Progress (2023)

Movies

• See 204 movies
• Most memorable scenes field
• Big list of movies to watch.
• Movie dairy in sheets and embedded in Life Trove.
• Continue movie twist project with details of twist in sheet.
• Childhood TV added
• Movie purpose, vision, principles, strategy
• Life Trove: Movies in order (movie posters, new labels)
• Director and Actor sheet with movies and # seen for each
• Movie genres and themes developed.
• Movie projects (e.g. music, biopic)

Photography

• Sensor cleaning
• Topaz AI sharpening and face recovery

Health

• Skin  check
• Poop check
• Oven roasted vegetables in Air Fryer
• Press ups

Being

• Meditation timers with interim chimes
• Formal Being very integrated into life (Ave: 21 mins per day, Total: 5.2 days)

Music

• Music while work
• Music playlists enriched & in order
• Movie themes playlist
• Nostalgia playlists (Childhood, TV, 20's, 30's, 40's)
• Life Trove Spotify embeds
• Music artist spreadsheet

Home

Home

• Toilet seat and shower head

Garden

• Tree removed and crack filled
• Back wood section with space
• New plants planted
• Irrigation system modified (with tricklers)
• Tiles cleaned with chlorine
• Front courtyard hanging garden sorted (climber controlled, new plants)
• Front courtyard hanging garden water controlled

Life Trove

• Life overview and Spiritual Dairy now easily editable
• Interactive maps (Antarctica & Nepal)
• Music with Spotify embeds
• Hike dairy and stats in embedded sheets
• Movie dairy & stats in embedded sheet

Compass

Compass Evernote

• Wisdom Trove notes moved out of old Compass notebook (all key notes now moved)
• Daily dashboard with tables & links.
• Daily reminders (Strategy, Wisdom, Assurance, Year so Far, Gratitude, Being, Creating)
• Daily review
• Custom Year calendar split into work & events
• Whimsical diagrams
• Decision template
• Add  shortcodes (E.g. Prox) to all key notes

Finances

• Invest  $10K in Dividend Fund
• With Macquarrie, visibility of food, transport expenses etc.

Purchases

Purchases electronic

• Magic mouse (rechargable)
• 4 more Apple tags

Purchases home

• Oil sprayer
• Stove
• Airfryer

Purchased for photography

• RF 14 - 35 lens
• RF 100 - 400 lens
• Sensor blower
• Topaz

Purchases Hiking

• Hiking backpack
• Hiking filter bottle (lost)
• Sleeping bag liner
• Hiking boots

Wisdom Trove and Life is God's Movie

Life is God's movie

• Distilled Summary 
• Feedback on summary from Tania, Aimee, Shushann
• Putting quote topics in order in Evernote (lgmx) and Scrivener
• Quotes into sheets: Existing & new with title shading
• Scrivener add sub-levels in binder with special icons
• Chat GPT
• Principles: Top down verse Bottom up
• Experiential knowing verse Empirical & Rational knowing
• Metaphysical quotes and research
• Experience → Knowledge, Understanding
• Source Quotes:  Plots, Story, Narrative, Experience, Movies, Cinema
• David Chalmers: Reality +
• Joan Tollifson quotes
• Protagonist flaws & tribulations make for rich story: Aimee in tears
• Begin Metaphors for God in Scrivener

Wisdom Trove

• In order: Essays and quotes put into Google sheets and docs
• Add keywords to quote titles in Evernote
• SEO meeting with Stuart

Topics

• Dreaming
• Deep sleep
• Solipsism
• Thought experiments
• Don't take life too seriously
• Themes, Plots
• Villian, Hero, Protagonists
• Don't take life too seriously
• Thought experiments,
• Design your life
• Create the future
• Intellect
• Embrace your role but not lose identity
• Immersive experiences

Kindle

• Create book collections

Insights (2023)

Dx binging is bad for productivity

• 7 hours on 7 pills (5 hours on 2 pills)

Essential to do bank checks 

• Lost $440 over 2 years from Roommates.com

Be informed, ignorance is stressful

• Capital gains on property, did calculations. Became clear.
• Research on PAYE.
• Research on % of house in tax returns.
• % yield on dividends verse interest.

When the mind is anxious, it tells terrible lies

• E.g. Slideshow, tax sms

Nip potential issues in the bud right away

• Become informed (online & experts)
• Prevention, not cure.
• Face worries & take action.
• Knowing can prevent so much worry.
• E.g. Tax issue if I'd googled it.

