Monday, Monday, so good to me! Coming your way, without delay, item #1 on my latest “ToDo List”: (You can use these symbols: ☐✅).
Remember, losing weight means:
- No more joint pain.
- Easier to get up/down stairs.
- New clothes.
- Socialize more.
- Travel more.
So, keep motivated! Here goes:
- ✅ #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. – 353.0 lbs. = 8.9 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #03: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #04: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (“The Quiet Path of Being”)
- ✅ #05: 🗣️ SAY/FEEL 100 TIMES (while driving, etc.) – “Thank you! I’m really grateful… I’m aligned with my higher self, and it’s already done.”
- ✅ #06: 🌊 Today’s Mr. 2020 “Mastery Manifestation” Lesson! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***) – You Are the One Who Transforms It
- ☐✅ #07: 🥔 Eat “The AI Diet v2.0” Meals!
- ✅ #08: 🏋️ MAX OUT on “Chin Ups”! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***) – Dumbbell Curls
- ☐✅ #09: 🥋 Watch & Take Notes for the Original Kung Fu TV Series! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***)
- ✅ #10: 🧘 Embody Stillness + Presence (The Quiet Path)
- (This is NOT about changing my life… this is about changing HOW I move through it.)
- Move slowly and deliberately for 2–5 minutes (like a calm martial arts form — no rush, no goal)
- Sit with one coffee or meal with ZERO distraction (no phone, no thinking ahead — just notice)
- When a “past path” thought appears → replace with: “That quality is still available now”
- Choose ONE anchor:
- walk slower for 2 minutes
- pause before responding
- sit still for 3 minutes
- 👉 Goal: Slow down + Notice + Don’t force
“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: <>
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!): <>
- ☐✅ 🌙 Finish Keith Moon Book: <>
- ☐✅ 📜 Watch “History of Civilization” Videos: <>
- ☐✅ ♟️ Perfect my “Chess Game”! <>
- ☐✅ 👀 Watch Alison Coghlan’s videos! <>
- ☐✅ 🎓 Learn AI via Coursiv! <>
- ☐✅ 🪙 Read Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor“! <>
🔝 “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
Today didn’t begin with action—it began with a feeling. That strange, in-between space where I wasn’t fully asleep, but not fully awake either. A kind of morning whisper. The kind that doesn’t shout instructions, but quietly suggests something deeper.
I had watched the first episode of Kung Fu the night before, and somehow that carried into the morning. Not the plot, not the details—but the feeling of it. Discipline. Stillness. A different kind of masculinity. A quieter one. It made me wonder, not in a heavy or regretful way, but just curiously… what if I had gone down that path back then? Martial arts, philosophy, a simpler life. Names from the past drifted in—my friend Tony from NS, old memories, even thoughts of my friend Annette. Not painful, just present. Like looking through an old photo album without needing to change anything in it.
And layered into that was the influence of Eckhart Tolle—the idea of just being. Not chasing. Not forcing. Just existing in the moment as it is.
Later that morning, I found myself sitting in the car in Cumberland waiting for my daughter to finish a presentation at an elementary school. A completely normal, grounded dad moment. Quiet. Still. And yet, sitting on my lap was something completely different—an old Ben Weider 12-lesson self-defense course on my Amazon Fire. Bright red. Intense. “Lesson No. 7: Thuggee.” (see photo to the right). It looked like I was about to begin some dramatic transformation… but really, I was just waiting in a parking spot.
And somehow, that contrast made perfect sense.
It was like a scene out of Green Acres—everything normal, but slightly off. A peaceful morning, a parental moment, and a vintage self-defense program all coexisting like that’s the most natural thing in the world. No one questions it. Not even me.
That’s when something clicked.
I don’t need to go back and become the guy who chose martial arts. I don’t need to chase a different life. What I’m actually drawn to is the essence of that path—calm, discipline, presence. And that doesn’t require a dojo or a new identity. It just requires showing up differently in the life I already have.
The rest of the day started to line up with that realization.
Food became simple again. My first meal was a plate of baby potatoes, salad, and tofu. Nothing extreme. Nothing trendy. Just something that worked. Something familiar. And it hit me—I’ve already done this before. I’ve already lost over 50 pounds in about 80 days using a simple, repeatable approach. No carnivore diet. No vegan identity. No chasing the “perfect” system.
Just consistency.
And yet, earlier in the day, I found myself asking questions about carnivore vs. keto, about joining a gym, about even chasing something as extreme as a world record in chin-ups. When I saw that list of questions all together, it became obvious: I wasn’t really searching for information. I was searching for change. Fast, complete, total change.
But today showed me something different.
I don’t need a new system.
I need to re-enter the one that already worked… calmly.
There was also something else in the background today—a message about “digesting” life instead of being consumed by it. The idea that when something triggers you, instead of fighting it or avoiding it, you process it. Break it down. Learn from it. Just like the body breaks down food. You’re not what happens to you—you’re what transforms what happens to you.
That landed.
Because it ties everything together.
The past. The memories. The “what ifs.” The desire for change. The pull toward discipline. The need for simplicity. None of it requires a dramatic shift. It just requires a different way of engaging with what’s already here.
So today wasn’t about doing more.
It was about noticing more.
Moving a little slower. Sitting a little stiller. Eating a little simpler. Letting thoughts come and go without grabbing onto them. And realizing that the version of me I thought I missed out on… might still be available after all.
Not in the past.
Right here.
