Should I create a Beemergency for tomorrow's Team meeting? (by ratcheting the safety buffer away?)

Akrasia
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ref: soldier-on – few_words – beeminder

I have 6x Soldier-on team commitments that I MUST attend between now & the 22nd of June 2025. I failed to attend last thursday’s team meeting, which is why I have created a $810 commitment.

I have a team meeting tomorrow that I want to ratchet my safety buffer but what happens next?

  1. IF- I ratchet my safety buffer so that tomorrow is a Beemergency for soldier on
  2. THEN- what happens for the rest of the week?

In other words:

  1. IF- I show up and attend tomorrow’s meeting and +1 into soldier-on
  2. THEN- I only need +2 for the rest of this week. so is creating a Beemergency for tomorrow’s team meeting going to be a prudent move if +2 AFTER tomorrow is only needed?

Overall between now & the 22nd of June 2025 I need to input +6 (6x team meetings) which is reflected in Beeminder.

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If you think having the goal in the red will help with the probability that you actually attend tomorrow’s meeting, and that will be helpful for not having to attend too many meeting within the remaining period until the deadline, then, yes, by all means it might be a good idea to ratchet. Because the goal is a short-term one and due soon-ish, I would only be careful about the built-in ratcheting (I am not sure if the standard ratcheting feature will try to move the graph “up”) and instead use the beta standalone graph editor, where you can see how the resulting graph looks like before hitting “submit” and committing to the thing.

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Thanks!

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