SILENCE
Tried to silence brain for 70 seconds; choppy success.
LLL
Live. Laugh. Love.
AFFIRMATIONS
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
- I, Ken Taylor, am a loving human being.
Also said aloud for 70 seconds.
VISUALIZATION
193.6 Yesterday's weight
193.0 Today's weight
-0.6
I visualize weighing less tomorrow.
I visualize weighing less tomorrow, through:
- Eating only 2 meals every day: 1) Smoothie at 10am-11am, and 2) Dinner at 4pm-5pm.
- NOT eating anything between meals.
- Exercising every day
Reasons I'm AGAIN motivated are
- David's D-Day will likely happen sometime between now and APRIL 11, and I want to be in as good of physical (and therefore mental) shape as I can be.
- George tells me that if a person can stand on one foot for X seconds/minutes, then s/he will likely live longer.
- I feel better overall when I'm doing my exercises regularly
So, if I lose a pound every 1-2 days, I should be down to approx. 190 by April 11th.
Here's how I've done during the last 24 hours:
- Yesterday, I had only 2 meals: 1) smoothie & coffee at 10-11am, and 2) Steamed chicken/veggie w/dry toast & gin drink for dinner w/ at 4pm
- I had NOTHING between these meals.
- I exercised yesterday morning, and I exercised this morning (see below)
- It's April 8th, and I still weigh (199.0 - 6.0 ) 193.0
EXERCISE
Did my full base-72 routine for Friday, April 8, 2022:
- ankle/wrist circles 72
- toe/finger stretches 72
- bicycle crunches 72
- shoulder rolls 72
- inversion table 1 1.5 min set
- EPLEY MANEUVER 1Ram
- ball/wall 12
- angel/wall 12
- counter stretch 12
- flamingo R24, L30
- squats 36
- push-ups 36
READING, WRITING
Read for 70 seconds in SAPIENS by Yuval Noah Harari. He says we can only speculate on the question "What might have been if....." However, there are 2 aspects of our historical progression that might shed some light:
1) Hindsight Fallacy. Harari gives as an example of how history is strewn with paths and myriad options.... the 4th C BC decision of Constantine's choosing Christianity as a "unifying religion" that would, he hoped, unite his people. We wonder if he had a religious experience, or if his advisers merely thought it the path of least resistance at that time.
MY NOTE: "way leads on to way," and "life is a series of one-way streets" are two concepts by which I have lived my own life. Although I think it's impossible to return & try a different solution in a same or similar circumstance, I still think about it often. "We cannot know what might have been" - that's a quote by me. It sounds like it could be a line in, or even a title of a poem.
Read for 70 seconds in A PROMISED LAND by Barack Obama. He recalls being genuinely concerned with the direction of America, and specifically, the American economy, as he would inherit Reagan & Bush's "ownership society." He did not agree that we should allow more and more middle-class families to be shut out of the opportunity to become educated & follow their entreprennerial dreams. He was anti-"trickle down" and pro - "safety net." He went all over, promising that he would help them financially (i.e., tax wise) and educationally.
Read for 70 seconds in WORKING WITH ONENESS by Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee. He says there is no place in this new movement for a "pack-rat," like me. It slows me down and distracts me from what is more important. I keep things in part because I'm too lazy to throw or give them away, and in part because of my self-dialogue in which I almost always conclude that "I might regret throwing this away later on." Who knows? Maybe I'll soon do the following:
- Clean out closet & dresser drawer clothes (give away 1/2 of them)
- Clean out/organize junk drawer
- Discard receipts
- Keep (but organize) photo files
- THrow away DVDs, CDs, cassettes
- Throw away floppy discs, old program boxes
- Throw away old calendars
- Organize desk area, move files
- Throw away garage files (most of them)
- Dispose of or discard GAMOFITE files
- THrow away mind-polluting library
- Dispose of unwanted books
Read for 70 seconds in THE RIGHTEOUS MIND by Jonathan Haidt. He says Sweder countered Turiel by doing extensive studies in 2 sociocentric groups: An American city v. an Indian city. He found that there were moral principles that were universially accepted, but that there were also some that differed between the 2 cities. He developed a chart that shows the common threads of morality (harm), but then shows that each group has differing standards of morality (p. 19).
Read for 1+ pages in AN AMERICAN FAMILY by Jon & Michael Galluccio.
Read for 1+ pages in THE PERSIAN BOY by Mary Renault.
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