Welcome to mid week 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. – 348.6 lbs. = 13.3 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #03: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #04: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (This Signature I Didn’t Read!)
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!): <>
- ☐✅ #06: 📜 Watch “History of Civilization” Videos: <>
- ☐✅ #07: 🌙 Finish Keith Moon Book: <>
- ☐✅ #08: ♟️ Perfect my “Chess Game”! <>
- ☐✅ #09: 🌊 Perform Terje’s Spirit Lab! <>
- ☐✅ #10: 👀 Watch Alison Coghlan’s videos! <>
- ☐✅ #11: 🎓 Learn AI via Coursiv! <>
- ☐✅ #12: 🪙 Read Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor“! <>
“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: <>
- ☐✅ 🏚️ Clean Kitchen: <>
- ✅ 🏚️ Assemble Corner Bookcase: (2026-04-06-Mon)
- ✅ 🏚️ Return Walmart Soundbar: (2026-04-06-Mon)
- ✅ 🏚️ Wash Bathroom Floor!: (2026-04-05-Sun)
- ✅ 🏚️ Clean bathroom toilet and sink area! (2026-04-07-Tue)
- ✅ 🏚️ Take Glass Jars to Garage: (2026-04-08-Wed)
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: (Black Polo today!) ☐✅ 📹 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
The day moved into more practical territory today as I thought about food, nutrition, and systems. I questioned whether I really need things like tuna or salmon and realized that with the right approach—covering nutrients like omega-3 and B12—I don’t. It connected with ideas from Derek Sarno’s plant-based approach and Dr. David Sinclair’s longevity philosophy, both pointing toward intentional, mostly plant-based living rather than rigid rules. I then shifted into action and used what I had: frozen chicken breasts, the Instant Pot, and the air fryer. The chicken came out tender and then crisped up nicely, creating a simple, repeatable system that worked without much effort.
Later this evening I went to McDonald’s and had a $5 McValue meal, upgrading it with a large coffee. I sat there watching World News Tonight on my tablet (see photo to the right) and heard the phrase “fragile ceasefire,” one of those moments where your immediate world and the larger global one overlap. Fries, coffee, and headlines about tension and uncertainty. It didn’t feel rushed or mindless—it felt like a pause, a moment to sit and take things in.
The biggest moment of the day came when I checked my subscriber count for my newsletter. It had jumped again—what started at 17 had moved to 21, then into the 30s, with 16 new subscribers in a single day from one simple Facebook post. No ads, no funnel, no complicated strategy—just sharing something useful in a natural way. That was the clearest signal of the day: real movement, not just theory or learning.
At the same time, I signed up for an AI learning platform, Coursiv.ai, for $44.79 USD. Earlier in the day, that might have felt like progress on its own, but by the evening it was clear that the real progress was already happening through action. It brought to mind the video about Specialty Merchandise Corporation and Tom Bosley—how easy it is to get pulled into systems that promise results instead of requiring real effort. Even small things reflected that same theme. My sweatpants have holes in the crotch area, and instead of overthinking it, I looked into simple 100% cotton iron-on patches as a straightforward fix.
By the end of the day, nothing looked dramatically different on the surface, but there was a clear shift underneath. Less distraction, more awareness. Less chasing, more building. The dream in the morning had been about signing something without thinking, and the day itself felt like a quiet correction of that—choosing more carefully what to engage with, what to commit to, and what actually matters, and continuing forward with what is already working.
