This went pretty well! I didn’t log in every day, and sometimes on raid days I didn’t get much done… but I did finish all my crafting relics in cosmic exploration, and get back into doing some casual content.
After a recent bout of trouble with my teeth, one problem identified is that I seem to clench my teeth in my sleep. One suggestion to help with this is to force jaw relaxation with gentle massage and pressure on trigger points. Alright, let’s give it a shot. I’ll go with three times a day: when I wake up to ease any tension from overnight, sometime in the middle of the day just to help make it a habit, and at night before bed.
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I just updated my overall list for this year and wow! I hadn’t realised I’d got so many goals that stuck – they’re all still active! My /postcrossing goal had some breaks during the hot weather when it just wasn’t safe to be walking to the postbox, and while I was overwhelmed, but otherwise… whoa.
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My July goal was plant-repotting. I’ve reported-taken care of a bunch of problematic plants! This one is here to stay!
In a similar theme, my August goal will be mowing the lawn. I only expect to do this once every two weeks, so it won’t come up often, but I hope this will help me stay on track with keeping my backyard lawn nice.
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A bit early because I’m going away at the weekend: I’ve decided that my goal for September is going to be trying to read more books in English. All my other reading goals are for Japanese books, and I’ve become weirdly intimidated by reading in my native language for some reason. So this is long overdue, easing back into it with 10 pages per days as logged on Storygraph.
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August goal is humming along nicely. It’s nice to set aside time for something I love but don’t make time for without a push.
For September, I’m going to track working out. I’ve got some dance shows coming up that I need to stay in shape for, so I’m going to try to average 60 zone minutes per day on my FitBit.
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My August goal was mowing the lawn. I only ended up doing it twice, but it was fun both times and the lawn is looking great.
My September goal is rosebud. Rosebud is an AI Journaling App that my personal coach suggested I try. I’m going to try to do a journaling session 3 days a week, and then turn it up if I feel inspired. I’m hoping that this will help me feel less stressed with some big life changes going on in my life right now.
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Well, this was useless. I don’t think it helped at all, because the jaw muscles in question don’t actually seem to be tense during the day. I’m dropping this goal.
I need to figure out which of my goals are working and which are causing more stress or annoyance than they solve. I have some ideas already, but I’d rather gather data properly over the course of a month and decide based on that.
Hence this goal! I’ve made a spreadsheet, and this goal is for helping me fill it out. Each day, I’ll identify the three goals I feel most “ugh” about on a given day (though I can add more if it’s a particularly ‘ugh’ day).
I’m not committing myself to acting on the data; no matter how “ugh” I find doing my physio, I can’t stop it. But if at the end of the month I consistently find something “ugh”, and it’s not something essential, it’ll be time to drop it, redefine it, or figure out what makes it ugh and change that.
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My sleeptracking goals have been tentatively useful; it at least gives me a faster feedback loop for how badly my sleep is going at any given time, and pushes me to not just ignore it in hopes it gets magically better.
I’m going to steal @shanaqui 's idea and make an ugh goal myself, although I’m going to broaden it to three tasks I’m ugh about that day: thorns – lanthala – beeminder I’m using URLminder to actually track it, 3 words a day. I definitely need to drop some things with my new job, and this hopefully will help me figure out what isn’t worth it.
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Welp, we’re eight days in, and I’ve identified two of my goals as being ughy on 8/8 days, and two more on 7/8 days. I’ve thought about whether that’s likely to continue and… I’m going to just go ahead and set up the archives on three of those, because it seems silly to keep going when the answer’s pretty clear.
Funnily enough, those three are goals intended for beeminding fun/relaxation – but clearly that’s just not gelling with me, at least not in this moment: /steamdeck (for using my Steam Deck; might be reinstated with specific games using the Steam integration), /timetorecline (for chilling on my recliner which just isn’t how I want to relax right now) and /2025books (for finishing all of the books I bought last year, which is pressuring me to read books I don’t feel like right now).
The other is a practical household goal I’d like to keep, but it clearly needs a rethink, so I’m discussing that with my wife!
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Update on my September goal. Of course, a week after setting a workout goal I caught a cold. I figured I would derail, but apparently while my body was fighting a secondary ear infection, my heart rate was through the roof, so my FitBit registered a lot of zone minutes as if I was working out. This data is throughly poisoned. Since it’s not manual entry, and not bothering anything I’m going to leave it running because over enough time the data might be useful, but this really doesn’t meet the spirit of what my September goal was.
I think I’m just going to preemptively call this month a wash and start thinking about my October goal.
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Oof, hope you feel better soon, @cthulhucultist!
I find it funny that I so recently commented that my goals this year have all been great and I’ve kept them, and now due to this month’s goal I’ve been closing some down… But it’s all good, really. All I’m in search of is what works and what makes my life better, and it’s natural for that to change sometimes!
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For October, I will be restarting a previous goal, but with a different reason. Back in April, I was tracking Intent outcomes for dance because I had multiple shows coming up and needed to be ready for prime time. However, now show season is winding down. I have my last big gig of festival season this weekend, and then a lull until festivals start back up in the spring. So, I need to stay motivated to keep practicing without a deadline looming over me. So the dance outcomes goal is back.
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Although I did have one derail, other than that, my new English reading goal has been going well! I’ve been reading Careless People, which is just as jawdropping as the reviews promised.
For October, an easy one: a charity magazine has asked me to write some articles for its next year’s worth of issues, so I’ve made a goal to keep myself on top of those: spotlight.
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My September goal was rosebud. I originally started doing this to help with dealing with stressful life situations and… it’s been great for that! I also took a break this last week due to the Jewish Holidays. I’ve turned it up to be every day and am excited to see how that goes.
My October goal is journaling. This is more habit journaling. Basically I have some habits that I like to do at night that I want to keep track of better, like jotting down one memory, making sure I got an hour of no screens time before bed, etc. I guess the goal here is to have a better bedtime routine. Perhaps I should make a more explicit checklist for my bedtime routine or something like that… thoughts for the future.
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This worked well and got me the data I needed to figure out how to slim down my Beeminder goals a bit. I’m definitely feeling the benefits of that, and a sharper focus on the goals I kept.
I have a bit of a habit of lingering in bed after my alarm has gone off, scrolling on my phone or something. It wastes a bit of time. Previously me and Lisa had set up something to incentivise me getting out of bed in good time, and it worked, and helped avoid my workday schedules getting messed up. This should do the same; Lisa will still act as a bit of a “referee”, because I’ll set the time by which I should get out of bed with them the night before.
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This month has been rough, and has been reflected in my beeminding. I’m actually going to make a data-entry-focused goal for this month; I’ve been having migraines out the wazoo recently (I have one right now), and I have new migraine meds but I can only take so many of them. I’ve been tracking them in my journaling but that’s not easy to just look and see exactly how bad an idea it is to take one right now. Since my limit is supposed to be 10/month, that sets up a nice do-less slope, and my plan is to give the goal a 1 for every pill I take, but add a 0 data point when I have a migraine but don’t take a pill. That way I can answer both questions (# of migraines and # of pills) with one chart: https://www.beeminder.com/lanthala/migraines
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Mid-month check in to keep on top of things. I’m doing well with this month’s goal. I did have another low key gig come up to kick me into shape a bit, but it’s low key nature has made me grateful that I’ve got a Beeminder goal whipping me into shape.
I’m not set on a November goal yet, but I have some hobbies I’ve put on the backburner due to a variety of reasons, mostly a combination of being busy, seasonal affective disorder, and how those two interact with my ADHD, so I might benefit from a Beeminder goal to help me take care of myself better.
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