Just copy and pasted from Evernote.  These are the questions a person must ask themselves as they use an hour of Day 2 to Plan their day. Did it take me longer than an hour?  Yes!  Why? Children! Plus I didn't get active on the computer until after 5AM so I feel like I got a _late start_. Regardless, here they are the answers to the following questions: 1. What is standing in the way of my musts? 2. When did I give so much meaning to my possessions? 3. What is truly important in my life? 4. Why am I discontented? 5. Who is the person I want to become? 6. How will I define my success? 7. How will my life improve if I own less stuff? <!--more--> **What is standing in the way of my musts?** 1. **I must improve my relationship with Cara.** 1. Nothing more than your character really.  Cara has been nothing but supportive and caring for you during your entire struggle with drinking and while she may not have done anything to try and stop it early she definitely did what she was able to do in her position.  I think it was (I know it was actually) all the times we had together before the drinking that kept her trying to keep me on the "right path".  It's time to payback all that giving she did for five months, as she saw the boy she fell in love with turn into a monster. 2. **I must get my financial house in order.** 1. Once again the only thing keeping me held back is my simple lack of character.  I have known since before splitting up with Krystal that I needed to get my financial house in order.  I simply refused to do such things as I didn't find them necessary.  I do now, I have to now.  There is no other choice. 3. **I must spiritualize my relationship with marijuana, and use it less frequently.** 1. The addictive personality obviously doesn't help, but I do honestly feel like I have a genuine and honest relationship with Marijuana and it is truly one of the things in the world that bring a smile to my face.  I have been using it a lot the last couple of months but I feel that it has done nothing but help ease the transition from being half-drunk half of the time and all drunk the rest.  She has saved me in couple with Cara's outgoing love and support. 4. **I must stay sober and stay out of trouble with the law as a result of my drinking.** 1. This is actually going quite well.  Gone are the day of "I've quit drinking" but then run off to get some liquor or beer at every possible moment that I could when nobody was looking.  I can honestly credit a few weeks there when I had off both Monday and Tuesday and would just smoke unbelievable amounts of Marijuana - as to how the perpetual drinking came to a halt. 5. **I must stop smoking and transition to 100% vaping.** 1. People are the reason I fail at this, but the day starts off with my big fail as well.  I always seem to still go outside no matter the weather and have that first smoke of the day right when I wake up, and that I think is what kicks the ball down the wrong road right from the jump.  Proper battery planning and stuff like single digit weather need to become a new inspiration to stay inside and VAPE. 6. **I must get control of a better diet and relationship with food despite my god-damn allergies.** 1. Using the allergies as a crutch to eat shit food or no food at all is no longer a good enough excuse.  Just start simple and work your way up to where you used to hover comfortably back in the day. 7. **I must strengthen my relationships with Xander and Corinne.** 1. As the minimalist book would suggest, just being more 'present' I think would start to work wonders.  Even though this is a material thing to be purchased I think there would be a lot of benefit to help strengthen the relationship between Corinne and myself would be to get some sort of girl-geared LEGOs and help her put them together the same way that I helped Xander do stuff with is LEGOs.  Xander doesn't seem to have as much of an interest in LEGOs as I did when I was a kid, but as the same time I didn't have access to Minecraft at that age either.  I honestly wonder sometimes if the electronic stuff really does have the zombie effect on children because if that is truly the case then I have possibly fucked up a little too much.  Drinking again.  That is why I feel that I fell away from cooking with the children like I was in the tail end of summer, I was fucking just SMASHED all the time and I relate being smashed in the kitchen with a towel over my shoulder at home with cooking.  Epic failure. 8. **I must deepen and breathe more life into my relationship with my Father.** 1. Funny how just reading this question I shot Dad a text message to see how he is doing.  He still hasn't heard anything from his job to the best of my knowledge. He still does not have work yet.  I have yet to hookup with him since this all went down.  I need to do whatever it takes to help facilitate an easy transition to a better life for him.  