Look after health. 

• Blood pressure
• Pulse
• Blood tests
• Slim checks
• Get a watch
• Do exercise
• Get rid of belly fat

When climbing a hill, go slow. 

• Not exert heart rate
• Metaphor for life. One step at a time, super slow.
• Power of tiny steps without exertion. This step alone. Limit looking at destination.

Don’t take Gav as gospel

• Better to be realistic than overly optimistic 

Love & respect My Future self.  

• What I do today. What I choose. My dex consumption.  All effect my beloved future self. Do it for him.

Progress (2022)

Being & Spiritual Connectedness

• 30 mins per day average of Being (Sit & Be, Lie & Be) for Nov & Dec
• Time tracking of Being
• Presence, Spaciousness, Surrender wisdom deeply reviewed & understood

Compass: Evernote, Chrome

• Evernote shortcuts with divider headings
• Chrome folders with favicons & spaces
• Old Account Evernote notebooks culled: History & Links work when move
• Icon links on my desktop and Dock to Evernote
• Chrome new tab photo & reminder of "Presence, Spaciousness, Surrender. On desktop too.

Compass: Task management

• Day Checklist: Daily review
• Todoist for out and about tasks, shopping

Compass: Tracking

• Habits (including Being)
• Dex usage
• Work time allocation
• Walking distance

Compass: Guiding Wisdom & Practices

• Daily Wisdom Reminder
• Assurance reviews & in order
• Thinking & Problem solving: Curated wisdom & put into order
• Task management: Principles & practices
• Being, Spaciousness, Surrender extensively reviewed & the relationship between them deeply understood.
• Guiding quotes moved into relevant wisdom & practices pages

Computer

• Macbook Pro arrives and set up
• Files in order and backed up
• Very fast: Allows huge Lightroom catalogue
• Battery check: Long life
• Added "Show desktop" to the dock

Finances & Accounts in order

• New bank account (Macquarie) with good interest.
• Update payment details for all suppliers
• CMC Trading Account for investments
• Apple Pay on phone
• Finances in order: Spreadsheet:  Annual review, Regular commitments
• Annual review: Group large purchases by category
• Analyse large purchases. Which unnecessary?
• New wallet with Apple tracker
• Key documents scanned and uploaded to Evernote
• Start sales project.  Camera stuff sorted for selling.

Purchases

• Glasses
• Mirrorless R5 and lenses
• iPhone 14
• Clothes for Arctic
• 4 Air tags
• Air Fryer 

Dex in order (?)

• Calculated how 8 much more productive than 12

Photography

• Canon R5 with RF 100 - 500 (eye detection)
• Fotojet Premium desktop app (large canvas size)
• Photography in The Arctic: Massive mojo back, confidence from feedback
• Back into photography (birding)
• All photos in one Lightroom database (except current)

Bird photography

• The Arctic
• Barton Park
• Rondevlei, Kirstenbosch, Strandfontein
• Life Trove birding in order & life list

Life Trove

• Take underlines away
• Surprise me 
• Add search field
• Change "surprise" me to "random memory"
• Video content
• Add Clicky
• Hone labels
• Up to top improved visually
• Going through spiritual journal by year and honing and adding.
• Add school photos.
• Add Jenny, Cannon, Mr Suttle
• Add "Ode to things I love": Mountains, beaches, icecream, river swimming
• Birding & Hiking in order
• Add more priceless moments
• Arctic photos, South Africa bird photos

Health

• Neck massage at physio (Jessie). My mind at rest. After massage, so much better.
• Lie on back and be

Movies

• The Flixster & other Youtube like sites to stream movie
• Movie spreadsheet: Movies to watch
• Life Trove: Movie dairy in order (with dates, grouped by cinema & at home)
• Find more movies with a twist and watch
• Add twist summary to movies with a twist and create movie twists sheet

Food

• Filter coffee coffee plunger
• Air Fryer

Wisdom Trove

General

• Replace Excel and Word with Google docs and sheets (with ability to split screen)
• Topic: "Life is God's experience": Traffic and high duration.
• Daily traffic reached 200 per day with over 10% repeat visitors.
• Edit replace:  Testing 

Life is a Movie (book)

• Scrivener
• Structure and flow
• Fantasy experiments
• Quotes in Scrivener
• Source quotes on dreaming
• Working on Daily Wisdom Reminder, Presence, Spaciousness, Surrender. Increased my understanding a lot.

