20210216 SLLLAVERS for TUESDAY - DAY 4 of the D-DAY ERA!!!!!!!!

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 70 seconds.  Meh.

LLL

Live.  Laugh.  Love.

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

196.2  Today's weight

196.4  Yesterday's weight

-0.2

I visualize weighing less tomorrow

EXERCISE

Did my full base-70 routine for Tuesday, February 16, 2021:

1. ankle/wrist circles 70
2. toe/finger stretches 70
3. bicycle crunches 70
4. shoulder rolls 70
5. inversion table 2 1-min sets
6. EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
7. squats 35
8. push-ups 35

READING, WRITING

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says cultural diversity and territorial flexibility are the two factors that define an "empire."  Not necessarily conquests, or even methods of government/control.  E.g., British Empire grew, in part, through strategic marriages.

Read for 70 seconds in YOU ARE A WRITER by Jeff Goins.  He says I need to start creating inroads and communication channels.  How do I do that?  I ask for it.  (Although I haven't read the section "How Do I Ask For Permission?" - I'm guessing that he'll say something like, "Post a piece, and then notify my friends/family/acquaintances about it, and then ask them to read it, and ask them to give me feedback about what they read."  We'll see tomorrow, or when I take up my routine again.

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The reason I wrote "we'll see tomorrow, or when I take up my routine again" is because today I'll get my 2nd COVID19 vaccine dose, and I'm anticipating that I MIGHT experience debilitating side effects.

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Read for 70 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He says he made bad decisions about both his career and his family.  He in fact ignored the challenge his wife was giving him that she was "doing their job all alone," and he entered a Congressional race based on jerry-rigged polls.  Hmmm.  I can see how these decisions were "wrong," but were they also "right" in the long run?

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Let's change it from "D-DAY" to "D-ERA"

At 70, I do have memories.  "Gospelship" with David (versus "Friendship").  Affirmations.  Visiting properties in Dana Point (why did THAT memory come to me earlier this morning?).  Well, I could go on, but the memories I'd like to cultivate and enhance are the ones about what I've just read.

Soon I'll begin boning up/reading/studying about non-profits in the USA and abroad; about financial considerations when approving a grant.  And I need my mental faculty to be sharp and yes, Fred Cramer, even "crisp."

It will happen, but not without a concerted effort, based on organized and regular focus on the issues at hand.

Bill Gates' recent interviews (on 60 Minutes, and in the NYT (SWAY podcast)) lay out general "threads" (or silos, or directions, or _______ (there must be other terminology for this)) that we could follow in David's Foundation.

From the SWAY podcast on February 15, 2021, in which  Kara Swisher interviews Bill Gates:

B&MG Foundation

• WHO
• Malaria
• COVID vaccine
• Tech regulation
• Anti-trust
• Mark Zukerberg
• CLIMATE CHANGE  (gave Ted Talk in 2010)
• Electrify _______ (Africa)
• Created TerraPower, _____ Energy
• Software/Internet - unique domaine
• Medicine (saving children's lives in developing countries)
• CO2 control vis a vis energy development
• ZERO GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS because this determines how much warmer the earth gets, weather changes, trees/forest burns..... CO2 shooting up.
• cant just focus on near-term goals - might be worse.
• Steel, cement, meat
• CARS are only 1/3 of the problem; 2/3 are "the hard stuff"
• GREEN PREMIUM - measure of how much doing something (e.g. fly private plane) costs.  For electric cars, green premium is going down.
• Energy consumption - in the US, we should reduce consumption.  But the undeveloped world uses hardly any at all.  So we need to EQUALIZE energy consumption......the goal is "ZERO"