Thursday guys! Let’s get today started with item #1 on my “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: 📌 Work on Universal Planner! (Yep!)
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- ✅ #02: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (The Old Lock Opens!)
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- ✅ #03: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 320.6 lbs. = 41.3 lbs. total weight loss.)
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- ✅ #04: 📉 Record Weight Down in Title!
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- ☐✅ #05: 📕Read/Craft Ultimate Manifestation Letter: <>
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- ✅ #06: ☕ Over AM Coffee, say Terje’s Script! (*** NOTES ***) (11:41 pm!)
- #1) Hello – Begin by acknowledging them out loud. Simply say “Hello Universe” and open the conversation. The goal is not perfection or certainty, but connection. Say “THANK YOU” for everything and be SPECIFIC about manifestations!
- #2) Honesty – Speak truthfully about what you actually feel — fear, loneliness, frustration, gratitude, confusion, hope, excitement, doubt, or exhaustion. Don’t perform spirituality. Just be real.
- #3) Companionship – Treat them like companions walking beside you. Share little moments throughout the day: things you notice, appreciate, wonder about, or find beautiful or funny. Build relationship, not just requests.
- #4) Meetings – Take a few moments each day to talk through your life with them — what’s ahead today, what you’re worried about, what you want, where you feel stuck, and where you’d appreciate support or clarity.
- #5) Asking – Ask first for emotional relief and inner calm, then ask for solutions, guidance, pop-ins, signs, opportunities, ideas, or small favors. Ask openly without demanding exact outcomes or trying to control how the answer arrives.
- #6) Releasing – After asking, stop forcing. Go live your life. Walk, drive, work, brainstorm out loud, drink coffee, move through ordinary moments, and allow ideas or clarity to arise naturally instead of mentally gripping for answers.
- #7) Noticing – Pay attention to what returns — sudden ideas, emotional shifts, coincidences, synchronicities, timing, relief, unexpected opportunities, little “winks,” or moments that feel quietly meaningful. Then continue the conversation and relationship over time.
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*** Daily ***
- ✅ #07: 🥔 Implement “The AI Diet v1.04”! (Weight is not going down as much as I would like. Due to “salt” in seasonings???)
- First 30-Days Rules
- 🥔 Starches: Potatoes, Sweet potatoes
- 🥦 Vegetables: Unlimited non-starchy frozen, canned & fresh vegetables
- 🥚 Protein: Egg whites
- 🧂 Condiments: Mustard, Tomato Sauce, Hot Sauce, Salsa, Spices
- ☕ Drinks: Water, Sparkling water, Tea, Coffee, Zevia
- ⭐ Simple Rule: If Grandma would recognize it and could reasonably make it in her own kitchen, it’s probably okay. If it comes in a shiny package with a long list of ingredients and was designed in a factory, it’s probably best left on the shelf.
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- First 30-Days Rules
- ✅ #08: 💊 Take Vitamins! (Yep!)
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- ✅ #09: 💧 Drink 1 GALLON water (with 6 Tbsp lemon juice, 2 Tbsp apple cider vinegar, 1 tsp Himalayan sea salt! (Yep!)
*** Follow Your Bliss Today! ***
- ☐✅ #10: 🥋 Integrate Kung Fu!
- Watch/Process/Complete Shaolin.Online!
- I commit to daily practice—body and mind.
- I eat with awareness and stop when satisfied.
- I move my body every day, even briefly.
- I return to the present moment whenever I notice I’ve drifted.
- I do not chase perfection—I practice consistency.
- I finish this course.
- Watch & Take Notes for the Original Kung Fu TV Series! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***)
- MAX OUT on “Chin Ups”! (*** NOTES GO HERE ***)
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- Watch/Process/Complete Shaolin.Online!
- ✅ #11: 🎧 Watch/Listen YouTube Videos!
- SpudFit (Notes)! (Spud Fit Challenge day 100 – ONE. HUNDRED. DAMN. DAYS. (a recap))
- Terry’s Spirit Lab (Notes)! <>
- Maggie Murphy (Notes)! (Subreddit)! <>
- Regular Guy (Notes)! <>
- Chad Foster (Notes)! <>
- With Dee (Notes)! <>
- Alison Coghlan (Notes)! <>
- Tim Grimes (Notes)! <>
- Dr. K – HealthyGamerGG (Notes)! <>
- Joseph Alai (Notes)! <>
- Paul In The Philippines (Notes)! <>
- Fly Me To The Philippines (Notes)! <>
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- ☐✅ #12: ✨ Work On New Novel! (*** NovelMay26 ***)
- Develop Plot! <>
- Flush Out Story! <>
- Create Images! <>
- Runway Video! <>
- Cite Manifestation Sources, Videos, Scriptures & Concepts! <>
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- ☐✅ #13: 📺 Watch Television!
- Amazon Prime Fallout! <>
- HBO Doom Patrol!
- Amazon Prime “The Boys”! <>
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- ☐✅ #14: 📖 Read Books!
- Read Keith Moon Book! <>
- Read/Vision Board The World Is Waiting For You by Edwina Findley Dickerson! <>
- Read Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To” by Dr. David Sinclair! <>
- Read Dr. James Doty Book: <>
- Read Benjamin Graham’s “The Intelligent Investor“! <>
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- ☐✅ #15: 🎮 Play Games!