Life is a Movie (topics)

• What makes a character in a movie or book interesting?
• Imagination contains unlimited possibility and potentiality
• Imagination contains immense creative power
• See your ego as the hero of your life story
• The purpose of life is to become a lover of life
• Is life predestined or predetermined?
• Conflict and its resolution adds interest and profundity to both movies and real life
• Amor fati: Love of fate
• The purpose of life is character development
• Fiction, fantasy and myth can point to deep truths
• Identify not as an ego but as awareness
• Depersonalisation
• The world as "maya" or illusion
• Be the witness, the watcher, the observer
• We are not the mind or its thoughts. We are consciousness.
• We are not the body or brain. We are consciousness.
• Sit back in the seat of awareness and enjoy the passing show
• Stay open by never closing
• Purchasing experiences tends to bring greater happiness than buying things
• Experience brings greater happiness than possessions
• Consciousness is the ultimate scientific mystery
• Gnosis: An indisputable knowing knowing experienced beyond the mind
• The observer effect: The observed cannot exist independently of the observer

More topics

• Everything in the universe is vibration
• String Theory
• God and imagination are one
• Emptiness (Sunyata)
• The purpose of life is to create
• Entropy and the tendency towards disorder
• Our purpose in life is to lower entropy
• The universe and life is governed by randomness and chance - or is it?
• Determinism
• Scientific and nondual arguments for causality being an illusion
• Knowing and being are one
• The experiencer and experience are one
• The power of metaphors
• How are happiness and meaning related?
• The purpose of life is to minimise pain - or is it?
• Hedonic verse eudaimonic happiness
• The purpose of life is to maximise pleasure - or is it?

Progress (2021)

Health

• Smoothies

Spiritual

• Bernardo Kastrup Youtube and course

Folders

• Chrome bookmark folders
• iPhone Home Folders

Rituals

• Compass dashboard each day
• Sit and be
• Gratitude in morning
• Time working

Life in order

• Realise importance
• Work in order allows momentum across many
• Financial spreadsheet for annual review

Life design

• Start it properly
• Realise importance of research

Purchases

• iPhone 13
• Macbook Pro 
• Personal freezer
• Kmart clothes (T shirt, trousers,  track-suit tops, shorts) 

Wisdom Trove

Content

• Truths - do many topics
• Metaphors for God
• Spiritual narratives (The purpose of life, The existence of cosmic meaning and purpose: fact or fiction?)
• The paranormal  (near death experiences, psychedelics, savants, telepathy etc.)
• God (Evidence for and against God, Can an omnipotent God be reconciled with the existence of evil and suffering in the world?)
• Comedians
• Aimee poems
• Hedonic adaptation, Mathematics, Quantum fields
• Many topics on Death, Creativity, Wisdom
• Wisdom in humour, poetry, stories, humour

Life is God's movie

• Life is God's movie: book (Presentation to Aimee, Structure and flow)
• The world we experience is a projection of the mind
• The finite mind is a virtual reality headset that consciousness puts on
• Virtual reality
• Is the world we experience an illusion?
• Is the world a computer simulation?
• The world we experience is a virtual reality simulation of the real world
• Time and space exist only as appearances in consciousness
• The separate self (ego) you take yourself to be is no more real than a fictitious character in a movie.
• Idealism, Dualism, Panpsychism, Materialism
• Science, philosophy and spirituality all point to the illusion of the self

Secondary menu

• Set up

Sidebar

• Related truths, related advice, full check

Home page

• Featured topics, Profound truths, Advice for living

Development

• Find Rujuta
• Menu's, random owl heads, login-out, view your profile
• Edit replace

Set to live (end Sep)

• Launch to friends (Shushann, Gavin etc.)
• Gavin send out

Admin functions

• Stats (Clicky visitor action log)
• Admin view
• Chrome favourite folders

Nic site

• Dispel Elementor

Progress (2020)

 

General

• Smoothies
• Bathroom ceiling
• My room cabinet, and Heather too
• Airconditioning cabinet
• Lydia and Shushann hiking, The Boys hiking

Spiritual

• Gratitude every morning
• Blessings

Blog

• Random link
• Screensaver shows my photos

Wisdom Trove

General

• Sub menu implemented
• Destination realisation
• Contemporary author connect: (see Deepak)
• Custom title: Deepak Chopra (quotes), Deepak Chopra
• Recent topics list: show curator and time since, right aligned
• Related links like tags
• Delete revisions from database. Search replace super fast.

