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Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts
Showing posts with label progress. Show all posts

20 June 2024

Progress (2024)


Big Items       

  • Dex in order:  4 + 2  (+1)
  • Daily Being: Average 48 mins / day
  • Presence, Surrender, Spaciousness
  • Lemon water,  Smoothies, Oats
  • Skin cream
  • Movies record = 47 docos, 137 movies, 15 TV, 14 rewatches = 213
  • Daily review & reminders
  • Financial visibility (All expenses, Income) over time
  • Daily walk with music
  • 35 Photography Meetups
  • Life Trove: Technology, role models, custom maps, stamps, scanned family photos



Life Trove


Books

  • Books read by year with images
  • Fiction & non-fiction


Movies

  • Favourite movies by year with poster images
  • Priceless moments: Add movie collages of favourite movies


Affirmation and encouragement

  • All treasured Life Trove comments added to a page, categorised.


Spiritual dairy

  • Add Spiritual journey pages to side navigation
  • Spiritual Diary label
  • Spiritual Journey overview moved to Sheets. (Allow links in text)
  • Remove document title from top (for Life overview too)
  • Add Nic hypnotherapy session
  • Teachers and role models (Mandela, Attenborough, spiritual teachers & quotes, Nic, Geraldine quotes, Mr Cannon, Jenny Mallett)


Compass & Wisdom Trove

  • Add mindmaps


Scanned family photos

  • Dad, Gran, Gramps, Mum, Ally, Gramps war & acting
  • Plays, beach, pool, UK visit, mum's London visit, horse riding, matric dance,  graduation,  Fab 4,  Jo boyfriends,  Playing in the garden, Matt, Youth
  • Share family photos on Whatsapp: Gramps acting, Dad's trains, Gramps war stories (Matt recount)


Family

  • Jo and family 2019 - 2024


Music

  • Favourite musicals playlists


Milestones

  • Milestones → Family milestones + Friends milestones + My milestones


Code

  • Add pencil edit code


Year highlights

  • More categories in index list


Travel

  • Custom maps (Sydney, Australia, Cape Town, Africa) with photographed places added
  • South Africa visits: Add details and in order
  • Custom Maps:  30 new maps
  • 1997 Travels in order
  • Add "Exploring the World" with country labels to left side


Role models

  • Role models, teachers & healers: Intro, books, quotes, insights


Blog tagline

  • Under Blog Title "A celebration of treasured moments"


Hiking

  • Add new hiking collage


Nostalgia

  • Computer games
  • Tain set
  • Stamp collecting: Add British mint stamps
  • Rugby world cup photos
  • Technology: Computers, Screens, Phones, Software, Headphones, PDA's, TV, HiFi, DVD


Home life

  • Labels for Willow Road, Hammersmith Grove, Brooklands Court, McMahon's Point, King Street


Matt's 21st

  • Matt speech videos & photos



Home


Effortless doing

  • Clear, unclutter, sweep in my room, kitchen, front courtyard


My room

  • New desk
  • 3 new Buddhas
  • Paint 3 buddhas


Courtyards and balcony

  • Remove plastic
  • Cement on my balcony and back coutyard
  • Martin's balcony step

Painting

  • Stairs 
  • Step in my room


Dining room

  • Carpet changed around



Photography


Photography Meetup

  • 39 outings (Tourist in Sydney)
  • New friends: Jason, Libby, Stan, Matthew, Beata, John
  • Beata & John outings
  • Sydney map


Purchases

  • iPhone 16 Pro with 5x zoom


Video

  • Realisation I must share Canva video, not reduce quality in Vimeo


Lightroom process for Life Trove

  • Use collections
  • Export direct from Apple photos to Lightroom folder


AI

  • Topaz sharpening, noise reduction, pixel enlargement
  • Lightroom & Photoshop: AI remove and replace 


Service

  • Portraits for Lydia


Lightroom Universe

  • Nepal, Iceland, Antarctica into database
  • Backups in order (Sheet)



Compass  


Being

  • Sink into creative emptiness. 
  • Thank you for Presence. Thank you for this.
  • Meditation: Average  48 mins / day
  • Yoga mat, head and back roller
  • Effortless daily clearing & sweeping


