>
☐✅ 🍳 Cooking: <>
☐✅ 🧹 Clean Barn Suite: <>
☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <>
Saturday☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <>
☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <>
☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <>
☐✅ 🍳 Cooking: <>
☐✅ 🧹 Clean Barn Suite: <>
☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <>
Sunday☐✅ 🎸 Music Studio Setup: <>
☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator: <>
☐✅ 🎶 Learn Sultans of Swing: <>
☐✅ 🍳 Cooking: <>
☐✅ 🧹 Clean Barn Suite: <>
☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <>

📋Additional Daily Notes

The day began with that quiet October clarity that always feels like a reset button. The air was crisp, the kind that wakes you up before the coffee even touches your lips. The sunlight had that Vancouver Island brightness — sharp but kind — and for a moment it felt like the entire world was paused in golden stillness.

I parked by the library in Courtenay, engine still ticking from the drive. Before getting out, I sat there for a breath or two — part ritual, part awareness exercise — and let the moment stretch. The thought crossed my mind that this was my Daniel Day-Lewis rehearsal: no script, no performance, just becoming the man who already is. The cool air felt like dialogue, the steering wheel like a prop, and I was simply inhabiting the role of presence.

2025-10-30 - Mudsharks

I walked toward Mud Sharks Café and ordered an Americano with oat milk, found a table in the middle of the others, and settled into that soft hum of late-afternoon life (see photo to the right).

I finished a Maggie Murphy video — “Manifesting Using Imagination: Get Good with Guided Meditation” — and let her words dissolve into the sounds around me. She talked about allowing the inner scene to feel real, not as fantasy but as memory, and it landed perfectly inside today’s rhythm. I also read some Eckhart Tolle.

This was my Stillness Experiment, Day #004 — and I could feel it working in quiet ways. I’ve stopped chasing the version of myself that’s always just around the corner. When I breathe deeply and notice the warmth in my chest, I realize he’s already here. Every inhale is a rehearsal for peace, and every exhale, a soft release of striving.

I checked off my daily physical rituals — weighed in at 309.9 lbs, vitamins taken, collagen stirred into my Martini Water Ritual, ring touch, cufflink adjustment, calm smirk. Each small act now feels like a line of dialogue in a film I’m finally directing consciously. These aren’t habits anymore; they’re symbols — proofs of identity.

Later in the afternoon, I took the shovel and moved some gravel from near the old barn to the driveway leading up to the Barn Suite. It’s one of those tasks that looks like work but feels like meditation. I’d been meaning to do it all summer, but today felt right. The fall rain will press it down, the tires will pack it, and over time it’ll become part of the landscape. There’s a lesson in that — letting the weight of life itself settle things into place.

Outside, our front gate stood newly decorated for Halloween — the pumpkins glowing faintly, orange garlands twisting in the wind, little ghost cutouts swaying like whispers. The decorations caught the last light of the day, flickering in rhythm with the candles on the porch. There’s something about those small touches — the evidence of family hands shaping beauty out of tradition — that makes the air feel more alive.

And tonight, at 5:45 p.m., the Zevia Martini short went live on YouTube. Watching it upload felt like more than a post — it felt like an offering. The film is really a mirror: calm water, candlelight, slow motion, bubbles rising. It’s everything this Stillness Experiment stands for — the proof that elegance isn’t something you chase; it’s something you inhabit.

Now, as I write this, the day is winding down into candlelight. The house feels calm. The rituals are done. The gravel is in place. The short is live.

And I can feel it — the shift I’ve been reaching for finally becoming ordinary. Presence no longer feels like something I have to remember to practice. It feels like home.

I don’t need to perform transformation anymore. I just need to stay awake long enough to notice that it’s already here.

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