Curator content management

• Implement Buddyforms and learn
• Choose Formiddable Forms and implement
• Forms, Views
• Publish from Admin to Form
• All updaters set to pending approval
• Not curated gets “Curate this author” promo box with link to form
• Curator admin area. Curate. Edit and Update. Guidelines.
• Curator photos in curation list and filter by curator
• Curator Resource Centre
• Login and registration forms
• Different content viewed by logged in users and not logged in

Templates

• Post types and taxonomies
• Author & Book templates with ACF
• Authors & Books migrated
• Essays migrated

Page reviews

• Topic tags with related books
• Widget links, add (quotes) to title
• Search thesaurus
• Spacing of related

Design

• Topic lists, Types of wisdom, Paths to All with navigation item
• Droid Sans Font
• Underline for authors further down
• Take away link underline

New content

• Tanya books
• Authors Me: Benjamin Franklin, Susan Montag, Ambrose Bierce, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Anthony de Mello, Thich Nhat Hanh, Jon Kabat-Zinn, David Allen, Napoleon Hill, Samuel Johnson, Aldous Huxley
• Uncurated authors (many)
• Books: Awake, Who is in Charge?, Free will, Awake, No more Mr Nice Guy, Not Nice, Approval Addiction, The Disease to Please
• Aimee: Imperfect, Anne Lammot, Anne Lamott, Shakti Gawain, M. Scott Peck, Anaïs Nin, Rainer Maria Rilke, and many more
• Topics: Journaling, Skepticism, Finetuning, God is everywhere (WIP), God within all (WIP), Great things take time
• Poems: Mindfulness, Free Will, Friendship, Aimee poems
• Life lessons: Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Johnson, Elon Musk (WIP: Shakespeare)
• Summaries: Values, Purpose
• Questions: Decision making, Free Will
• Humerous topics:  11 topics
• Visuals: Approval seeking, Values, Mindfulness, Free Will, Consciousness, Friendship
• Enhanced quotes:  Approval seeking
• Profound truths (50+)
• Non curated authors: 250

Life is a Movie

• Power of myths
• Life is God’s movie, movie of multiple genres, life is God’s work of art etc.

Metaphors for God

• Metaphors for God (quotes)
• Books read: God Reflected, Wearing God, God the What. Google research.

Quote database

• Export all topic quotes

Progress (2019)

General

• Uber Eats
• Work at Botanica

Purchases

• Asus monitor
• iPhone 11
• Canon 90d
• Air conditioning

Compass

• Realisation of NB of life in order
• Realisation of need for balance and variety
• Calendar week view and year view in To Do (Evernote)
• Life dashboard with spiritual proof
• Compass on Evernote overhauled. Much better.
• Doing writing in iPad with pencil with colour highlights
• Life dashboard daily and to do
• Future (Planning, life design) = The past (reflection, curating, surprise)
• The importance of progress
• Purpose, Vision, Guiding principles, Guding wisdom, Guiding quotes, Strategic plan (Initiatives, Focus Areas, Success measures, Actions, Goals), Processes, Practices and exercises (gratitude, proud, progress), Progress, Reviewing and planning
• Planning
• Importance of success measures and progress tracking

Spacious, aware, surrendered

• Floor work with crystal
• Fingers crossed in Awareness
• Music daily
• Thank you for awareness, spaciousness, surrender
• Oneness blessings and workshop
• Mantra each day
• Jo Dispensa meditation

Exercise, diet, rest

• Realise NB of balance + feel cost
• Dex in order (7 per day)  Use of crystal. 

Photography, nature, hiking, outings   

• Photography purpose, vision, strategy
• Fotojet collages
• Back into photography. Manly, CBD meet up
• Photo slideshow on Wonder Trove
• Put “wondrous places" into Wonder Trove
• Lightroom in order (2017-2019, iPhotos, collages)
• Contemporary Art Gallery, Powerhouse Museum

Life Trove

• life-trove.com and wonder-trove.com 
• Life curation (idea and quotes)
• Life Trove: extra details in sidebar of "life so far” 
• Life Trove = Wisdom Trove = Compass  (curation, truth = sacredness, inspire embracing of life, compass is Wisdom Trove applied, shared on Life Trove)
• Spirit Trove put into Life Trove - now integrated and cleaned up
• My spiritual journey - idea to have it, developing it
• Moved all tags on left into site
• Add passion projects
• Add gratitude, progress etc.
• Added Cambridge dairy
• Surprise me

