Here comes item #1 on my “ToDo List” on this overcast Tuesday in the Comox Valley: (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. – 321.5 lbs. = 40.4 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 morning!)
- ✅ #05: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! (This morning!)
- 🌾 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) (Body cream!)
- ☐✅ #08: 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
- ☐✅ #09: 🦵 Knee Routine (2-Minutes In-Bed or Desk Routine): <>
- ✅ #10: Record any Nighttime Whispers! (The Answer Came Without Performance)
- ☐✅ #11:🔮READ The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <>
- ✅ #12: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: (Neville Goddard “Prayer of Thanks”!)
🔝 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: <> |
| 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.?: Read up on Zapier! |
📋Additional Daily Notes
Today wasn’t dramatic. It wasn’t emotional. And that’s exactly why it mattered.
I spent part of the afternoon at Impresso Cafe, laptop open, coffee going cold beside me, looking closely at Zapier (see photo to the right). For a long time, I’ve had ideas that lived mostly in my head. Systems, frameworks, futures. Today was different. Today was about implementation.
The app idea I’ve been circling finally clarified itself. It isn’t really an app in the way people usually mean that word. It’s a managed service. A simple system that does one job well: when a customer reaches out to a contractor who’s busy working, the system makes sure that customer hears back immediately — even if the contractor can’t answer the phone.
Not a promise. Not a pitch. Just a polite acknowledgment: I got your message. I’ll follow up.
Sitting there with Zapier open, I could suddenly see how clean this could be. A form submission or missed call triggers a workflow. Zapier passes the information along. Twilio sends a text to the customer and another to the contractor. Optionally, an AI step summarizes the message so the contractor doesn’t have to read a wall of text. Everything logged quietly in the background so nothing gets lost.
No dashboards for the contractor. No logins. No learning curve. They just get the message and call back when they’re free.
That’s the part that feels right.
This isn’t about “AI” as a buzzword. It’s about reducing friction. Tradespeople in the Comox Valley aren’t missing calls because they’re careless. They’re missing calls because they’re on ladders, under houses, in crawl spaces, on boats. Customers don’t wait. They move on. This system simply keeps the door open long enough for real work to happen.
What surprised me was how calm I felt thinking about it. I wasn’t trying to escape my life or imagine some future version of myself being rescued by success. I was just working through the steps. Trigger. Action. Message. Log. Repeat.
It also felt honest to think about money in this context. Not as a fantasy number, but as a fair exchange. Build something useful. Charge a reasonable monthly amount to keep it running. Fix it when it breaks. Take responsibility.
That feels earned.
I didn’t build the whole thing today. But I did something more important: I stopped treating it as an idea and started treating it as plumbing. Something that can be assembled piece by piece, tested, and improved without drama.
There’s something stabilizing about that. No signs to interpret. No waiting. Just ordinary work, done deliberately.
That’s enough for today.
