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)

 

Insights (2024)

Face issues

• Pulse rate (1 year of stress)
• Steve and Greenslip
• Should have checked garage leak after rain bomb
• Estate duty calculation: Save loads for now

Power of my mind to stress

• Triaxil management fee
• Iceland competition
• Dr Cosgrove dex for Iceland
• Put water into oil ?
• Canon 400mm marks

Advantages of courage

• Went into pharmacy, avoided day of no dex
• Into emails, Triaxil management fee only $12000
• Moving garage leak along, facilitated going without engineer ($11K saving)

Iceland

• Flight Centre (travel agents) as potential source of cheapest flights. Going in avoided a 1 hour layover in Oslo.
• My brain really stresses out and jumps to worst imagining. 
• Gavin: Name wrong on ticket costs $1000 and difficulties. Bags not arrive. All taken as it comes, remaining calm. 
• Gavin asks for room for me in Reykjavik. Finds cancellation. Benefit in asking.

Photography

• Benefits of shooting in raw.  E.g Reduce shadow in terns. 
• Portrait and landscape. Wide and close. Different angles. Walk on, assess, take photos on way back. Imagine if in Grimsey I hadn't walked on ?
• Research photography. Soft water in Iceland. Neutral density filter.
• Take more video. Some in Iceland but wish more.

Offence, not defence

• Biden after debate → Weeks of hanging on, defending → Changing to Kamala
• Ukraine unexpectedly invades Russia to their shock

Finances

• Price of myopic focus on wisdom
• How can reduce prices by shopping around with reviews (E.g. Watch for $40, iPhone case $ 12 , hair clippers $20)
• How risk adverse I am: When markets tanked
• In order and visibility greatly ↓ anxiety
• Power of finances in order (E.g. South America travels)

Finances limiting me

• Lost in wisdom, no strategy
• Not invest in 2017 (or 2020 during Covid)
• Not invest in Nasdaq
• Not track levies etc. over time, only big expenses. Not notice levies etc ↑
• Move away from HSBC in 2023 only. Lose out interest as rising in 21, 22
• Wasted so much finances in 2017, 2018 etc.
• Threw out paper statements (utility bills etc.)
• Tax pre 2020 not keep records of calculations
• Not seeing some expenses coming off (e.g. housemate advert)
• Car hold on and keep spending

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.

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

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. 

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?

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

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

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

Insights (2019)

• The importance and power of balance and variety.
• Power of being real, not perfect.
• Thank you life, for awareness, surrender and spaciousness.
• Wisdom Trove, Compass and Life Trove are expressions of the same thing: Guiding wisdom and appplication (Compass) and the sharing of the wisdom, applied to my life (Life Trove,)  Also about truth and inspiration to see sacredness of world and embrace life.
• My life is a laboratory for experimenting with the wisdom from Wisdom Trove.
• Wisdom Trove is a form of content curation: Selective wisdom, specific theme (Wisdom on the art of living) and a specific point of view.

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

Insights (2018)

12 focus areas of my life strategy

• Aware, Surrendered, Spacious
• Connection, Wisdom, Wonder
• Exercise, Diet, Rest
• Vision, Strategy, Process

More

• Consciousness is inner experience. Consciousness is the ultimate mystery.
• World of perception, not matter
• Purpose, Vision, Values (Inner verse Outer purpose)

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

Insights (2017)

•  Did not rush into telling Srini to leave
• Rush to tell Sharon re Yogi without planning it
• Did not rush into threat with Sharmista.  Sent her blessings.
• Mal Plumber under immense pressure - took personally. 
• Interplay of Essence and Substance
• Make decisions using Consciousness ladder
• Surrender - no agency, nothing personal

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.

Insights (2016)

• Love the mind; the being. "Its ok my baby"
• Just notice what's here. What's here Now?
• Utter simplicity. Absolutely necessary? Space up.
• All spiritual thoughts are empty, arising from emptiness and returning to it. All pointing to this.
• May all beings be happy and free
• Watching mind and labeling
• This is a natural world, governed by natural laws, unfolding a meant to, and Life is on the journey too.
• A multiverse of different laws ?
• The totality of the universe brought me and this moment into being. Exactly as meant to be. As am I. 
• Don't act in anger or resentment (Chris, Sue)
• What is happening now? What is arising in the space I am?

Insights (2015)

Spiritual

• Reading the Mystery Experience.
• Cast of characters in head & dialogues
• Radical letting go and surrender.
• Letting go of psychic tension (rushing, striving, physical tension).
• Churning for order blocks creativity and inspiration.  I let my mind be alive, untamed, free.
• Give it space to breathe. Not smother it.
• A change will require a radical change (Radical Letting Go)
• When present, it's Consciousness that experiences wonder. Sees out of eyes of this form.
• Movie: Amy leading to universe as art.
• Life is Consciousness’s epic masterpiece of art, each of us a brushstroke.
• Slow and easy, my friend, All is Well.
• Am I here now?
• Test for truth: What expands the soul.
• God is experiencing Life through each living form. A symphony.

Other

• Stop avoiding and face it.  (leak)
• Plan ahead to avoid last minute stress (balcony)
• Power of a bit at a time (SA blog, Evernote migration)
• Need to be more decisive (state preference)
• Need to let go of need to impress (Chrisel)
• Not rushing into floors solution - evolved

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.

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

Using Excel to create a life dashboard

 I would later use this idea extensively in Evernote.

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