Tabula rasa 42 Posted January 8 Author Share Posted January 8 It has been a long hiatus from diaries but I'm back! Day 1/90 detox 31/12/2020 Thursday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (yoga) Study? Yes Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No (1:45am) This diary entry is for last Thursday. Slept fairly late since I was up watching live new years celebrations shows. Managed to study for a bit and sort of self discovered a technique which seems pretty obvious but was a moment of realisation for me as someone who has the traits of a perfectionist - rather than spending an exorbitant amount of time on a question or concept that is particularly difficult, it’s okay to skip it and come back to it later. This ensures that I don’t tunnel vision on one thing, where the time could better be spent studying other concepts and with additional knowledge, may assist with the problematic concept/question. This can be applied to any task really, to try and set a reasonable amount of time for each task and if it’s taking too long, to complete other tasks first and in that time, new perspectives could be gained. Not doing well for habits in the mental health department, like meditation and reading, however. Workouts have been quite consistent though. Day 2/90 detox 1/1/2020 Friday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (bushwalking) Study? No Duolingo? No Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No (6:20am) This diary entry is for last Friday. I went out with friends to go bushwalking. What a great start to the year! I’ve really been meaning to go do some activities outdoors and this was the perfect opportunity to. I didn’t do any other dailies today however and I slept very, very late as there was some time sensitive finance related tasks I was looking into. They couldn’t really wait till the next morning. Day 0/90 detox 2/1/2020 Saturday Play games / watch game related videos? Yes Workout? No Study? No Duolingo? No Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No (3:45am) This diary entry is for Saturday. I went to a friend’s place for a party and we played board games for the majority of the time. I’m pretty proud of myself for excusing myself near the end of the night after they decided they wanted to play Jackbox/console games next. However, this was a sort of a trigger for me since I wanted to understand more about how to play Katan (board game), since that was the first time I had played it. I watched a few hours of videos of gameplay online and so I’m once again resetting my days in the detox to 0. Day 1/90 detox 3/1/2020 Sunday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (push) Study? No Duolingo? No Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No (8:05am) Refer to 7/1/2020 entry Day 2/90 detox 4/1/2020 Monday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? No Study? No Duolingo? No Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No (8:20am) Refer to 7/1/2020 entry Day 3/90 detox 5/1/2020 Tuesday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? No Study? No Duolingo? No Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No (5:40am) Refer to 7/1/2020 entry Day 4/90 detox 6/1/2020 Wednesday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? No Study? No Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No (5:07am) Refer to 7/1/2020 entry Day 5/90 detox 7/1/2020 Thursday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? No Study? No Duolingo? No Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No (6:52am) This diary entry is for yesterday. Essentially, I have a finance related task that is fairly time sensitive and is ongoing in my life. It consumes a lot of my time and I lose track of and deprioritise my daily tasks for it. This diary entry along with the following few are pretty similar. I have since developed a plan to prevent the need for me to stay up late. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tabula rasa 42 Posted January 9 Author Share Posted January 9 Day 6/90 detox 8/1/2020 Friday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (running) Study? No Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? Yes Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 11:59pm This diary entry is for yesterday. Resetting my daily schedule is now on track. Most dailies were completed including sleeping before midnight and ideally pushing that to even earlier later. I went over my study materials but only briefly so I wouldn’t count that as actually studying. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
codepants 67 Posted January 10 Share Posted January 10 Yo, 11:59 PM! Congrats! 🎉🎉🎉 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tabula rasa 42 Posted January 10 Author Share Posted January 10 Day 7/90 detox 9/1/2020 Saturday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (pushups and pullups - ‘break’) Study? Yes (‘break’) Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? Yes Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 2:30am This diary entry is for yesterday. While I was listening to a Ted podcast, I came across a statement that was a little mind blowing for me: “Our ability to follow through on our best intentions, to get into a new habit, or to change our behaviour in any way, doesn’t depend on the reasons we might do it, or the depth of our convictions that we should do so. It doesn’t depend on our understanding of the benefits of a particular behaviour or even on the strength of our willpower. It depends on our willingness to be bad at our desired behaviour.” The speaker went on to explain how she got back into running after a long hiatus, not by creating a detailed, well defined, extravagant plan, but by simply setting a goal of running for 1 minute every day. Here is the source of the podcast and is very well worth the listen: https://www.ted.com/talks/christine_carter_the_1_minute_secret_to_forming_a_new_habit The above got me thinking the significance of ‘something’ over nothing especially with respect to daily habits. Therefore, I have begun to implement the same logic, by doing each task at least 1 minute every day and denoting this as a (‘break’) next to it if that was the case, but by doing this, will help with developing a routine in my subconscious of doing these tasks daily, regardless for how long. I slept late since I procrastinated through the day and didn’t do my tasks until late at night and essentially did all of them after I heard that podcast! @codepants - I'm trying the 1 minute strat for my workouts! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
