Cronometer reports that I have kept a complete Cronometer log 73.2% of all days since Lisa’s Diet Takeoff Day (June 22, 2019).  That has been almost six weeks.

 

What planning would make today a success?  Let me consult TCC P&L for PC (Time, Consistent, Clear Planning and Logging for Productive Creativity).

 

Here is a rough sketch of my planning for today:

 

TCC P&L for PC
Timely, Consistent, Clear Planning and Logging for Productive Creativity
Time	Plans	Actual
Up to 8	Blog Morning Routine JV Life Tracker Get Dressed Aspirations 10 Powerful Affirmations
8-9	Christian Brothers A/C recharge Get Mail
9-10	Clean the Kitchen Breakfast
10-11	Blog
11-12	Fill Energy Supplements
12-1	Lunch
1-2	Seth Godin’s Linchpin
2-3	Blog
3-4	Android Studio & Remove SDK from C: drive
4-5	Blog
5-6	Get the Jeep Declutter Desk
6-7	Dinner
7-8	Blog
8-9	Sympathy Cards
9-12	Get Ready for Bed Take Medication Electric toothbrush

Now I have a view of my planning for today.

Let me do some planning to minimize the pain of a patch of eczema.  I just put a drop of argan oil on the patch of eczema on my left middle finger.  This is the second time I have done that.  Last time, it seemed to relieve the soreness. However, I have no proof yet that argan oil is effective at healing my eczema.  I am willing to try it though.  Coconut oil helps prevent eczema.  So far, it has not healed it.  I have some evening primrose oil on order, which is what I typically take to heal eczema.  That remedy can take a while.  In the meantime, I have some 1% cortisone cream, which generally is not as effective as the evening primrose oil.

 

Gluten can exacerbate eczema.  I am going to eliminate it again from my diet and forgive myself for slipping on my resolve.  I already have “Eat no gluten” in JV Life Tracker.  I have scored it only 34 times between January 14, 2019 and July 31, 2019.  Let me see if I can improve on that.  Lately, I have been eating bread; substituting brown rice would be better.  Rice is a lot less expensive than bread too and does not contain yeast, which can contribute to candida overgrowth.

 

 

In preparation for my errand at the automotive repair shop, I got dressed this morning.

 

The table below shows some prior planning I have done for my morning routine.  This is what I have currently.  The list is a bit bloated; so far I have never done it all in one day.  However, the list seems to work as long as I do not try to do everything.  Can I get myself to do my morning routine every day?  Not yet.  There is a part of me that balks at being relegated to a routine.  I just want to go out and do everything impulsively or perhaps you can say spontaneously.  However, going too far with that way of doing things can lead to mania.  Planning is better; it is just that it is harder.

 

Done	Activity		Notes
	Put Away Night-Guard
	Take Thyroid
	Take SAMe
	Adjust Thermostat
	Denneroll
	Meditation		Meditation
	Check Calendar
	If Past Sunrise, Open Blinds
	Record Weight in Cronometer
	Record sleep in Cronometer
	Clean Eyeglasses
	JV Life Tracker
	T2 Mood Tracker
	Make Bed
	Aspirations in Joyful Vibrance
	Set 3 MIT (most important tasks) for day
	TCC P&L for PC (planning and logging)
	If Ready, Start or Empty Dishwasher
	Shower on Shower Days
	odb.org
	Blood Pressure
	Put Blood Pressure Reading in Cronometer
	Cognitive Distortion Analysis
	Put Notes in Cronometer
	Progress Ritual
	Move Laundry (if needed) Lynda.com (10 min.)
	Declutter Desk
	Post Blog
	Review 14 Beliefs for a Popular Blog
	Preparing For My Day
	Strength Training
	Walk in Hallway
	Walk with Husband
	Breakfast
	Cronometer
	Brush Teeth & Special Rinse
	Don’t Eat or Drink for 20 m after rinse
	Breakfast for Husband
	Check Email
	MailChimp Mailing List
	Set up MIT’s
	Vacuum
	Blog
	Lunch (preferably a green drink)
	Put Images on Blog Daily
	Devotional with Husband

 

 

As I was planning, I took the jeep to the shop for maintenance on the air-conditioner.  The shop’s driver courteously gave me a ride home.  Then I made my husband’s favorite spinach, tomato, and cheese omelet for breakfast while cleaning the kitchen.  After breakfast, I hauled some boxes and trash to the condo’s dumpster complex and got the mail.

 

 

A package from Swanson’s Vitamins was in the large mailbox, the key for which the mailman put in my mailbox.  I loaded my “energy cocktail” in my pill containers.  Instead of using silica complex, containing calcium and magnesium, which I get from other sources, I loaded the containers with three pills from Swanson’s:  6 mg boron, horsetail (containing silicon), and 22 mg of zinc picolinate.  (15 mg of zinc is generally not enough for me; 30 mg can be too much–based on the nutrient balance indicator in Cronometer.)

 

Swanson’s is a company I feel comfortable recommending.  They have given me great service and great products.  My dad was the first to hand me a Swanson’s catalog.  I believe the three new supplements will be great for my fingernails and possibly for my bones as well.  Of course, I take calcium and magnesium also.  (I have difficulty moving my bowels in the morning if I have not had magnesium the night before.)  Sometimes, I take strontium citrate, though I have not yet done it regularly.  To round out my bone health, I take 100 mg vitamin K2 and 5,000 I.U. vitamin D.  More vitamin K2 would be even better.  However, it is a pricey vitamin.

 

Unfortunately, I am not sure all of this is enough.  Weight-bearing exercise is important.  I may need to do more than walking.  I sometimes use stretch bands. However, my consistency is not what I want it to be.  Bioidentical hormones would probably help, but they were priced out of my budget at the time my doctor prescribed them.