- Play GTA5! <>
- Play Flight Simulator! <>
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- ☐✅ #16: 🏡 Clean up “Barn Suite”!
- Organize Kitchen! <>
- Oil Cutting Board! <>
- Label Filing Cabinet Boxes & Contents: <>
- Organize Bathroom! <>
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- ☐✅ #17: 🎵 Set up Music Studio!
- Back Up OneDrive Photos To Disk! <>
- Purchase & Install Software: <>
- Fix/Restore External Disk Drives! <>
- Set Up Components: <>
- Assemble drum kit: <>
🔝 “VERY OPTIONAL” WEEKLY “NICE TO DO”!
| Day | Focus Area |
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| 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: (Vegan Dog Treats “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 |
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| 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)! (Subreddit)! <> ☐✅ 🎧 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! <> ☐✅✨ DreamGen! <> ☐✅ 🌿 Etc.?: <> |
📋Additional Daily Notes
I woke up this morning with one of those little dreams that doesn’t sound like much when you describe it, but somehow stays with you.
In the dream, I came down from the Barn Suite to the main house. There was an old, rickety lock on one of the doors. I turned it—and it opened. Then my daughter smiled at me and sang a beautiful high note.
That was it.
But considering I’ve been asking the Universe before sleep to teach me, encourage me, and show me what I need to understand, I couldn’t help wondering about that old lock. Maybe some of the things I’ve thought were locked away from me aren’t locked quite as securely as I’ve imagined. Maybe I don’t need to break the door down. Maybe, when the time is right, I just turn the lock.
And then comes the high note.
Not a bad way to start a Thursday.
By late morning, it was overcast outside and I was getting ready to take the kids to Landmark Cinemas for the 12:15-ish showing of The Odyssey. Before we left, I had my little conversation with the Universe: help me enjoy this time with the kids, give us some energy, maybe send us a wink or two, and keep helping me figure out this strange business of finding my passion and enjoying life while I’m actually living it. And off we went.
The Odyssey turned into a nearly three-hour adventure, and one particular creature sent my mind travelling back decades: the Cyclops. Seeing this dark, frightening modern version immediately made me think about the Cyclops from those old Sinbad movies I remembered from the 1960s. You can see the comparison on the ChatGPT graphic to the right. Today’s monsters can be incredibly realistic and disturbing, but there’s still something wonderful about those old stop-motion creatures. They weren’t realistic, exactly, but somehow they lived in your imagination.
Maybe that’s another kind of Becoming—discovering that the kid you used to be is still hiding somewhere inside the person you’ve become.
Later came a completely different kind of excitement.
Amazon.
I bought a significant amount of AMZN recently, and after today’s closing bell Amazon reported earnings. The stock had already finished the regular session at $235.50, up 3.9%. Then after hours it suddenly shot up to around $258—another 9.5%.
Now, after-hours prices can disappear just as quickly as they appear, and tomorrow will tell the real story. But tonight?
I’ll take it.
There’s something particularly satisfying about making an investment decision, wondering whether you’ve got it right, and then watching the market seemingly say, at least for one evening, “Yep. Not bad.”
I also watched Andrew Taylor’s 100-day SpudFit update today. He talked about losing more than 70 pounds eating potatoes, but what interested me most wasn’t really the number on the scale. It was his description of changing his relationship with food. Food had stopped controlling his thoughts. It had become fuel. His health improved, his joint pain disappeared, he slept better, exercised regularly, and even talked about improvements in depression and anxiety.
That’s the part of these stories I keep coming back to.
The transformation isn’t really about potatoes.
It’s about discovering that you can become somebody different from the person you thought you were stuck being.
Tonight I ended up at one of my familiar haunts: McDonald’s. Black coffee with one Splenda, my computer, and another journey into film history.
I’ve now made it to the two-hour point of the 1915 film The Birth of a Nation.
It’s certainly not an easy movie to watch. Its racism and distorted portrayal of American history are appalling, but its enormous influence on filmmaking makes it something I’ve wanted to experience for myself rather than merely read about. So tonight, sitting in McDonald’s more than 110 years after audiences first watched it, I pushed a little farther through.
And that was Thursday.
A strange mixture when I put it all together: an old lock opening in a dream, Katie singing a high note, an afternoon at the movies with my kids, memories of 1960s Cyclopes, potatoes and personal transformation, Amazon suddenly leaping after hours, and a 111-year-old silent movie playing on my screen at McDonald’s.
None of it sounds like some enormous life-changing event.
But maybe that’s the point.
I’ve spent a lot of time wondering when the big thing is going to happen. When will I find my passion? When will something change? When will the Universe give me the unmistakable sign?
Maybe Becoming doesn’t always announce itself that way.
Sometimes it’s taking your kids to a movie.
Sometimes it’s watching another twenty minutes of something you’ve decided to finish.
Sometimes it’s learning from somebody else’s experiment.
Sometimes it’s making a decision and seeing it work out.
And sometimes it’s simply dreaming about an old, rickety lock that you’ve assumed was keeping you out…
only to discover that when you finally put your hand on it,
it opens.
