Sunday has rolled around again! Here comes item #1 on my “REBOOT” “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
⚠️ WARNING
This post used AI assistance. AI is imperfect and OFTEN unreliable. Real people who have actually lived and achieved what they manifested, if credible, should be trusted more than any machine. Trust your own thinking first. Reader beware…
🔑 DAILY WIN = COMPLETE THESE 4 ITEMS (Today? 2/4)
- #01: 🌅 Morning Prayer to the Universe!
- #07: 📕 Read “The “Little Red Book” List!
- #09: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape!
- #10: 🍽️ Follow the “Only Meal Template” Eating Plan!
MORNING
To start off each day:
- ✅ #01: Morning Prayer to the Universe: “Thank you for this day. I’m human and still learning. Please guide me today, help me notice the bridges, and show me my next step. Help me move toward what’s in my Little Red Book. I trust I’m being led. Thank you.“
- ✅ #02: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 320.6 lbs. = 41.3 lbs. total weight loss.) Hang on… With 0.5 lbs. weight loss you will be 199.5 lbs. on Tuesday, October 27, 2026! With 0.4 lbs. weight loss you will be 199.9 lbs. on Friday, January 1, 2027!
- ✅ #03: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #04: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (None!)
- ☐✅ #05: 🧴 Body & Face Care (AM/PM): <>
- (AM) Cleanse → “Splash of Water”
- (PM) CeraVe SA Cleanser + CeraVe Renewing SA Cream
- Dove Pro-Retinol 1–2× per day (belly/flanks)
- ☐✅ #06: 🌀 Dry Brushing (5-7 minutes): <>
- ☐✅ #07: 📕Read “The “Little Red Book” List: <>
- ☐✅ #08: 🌎Read/Vision Board The World Is Waiting For You by Edwina Findley Dickerson: <>
- ✅ #09: 🌙 Listen to a “Nighttime Subliminal” .mp3 Tape: (Goddard of course!)
FOOD
- ✅ #10:🍽️ The Only Meal Template (Repeat 4x/day): (Chicken thighs in the air fryer!)
- Per meal:
- 1 LARGE potato
- ~300g / 10–11 oz
- baked / boiled / air fryer
- NO oil, NO butter
- 4 egg whites
- scrambled / microwave / nonstick pan
- 1 cup vegetables
- frozen mix or fresh
- tomatoes, lettuce, peas, broccoli / cauliflower / peppers / onions / spinach / green beans, etc.
- 1 apple
- 1 LARGE potato
- Per meal:
- ✅ #11: 🧂 Condiments (AI Diet v1.0 discipline): (Yep!)
- salsa (Costco)
- mustard (Costco & Walmart)
- hot sauce (Costco)
- tomato sauce (Costco)
- vinegar (Costco & Walmart)
- lemonade (Costco)
- spices (garlic powder / chili / pepper)
- ☐✅ #12: 💧 2 Liters Water./Day: <>
- Make this each morning and sip all day:
- ¼ tsp iodized table salt (non-negotiable)
- 2–4 tsp lemon juice concentrate (optional)
- 1–2 tsp apple cider vinegar (optional)
- ¼ tsp Lite Salt / Half Salt (optional potassium upgrade)
- Himalayan pink salt is NOT better (usually no iodine).
- ✅ #13: 🥂 Martini Water Ritual! (Yep!)
- 🌾 Collagen (2 scoops)
- ✅ #14: 💊 Take Daily Vitamins: (Yep!)
- Fish Oil (Omega-3)
- 2 capsules/day with meals (Buy: Kirkland Fish Oil 1000 mg / Jamieson Omega-3 / Webber Naturals Omega-3)
- Vitamin D3
- 2000 IU/day (Buy: Jamieson D3 2000 / Webber Naturals / Kirkland D3)
- Calcium
- Calcium citrate 500 mg/day (Buy: Jamieson/Webber/Kirkland Calcium Citrate)
- Iodized Salt
- already included in water jug
- also used on food
- Fish Oil (Omega-3)
- ✅ #15:💊 Take Weekly Vitamins (Sunday): (Yep! The Spray!)
- Vitamin B12
- B12 1000 mcg once/week (Buy: Jamieson / Webber Naturals / Kirkland B12 1000 mcg)
- Vitamin B12
EXERCISE (Dumbbells are 10 lbs. each)
- ☐✅ #16a: 🏋️♂️ MON — Strength A (Dumbbells + Knee) (20–30 min): <>
- 2 sets each:
- One-arm dumbbell row — 10 reps/side
- Dumbbell “bed (floor)” press — 10 reps
- Dumbbell shoulder press — 8–10 reps
- Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift — 10 reps
- Calf raises — 20 reps
- Standing ab brace — 10 sec × 5
- Knee Sit-to-Stand — 8–12 reps (physio move)
- 2 sets each:
- ☐✅ #16b:🏋️♂️ TUE — Row EASY + Knee Mini (20–30 min): <>
- Rowing – 20 minutes easy (conversational pace)
- Knee Sit-to-Stand — 1 set of 8 (light)
- ☐✅ #16c:🏋️♂️ WED — Strength B (Dumbbells + Knee) (20–30 min): <>
- 2 sets each:
- Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift — 10 reps
- Wall pushups OR counter pushups — 10–20 reps
- One-arm dumbbell row — 10 reps/side
- Bicep curls — 12 reps
- Overhead triceps extension — 12 reps
- Knee Sit-to-Stand — 8–12 reps
- 2 sets each:
- ☐✅ #16d:🏋️♂️ THU — Row MEDIUM + Knee Mini (20–30 min): <>
- Rowing – 20 minutes total:
- 5 min warmup easy
- 10 min work pace (slightly hard)
- 5 min cooldown
- Knee Sit-to-Stand — 1 set of 8 (light)
- Rowing – 20 minutes total:
- ☐✅ #16e:🏋️♂️ FRI — Strength A (Dumbbells + Knee) (20–30 min): <>
- 2 sets each:
- One-arm dumbbell row — 10 reps/side
- Dumbbell “bed (floor)” press — 10 reps
- Dumbbell shoulder press — 8–10 reps
- Dumbbell Romanian Deadlift — 10 reps
- Calf raises — 20 reps
- Standing ab brace — 10 sec × 5
- Knee Sit-to-Stand — 8–12 reps (physio move)
- 2 sets each:
- ☐✅ #16f:🏋️♂️ SAT — Row EASY or Mobility + Knee Mini: <>
- Rowing – 15–25 min easy
- Knee Sit-to-Stand — 1 set of 8 (light)
- ☐✅ #16g: 🏋️♂️ SUN — Recovery Day (still do something) + B12: <>
- Easy Rowing – 15–20 min
- Knee Sit-to-Stand — 1 set of 8 (light)
PROJECTS
I have a goal of getting the “Barn Suite” in order. Did any of these happen today?