Wisdom Trove 

• Wisdom Trove vision and strategy slides
• Related links and thesaurus in search
• Vision slide-deck 
• Google slides: Art work, photos, portraits, infographics
• Artists and photographers
• Random Wisdom nuggets idea
• Aimee doing authors (list and quotes)

Home

• Car gone ($350), plates given in
• Air conditioning in room and Martin’s room
• Car mirror, service
• Trellis on balcony

Insights (2019)

• The importance and power of balance and variety.
• Power of being real, not perfect.
• Thank you life, for awareness, surrender and spaciousness.
• Wisdom Trove, Compass and Life Trove are expressions of the same thing: Guiding wisdom and appplication (Compass) and the sharing of the wisdom, applied to my life (Life Trove,)  Also about truth and inspiration to see sacredness of world and embrace life.
• My life is a laboratory for experimenting with the wisdom from Wisdom Trove.
• Wisdom Trove is a form of content curation: Selective wisdom, specific theme (Wisdom on the art of living) and a specific point of view.

Progress (2018)

General

• Life dashboard (In Evernote, read daily)
• RA money ($60,000)
• Music and sangha on walks
• Subscribe email on Aimee site

Health

• Got dex down to 2.5
• No dex for 6 days
• Healthy diet (fruit, veg, no processed food)

Home

• My bed frame
• Plants in room, more buddha statues

Purchases

• Buy Jilly car
• iPhone X and watch
• iPad pro
• Apple music
• IKEA large cushions
• Sonos speakers, Homepod
• Sony Headphones

Insights (2018)

12 focus areas of my life strategy

• Aware, Surrendered, Spacious
• Connection, Wisdom, Wonder
• Exercise, Diet, Rest
• Vision, Strategy, Process

More

• Consciousness is inner experience. Consciousness is the ultimate mystery.
• World of perception, not matter
• Purpose, Vision, Values (Inner verse Outer purpose)

Progress (2017)

Progress

• Eyes tested and reading glasses
• Putlocker. Solar Movies.
• Spiritual journal online. 
• Voices of the mind. Madam Flagella. Cardinal Bogi. Tobasco. Miss Coy
• Look outside from desk.
• Stop eating chicken
• Sugar diet (month)
• Working away from home. Hot spotting. 
• iPad on my back. 
• Evernote vision, principles, year view
• Grocery shopping online
• Wisdom Trove wordpress site
• Sigma 8 - 14 mm lens
• Sharing $ 500 for Gavin, $ 50-100 travel sharing
• Wordpress skills (Wisdom Trove, Aimee's site)

House

• Grey stairs and step
• Guest bathroom: vanity, shower
• My bath back to white
• Fill floor hole in dining room
• Storeroom
• Towel rack in my bathroom
• Bin cover and water heater cover
• Car cleaned & tires pumped
• Patio door handle
• Collage photos (dining room)
• Cupboard painted inside
• Paint chairs and table grey
• Blind in Martin’s room
• Fan in Martin’s room
• Dishcloth rack
• Stool for router
• Internet sorted:  100 mbs!!
• Kate IKEA, drawers, mirror
• Charging table, Kate’s platform
• Buddha statues
• Bed frame

Purchases

• Macbook
• Wide angle lens
• Kindle
• Glasses 
• Withings watch

Insights (2017)

•  Did not rush into telling Srini to leave
• Rush to tell Sharon re Yogi without planning it
• Did not rush into threat with Sharmista.  Sent her blessings.
• Mal Plumber under immense pressure - took personally. 
• Interplay of Essence and Substance
• Make decisions using Consciousness ladder
• Surrender - no agency, nothing personal

Progress (2016)

Progress

• Utter simplicity, only essentials
• Clean, uncluttered room
• Smoothies
• Suntanning on balcony
• Renting out two room - extra $1400 pm
• Mindful walks increasingly mindful
• Sun glasses
• Eyes tested and reading glasses. 
• Putlocker. Solar Movies. 

