20200601 SLLLAVERS for MONDAY - RESUMPTION6

SILENCE

Attempted to silence my brain for 70 seconds; mild success.

LLL

Live.  Love.  Laugh.

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 (whispered) for 70 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

Yesterday, I weighed 197.2

Today, I weigh          198.6 (+1.4) (weighed on Lisa's scale)

Tomorrow, I visualize weighing less than I weigh today.

EXERCISE

Did my full base-70 routine for Monday, 20200601:

1. ankle/wrist circles 70
2. toe/finger stretches 70
3. bicycle crunches 70
4. shoulder rolls 70
5. flatonback 3 70-second sets
6. push-ups 70 (35+25+10)

READING, WRITING

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that since the Agricultural Revolution (i.e., 12K-8K BC), societies have always been patriarchical; they've valued and rewarded men for being and acting like men, and to a much lesser extent, women for being and acting like women.

I have no dispute with Harari on this point; it seems unfair, but it has been so, and remains today to be so.  Today, most women marry and still take the family name of their husbands.

But, it was not recently when Margo Thomas produced her "FREE TO BE YOU AND ME" album in which she teaches female children that they can be/do anything they want, including all the things male children can be/do.  EXCEPT, she said, they can't be daddies or grandpas.

She was wrong there.  Trans people today can become the parent of the sex opposite to the one they were born biologically.

IOW, it's no longer so clear cut as it was even 25 years ago.

Onward we go, evolving as SAPIENS.

Read for 70 seconds in YOU ARE A WRITER by Jeff Goins.  He says "good writers push through."  Meaning, they don't give up on re-writing and editing, and always allow for improvements.

He mentions that a good writer will begin early, allowing time for as many revisions as possible.  A bad writer is not totally bad; s/he is lazy, has bad habits, and is afraid of failure.

He adds that there is no "bad writing" - only bad writers.

My thoughts as I read, again, are that I must "hold the needle down."  It's a lesson I've had to learn repeatedly throughout my life.

So now, I write.