Friday, April 7, 2023

I'm trying to build better habits

In an effort to become more aware of my habits. I started writing down everything I do every time I do them. I got the idea from this video:


Other than make me more aware of in the moment what I'm doing it's also motivating me to do more productive things, or at least it seems like that. I'm getting ideas about what I can do better. I suppose that's the whole point. The exercise is to see what you're doing and identifying things you can change.

I think I sort of do this already without realising it, of what I'm doing to a point. I waste a lot of time though because I have too much of it. 

I forgot a couple things because I got distracted but it's pretty much everything I did for awhile. I lost track of time so I'm not sure how long of a time span. These are the things i did in the wee hours of the morning since I didnt feel like sleeping(again).


While watching the video I had an idea of writing at least a page in my journal. It doesnt matter what I write about just stream of conscious at any time. That would be easy for me to accomplish. I noticed once I get going I write multiple pages. Since I'm writing out of space in my notebook and I cant buy any right now I'll write it in a word processor but up the font a bit because at the default size it fills up less space than writing in my journal. That would just make it easier to meet the goal.

Even though he didnt really mention in it in the video. I had an idea that building one habit over a month and then adding to those habits and linking them together would be a good idea. Since if I do too much at once I'll get less motivated. Though I probably already encountered that idea somewhere when I was researching awhile back. I think there's a term for it, habit stacking. 

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