Evernote

  • Add ► to Shortcut headings
  • Add ◉ to work in progress
  • Remove Life: from note titles and replace with →
  • Learn to do note links that open App


Mac desktop

  • Widgets: Year, Month, Week complete / remaining
  • Add Mood chart excel file into Mac Dock


Music

  • Music while work, walk and commute
  • Top 15% of Spotify listeners (> 400 hours)


Task management

  • Task log categorised
  • Task focus map handwritten, then mindmap


Progress

  • Fleshed out for Photography, Life is a Movie, Life Trove, Compass
  • Task log → Year so far (Progress)   →  Progress for each project


Productivity

  • Dex: Power of 4 + 2 (+1 )


Purchase

  • Hair clippers (x2)
  • iPhone 16 pro
  • Double fitted sheet
  • Smart watch
  • Yoga mat and head rest, back massager


Finances

  • Financial review fleshed out: More sub categories,  See levy etc. over time, Add financial commitments and Income for view over time
  • Invest $21K
  • Increase Fran rent by $15 per week (to $565)
  • Deposit cash (coins) into HSBC
  • Sell car for $500
  • Sell 400 mm lens $ 950
  • Tax in order: HSBC statements downloaded, housemate dates
  • Household expenses tax deductible
  • Triaxil leak: I moved it on, facilitating firing of engineer, saving $11K


Movies

  • Letterboxd subscription, upload movies watched
  • Unwatched twist movies list


iPad

  • Get it back from Gavin and set up folders etc.
  • iPad pencil and Task Focus handwritten


Tools

  • Xmind mindmap


Cheap purchases 

  • Watch $ 50
  • iPad Pencil
  • Skin moisturiser
  • Lube
  • Tennis balls



Health


Exercise

  • Regular Ball's Head walk
  • Average of 5.2 km walked per day 
  • Walking: 178 days
  • New walking routes
  • Listen to music on walks
  • Tennis


Dex in order

  • 4+2+1
  • Increasingly, no days without


Cholesterol

  • Research diet
  • Start Crestor medication


Diet

  • Smoothie (fruit)
  • Oats porridge
  • Peanut butter


Liquids

  • Lemon water


Pulse

  • Smart watch purchased and pulse monitored (resting pulse = 75)


Skin

  • Skin check & mole removed
  • Face skin cream



Wisdom Projects


Life is God's Movie


Essential Version

  • Move first edition to Google docs with tabs


Notebook LM

  • Amazing 20 minute podcast. Super motivating.


Source quotes

  • Memory
  • Illusion of the self
  • Self enquiry
  • Conditioning,  Life scripts
  • Authority
  • Left verse Right brain:  Jill Bolte Taylor, Ian Gilchrest
  • Sloww book summaries


Content

  • How mystical knowledge relates to and interacts with other forms of knowledge (rational, empirical, intuitive, cultural etc.)


Curated quotes

  • Self-transcendence
  • Left verse Right brain 


Books

  • The Ego Tunnel (Thomas Metzinger)
  • There is No You (Andrew Halaw)
  • The Power of Movies: How Screen and Mind Interact  (Colin McGinn)
  • The Matter with Things  (Iain McGilchrist)
  • God is Nothingness  (Andre Halaw)
  • Being Myself (Rupert Spira)
  • The Grand Biocentric Design (Robert Lanza)
  • The Master & His Emmisary (Ian Gilchrist)
  • Seeing no Self: Essential Inquiries  that Reveal Our Nondual Nature (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
  • Beyond Illusion: Exploring the Six Illusions that Cause  Our Mistaken Belief in a Separate Self (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
  • Selfless Service  (Katrijn Van Oudheusden)
  • What Am I? A Study in Non-Volitional Living (Galen Sharp)
  • Science Ideated (Bernardo Kastrup)


Books reread 

  • Illusion of the Self (Bruce Hood)
  • The Ego Trick  (Julian Baggini)
  • Awakening (Sam Harris)
  • The Happiness Trap (Russ Harris)


Daily email

  • Rupert Spira
  • Katrijn Van Oudheusden



Life & Spiritual Coaching 

  • Strategy
  • Life design process
  • Values, What we love to do
  • Xenia sessions
  • Doc with my results and Xenia



Wisdom Trove 

  • Backup database
  • Wisdom Trove updated to latest Wordpress & Enfold template (Thanks Rujuta for $400)


 

20 April 2023

Chat GPT and the explosion of AI

Utterly ground breaking.  Ever since Gavin alerted me to this, I've been utterly hooked. It's become my 2nd brain to which my real brain plays second fiddle!  It's power to generate new ideas as part of the creative process is phenomenal. So useful for my writing. 90% of the time I now use ChatGPT to find out information rather than Google. Prompting, not searching, has become the new art.




