2021-11-22 — Redline

Good morning, my lovelies! 🥰 Happy first day of morning journaling to keep me off of screens for at least an hour before bed in order to improve sleep, in order to sleep more efficiently, in order to have more time to Lift the World!!! 🙂

TGIM! 😁

I hope y’all are having/had a beautiful Monday 🙂.

Ok, on my end, it’s time to punch the gas, no more casual driving, gonna redline it.

No obstacles. Only opportunities.

No excuses.

I am fearless. I am kindness. I am love. I am light. I am integrity. I am courage. I am determination. I am indomitable!

And I’m grateful 🥲

1. I’m grateful to have gotten to bed on time last night–or close, at least!
2. I am grateful that I was able to get up at my new time this morning of 3:40. It didn’t feel any different than any of the other days, though I would guess my body will take a little bit to be fully acclimated to the new schedule. I might change it to 3:30. We’ll see. As best I can tell, science says minimum of 7 hours of sleep for a healthy body and a healthy mind, otherwise you risk long-term issues, even potential increases of risk for Alzheimer’s, though the latter is only a correlative study and not a causal one.
3. I am grateful that my mom has been so helpful to me and my efforts to stay away from pornography. I give her my computer and phone each night when I go to bed, and she brings them out early in the morning for me.
4. I am grateful that my cell phone has data, so I can write this journal entry this morning. The internet is once again out at our house. We did great for a long time, but lately our internet has been spotty. It’s nice to have a backup to be able to do this with.
5. I’m grateful to be motivated to do more than I have been on this journey to no fear. I can feel fear wanting to creep in just at the thought of pushing harder, but that’s what it’s all about! That is what it is all about!!! Bring it on!
6. I am grateful for the progress that is being made in my daily 5×5. The driveway is nearly completely free of all my junk. It hasn’t been that way in a very long time.
7. I am grateful for the YouTube videos that I’ve been making. I listened to my own video from yesterday this morning, and it was helpful. Helpful to get me to focus in.
8. I’m grateful for the increased self-discipline that I feel and the increased Focus that I seem to be developing. Those are both extremely important to me and will be essential for this journey both to no fear as well as to perfect love and all the other attributes that I am striving to develop.
9. I am grateful for the ability to choose what I want to eat, but I am able to customize my diet the way that I want to, without restrictions, for the most part. That’s definitely a luxury.
10. I’m grateful that work is slowing down a little bit for the moment. There’s usually a slower patch in November every year, and I think I’m in it right now, and I don’t mind at all. 🙂

Today’s Priorities

1. Meditate, including visualizing and repeating my self affirmations, my hopes and dreams, my core fears and the actions I’m taking to overcome those fears.
2. Get 2019 taxes done (internet willing. 🙃. Can’t do that stuff effectively on a cell phone)
3. Fear Facing:
   1. I’ll gonna make a video of me singing something today, probably one of my original songs. I haven’t played my guitar in ages, I doubt i remember the words to my own songs, so that’ll add what would normally be fear triggers, but i am fearless. I fear nothing, so… there will be no fear. 💪😎.
   2. I’m gonna reach out online to someone i could potentially be interested in.
   3. I’m going to strike up a conversation with a stranger that would normally be awkward.
4. I’m going to replace fear with love, over and over and over and over and over and over again in my mind. If I feel the tinge of fear, I’m gonna lightning analyze which core I’m dealing with, recognize it, replace it with the truth and what i want most, and reframe the situation in those terms, loving terms. There is no fear in love.

You already read and my day yesterday, so that’s all covered, so we’ll catch you with my video later this morning and my report of the day tomorrow morning! 🙂

Lift the World

~ stephen