Welcome to Monday and the continuation of my “Minimalist” checklist! 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. – 340.8 lbs. = 21.1 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #03: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #04: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (None!)
And also…
- ✅ #05: 🍔 The “Weekly Food Diet” (This week? Only cheeseburgers & and Zevia to reset taste buds – but of course with water, black coffee, and black or herbal teas!): (Nope… Creami!)
- ☐✅ #06: 📜 Watch “History of Civilization” Videos: <>
- ☐✅ #07: 🌙 Finish Keith Moon Book: <>
- ✅ #08: ♟️ Perfect my “Chess Game”! <>
- ✅ #09: 🌊 Perform Terje’s Spirit Lab! (MANIFESTING: Did I Just Discover An UNKNOWN Method? (Was I Guided To THIS?)
- ✅ #10: 👀 Watch Alison Coghlan’s videos! (“You Are the Creator: Stop Trying to Figure Everything Out”)
“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: <>
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Wash Bathroom Floor!: (2026-04-05-Sun)
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: <> |
| 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
I started the day by dropping my daughter off at Starbucks to meet a couple of her friends, one of those small, ordinary moments that quietly sets the tone for everything that follows. From there, I headed over to Walmart to return the soundbar I had picked up earlier, closing that loop and clearing a bit of space both physically and mentally. While I was there, I noticed the Easter candy was marked down 50%, and I paused just long enough to justify picking some up for the kids—and a small chocolate Yoda for myself. It felt harmless, even thoughtful in a way, like I was choosing something symbolic without fully knowing why.
Later, I ended up at White Spot, settling into a booth with a club sandwich, fries, ketchup on the side, and a mug of coffee (see photo to the right). I had my tablet open playing the news, my laptop nearby, and right there on the table sat The Power of Now, almost like it was watching the whole scene unfold. The news was intense—talk of rising tensions, deadlines, threats, and the possibility of escalation overseas—and I found myself trying to determine what Donald Trump might do next regarding Iran, and more personally, whether I should sell my NVDA stock before the market reacted.
It was one of those strange moments where two completely different worlds were happening at the same table. On the screen, everything felt urgent, fast, and demanding action. In the booth, everything was still, quiet, and completely fine. Nothing in front of me required an immediate decision, yet internally I could feel the pressure building, like I needed to act before something happened. That contrast didn’t go unnoticed. In fact, it became the entire experience.
While sitting there, I also worked through a couple of my own checklist items. I performed Terje’s Spirit Lab experiment—speaking, observing, seeing what might show up—and watched videos from Alison Coghlan, especially her message about not needing to figure everything out. It was almost too perfect. One voice was telling me to act, to predict, to control. The other was telling me to step back, trust, and allow. And I realized I wasn’t just thinking about these ideas—I was testing them live, right there, with a real decision, real money, and real emotion involved.
Somewhere in the middle of all that, I thought about a small P.O. box I had seen earlier at a laundromat near Wendy’s—$187 per year. It lingered in my mind as something more than just a cost. It felt like a doorway into becoming something more real, more committed, like putting a stake in the ground for everything I’ve been building. And it struck me that I had no hesitation buying discounted candy earlier, yet I hesitated on something that might actually matter. That contrast stayed with me.
When I finally got back to the car, I remembered the chocolate Yoda I had picked up. The spring sun had been stronger than I realized, and the chocolate had completely melted. What had been a clean, perfect little figure earlier was now a misshapen, messy version of itself. For a moment, I almost dismissed it, but then it hit me—this was the day in one image. I had started with ideas of control, clean decisions, perfect forms… and by the end, everything had softened, shifted, and become something less predictable but somehow more honest.
I realized that most things don’t stay the way we expect them to. Plans change, environments shift, and outcomes rarely match the original picture in our heads. But that doesn’t mean they’re wrong. If anything, it might mean they’re real. Sitting there earlier, I had been trying to decide what to do about NVDA based on a future that hadn’t happened yet, driven by a world on a screen that demanded urgency. But the world I was actually in—the one with the sandwich, the coffee, the quiet—wasn’t asking anything from me at all.
By the end of the day, nothing about the situation had changed. The news was still the news. The markets would do what they would do. But something had shifted in how I related to it. I didn’t need to force an answer. I didn’t need to predict the outcome. I could choose how I showed up in it. And maybe that’s what this whole day was really about—not making the perfect decision, but noticing the difference between reacting and becoming.