20 January 2023

Progress (2023)


Movies

  • See 204 movies
  • Most memorable scenes field
  • Big list of movies to watch.
  • Movie diary in Google Sheets and embedded in Life Trove including movies watched and movie stats.
  • Add all movies I've ever seen to Movie sheet. Over 2000 movies in total.
  • 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


18 June 2022

Topaz Photo AI

This amazing software allows one to sharpen images, remove noise and increase the resolution of an image. It has proven invaluable, especially on my trips to Antarctica, The Arctic and Iceland to really make my images pop. 


20 January 2022

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 bookmarks 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 diary 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?

30 September 2021

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

29 March 2020

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


24 January 2019

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


25 August 2018

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

6 September 2017

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

1 June 2016

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.

11 July 2015

Using Evernote for Compass and Wisdom Trove

This year, I moved all my information relating to Compass and Wisdom Trove to Evernote. Previously I have been using Mindmanager and Excel.

Evernote is really powerful and flexible. It provides some great benefits as an information management system


Benefits

  • Facilitates dashboards for tasks and life management.
  • Favourite notes, notebooks, and tags accessible in the left column.
  • Note links for seamless cross-referencing between notes.
  • Organisation by notebooks and tags for flexible categorization.
  • Powerful search, even within PDFs, images, and attachments.
  • Access across multiple devices for on-the-go productivity.
  • Ability to attach various file types, including PDFs, docs, sheets, and mind maps. Best of breed apps for different needs all integrated.
  • Collaboration features for shared notes and teamwork.
  • Note history archive for tracking changes and restoring versions.
  • Scalable: Wisdom Trove ended up having 1000's of notes.
  • Ability to create tables.




7 June 2015

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

11 November 2014

Using Excel to create a life dashboard

 I would later use this idea extensively in Evernote.




7 June 2014

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)

27 July 2013

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)

27 May 2013

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)

27 June 2012

Progress (2012)


Wisdom Trove

  • Start in Feb 
  • Add Brian Johnson quotes before work (idea of a book)
  • Work on AOL full time from June


Spirituality

  • Start meditation - start yawning
  • Mindfulness (walking)
  • Incense
  • Eckhart at Jilly
  • Geraldine's lessons
  • Behram workshop
  • HAI workshop


Compass

  • The start of deep reflecting in Kruger
  • Spirit on blog


Health

  • Walking almost every day.  
  • Diet - more fruit & veg, less meat


Teaching

  • All my English lessons on a USB - very little preparation


More

  • Get Kindle - start reading
  • Uncluttered and organised (minimalism)
  • Putting keys and wallet in place
  • Music seeds - Pandora
  • IMDB - watchlist

1 October 2011

Progress (2011)


Blog

  • Blog new design
  • Sue's blog
  • Blog - Inspire mum's memories
  • Sue safari video
  • Ally memories on the blog
  • letters to Jo typed
  • Comments transferred, top comments in one place
  • Audio
  • Labels
  • Created blog for photography


Teaching

  • Scanned teaching materials
  • Wiki for teachers
  • Lauren "I'm blown away"
  • Impressed Ana
  • Writing Wiki


Photography

  • Sculptures by sea photos
  • Lightroom demonstration at camera club

31 August 2010

Progress (2010)


General

  • Dex
  • Aussie citizen


Teaching

  • A new lease on life.
  • Creating lessons, getting passionate again.


Blog

  • Blog my life memories
  • Inspire mum's memories


Finances

  • Foresight to open bank account for Ally
  • Getting Investment Frontiers out myself
  • Handling financial settlement.
  • Spdr fund with Brendan


Purchases

  • Bought i-Phone



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