Welcome to another day of dieting folks! Item #1 on my “ToDo List” will start today off: (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.
Morning
- ✅ #01: 📌 Work on Universal Planner! (Yep!)
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- ✅ #02: 😴 Record any Nighttime Whispers! (None!)
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- ✅ #03: 📈 Weigh yourself! (361.9 lbs. – 349.2 lbs. = 12.7 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 ***) (10:30 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: 🥔 Eat POTATOES!!! <>
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- ✅ #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! <>
*** Follow Your Bliss Today! ***
- ☐✅ #10: 🥋 Integrate Kung Fu!
- Watch/Process/Complete Shaolin.Online! (*** Workbooks ***)
- 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! (*** Workbooks ***)
- ☐✅ #11: 🎧 Watch/Listen YouTube Videos!
- SpudFit (Notes)! <>
- Help By Buzz (Notes)! <>
- 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: <> |
| Friday | ☐✅ 📡 Social Media Posting/Updates: <> |
| Saturday | ✅ 📹 YouTube LONG Video Creation: (One Last Pear “long” created!) |
| 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
Today, a single pear hanging on our tree gave me something to think about. In a photograph I’d taken earlier, there it was, high on the right, still attached to its branch. I started imagining what its life might have been like when the tree was full of other pears. They had grown together, shared the sunshine and rain, and moved together in the wind. Then, one by one, the others disappeared. Some were picked, some fell, and perhaps the deer found a few. Eventually, the neighborhood grew quiet.
That became the idea for Sunday’s YouTube video, “The Last Pear.” We developed a narration in the style of my autumn-leaves video, starting with an ordinary observation and gradually moving into thoughts about getting older, missing people, and wondering what comes next. There was even a little humor about the pear possibly enjoying a perfectly good afternoon while I gave him an entire existential crisis. The ending stayed with me: I was looking up at him, wondering how his story would end. But it hadn’t ended. And neither had mine.
I worked on the narration, an ElevenLabs version, YouTube metadata, and several thumbnails with just one word: “Remaining.” We tried a photographic version, pop art, a Norman Rockwell-inspired treatment, and a more dramatic image of the pear illuminated against a dark sky. It was interesting to see how many different moods could come from the same small subject in our yard.
A good portion of the day also went into making my Universal Planner easier to understand. The overlapping menus had become confusing, so we combined them into one called “My Planner.” I wanted a clear routine: start my day, select a task, track the time, save my day, and review the week on Sunday. We briefly tried putting explanations beside every menu item, but I preferred the shorter names. I did keep the new separator that grouped the Growth Lab tools together.
The timer needed attention too. A momentary notification wasn’t enough to remind me that it was running, so we added a persistent banner showing the project and start time. I suggested red with white text to make it stand out. We also connected the fitness-action dropdown to the headings in my actual Becoming Fit Program. Deleting and recreating a row caused another problem with the totals, which led to a formula repair. These are small details, but they matter when I want to spend my time doing things instead of figuring out how to record them.
I weighed 349.2 pounds today. I also decided to try reporting what I eat through conversation rather than using another app for now. I don’t need a special phrase or a formal entry every time. I can simply say what I had, and we can assemble an approximate record. If my weight stops moving down, I’ll reconsider whether I need more detailed tracking.
My food included air-fried potatoes, homemade chili, and chili tacos made with the 90-calorie keto tortillas. Over the course of the day and late evening, I had seven tortillas altogether. I also had tomato, pickles, salad, and two Zevia Colas. We discussed bean-and-date cookies, removing the almonds, adding ground flaxseed, and trying chickpeas instead. Those stayed at the recipe-discussion stage, but I did make a sweet chickpea snack in the air fryer with vanilla, cinnamon, and stevia.
Unfortunately, I forgot to take the chickpeas with me when I went out. At McDonald’s, I bought the five-dollar meal with a hamburger, small fries, and a large “Monopoly” coffee with two oat creamers and a Splenda (see photo to the right). I wished I’d brought my snack because I probably wouldn’t have bought the hamburger. Later, back home, I ate the chickpeas. That gave me a practical lesson: preparing food and remembering to bring it are two separate jobs.
The evening was emotionally difficult. Around 10:30, driving home from McDonald’s, I recorded a very angry message to the Universe. The feeling that I couldn’t change anything all came pouring out. I felt alone, frustrated, and deeply disappointed in the promises of manifestation. At 66, I was thinking about the years behind me and wondering how many more I could spend feeling this way.
I don’t want to tidy that up and pretend I finished the night with everything resolved. I didn’t. I was angry and hurting. Earlier, I had helped write a hopeful story about a pear whose life was still unfolding, and later I struggled to feel that same possibility in my own life.
Both belonged to today. I made something, improved a tool, prepared food, and tried to understand my habits. I also had a painful evening that none of those accomplishments could simply erase. The line from the pear story feels harder now than it did when we wrote it, but I still want to keep it: his story hadn’t ended. And neither has mine.
