General
- my Girlfriend visited me last week so I had scheduled a break for almost all of my goals. Again, this was super-instructive and helped me gain some perspective, which boils down to this: Know why you do it and then do it right. Goals should have a good reason and there should be “metagoals” attached to them - something I already try to do if you look at the headings
- Taskwarrior and beemind-hooks have been a huge win for me, even though I’m still learning how to use it
- I’ll simplify my approach for the journal somewhat, since I’m moving to a weekly schedule for these entries
Learning Finnish
Current goals:
No changes here.
Keep a Daily Rhythm
Current goals:
The showers goal has somehow managed to make me go to bed even earlier than I need to - sometimes more than half an hour! I also spend more time playing games on my phone before bed, which turns out is a good winding down strategy for me. I really enjoy my last 45 to 60 minutes or so and am ready for bed in this way. I’m gonna leave everything as it is for now, but maybe I should enforce this behavior by changing the deadline of my showers goal.
Stay in Contact With Family
Current goals:
I have cut down the time between calls for every goal to every three weeks (0.048 calls per day) and automatically trim my safety buffer now at 21 days. I missed a recent change of my brother’s career plans and I want to stay in contact more.
Reading, Writing, Consuming Media
Current goals:
blog
The blog goal now has a fine print: “Every blog post should have at least 750 words. Only if there is a good reason for the post to be shorter, I can go under.” This is related to the website 750 words, which states:
I looked this up. 250 words per page is considered to be the standard accepted number of words per page. So, three standard pages are about 750 words. Of course if 750words.com hadn’t been available, I would’ve totally found a way to prove that 249 words per page was the accepted standard. It really just comes down to the fact that this amount of writing feels about right. You can’t just fart out 3 pages without running into your subconscious a little bit… 750 words takes a bit of effort, and it never fails to get me typing things that I have wanted to articulate without realizing it. And that’s the point.
As I said before the service itself is not for me - I have my own elaborate notes system - but the part about that little bit of effort it needs to write down 750 words resonated with me.
lesen
I doubled my commitment to about 15 minutes a day, since I’m still not reading enough. The problem is that I read in bursts and then have ridiculous amounts of buffer. I have already buffer autotrimmed to seven days (since I want to be able to get my reading in on the weekends if it’s a particularly stressful week) - but I might still make this three or even one if this continues to be ineffective.
bmndrjrnl
I changed the commitment to write one of these every week.
lesspods
Still too much safety buffer so I have ratcheted it down to having about 5 units instead of ~35. I also love how I can see what podcasts I listen to. I’m thinking of introducing a similar goal for the minutes of sports watching I’m doing, since that is my other time sink.
General Productivity
Current goals:
For asi, I turned weekends-off of and turned let beeminder automatically trim safety buffer to 7 days, since I didn’t have an eep day since I have switched to taskwarrior.
The same is true for eatthefrog.
Taskmorning has been scheduled to be archived. I might exchange this for a goal that asks me to add or log a task when doing a thing to get into the habit of using taskwarrior (even) more consistently.
Weight Related
Current goals:
Still hating the mfp goal, but I have lost weight in the last few weeks, sooo :shrug: I derailed on my wiegen (weigh ins) goal since I can’t seem to remember to log the data point when I have actually stepped on the scale. So I have moved the deadline back a little.