It’s Thursday, the continuation of a “Minimalist” checklist, and the last day for FRIES! Here comes item #1 on my latest “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
Let’s try to focus on a few items and not get overwhelmed… They are, to start:
- ✅ #01: Maggie’s Manifestation: The Optimal State From Which To Manifest Anything You Want (Neville Goddard/Law Of Assumption) (At the 1:20 point she says the OPTIMAL STATE IS “I AM 100% OKAY WITH NOT GETTING THIS THING, BUT I KNOW I WILL GET IT”! THIS IS THE STATE THAT HAS ALWAYS WORKED FOR HER AND GOTTEN HER WHATEVER SHE WANTS!!!)
- ✅ #02: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 338.8 lbs. = 23.1 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #03: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #04: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (Mitch!)
And also…
- ✅ #05: 🍟 The “French Fry Diet” (only air fryer French Fries, ketchup, and Zevia to reset taste buds – but of course with water, black coffee, and black or herbal teas!): (Yep!)
- ☐✅ #06: 📜 Watch “History of Civilization” Videos: <>
- ☐✅ #07: 🌙 Finish Keith Moon Book: <>
- ✅ #08: ♟️ Perfect my “Chess Game”! (I played a few games!)
- ✅ #09: 🌊 Watch Terje’s Spirit Lab! (I purchased his course today and tried it out on a “Toonie”!)
“VERY OPTIONAL” PROJECTS
I have a goal of getting the “Barn Suite” in order. Did any of these happen today?
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Label Filing Cabinet Boxes & Contents: <>
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Oil Cutting Board: <>
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Assemble Corner Bookcase: <>
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Clean Kitchen: <>
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Assemble Soundbar: <>
And assembling my music studio?
- ☐✅ 🎹 Fix/Restore external drives: <>
- ☐✅ 🎹 Assemble drum kit: <>
And don’t forget the bookkeeping!
- ☐✅ 💾 Download OneDrive Data! <>
- ☐✅ 📷 Photograph “Physical” Journals! <>
And just for fun:
- ☐✅ ✈️ Flight Simulator (Take off/land Courtenay Airport!): <>
🔝 “VERY OPTIONAL” 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: (Persian Documentary “short” goes live!) |
| Friday | ☐✅ 📡 Social Media Posting/Updates: <> |
| Saturday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube LONG Video Creation: <> |
| Sunday | ☐✅ 📹 YouTube Video Upload @ 5:45 PM: <> |
🔝 “VERY OPTIONAL” 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! <> ☐✅ 🌎Read/Vision Board The World Is Waiting For You by Edwina Findley Dickerson: <> ☐✅ 💻 Manus Software! <> ☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <> |
📋Additional Daily Notes
The day started early, even if it didn’t feel like it at first. At 7:00 a.m., my newsletter went live—another edition sent out into the world. There’s something about that… putting things out there before the day even begins, like setting something in motion and then stepping into life while it unfolds on its own.
My daughter went to Hornby Island to spend time with some friends and came back at 2:30 pm today. My wife had gone down to Duncan for a couple of days and came back around 6:30 p.m. Somewhere in the middle of all this, I had also purchased Terje’s course—the Speak Up Method—and decided I’d try it out later in the evening. The idea was simple: speak an intention out loud, ask for help, and then let it go.
That night, I decided to test it with something small—a toonie. I followed the steps exactly. Spoke the intention, kept it light, tried to stay playful. Then I went out. I headed to Costco, walked around, and finally bought some medium cheddar cheese from the main fridge section—part of the plan moving forward. After checking out, I grabbed an order of fries from the Costco food area and then drove over to McDonald’s. I sat down with a small black coffee and ate the fries there, tablet propped up in front of me, the news playing—Tiger Woods, another headline passing through.
At one point, I checked the stats on the Persian documentary short. It had only been live for a few hours and was already climbing—over a hundred views, most of them in the last hour. Watching that graph move upward while I sat there completely still was one of those quiet contrasts. Something I created earlier that morning was now moving on its own, reaching people I’d never meet, while I just sat there with fries and coffee.
And then… no toonie.
As I sat there finishing my coffee, I could feel that small drop. Not about the coin itself, but about the expectation. I had followed the method. I had done everything right. And nothing happened.
So I got in the car and started driving home. And somewhere along the way, something shifted. I started talking out loud—not formally, not like the method, but directly. Almost playfully, almost challengingly. Like, “Alright… I know you’re there. Let’s play a game. I’m down here trying to figure things out. Show me something—not even a toonie—just something that lets me know you care, that it’s going to be okay.”
I drove around. The Tim Hortons and Home Depot on the way home, the aquatic center, parking lots, post office boxes. Part of me was still looking, if I’m honest. Still scanning the ground. Still hoping. Then I kept going—past Huband Elementary, our PO boxes, and then to the set of PO Boxes near August Road.
And somewhere in there, the search softened. It stopped being about finding something. A stillness came over me.
One of those quiet realizations. Life didn’t turn out exactly how I thought it would. I thought it would be easier, more exciting, more… something. But at the same time, I’m here. I can breathe. I can see. I can hear. I can pay my bills. And maybe that’s enough. Maybe learning to be content with that is part of it.
I pulled into the post office boxes. Quiet. Dark. No one around. Headlights cutting across the ground. I looked around, still half-playful, half-curious. Nothing. No toonie. No obvious sign.
And then I turned around.
At first, I didn’t even notice it. It was up in the trees, above the mailboxes. A small heart-shaped object, hanging there, blending into the branches. It wasn’t obvious from a distance. It wasn’t what I was looking for. But something about it caught my attention. I got out of the car and walked closer.
And written on it were the words:
“Together we will get through this.” (see photo to the right)
I just stood there for a moment.
Not because I thought the universe had placed it there for me in that exact moment. And not because I thought it was meaningless either. But because of the timing. Because earlier, in the car, I had asked—almost jokingly, but not really—“Show me something that lets me know you care… that it’s going to be alright.”
And this is what I saw. Google maps shows that this heart has been there at least since October, 2022, and I’ve passed by it multiple times, but I actually saw it this evening!
No toonie. No dramatic event. Just something I hadn’t noticed before. Something that had probably been there the whole time. But I only saw it after I stopped chasing, after I let go, after I settled into that quiet acceptance.
Creation in the morning. Observation in the evening. And somewhere in between, a small shift—from trying to get something… to being okay without it.
Just another day.
And at the same time, not just another day at all.
