Welcome to yet another work week here in the Comox Valley. 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. – 317.4 lbs. = 44.5 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: <>
• ☐✅ #05: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! <>
  • 🌾 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! (Red Head Camera Repair!)
• ☐✅ #11:🔮READ The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <>
• ☐✅ #12: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: <>

🔝 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: (Done today, Monday!)
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.?: <>

📋Additional Daily Notes

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This afternoon I decided to follow through on something we had talked about yesterday — looking for The Art of Loving by Erich Fromm. Not because I urgently needed answers, but because I was curious what would happen if I went looking.

I went to Value Village first. As I walked the aisles, I passed shelves labeled Animals & Nature, History, Romance, Science Fiction & Fantasy, Spy & War, Mystery & Crime. Stories everywhere. Escapes everywhere.

And yet I stopped in the Religion & Spirituality section.

The book I was looking for wasn’t there. I’d already been told it was older, harder to find, not something that reliably shows up on new shelves. But two other books were sitting there quietly: The Power of Now and The Road Less Traveled.

I already know these books. I’ve read The Power of Now on my tablet and listened to it on Audible. I used to own The Road Less Traveled in physical form but lost it somewhere along the way. Seeing them there felt less like discovery and more like return.

They weren’t calling to me. They weren’t insisting. They were just there.

I bought them anyway. Not as substitutes for the book I didn’t find. Not as answers. Just as companions for where I already am.

I didn’t order The Art of Loving — not in person, not online. I left that search open. That felt important.

I spent part of the afternoon thinking about whether this whole experience — the search, the not-finding, the choosing not to force it — might belong on the Already Becoming channel. I realized that it does. Not as a lesson, not as a teaching moment, but as a record of restraint. A day where meaning wasn’t chased into existence.

Later, I sat at The Mill with coffee and books (see photo to the right), watching videos about manifestation and neuroscience — Oprah talking about meeting the vibration, Tara Swart explaining value tagging, the idea that attention follows what we emotionally mark as important. I noticed how much I’ve been wrestling lately with the tension between wonder and grounding, between magic and responsibility.

I seem to have twisted my knee yet again. This is the third time in about six weeks. The first time I was sleeping, the second time I was at my desk, and this time it just felt week and throbbing as I went to bed. I’m not sure what’s up, but the X-Rays I had a few weeks ago show no mechanical issues. It looks like we might be getting a family doctor soon so I will mention it to them in hopes that they can figure out what’s going on.