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?