codepants 67 Posted January 11 Share Posted January 11 On 1/10/2021 at 1:23 AM, Tabula rasa said: The above got me thinking the significance of ‘something’ over nothing especially with respect to daily habits. Therefore, I have begun to implement the same logic, by doing each task at least 1 minute every day and denoting this as a (‘break’) next to it if that was the case, but by doing this, will help with developing a routine in my subconscious of doing these tasks daily, regardless for how long. Curious to see how this turns out for you. Good luck and keep us posted. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tabula rasa 42 Posted January 13 Author Share Posted January 13 (edited) Day 8/90 detox 10/1/2020 Sunday Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (pull) Study? Yes Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? Yes Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 2:50am This diary entry is for Sunday. Managed to do all dailies except for sleep. Might even add a streak if I do all dailies where sleep isn’t counted – 2. Day 9/90 detox 11/1/2020 Monday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 3 Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (yoga) Study? Yes Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? Yes (break) Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 1:30am This diary entry is for yesterday. Today was a work day. Started too late on my dailies. Bumping my alarm which reminds me to start prepping for sleep to 9pm now. Day 10/90 detox 12/1/2020 Tuesday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 4 Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (pushups and pullups - ‘break’) Study? Yes Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? Yes Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 12:35am This diary entry is for yesterday. Today was a work day. Started earlier on my dailies and winded by sleep time back 1 hr. Rest of dailies were done. Getting there! Edited January 13 by Tabula rasa Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tabula rasa 42 Posted January 17 Author Share Posted January 17 Day 11/90 detox 13/1/2020 Wednesday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 0 Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? No Study? Yes Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 3:27am This diary entry is for Wednesday. Had work and didn’t manage to do all my dailies. Don’t really remember why I stayed up so late. Day 12/90 detox 14/1/2020 Thursday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 1 Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (yoga) Study? Yes Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? Yes Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 1:31 am This diary entry is for Thursday. Had work and managed to do all my dailies with the exception of sleep. Wasn’t disciplined enough to sleep before midnight and was procrastinating. Day 0/90 detox 15/1/2020 Friday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 0 Play games / watch game related videos? Yes Workout? Yes (running) Study? No Duolingo? No Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 5:41am This diary entry is for Friday. I didn’t have work today and ended up playing an online Blackjack game. I can identify what the trigger was and it was to do with researching for board games to buy so that I can play with my family. Everyone is on their devices all the time so I thought it would be a good opportunity to ‘bring the family together’. However, one thing led to another, where I was researching which board game to buy, then my mum suggested one, then I decided to play the online version, then I ended up playing a different game I had never played before. This has led me to believe that I don’t think I can play board games without triggering a want to play games and thus I am scrapping that plan altogether and I’m not going to even give board games as presents in the future so that I can avoid having to look at this topic. It’s just a red zone for me now. This still leaves the question of parties and how it’s almost unavoidable playing board games. I think how I will approach parties is that I will only spectate and not play the board games, but only play casual games like ‘Cards against Humanity’, rather than the competitive games (where competitive seems to be the trigger). I slept very late because of that and I deleted the game account after, however, I do think I am understanding more about where to draw the lines in terms of how to avoid my triggers. Back on track we go! Day 1/90 detox 16/1/2020 Saturday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 0 Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? No (break) Study? No Duolingo? No Reading/podcast? No Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 4:30am This diary entry is for yesterday. I woke up very late due to my sleep time of the previous day. I was quite occupied today due to my ongoing finance related task. Due to changing circumstances, the plan that I developed to prevent the need for me to stay up late isn’t working too well, however, I have a revised plan that I will be testing. No dailies were done today. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tabula rasa 42 Posted Monday at 11:15 AM Author Share Posted Monday at 11:15 AM Day 2/90 detox 17/1/2020 Sunday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 1 Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (pushups and pullups - ‘break’) Study? Yes (break) Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? Yes Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 1:30am This diary entry is for yesterday. Managed to do all dailies and also attend a Toastmasters session. It really does wonders for self confidence and is a great socialising space. Sleep is still an issue. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Tabula rasa 42 Posted Tuesday at 01:00 PM Author Share Posted Tuesday at 01:00 PM Day 3/90 detox 18/1/2020 Monday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 0 Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (pushups and pullups - ‘break’) Study? No Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 2:00am This diary entry is for yesterday. Had work, didn’t manage to do all dailies and sleep is still an issue. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
BooksandTrees 3445 Posted 10 hours ago Share Posted 10 hours ago On 1/19/2021 at 8:00 AM, Tabula rasa said: Day 3/90 detox 18/1/2020 Monday Dailies streak (excl sleep) - 0 Play games / watch game related videos? No Workout? Yes (pushups and pullups - ‘break’) Study? No Duolingo? Yes Reading/podcast? Yes Meditate? No Sleep before 11:30pm? No, 2:00am This diary entry is for yesterday. Had work, didn’t manage to do all dailies and sleep is still an issue. I've found most people with these committed lists never stick to it because it makes "living" feel like work. Maybe there's a new way for you to just enjoy your days and being more in the moment? Instead of holding yourself to these schedules you can be more present. Say it's 4 PM you can say ok, I'm kind of hungry, let's meal prep. Or it's 7 PM, I kind of want to do a new hobby. This also lets you relax. I think when you have too many things to monitor and plan you just look for the first chance to take a break. It starts with only having time to breathe around bed time, but then you stay up late because you finally have time to relax. We can't be productive all day. I think quitting games makes people think they need to be productive all day long. I've been successful for 2 years because I just sit there and do nothing for certain periods of the day and relax my brain. It can be annoying sometimes, but overall I feel less stressed and have no triggers to relapse. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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