Here we go again… Another work day has started. Along with this, 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:
Morning
- ✅ #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. – 347.4 lbs. = 14.5 lbs. total weight loss.)
- ✅ #03: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
- ✅ #04: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (None!)
Afternoon
- ✅ #05: 🥋 Complete Shaolin.Online! I completed the first workbook while at Benino’s this morning. The result?
- Shaolin Temple Europe “12-month Self-Mastery Course”
- Q: What bad habits do I have that I want to give up?
- 1) I need to lose weight
- 2) I want to be stronger and more flexible
- 3) I want to be happier
- 4) I want to me more content with life’s journey
- Q: Is there something I can do to achieve mastery?
- I think to achieve Mastery I need to embrace the “Power of Now” (as Eckhart Tolle would call it). Be present each and every moment, without regrets or worries, and satisfied with the journey life is taking me on.
- Q: What expectations do you have?
- Pretty lofty ones actually, so I probably need to trim those back and be more realistic. The chance of me being “grasshopper” from the 1972 Kung Fu tv series has passed. If I can be even a bit happier and healthier, those are great goals to achieve.
- Q: What is my commitment?
- I’m going to work through this program till it is done and I get my “Certificate” at the end… 🙂 I can’t promise that I will never miss a day, but I’m committed to working through this course as best I can to achieve “Mastery” as defined.
- ☐✅ #06: 📺 Watch & Take Notes for the Original Kung Fu TV Series! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***)
- ☐✅ #07: 🏋️ MAX OUT on “Chin Ups”! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***)
- ✅ #08: 🧘 Embody Stillness + Presence (The Quiet Path) – Coffee at Benino’s this morning while being “present”!
- (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
Night
- ☐✅ #09: 🗣️ DID YOU 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.”
- ✅ #10: 🥔 Eat “Forever Plate” Meals (& expanding to “The AI Diet v1.1.2”)!
“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: Done! |
| 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: Done! |
| 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 today thinking again about manifestation—specifically something Maggie Murphy said about Neville Goddard. The idea that if you can truly live “in the end,” you don’t actually need the thing itself because you’ve already experienced it internally. That stuck with me and led to a deeper thought: if I could recreate the feeling of something I’ve successfully manifested before and then “copy-paste” that emotional state into something new, maybe that’s the mechanism. Not chasing outcomes, but recreating the state.
Later, I found myself at Benino’s with a coffee, doing exactly that without really trying. Just sitting there, relaxed, present, noticing the sounds, the light, the people. I started watching Close Encounters of the Third Kind on my Amazon Fire Tablet, laptop open beside me, sunlight bouncing off the screen. Someone sat a few tables ahead just doing their own thing. Nothing special, and yet it kind of was. There was an empty chair across from me, but it didn’t feel like something was missing. It just felt like space, and for once, that space didn’t bother me.
Earlier in the day I had stopped at Hughes Groceries and picked up a couple of packages of Bob’s Red Mill nutritional yeast (see photo to the right). Something simple that makes potatoes and vegetables taste better might be the difference between sticking to the AI Diet or not. Mastery, I’m starting to see, isn’t about big dramatic shifts. It’s about these small, aligned decisions.
This evening I reviewed the Motley Fool Epic Portfolio—20 different stocks, each roughly equal weight, about $1,800 per position. Clean, structured, diversified, almost institutional in its design. But it got me thinking. That strategy is built for long-term compounding—five to ten years, no tinkering, just letting it ride—and I had to be honest with myself: that’s not really how I think. I’m watching things like the Strait of Hormuz, global tensions, oil flows, AI cycles, semiconductors. I’m already sitting on a massive NVDA position. My instinct is to analyze, adjust, optimize. So the question becomes whether I follow a system like this exactly or adapt it to how I actually operate.
I also looked at a few individual stocks to understand what’s moving right now. Manhattan Associates stood out as the biggest drop since late February among a group I was reviewing, down around 8–10%. Not an AI darling, not flashy, just steady enterprise software. And that raised another question: am I looking for quiet compounders or big movers? Because those are two very different paths. By the end of the day, what stands out isn’t any one insight, but the pattern—sitting quietly with a coffee, watching a movie without urgency, making small, practical food choices, thinking about long-term investing versus short-term instincts, letting a moment feel complete without needing to change it. And maybe that’s what this Shaolin course is really about—not becoming “Grasshopper,” but becoming a little more present, a little more aligned, a little more aware of how I actually move through the world.
STAYING MOTIVATED TO 199.9 LBS. TIPS!!! Make the food taste good enough that you’ll actually eat it again tomorrow. That might be the whole game.
