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

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)