To Beemind or Not To Beemind Journal by experientiallearner

Life
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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?

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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)?” :laughing:

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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”:

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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.

  1. Light Phone.
  2. Dumb phones: Nokia 225 4G, Punkt MP02, and Sunbeam F1 flip phone
  3. Stop using cellphone altogether.
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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.

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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.

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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?

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There are two thoughts that make me consider starting to write:

  • there’s imbalance between how much I read and how much I produce; for every thing I learn there should be some contribution to the external world. I publish some of the things I do here, I make some open source software, but it is not enough. If I should write, is another question - maybe these days it’s more valuable to record video? I have to decide on the form and writing is a good idea.
  • some of my projects would benefit from publishing on the Internet. It could help with distribution of my software or ideas.

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.

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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 :books: