# Beeminding reducing a thing you don't really want to reduce but probably should

**URL:** https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-reducing-a-thing-you-dont-really-want-to-reduce-but-probably-should/3947
**Category:** Akrasia
**Created:** [May 25, 2018, 9:58pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-reducing-a-thing-you-dont-really-want-to-reduce-but-probably-should/3947 "2018-05-25T21:58:44Z")
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### Author: ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)
#### Post date: [August 16, 2018, 12:29am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-reducing-a-thing-you-dont-really-want-to-reduce-but-probably-should/3947/19 "2018-08-16T00:29:01Z")

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Yep! I did a whole post about it in [this thread](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/what-nikki-beeminds/4014/5?u=shanaqui). I have a couple of other do-less goals along the same lines for various compulsive actions. I’m down to being allowed to ask for reassurance twice per week from five when I started the goal, and haven’t derailed once yet – this is one of those cases where the financial threat worked really well.

(Biting the skin around my nails is one I’m having more difficulty with. Brain: “Argh it’s a hangnail, I’m going to die!”)

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