Happy New Years everyone! 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, 2025 = Day #30.
- NO CHANGES TO MUST DO DAILY TIL DAY #31!!!
- ✅ #01: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 318.2 lbs. = 43.7 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: (4:00 pm!)
- ✅ #05: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! (4:05 pm!)
- 🌾 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): (Calf raises!)
- ✅ #10: Record any Nighttime Whispers! (None!)
- ☐✅ #11:🔮READ The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <>
- ✅ #12: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: (Created Neville’s “You Are So Close” subliminal!)
🔝 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: (Xmas Transition Short went live!) |
| 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
January 1, 2026 didn’t start with fireworks, champagne, or a big dramatic reset. It started quietly, late in the morning, lying in bed around 11:30, feeling the accumulated weight of my life pressing down on me.
I was thinking about how I grew up largely on my own. A dismissive mother. A distant father. A sister I no longer have contact with. Friendships from college and earlier life that are now completely gone. So many chapters closed, people vanished, connections dissolved. What once felt central to my life no longer exists. What struck me wasn’t anger so much as sadness and confusion. I kept wondering what all of it meant. Why my life unfolded this way. Why, after so much effort and determination, I found myself here.
In that moment, I did something small and symbolic. I opened YouTube and decided I wouldn’t look at the screen. I just scrolled up and down and told myself I’d stop when it felt right, then listen to whatever video came up as I lay back down. Not because I thought it was magic, but because I needed something to hold onto.
The video that appeared talked about loss and transition. It spoke about how the things that once mattered, the people and structures that defined your life, sometimes have to leave in order for you to step into what comes next. One line in particular hit me deeply: that everything that left your life had to go so you could enter your next blessing.
As I listened, half asleep, an image flashed in my mind of a Filipino family I’d seen in a video by Tom and Lay. A big, warm, welcoming family, filled with laughter and connection. What surprised me was the feeling that followed. It wasn’t longing or desperation. It was relief. A sense that maybe all the struggle, all the loneliness, all the loss hadn’t been for nothing. That maybe the reason so much had fallen away was because something very different, something more aligned, was still possible.
When I woke up again, that feeling stayed with me. It wasn’t excitement. It wasn’t euphoria. It was relief. Calm. A soft sense of permission to stop fighting the past.
And then something important happened.
I didn’t spiral.
I didn’t ruminate.
I didn’t collapse inward.
Instead, I moved.
At some point during the day, quietly and without ceremony, I realized that the “woe is me” chapter felt finished. Not because my life suddenly looked perfect, but because I was done living inside that narrative. I wasn’t angry at it. I was just finished carrying it.
What replaced it wasn’t blind optimism or manifestational bravado. It was resolve. A grounded decision to move forward even without guarantees.
I actually said it out loud, half joking and half defiant: I’m back, baby.
Not in the sense of reclaiming youth or rewriting history, but in the sense of choosing motion over paralysis. I decided that 2026 would be about working on at least one small thing every day, staying calm and still internally, and gradually moving toward a life that still feels possible. If nothing else, I want to reach the end of my life knowing that I tried and didn’t give up.
And the first place I put that energy was into something real.
Today, The AI Diet v1.0 officially went live “again” with a new landing page and branding. This isn’t a hypothetical program or a future promise. It’s the actual diet I’ve been following, the one under which I’ve lost more than 50 pounds with two knee replacements and no formal exercise. I already had a formatted free guide ready, designed as an exchange for an email signup, with a simple upsell path to the paid $27 version. What I didn’t have was proof that I could actually put it into the world.
For years, I’ve been excellent at thinking, planning, outlining, and refining. What I’ve struggled with is shipping. Today, I crossed that line.
I created a YouTube Short and directed viewers straight to the landing page. I spent time dialing in the graphic, making sure the numbers were accurate, that nothing was exaggerated, and that the image actually represented me. Integrity mattered more than persuasion. This wasn’t about hype. It was about honesty.
And then I hit publish.
That was it.
No announcement.
No waiting for permission.
No refreshing analytics every five minutes.
Just a real asset, live in the world, working while I went about my day.
As the day went on, I reflected on how different this felt from the past. Before, I would have waited for motivation, clarity, or external validation. Today, I didn’t. I built the PDF. I built the page. I posted the video. The result wasn’t theoretical anymore. It was real.
Multiple AIs reflected back the same thing to me in different ways: that I broke a long-standing pattern. That I moved from endless design to execution. From thinking about building a system to actually creating one. They were right, but the significance wasn’t dramatic. It was structural.
Today wasn’t about how many subscribers I might get overnight. It wasn’t about proving my worth. It was about replacing an old operating system with a new one. Ideas alone don’t change a life. Assets do. Systems do. Movement does.
Tonight, as I write this, my funnel is live. Someone somewhere might watch the short. They might click the link. They might download the guide. Or they might not. Either way, the machine exists now, and that alone changes everything.
For the first time in a long while, I’m not waiting for life to happen to me. I’m participating in it.
That feels like a real beginning.
