Sunday was fast Sunday and I ate too much Halloween candy and it gave me some really bad pains that started about 2:30 AM Monday morning. I took 5 doses of Pepto Bismal and that didn’t seem to help. between the pain and lack of sleep, I stayed home and slept.

That sort of thing puts me behind and then my new attempt to journal suffers.

One of the things that prompted me to eat more candy than I should is: we are starting a health challenge at work that we can get paid for if we complete. One of the things in the challenge is I have to accumulate 10 days a month with less than 20 grams of added sugar. Being irrational I am thinking I can game the system and eat a bunch one day. I paid the price for the poor food intake management.

I like also that the health challenge requires 10 days of 30 minutes of exercise. That one will be easy for me. I was able to run for 30 minutes yesterday on a treadmill. I’ve run for longer on the road, however, it still felt good. I swam for 30 minutes today.

While swimming Travis Stock joined me in the pool. I haven’t seen or talked to him since April. It was good to see him there.

Could a new book or series of books change the world like Charles Dickens’ ? In this past week, I have been inspired to look for ways to change the world from reading the book Abundance by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler. The book talks about ideas like sustainable toilets that don’t need plumbing and crops grown indoors.

I have also thought about how I can change the world. The first thing I started talking to people was about toilets. I have also talked to people about home hydroponic gardens and the potential for a new monetary system not based on gold or paper.

This morning I thought about writing books that might change the world. The first idea I had is writing a story about a person or married couple that faced the struggles of working low wage jobs with no health care and trying to survive in the million-dollar economy. I would like to include a Harry Potteresqe element. Maybe through in a character that is really rich, really smart like Tony stark that has always looked for challenges, like being a Navy SEAL, climbing Mt. Everest and has discovered one of the most difficult things in the world is working at a fast-food restaurant so he is looking for ways to make the lives of those people better. Not just by giving them money but by teaching and inspiring them on how to, and creating the tools and incentives for them to change their own lives. Maybe adding the idea that it is like the underground railroad of getting people to freedom.

Another book idea I have had for some time is a book about a scientist that is trying to save the world and he discovers hidden messages in our DNA from the advanced civilization that put life on earth. However, there is also a malicious advance civilization that is trying to steal the resources of this building advanced civilizations. It is interesting that someone mentioned in the Abundance book about someone embedding messages in DNA sequences for people to decipher.

Today, which is a Saturday, I woke up at 5:00 AM and then got lazy and stayed in bed. I didn’t get out of bed until 7:30. There is a slight chance that I will get in a 30-minute work-out sometime today but the possibility is way down.

We cleaned the church from 8 to 9 Am – I thought about renting a leaf blower. It’s $30 for four hours or $50 for the day. I might try and get someone do split it with me for next weekend. I just hope it doesn’t rain this week.

Now it’s back to work.

I am trying to write every day, but I’m not quite there yet.

It is crazy to me the new perspective this book has brought to my mind. I think for the first time in my life I feel like there is a possibility for me to make an actual difference in the world.

And there are not a few possibilities there are many many possibilities.

Reading in the book abundance it talked about how much it would cost in hours worked for an hour’s worth of light from a 100 watt light bulb during history. In 1750 BC, 400 hours, in 1800, 50 hours, in 1889, 3 hours. Now 1 second. Here is an article that has a graphic on the stats The Cost of Light.

Yesterday I looked up the invention of the first electric generator was in 1831. Interesting timing if you compare it against the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

There are many things available to everyone today that many would have called magic only a generation ago. This makes me ask the question, “what will be discovered tomorrow that will change the world.” What is the question that I can ask that will change the world?