 

 

 

Although I was not planning on it, I had to do some wrangling about the price listed on the coupon.  The man from the shop did not seem familiar with the coupon I had on hand.  It surprised me that he did not seem aware of how his own company was advertising.   After checking with someone else, he accepted my story.  However, the disagreement blew some of my faith in the company.

 

My husband just recommended we eat our leftover dinner salad with avocado for our snack today.  Good idea.

 

Wow!  I just did the mind map above.  It is one of my first.  It is much easier and concise to explain these concepts with a mind map than it is with text.  I think I will post it on Facebook.  There.  I did.  I am planning to become more familiar with the tool of Facebook.  It can be a distraction, but it can be on the path to success.

 

I got the jeep back and paid the price listed on the coupon.  All is well.

 

 

My husband wants dinner with more fiber.  I am planning to stir-fry a blend of frozen vegetables from Costco with salmon burgers.

 

 

I removed 8.29 GB of Android SDK packages from my C: drive and copied them to another drive.  That way I have room for additional programs on the C: drive.  I have my eye on Serif Designer, which will provide tools to produce even more visual material for this blog.  Reviewers say there is quite a learning curve for the program, so do not expect a Rembrandt overnight.

 

I proceeded and purchased a year’s subscription to the Mind Meister mind mapping tool.  Fortunately, it will not require any space on my C: drive.  Today’s bone-health mind-mapping experience was my third free mind map of the three allotted, and I do not want to stop making mind maps or erase the ones I have already started.  I was planning for the mind map tool to be a reward for doing my planning for a month, but now I will consider the planning I have already done to be the requisite month.

 

Yesterday, I also set up Grammarly in Chrome, which is mostly free.  It checks the correctness and clarity of blog entries.  I wish I had started using it sooner.  I just scored 99 on my first draft of Computer Planning with no alerts.  (I wonder why I never score 100.)  There is “1 additional writing issue,” available only for premium users.  For now, I will spend my money on visual tools.  Serif Designer is considered to be a bargain but is not a full replacement for Adobe Illustrator.  However, for my workflow, that is probably okay.

 

 

Not many minutes ago, I started dinner.

 

 

Later, I served it: colorful, tasty, savory, easy-to-prepare, nutritious.  I need to do something this good (or better) more often.

 

 

If you want a peek at my day so far, it is going well, probably because I had a rough idea of what I wanted to do.  Here is my planning log:

 

TCC P&L for PC
Timely, Consistent, Clear Planning and Logging for Productive Creativity
Time	Plans	Actual
Up to 8	Blog Morning Routine JV Life Tracker Get Dressed Aspirations 10 Powerful Affirmations	JV Life Tracker Blog Got Dressed (did not get all the morning routine done, but that is okay)
8-9	Christian Brothers A/C recharge Get Mail	Christian Brothers Aspirations Take Out Trash and Boxes Get Mail
9-10	Clean the Kitchen Breakfast	Clean the Kitchen Breakfast
10-11	Blog	Blog
11-12	Fill Energy Supplements	Filled Pill Containers with Energy Supplements
12-1	Lunch	Lunch
1-2	Seth Godin’s Linchpin	Mind mapping Blog
2-3	Blog	Linchpin Visiting with husband
3-4	Android Studio & Remove SDK from C: drive	Picked up Jeep Salad snack Facebook
4-5	Blog	Removed SDK from C: drive Linchpin Discussed dinner with husband Updated log
5-6	Get the Jeep Declutter Desk	Blog Prepare dinner
6-7	Dinner	Dinner – Kirkland stir-fry with salmon burgers, pickle, and tamari sauce.
7-8	Blog	10 Powerful Affirmations Declutter desk Grammarly Check AWstats for blog
8-9	Sympathy Cards	Sympathy Cards
9-12	Get Ready for Bed Take Medication Electric toothbrush

 

The main thing left to do tonight is the sympathy cards.  My father passed away last November, and my sister passed away in May.  I have been procrastinating getting the cards sent out.  Perhaps I could use a strategy taught by Dr. David Burns.  I will tell myself I do not have to finish.  I can just get started on them.

 

I finished them.  They are just waiting to be put in the mail tomorrow.  That strategy worked, this time at least.

 

 

Evening Prayer

Dear Lord,   Today has been a good day, even for a Friday.  I used my Timely, Consistent, Clear Planning and Logging for Productive Creativity.  The day surprisingly turned out a lot like my planning.   I noticed in my statistics that quite a few people have downloaded my first novel, Lisa’s Light and Hope.  I hope they read the novel also.  It is my gift.   Seth Godin’s Linchpin has been an inspiration to me already.  I am creating art and giving gifts of that art.  I have wanted to share it all along.  However, I just did not see how.  Now the path to follow is becoming more clear to me.   Guide me, Lord, in what to learn and do.  Give me courage.  Bless my husband with the ability to recover.  I disobeyed him, and it worked out okay.  I did not get his drink for him, and he did not ask for it again.  So far.   Dinner tonight was simple and nutritious.   I especially enjoyed making the mind map about bone health.  It was much easier to explain the concepts in my mind with a mind map than with a paragraph or two or three or more.   An important goal to send sympathy cards to my mother and siblings is all but done.  When the time came to work on them, I thought I was too tired.  However, I went ahead and finished them.  I hope it helps to comfort my family after the loss of our family members.   Bless my readers with the ability to share their own art, their own gifts.  Give them inspiration and vibrant joy.   Amen.

 

If you would like to join me on this journey from the beginning, please start with Day One.