Item #1 on my “ToDo List” is coming your way on this rainy Saturday 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. – 317.3 lbs. = 44.6 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 evening!)
- ✅ #05: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! (This evening!)
- 🌾 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): <>
- ✅ #10: Record any Nighttime Whispers! (None!)
- ☐✅ #11:🔮READ The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <>
- ✅ #12: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: (Kirk & Evie subliminal tapes!)
🔝 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: <> |
| Friday | ☐✅ 📡 Social Media Posting/Updates: <> |
| Saturday | ✅ 📹 YouTube LONG Video Creation: (Beach Grass “Long” Video!) |
| 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
This evening I told myself I’d just ask the Universe where to go for coffee. Not in a dramatic way. More like a quiet check-in. Tim Hortons on Guthrie didn’t feel right. McDonald’s didn’t either. The A&W near Superstore didn’t land. So I kept driving, not forcing a decision, until I ended up at the Tim Hortons on Lerwick Road. It wasn’t that it felt perfect — it just felt acceptable enough to stop.
Before that, I ducked into Shoppers and picked up a bottle of biotin. Not a miracle cure. Just one of those small, practical gestures of maintenance. The kind that says: I’m still tending to myself, even if I don’t have a bigger answer yet.
At Tim Horton’s on Lerwick I ordered a coffee with oat milk and Splenda and sat down.
Once I was there, my mind did what it tends to do when it finally slows down. It drifted outward first — headlines, geopolitics, power, chaos. I read about the Venezuela invasion (see photo to the right). I scrolled. Then it turned inward again, toward meaning. Jim Carrey clips from yesterday surfaced. Then a video with Tara Swart, the neuroscientist who talks about manifestation without leaning fully into fantasy.
She told a story about a vision board she made after her divorce. An engagement ring cut from a magazine. Images of rooms that felt nothing like the house she was living in at the time. Later, she met her future husband unexpectedly on a flight. When she eventually saw the house he’d been building, she said it looked like the rooms on her board. I paused on that. Not because I wanted to believe the universe arranges things that neatly, but because I wanted to understand what actually changes when someone decides to open again. Not the ring. Not the house. The posture. The availability. The willingness to let something new be possible without demanding proof in advance. That question stayed with me as the day shifted.
I started thinking about tomorrow’s long video for the AlreadyBecoming channel. I didn’t want to explain anything. I didn’t want to motivate. I just wanted to notice something true.
I thought about beach grasses.
Some stay low, hugging the sand. Others grow tall, bending into the wind. In the footage I have, you can see both. Flexible blades crossing the horizon line. Weathered wooden posts behind them — rigid, broken, worn down. Water moving steadily beyond.
The contrast felt honest.
Some things survive by staying low.
Some survive long enough to rise.
And the ones that refuse to bend don’t last.
That became the shape of the video. Not a lesson. Not a promise. Just an observation. Growth that doesn’t announce itself. Strength that doesn’t need permission.
As the idea came together, so did something else: clarity about what I don’t want to do anymore. I don’t want to chase outcomes. I don’t want to build fantasy boards that turn into waiting rooms. If I make boards at all, they need to be about behavior. About performance. About how I show up — not what I’m hoping will arrive.
By the end of the day, I realized that nothing dramatic had happened — and that was the point.
I didn’t solve anything.
I didn’t declare anything.
I just sat, noticed, and stayed.
Some days, becoming doesn’t look like progress.
It looks like holding ground.
It looks like learning how to bend.
It looks like being still here.
And for today, that was enough.
