# Advent 2022: 09. Daily 6 Days Per Week **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [December 9, 2022, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-09-daily-6-days-per-week/10656 "2022-12-09T10:36:19Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![alys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/alys/32/4726_2.png) [@alys](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/alys)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 10:36am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-09-daily-6-days-per-week/10656/1 "2022-12-09T10:36:19Z")
The idea in today’s [Advent Calendar](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminder-advent-calendar-december-2022/10635) post is so simple I hesitate to mention it but it works better than anything else for me for certain purposes. There are some things that I would prefer to do every day but it’s not really critical. I use a Do More goal for each of them with the rate set to 6 per week (i.e., entering “6/7” per day when creating the goal), and I enter a datapoint of 1 when I do the activity. This works so well for me because I know that with a bit of effort every day I can build up a safety buffer; I don’t have to “cheat” to get a buffer by scheduling a break (not that there is anything wrong with breaks when you need them!) The feeling of working towards a bigger buffer is rewarding. I like looking at a goal that’s not yet green and working out how many days of consistent performance I have to do before it will have enough buffer to still be green first thing in the morning. When I see that my buffer is about 5 days or more, I feel happy about taking a day off. I’ve earned it! It’s a very different feeling than missing a day just because the goal isn’t red and I can get away with it. These are the goals that I use this for: - Gratitude posts. - Getting to bed on time. - Getting out of bed on time. - Finishing my morning routine. - Eating responsibly all day. For a couple of those goals, I let myself enter fractional values instead of 1, if I haven’t done the thing perfectly that day. For getting to bed on time, if I’m in bed no more than 10 minutes late, I can enter 0.5. That’s important because before I started allowing that, when I’d missed my bedtime by just a couple of minutes, I’d decide that I might as well stay up for hours longer. 😱 > **CW eating** > > For my eating responsibly goal, I rate how well I achieved it over the day, and usually enter around 0.7 to 0.9. Again that’s important because if I allowed only 0 or 1, then as soon as I’d eaten, for example, too many spoonfuls of butter (yes, really), I’d just give up and eat anything at all for the rest of the day. > > (“Eating responsibly” for me means that I am allowed to eat any type of food within reason, but not huge portions. If I want second helpings, I wait 20 minutes then decide if I’m still hungry. If I’m eating anything except vegetables, I need to pay attention to the food, and put the cutlery down while I finish each mouthful.) ---
**Author:** ![clivemeister](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/clivemeister/32/2034_2.png) [@clivemeister](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/clivemeister)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 3:14pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-09-daily-6-days-per-week/10656/2 "2022-12-09T15:14:52Z")
I often do this! Sometimes I feel the 7-day week is too tyrannical (how did our ancestors even come up with a 7 day week?), so I use 4/5 (for something I want to do 80% of the time) or 9/10 (90% of the time). Fractional achievement is neat, though. It’s the same theory, but at the individual day level - 0.5 for I half-achieved this, and so on, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2022, 10:13pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-09-daily-6-days-per-week/10656/3 "2022-12-09T22:13:00Z")
Related: [Fractional Beeminding | Beeminder Blog](https://blog.beeminder.com/frac/) (I just reread it and still like it a lot!) ---
**Author:** ![alys](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/alys/32/4726_2.png) [@alys](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/alys)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2023, 6:44am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/advent-2022-09-daily-6-days-per-week/10656/4 "2023-03-04T06:44:14Z")
I have to link to this comment [elsewhere](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/zero-notice-days-off/10246/39) from @rperce : > [@Zero-notice days off](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/zero-notice-days-off/10246/39): > > As an aside, goals that get a +1 for “did the thing today”, I like to call “beenary” :3 Beenary! I love it. 🙂