20220128 SLLLAVERS FOR FRIDAY - NO D-DAY, NO D-ERA..... YET === WAIT WAIT WAIT!!!!!!!!! DAVID CALLED!!!!!!!!!!!!

D-DAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Dare I celebrate?  YES!!!!!!!!!!

What's first?

1.  Call George

2.  ............ I'll wait a week, and THEN tell Joe, Lisa, TLE

WAIT - I think I'm going to "lay low" for now.  I'll give it a buffer of about a week.

David says I can count on $20K within a week from now, but....... I think my cautionary nature is telling me to wait 7 days..... just to be sure.

20200201:  Still laying low.  Did not tell Lisa or Joe, and there is still no money.  David said today that Michael said today that the $$$ would be posted in John's account sometime on Wednesday, or Thursday, or Friday.

Deflated.  I'm also sick (MAJOR headache & sinus congestion).  So this is definitely a DOWN TIME.

I don't know..... 

3-4 days ago, I asked David, "What will you do if, on February 1st, there is still no money?"  And his reply was, "It'll depend on what the documents they are providing say."

I'm deflated.

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SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 70 seconds; did not do it.

LLL

Laugh.  Live.  Love.

AFFIRMATIONS

VISUALIZATION

198.6  Today's weight

199.2  Yesterday's weight

-0.6

I visualize weighing less tomorrow.

EXERCISE

Did a partial base-72 exercise routine for Friday, January 28, 2022:

1. ankle/wrist circles 72
2. toe/finger stretches 72
3. bicycle crunches 72
4. shoulder rolls 72
5. inversion table 1 1-min set
6. EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
7. balls to wall 13
8. angel wall 13
9. counter stretch 10
10. squats 6 
11. push-ups 8

READING, WRITING

Read for 1+ page in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says Guatama (Buddah) discovered that suffering resides in the human mind, and that as a young man, Guatama spent 6 years focusing on the causes of suffering.  He found that if the being is in pain, s/he wants to find ways to minimize or eliminate the pain completely.  And if the being is experiencing pleasure, s/he wants it to continue and probably to increase it.  However, in both cases, the mind fears that the pain will continue, or the pleasure will cease.

OK, so much for the human experience.  What else, Yuval?

20220127 SLLLAVERS FOR THURSDAY - NO D-DAY NO D-ERA - *sigh*

SILENCE

Tried to silence my brain for 60 seconds:  dismal failure.  ggggggg

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 for 70 seconds.

VISUALIZATION

199.2  Today's weight

197.6  Yesterday's weight

+1.6

I visualize weighing less tomorrow

EXERCISE

Did my full base-72 routine for Thursday, January 27, 2022:

1. ankle/wrist circles 72
2. toe/finger stretches 72
3. bicycle crunches 72
4. shoulder rolls 72
5. inversion table 1 60-sec set
6. EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
7. ball to wall 13
8. angel to wall 13
9. counter stretch 10
10. squats 36
11. push-ups 36 (24+12)

YAY!

READING, WRITING

Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari.  He says that not all religions of the world were/are monotheistic or polytheistic.  Siddhartha Guatama (500 BC) was rich, but saw that people are never content, and that possessions and even identities disappear at death.  So he asked what was the point of life.  Buddhism (India), Confuscianism (China), Stoicism (and Cynicism, and Epicureanism) (Mediterranean Basin)  are all "natural law" religions that began & developed around 1000-500 BC.

Read for 1+ page in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama.  He recalls making several "PR" trips during his campaign:  He went with General Petreas to Iraq (Miliki newly installed post Sadam Hussein) and posed for pictures in aviator glasses, while McCain posed in a golf cart with G.H.W.Bush on the same day when both pics were released.  BO was a lucky guy sometimes.

Read for 1+ page in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughn-Lee.  He says we must let love and knowledge grow, and use it for the purposes of God, and not of ourselves:  then we will experience the personal revelation of WHY WE ARE HERE, something that has not been fully realized for many generations.

I want to know why I am here.  But since that is an elusive quest (for me, anyway), I will continue to seek and find meaning and purpose in my day-to-day activities.

He also says ancient buildings (geometries) provided spiritual connection between one & many; today, it's spiritual groups which perform this function.

Read for 1+ page in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt.  He says (after Part I  (4 chapters on the elephant-rider metaphor) & Part II (4 chapters on the 6 taste buds metaphor) ) he will now address the 3rd aspect of his proposal in this book:  Morality binds and blinds.  He'll explore what religion is (not necessarily a bad thing, but an evolution of human need for "hive" activity (i.e., helping others, losing oneself), and how the "rest of us" are chimps, selfish and hypocritical.  He'll also discuss how we come/came to be "conservative" or "liberal" or "libertarian," and how we use these terms.

(NOTE:  I'm kinda rusty on these ideas, since I "took a month off" from any routine activity; I'll explore why that happened some other time.  I will note here, however, that this morning, I lay in bed and decided to clear my mind.  I don't know WHY I decided to do it.  But I began by doing my "SILENCE" section of my SLLLAVERS routine.  I just simply did it (60 seconds of silence, followed by meditation/prayer, followed by breathing exercises, followed by self-examination, followed by simple in-bed exercises, followed by.........  And then I did the next step.  I don't know why - I just did it.  And here I am, almost at the end of my daily routine.  I don't know why I did it today.  I just did it.)

Read for 1+ page in AN AMERICAN FAMILY by Jon and Michael Galluccio.

Read for 1+ page in THE PERSIAN BOY by Mary Renault