# Help me stop the "daily" tasks from taking over everything?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-stop-the-daily-tasks-from-taking-over-everything/6601>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [April 21, 2020, 9:18pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-stop-the-daily-tasks-from-taking-over-everything/6601 "2020-04-21T21:18:03Z")\
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**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:** [April 1, 2021, 9:46pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-stop-the-daily-tasks-from-taking-over-everything/6601/22 "2021-04-01T21:46:40Z")

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> [@physicsgal](#):
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> right now I’m just using Habitica to work on my Dailies (need to be done on a specific schedule or you lose points) and Habits (great to do, but not required so you don’t lose points if you don’t do them)

Thanks for joining us here, @physicsgal! If Habitica is fun / motivating / effective then I think it makes a ton of sense to stick to that and not add the stress of Beeminder. For my own personal philosophy of Beeminder (by no means universal) I think the stress is valuable. There’s also the approach of starting a Beeminder goal at a presumably stress-free $0 and then the first time you derail, decide whether it’s valuable enough for a Damoclean $5 or if you want to archive it at that point.

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**Author:** ![dbyler](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dbyler/32/1936_2.png) [@dbyler](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dbyler)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-stop-the-daily-tasks-from-taking-over-everything/6601/24 "2021-04-02T14:28:13Z")

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…and for the Focusmate integration, you only get the points _if your Focusmate partner says you earned them_… :evil-grin:

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**Author:** ![mathwhiz1212](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c0e974/32.png) [@mathwhiz1212](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mathwhiz1212)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2021, 11:05pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/help-me-stop-the-daily-tasks-from-taking-over-everything/6601/25 "2021-04-03T23:05:26Z")

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@zedmango This is an old-ish topic but I would highly recommend reading Atomic Habits by James Clear. Generally, the fewer habits you start with, the better. Once they become automatic, do something else. A small example: I didn’t usually make my bed, now I do it every day and it takes virtually no effort. I don’t think about it, I just do it.

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