- ☐✅ #17a: 🏚️ Label Filing Cabinet Boxes & Contents: <>
- ✅ #17b: 🏚️ Assemble Lamp: (Feb. 10/26!)
- ☐✅ #17c: 🏚️ Oil Cutting Board: <>
- ☐✅ #17d: 🏚️ Purchase Corner Bookcase: <>
- ☐✅ #17e: 🏚️ Assemble Corner Bookcase: <>
- ☐✅ #17f: 🏚️ Clean Kitchen: <>
- ✅ #17g: 🏚️ Assemble Soundbar: (Feb. 12/26!)
- ✅ #17h: 🏚️ Packaged Soundbar to return to Walmart: (Feb. 15/26!)
And assembling my music studio?
- ☐✅ #18a: 🎹 Fix/Restore external drives: <>
- ☐✅ #18b: 🎹 Download software: <>
- ☐✅ #18c: 🎹 Assemble drum kit: <>
And don’t forget the bookkeeping!
- ☐✅ #19a: 💾 Download OneDrive Data! <>
- ☐✅ #19b: 📷 Photograph “Physical” Journals! <>
And just for fun:
- ☐✅ #20a: 🌙 Read Keith Moon Book: <>
- ☐✅ #20b: ✈️ Flight Simulator (Take off/land Courtenay Airport!): <>
🔝 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: <> |
| Sunday | ✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: (Quality Foods Parksville “long” video went live!) |
🔝 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: <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen “Maggie Murphy (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen “Alison Coughlan (Notes)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 Listen Dr. K videos! <> ☐✅ 📖 Read The Unified Manifestation System. Improvement? ANY UPGRADE IDEAS?: <> ✅ 📖 10 Books To Write! (Created this list today!) ☐✅ 💻 Manus Software! <> ☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <> |
📋Additional Daily Notes
Today unfolded in a quiet, slightly drifting way, without any particular urgency attached to it. The kind of day that seems directionless while you are inside it, yet still contains movement if you look closely enough.
I started out at Milano (see photo to the right). I ordered a cortado, a Spanish espresso drink made of equal parts (1:1 ratio) espresso and warm, lightly steamed milk, and settled into that familiar café posture of half-observing, half-mentally-elsewhere.
Some work happened. Not dramatic progress. Not breakthroughs. Just incremental movement on the story that has been occupying my mind lately. A few structural considerations, some tonal adjustments, the usual quiet wrestling with how something should feel rather than what should happen.
Creative work rarely looks like work from the outside. It mostly resembles staring, typing, deleting, and long pauses that would appear suspiciously unproductive to anyone not living inside the process.
From there, I made the practical stop of the day. The soundbar went back to Walmart. No theatrics. No complications. Just the small, slightly anticlimactic ritual of returning a piece of technology that had briefly promised improvement and ultimately delivered… neutrality. Refund processed. Transaction reversed. One more minor loop of modern consumer life completed. There is always a faintly strange sensation attached to returns. Something that recently existed as a future-enhancement object suddenly reclassified as unnecessary. A tiny narrative collapse. Expectations quietly edited.
After that, I went to Benino’s (see bottom photo on the right). Another café, another atmosphere, but with a noticeably different energy. Benino’s carries a softer, steadier tone — a place that feels almost designed for extended sitting. I ordered a large cappuccino and once again slipped into that semi-detached creative headspace.
More work occurred there. Again, nothing explosive. Just slow shaping. Adjusting phrasing. Considering character dynamics. Letting the story breathe rather than forcing it forward. Fiction seems to respond better to patience than pressure. Around me, the usual café ecosystem played out.
Low conversations. Cups and plates. People moving through their own private concerns. Everyone temporarily sharing space while remaining entirely separate. There is something oddly comforting about that arrangement.
No demands. No expectations. Just parallel existence.
By the time the cappuccino was gone, the day still retained its outward ordinariness. No dramatic events. No milestones. No obvious “progress markers” of the sort that productivity culture loves.
Yet the day did contain motion. Thinking. Writing. Small decisions. Minor corrections. Subtle forward drift. Which, in the long arc of things, is usually how most meaningful movement actually occurs.
Quietly. Without announcement. Almost invisibly.
