20200102 SAVERS for THURSDAY

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain again this morning; was "troubled" by dreaming about the Pitcher family (Canada); in the dream, Drue Pitcher was talking to me one-on-one.  He's the only one of the 5 kids that Mrs. Pitcher did not mention during my last conversation with her (years ago).  And during this convo with Drue, I told him that she had not mentioned Greg.  That's not right.  *sigh*  I don't know what this all means, if anything.  But Drue told me that Greg was living, and could be found anywhere in southern Alberta.  --  When I woke up, I knew I was committed to doing my routine, and it was troubling to remember the dream while trying to silence my brain.  But I tried and did it for 70 seconds.

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 70 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

175 by 1/31/20


Today I weighed in at 191.4; 16.4 pounds to go; 16.4/30 = 0.6 pounds per day

EXERCISE

Did my full Base-70 routine for Thursday 1/2/2020:

1. ankle/wrist circles 70
2. toe/finger stretches 70
3. bicycle crunches 70
4. shoulder rolls 70
5. inversion table 3 70-second sets
6. squats 70

READING, WRITING

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that ancient civilizations generally believed that social class structures came from the way people were created by their gods; and for the most part, everyone within the systems accepted their "lot" in life without much hope of changing it.

Harari includes an Apartheid-era photograph of beach/sea discrimination to show how this was an accepted social norm of that time; he also suggests that the roots of the system could not be biological, since the light-skinned South Africans, spending more time on the beaches, would also more readily burn their fair skin; the dark-skinned poeple there had no such concern.

Read for 70 seconds in YOU ARE A WRITER by Jeff Goins.  He says that he thinks the world is filled with "wannabe writers" - who may or may not be otherwise happy & fulfilled doing something else.

I suppose I should expect that Goins will first make the case that we wannabe writers exist.  But such has been obvious to me for a long time.

Tomorrow, perhaps, he'll begin giving some practical instruction on how wannabes and become bes.