Purchases

• Blue tooth speakers
• New clothes

Life Trove and photography

• Spiritual journal online. 
• Lightroom Universe and printing of photos
• Photos on my wall

Home renovations

• Finish house
• Floors
• Toilet

Wisdom Trove

• Headings and sub-headings

Spiritual

• Really smiling and laughing at the voices in my head. Great.
• Labelling the voices (mind patterns) in my head that drown out the silence. (Mr Sinister, Mr Spiritual Hero etc.)  Really helps to get focus back on moment. 
• Experiencing the letting go of impulse to rush and be present while doing DIY. Focus on giving each action full attention. Amazing!!
• A massive and direct experience of the huge impact of tension (especially urge to rush) and the deepest profound impact of l
• Thank you Divine / Inner Consciousness.  Saying it all time.
• A real knowing that all inspiration comes from a divine source, consciousness creating through me. Starting to say thanks whenever it flows.

Insights (2016)

• Love the mind; the being. "Its ok my baby"
• Just notice what's here. What's here Now?
• Utter simplicity. Absolutely necessary? Space up.
• All spiritual thoughts are empty, arising from emptiness and returning to it. All pointing to this.
• May all beings be happy and free
• Watching mind and labeling
• This is a natural world, governed by natural laws, unfolding a meant to, and Life is on the journey too.
• A multiverse of different laws ?
• The totality of the universe brought me and this moment into being. Exactly as meant to be. As am I. 
• Don't act in anger or resentment (Chris, Sue)
• What is happening now? What is arising in the space I am?

Insights (2015)

Spiritual

• Reading the Mystery Experience.
• Cast of characters in head & dialogues
• Radical letting go and surrender.
• Letting go of psychic tension (rushing, striving, physical tension).
• Churning for order blocks creativity and inspiration.  I let my mind be alive, untamed, free.
• Give it space to breathe. Not smother it.
• A change will require a radical change (Radical Letting Go)
• When present, it's Consciousness that experiences wonder. Sees out of eyes of this form.
• Movie: Amy leading to universe as art.
• Life is Consciousness’s epic masterpiece of art, each of us a brushstroke.
• Slow and easy, my friend, All is Well.
• Am I here now?
• Test for truth: What expands the soul.
• God is experiencing Life through each living form. A symphony.

Other

• Stop avoiding and face it.  (leak)
• Plan ahead to avoid last minute stress (balcony)
• Power of a bit at a time (SA blog, Evernote migration)
• Need to be more decisive (state preference)
• Need to let go of need to impress (Chrisel)
• Not rushing into floors solution - evolved

Progress (2015)

Mac and Apps

• Buy Mac and Dell screen
• Learn Mac set up & do for mum & Jo
• Todoist
• Evernote
• Wisdom Trove to Evernote
• Faster Internet (Gateway)

DIY

• Realise I can get new bathroom, flooring for not as much as thought.
• Painting
• Courtyards
• Demolition (doors, air conditoning)

Photography

• Lightroom Universe
• Tamron 18 - 300 lens
• Mindful editing
• Canon 70d

Media

• Netflix
• Music while work
• Bosch Headphones

Compass

• Facelift (Apple simple and beautiful)
• Fluid structure in Compass (guiding principles, insights, gems, humour)
• Home page dashboard
• Week view
• Quarterly focus (especially expenses)
• Evernote links from Excel
• Quarterly wellbeing graphs with pointers
• Data validation
• Wisdom (combined gems, insights, principles)
• Checklist filter
• Expense - Big Items

Insights (2014)

• Everything is perfect.  Innate perfection in every single thing. 
• Love is all that's real. All else is a lie.
• My purpose: love and laughter, wonder and wisdom.
• All thoughts that are not loving or peaceful are a lie.
• I am …  It is …
• Love it all. Hate nothing. Love what is.
• Approval / disapproval is just someone's story (opinion.) Not worth anything as not certain of it.
• My job is to to approve of myself, not seek approval or love externally.
• I am breathed. I am thought.
• Don't take anything personally. Their projections.
• Whose business is this? Mine? Hers? Gods?
• Conscious of psychic energy drain (energy parasites) - track energy
• Plan ahead as much as I review past. Plan trips like military operation.
• It's all about raising my state of consciousness. Ladder of consciousness.
• The power of intention.  Set intention. That's all I really have control over.
• Treat myself with the love and respect of a cherished friend.  Infinite patience and compassion.
• No more Mr Nice Guy. Meet my own needs.

Progress (2014)

Life-Trove and Compass

• Blog: labels, priceless moments, post intro's
• Blog: priceless moments for each year
• Humour - in excel, really make people laugh.
• First full year recorded in Excel
• Using Facebook to promote my photos, blog and life.  Connect to friends.

