2021-12-03 — Metta Mind

Howdy, my lovelies! 😊

Hope y’all enjoyed this fabulous Friday! 🙂

I took it pretty easy again today, which was nice. I did have a hard time getting up this morning, but I did get up. I think I’ve been averaging about 6 to 6 1/2 hours of sleep, and that’s not enough. It’s 8:08, so cross your fingers, if I can write relatively quickly, I might just make it to bed on time tonight, which would give me 7 hours of sleep.

I’ve been trying to see if this will do. I’m trying to improve my diet (realizing that there’s still a pretty hefty amount of sugar in my diet, even eating “healthily” (in quotes because apparently, i still have a ways to go). I was drinking more orange juice lately, to break of the monotony, but then I realized it has 26 grams of sugar per serving, and a serving is only 8 oz!!!

Good crap!

So… I’m finishing up my OJ… might just give it away… Trying to figure out a good…

Whoops! it’s 8:14 now… squirreled away looking for zero-sugar breakfast cereals. Grape nuts. And… ? Shredded wheat?

Anyway, not sure how I got off on that, other than that’s what I was learning about right before I started today’s entry.

Oh yeah! I’m hoping that my good diet will help me have more effective sleep, that better nutrition will help the body do what it needs to do faster. We’ll see. Cross your fingers. I’m gonna have better nutrition anyway, regardless of how it effects my sleep.

Good day today, especially the morning. For my meditation this morning I created my own metta meditation, which was really good. 😊 I’m going to modify it tomorrow, but it was really good. I recorded it, downloaded an audio app with a loop option, and I just looped that meditation for… a long time. 🙃 I let it run in the background while I was doing other things as well, and do you know what? My brain is already starting to apply it without me even thinking about it.

So. Freaking. Cool!

I’m excited about that. In my quest for no fear, the acquisition of selfless love for all (which is much more important than becoming fearless) will be instrumental.

Oh, and my cold shower this morning was almost… hum drum? The anticipation is still nerve racking, but… today, my body didn’t even really try to hyperventilate much. It was just like, ok, here we go again. I know what’s going on. And within maybe a couple of minutes, it was almost like normal water. I mean it was cold, but it was like, whatever. I didn’t even really feel it (maybe because the skin was numb 🙃).

I found some good stuff during my nonprofit work this morning–creating a list of A+ rated nonprofits that have absolutely stellar funding and re-appropriation grades. I’m thinking they might be good places to mine information for running an efficient nonprofit. 🙂

Made good progress on the tax stuff today. That was good.

Put the new radiator support in the van today and put the new tensioner pulley and both new belts on my Z4. Just have to replace that coolant hose, but I wasn’t quite up for that today, jacking up the car, draining the coolant, etc. Probably would have gone relatively quickly, but… I was done for the day on that stuff.

I picked up a 58-inch donor Smart TV for Thomas to learn to fix TVs with. I did one car today, I coolant leak diagnosis on a 2012 Lexus GX460. That’s gonna be a bigger job than I want to take on (it’s leaking at a gasket under the intake manifold. Probably a 6+ hour job. Not what I’m in the mood for right now. I’ve been saying no to probably 75% of callers lately. I’ve been focusing on taxes and self improvement.

And both focuses are paying off.

Daily Accountability

• Bed last night at 8:30: Close! I think it’s closer to 9 just about every night.
• Up at 3:30: 😎
• 5x5s: 😎
• Exercise: 😎
• Cold shower: 😎
• Meditation:😎
• Breakfast: 😎
• NP Work: 😎
• Tax Work: 😎
• Lunch: 😎
• Work done by 6: 😎
• Dinner: 😎
• Only truly healthy foods: 😎
• No Wasted Life: 😎
• No Distracted Driving: Still doing better, but needing more work still.
• Faced a Fear: Nope.
• Tamed the tongue: 😎
• Bag of veggies: No, but I am eating my pea protein now… finally!

I’m encouraged. Good progress. I can feel my perspective shifting. I can feel my responses to the circumstances of my life changing on the inside and not just in action.

🥳

May you feel love. May you feel peace. May you feel joy.

Good night, my lovelies. 😊

Lift the World

~ stephen