Aaron's daily check-in

Counting carbs/calories is a drag. Obsessive scale stepping is a recipe for despair. If you want to count something, "days on habit" is a much better metric. Checking off days on a calendar would do just fine, but if you do it here you get accountability and support. Here's how. Start a new topic in this forum called (say) "Your Name Daily Check In." Then every N day post a "reply" to that topic as to whether you stayed on habit. A simple "<font color="green">SUCCESS</font>" or "<font color="red">FAILURE</font>" (or your preferred euphemism if that's too harsh) is sufficient, but obviously you're welcome to write more if you want. On S-days just register that you're taking an S-day. You don't have to do this forever, just until you're confident you've built the habit. Feel free to check in weekly or monthly or sporadically instead of daily. Feel free also to track other habits besides No-s (I'm keeping this forum under No-s because that's what the vast majority are using it for). See also my <a href="/habitcal/">HabitCal</a> tool for another more formal (and perhaps complementary) way to track habits.

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Aaron's daily check-in

Post by aaronw » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:45 pm

About me: Earlier this summer I parted ways with two years of work on a PhD in business management (not entirely my idea). I did not enjoy my time, and did not foresee enjoy myself in that career, so it's probably a good thing that I'm no longer in the program. Even though this decision was made over a month ago, they're paying me through the end of August. Which is great. But it has also allowed me to indulge in one of my greatest problems - sloth. I'm very good at not doing much (well, my version of not much. In the past month I've probably read a dozen to twenty books, a few of them large tomes on the Roman Empire).

My goal from now until the month of August is to employ the daily punch card. That means that every evening I will 1) report the % of the items on my punch card I completed & 2) draw up the next day's punch card.

Instead of just success and failure, I'm going to go with the personal olympics style reporting. If I get 100% of my items accomplished, that's a gold, 80% is silver and 60% or more is bronze. Below that is failure.

Just wrote up my punch card for tomorrow. Four items. Seems immensely do-able.

Rock, rock on,
Aaron

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7/29/08 - Gold

Post by aaronw » Wed Jul 30, 2008 2:11 pm

Completed everything on my punch card

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7/30/08 - Failure

Post by aaronw » Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:01 pm

Did half the things on my punch card. I could have gotten them all done if I had used the first part of my day better & had toned down some of my ambitions a little.

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7/31/08 - Gold

Post by aaronw » Fri Aug 01, 2008 8:04 pm

7/31/08 - Gold

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8/1/08 - Failure

Post by aaronw » Sat Aug 02, 2008 8:45 pm

8/1/08 - Failure

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