Photography

• Camera (Canon S110, iphone 6, Canon 70d)
• Making photo collages into art form
• Hiking photography becoming art.
• Start photographing small moments of life too.

Life

• Movie downloads + headphones
• House maintenance
• Life full of social and adventure (a sundae).

Health

• Power of catnaps
• Smoothies
• Press ups (looking good)
• A great circle of friends (hiking gang)

Insights (2013)

• God is in the stillness. I love God more than thought.
• My purpose is to be a calm, loving space for consciousness to flow into the world.
• Who I am cannot be harmed, threatened or diminished.
• I need nothing external to be complete. I am complete. I am love.
• Guilt is caviar of the ego and low on the consciousness ladder. Remorse, resolve and move on.
• I have the perfect ego and mind and pain body to learn what I'm here to learn.
• The purpose of life is to learn, grow, evolve and enjoy.
• The mind is inherited and thoughts are not real.
• Don't make sex into a mind construct - take mind out of it.
• The power of letting be, letting out, letting go, letting flow.
• Turning "not enough" into "so much." (abundance and gratitude)
• Be a space through loving what is.
• Trust life's unfolding and welcoming what is - no need for fear. All for my higher good.
• The power of processing emotions without identifying or creating a story.
• Grieving Dani is ok and understandable - there's no time limit.
• The need to impress is an archiles heal. External approval is just my projection.
• Listen without advice.  Who am I to know what's best for another.
• Let go of judgement. Let her be. Let me be. We all have different egos and pain bodies.
• We do the best we can at the consciousness we're at. Let go of guilt.
• Consciousness that flows is forever, energy sucked into the ego drains and dies.
• The story of me is an illusion - subjective, edited, selective perception. Will die.
• Negative states of mind are a delusion caused by inappropriate attention and exaggeration.
• Never try to think myself out of a low mood.
• Divine Essence is not out there.  It's everywhere.  Its in me. It's who I really am.
• I'm not here to annihilate the ego, but heal and lighten it and let it go.
• Thank the mind.  Let the mind be free. It's not an enemy.
• Consciousness is about intention. Why am I doing this? From love. Or to impress, from fear?
• There are no tests or punishments.  Just consequences and opportunities to learn and evolve.
• Life is an experiment to see what works. Try new approaches.  
• Don't get lost in needless ideology.  Just a few leaves, not the forest. Pointers to love & stillness.
• Being and stillness are at the centre of my life, not something to fit in.
• I'm exactly where I'm meant to be and the past is perfect, having brought me here.
• The Map of Consciousness (David Hawkins)

Progress (2013)

Compass

• Reflection and insights integral part of life
• Start life tracking in excel 
• Track expenses
• Timesheet

Spiritual

• Purpose to be a loving, calm space for consciousness to flow
• Deep spiritual wonder, LOVE, crying, release
• Ability to feel and cry, especially to music and on walks.
• Power of meditation (yawn, stretch, cry) to blits agitation
• Deep stillness on some walks
• Daily mindful walking
• Power of music to make me feel (sad violin)
• Compassion (press exhibit, homeless man, Carl, Chris's guy)
• Equanimity and peace of mind and presence during my Xmas trip
• Deep spiritual wonder and love
• Develop Mantra
• Music ( i-tunes lite, spiritual music, Spotify)

Wisdom Trove

• List of virtues, challenges, vices
• All quotes in excel
• Manage distractions (news, Facebook)
• Timed working
• Mindfulness bell
• Manage distractions (news, Facebook)

More

• Joining Meet Up
• i-phone notes
• Personal commitments (off double dex, porn)
• Spreading dex out over day
• Cooking with slow  cooker
• Two handed tennis forearm
• Camera club presentation
• Fearless injection, by breathing
• Kept to my fundamentals while in enormous pain re Dani pregnancy  (walks, breakfast, timed work, meditation)

Insights (2012)

• Mindfulness - watching, letting it be.
• My Divine Being.
• Consciousness behind presence. Purpose to allow to flow into world.
• Non resistance to pain - watching it.
• Adversity and suffering has its gifts - growth, learning and spiritual awakening.
• Learn from failure and mistakes.
• Personal productivity and time management
• Minimalism, declutter
• What would love and peace do now?
• Let go my the story of me - it's just a stream of thoughts.