20191218 SAVERS for WEDNESDAY

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 60 seconds.  Mild success.

AFFIRMATIONS

1. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
2. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
3. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
4. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
5. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
6. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
7. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
8. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
9. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
10. I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.

Also said aloud for 60 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

175 by 1/31/20

187.2 today; 12.2 pounds to go.  (lost 188.6 - 187.2 = 1.4 pounds during last 24 hours)

EXERCISE

Did my full Base-70 routine for Wednesday, 12/18/2019:

1. ankle/wrist circles 70
2. toe/finger stretches 70
3. bicycle crunches 70
4. shoulder rolls 70
5. inversion table 3 70-sec sets
6. push-ups 35 + 30 + 5 = 70  (this was better than Monday, when I did 35 + 26 + 9 = 70)

READING, WRITING

Read for 60 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that the brain tracks information by "free association" (example:  "how did we start thinking about X?  - if you can trace your free association thoughts back, you might remember how you "got started" thinking about X -  it was likely a chain of thoughts that were associated "linearly" with each other).

But this doesn't work for retrieval.  We must establish a "drawer" for certain documents, and another "drawer" for other documents.  Even this is not efficient when a particular document might qualify for 2 different drawers.  And then, we must establish a time sequence for each drawer so we can more readily retrieve a document filed "Y years ago," or "today's filings."

This issue is real for me when it comes to photographs:  subject?  or date?  or place?  or trip?  Years ago, I decided to establish a file for each year, and I merely put the photos taken during those years in the corresponding yearly files.  But that does not account for photographs larger than the file folders, or for slides, and now certainly not for digital photos on my phone or computer.

Help!

Maybe after I leave the planet, someone will be able to make sense of all of them.  Or maybe they'll just throw them out.

Bill Laursen, my friend of 45+ years, told me the other day that he's begun throwing away all his old photographs that he says no one will care about.  I told him I dasn't do that, since my kids or grandkids might very well want to see them.  So I will keep mine.  For now.