He seemed to always be truly unhappy with his work, I just wish he could find a minimalist approach to his life and find profit in doing what he loves to do best, woodworking. 9. **I must find peace with the past and get closure of my darkest times.** 1. I'm not sure what other than myself is standing in the way of this one, and I'm starting to feel like these are my answers for every question that is on this list so far, just my sole lack of effort or care to change seems to be what is holding me back.  I'm speaking specifically about things I did to my Mother, Dad, Sister, family and friends of yesteryear and to a certain degree Krystal, but I'm not looking for closure on her yet, she obviously has too much resentment for me to care to make things possible for closure. 10. **I must start looking into the future more often and be more conscious of long-term effects on my decisions.** 1. Simple this answer is: not looking at the future when I make basic decisions is what has prevented progress from anything that might have made this list. 11. **I must get better sleep, put into serious consideration the extreme first-shift lifestyle, and get up at 3 in the morning.** 1. Staying up to "surf the web" or "play Playstion" are the reasons I stay up so late.  I have started to transition towards the extreme-first-shift. 12. **I must write more.** 1. I'm not trying to blow my own horn, well yes, I am trying to blow my own horn - I am or was fairly talented at stringing together sentences and forming stories that could stand up on their own. 13. **I must start logging my thoughts and struggles with drinking online in some for or medium.** 1. Medium.  But first focus on getting basic things done with writing first.  I am going to post these things on WordPress first and then just repost them on Medium because I finally feel as if I have a little sense of control over my content now that I have pretty much stripped away all social media content and then setup IFTTT for posting from Facebook and anything else I might post elsewhere.  So far the only thing I really have been doing on social media is posting positive quotes and inspirational things from the Minimalist book or Getting Things Done.  I wonder if IFTTT has recipes for Medium... Yes. [https://ifttt.com/p/medium/shared](https://ifttt.com/p/medium/shared) 14. **I must read a lot more than I ever have in my life.** 1. This is obvious. I still struggle with reading fiction but after pounding down Minimalism so quickly (yeah I know it was NOT LONG at ALL) I feel I just should keep the momentum going.  Pure laziness and more care for all things on a screen keep me away from plaintext. 15. **I must start cooking dinner more on Monday and Tuesday and include the children in helping.** 1. As mentioned above the reason this fell along the way is because of Jack Daniel's and my poor decision-making processes that existed between May and late-October of 2015.  There is a direct-link between my drinking and cooking.  I need to severe that cable before moving forward.  Today for example, we are going to make Great Grandma's Pasta Sauce as way to get the sober, culinary skills back up to speed. **When did I give so much meaning to my possessions?** - I have been that way my entire life.  Caring about things and getting sentimentally attached to things has been problematic for my entire life.  This is simply something that just has to be flipped over in my head. **What is truly important in my life?** - Cara, her children and my family.  Personal growth and discovering my true passions in life. **Why am I discontented?** - Because I have an unbelievable power to keep myself down and deny any shred of happiness. Systematically and without fail.  I simply do not seem to care about being happy.  The Minimalism book really pointed that out in a very clear and easy way. **Who is the person I want to become?** - I don't want to be anybody else aside from myself.  I'm not like the most muscular person on earth but I really do like how my body is laid out.  Being skeletal skinny and super tall is a huge perk to being William Parker III and it all has to add fuel to the fire that suggests I am really a wonderful person, but what I lack in self-confidence I make up for in other arenas.  It's time to pull out those Libra scales and get that bitch calibrated! **How will I define my success?** - I'll define my success the day Cara and I decide to have a child together.  I wont allow that to happen until the aforementioned things above are the new "normal" and the ways of the world have seemed to shift, and happiness is in the palm of my hands and I have the power to control every situation that is thrown at me. **How will my life improve if I own less stuff?** - Less stuff, less mental power.  It's hard to get stuff all fucking disorganized when you minimize what can be disorganized.