I am contemplating whether to try FocusMate as many Beeminderers have found success using it Focusmate, like Beeminder, has changed my life.
Also, there’s Forfeit’s Overlord feature.
But the thing about these two is that I don’t want to show myself publicly. What to do, what to do?
Perhaps I should beemind reducing my screentime.
I started using Grayscale early last week.
When my young soccer-fan nephew (9 yr. old) and niece (4 yr. old) came over last Friday, I tried to show them a video on my iPhone of Messi “dribbling” the soccer ball and I had to turn it back to non-Grayscale… to which they asked, “what’s that (Grayscale)?” 
This is terrible. I stopped using Grayscale a week or so ago.
I wish I made a note of when I turned Grayscale off because when looking at my Screentime, it’s very high.
I need to set a baseline.
I’ll post screenshots of my Screentime in my next post, but it’s embarrassing.
I gotta apply Tiny Habits to this.
Good thing BJ Fogg’s email today has for its first step to “stop judging yourself”:
I forgot to follow through about posting screenshots.
But I’ve been searching online about other options to prevent myself from doomscrolling and receiving texts.
I’m thinking of creating a Beeminder goal for the month of November for online writing.
Gotta review how the previous Beeminderers use Beeminder to achieve similar goals.
Hey.
How is screen time reduction project going? In my opinion the only good option is to put it away, separate physically.
Online writing in what form, where? This is interesting idea, I want to start publishing since many years now.
Ni @skorytnicki , my screen time reduction project’s not good.
Oct 19-26 Average
7h 33 min 22% down from previous week
Oct 26-Nov 2 Average
8h 25min 11% up from previous week
Last Week’s Average
8h 24min
Daily Average
9h 48min 23% up from last week
I tried putting my phone in my bathroom while I do work on my computer for a day and it was working.
At least I don’t have my phone on my bed anymore when I go to sleep listening to audio.
I have it on or in my night drawer or on my desk when I go to sleep.
I’m trying to do Dickie & Cole’s Ship 30 for 30 by writing on X/Twitter.
So far I have the habit of writing short posts everyday.
I’m also trying to use X to get Ghostwriting clients instead of Freelance Copywriting.
Also, I was trained in full funnel copywriting: social media → email → full sales letter, so I’m building case study demos on prospects while demoing what I can actually do by posting on a social media platform (X) → 3 email sequence → case study PDF.
I’m going to switch up to a different platform once I know the nuisance of one and mastered it.
So since I’ve been commenting on LinkedIn and getting familiar with it, LinkedIn will be next.
Then perhaps Reddit or Medium.
I could post on all these platforms everyday by adapting one post/article to each platform’s rules and nuisance, but I don’t want to spread myself too thin esp. given I have ADHD.
I also started using the 750 words website again.
Which online sites are you thinking of writing and publishing on?
There are two thoughts that make me consider starting to write:
Either I have to start a small YouTube channel or start writing a blog regularly. LinkedIn or X can serve as distribution channels. I don’t know.
It’s total time across devices or the time spent on the phone / doomscrolling? I think the only thing that helped me was physical separation, dropping phone in the other part of the house.
Then, replacing phone with books 
@skorytnicki try YouTube shorts. Some big YouTubers like Jenny Hoyos do only Shorts.
Then repurpose to TikTok, which I heard can also do long form.
Or do vice versa, perhaps.
I’m thinking of getting the Field Books, which is an alternative to Field Notes that Cal Newport suggests in this video: Forget Your Phone. You Need a Single-Purpose Notebook! | Cal Newport
Last week, I felt I was doomscrolling on my phone too much.
Starting early this week, I put my phone in the bathroom cupboard the night before, and used my Screaming Meanie as my alarm, and checked my phone only during breaks… this only lasted a couple of days.
I want to give up using my phone altogether.
I have some assumptions I’m carrying in my mind:
But these assumptions are reinforcing instant gratification, and isn’t really helping with my ADHD, which craves novelty and causes preservation in one thought when I’m finally “locked in”… the OCD keeps me obsessing over it, which is a double edged sword… good if the thing is worthwhile, but bad if it’s not.
I was so sick of doomscrolling the other day I finally turned my phone back to greyscale, and deleted some apps such as X, Reddit, Amazon, YouTube, and whatever notifications these apps sent me this week.
As a result, I started using my phone’s Safari app to go on x.com, Amazon so at least it’s not as easy as the apps themselves per BJ Fogg’s Tiny Habits—remove the prompt and make the undesirable habit harder to do—but I was tempted to download X and YouTube again, which I did, and then deleted them again.
I noticed that the screentime app has in the PickUps section: “First Used After Pickup” so using the Fogg Behavior Model B=MAP, what I’m doing is:
Behavior = Use Safari
Motivation = curiosity, find solution right away
Ability = Easy to do
Prompt = After I pick up my phone
I’m just wondering whether to beemind the total screentime in the last few weeks as baseline in order to reduce it.
The apps, sites I visit especially after picking up my phone are not only behaviors, but also motivation.
Removing the prompt is the first move per Fogg.
