SRHI=50
Great night sleep, woke up feeling horribly groggy. This is the first day where I’ve felt zero willpower when it comes to recording this. It also felt somewhat automated because of this - it’s as though i’m on the cusp of falling one way or the other - it becoming a habit vs falling off the wagon.
SRHI=45
Horrible night sleep - couldn’t get to sleep until it was light outside due to mosquitos. I have a mosquito problem here.
Today is the first day I feel remotely automatic about the action. In the previous days I “caught” myself. Today I felt groggy but it felt more like just going through motions, which to me is a marker of a habituation starting to coalesce.
The more and more I do this regimentation microcycle thing the more it feels right. It feels as though it hits two things simultaneously.
Benefits so far:
1. It lowers the threshold to start a task, preventing procastination
2. It gets me “addicted” to a task - pulls me in yet I’m ripped away from it prematurely, instilling a desire for me to go back to it later.
3. It gives me a boost - there are good feelings from the beginning of the day, almost fooling me into thinking I’ve accomplished a lot because I’ve started and touched on multiple projects I would have just procrastinated on.
4. it legitimately makes me feel good, because some things really don’t take that long.
5. racing the clock initially (if for example, I set a microcycle of 5 minutes per task) kickstarts the addiction. I start my clock before any setup - so if I have to load an email it counts in that 5 minutes. This seems like a side issue, but for me, the beginning simple tasks - getting the email, downloading the document, loading up the writing prompt - are what triggers my procrastination - it becomes a hassle to do those beginning tasks. With a small window of time I’m racing the clock - I’m actually thinking to myself “hurry up email, load!” - thereby viewing those beginning tasks as an easily surmountable obstacle to get out of the way rather than a hassle that prevents me from getting to the meat of the task.
SRHI = 18
Again, completely forget to do this when I woke up. Remembered only after doing a bunch of errands. Although remembering is a good thing, for an action to be a habit it should be automatic - ideally it should just happen right after I wake up without “catching myself."
Again, this just reinforces just how important this initial habit is to the rest of my project.
SRHI = 18
It’s a little confusing.
Since I’m doing my record keeping in the mornings, the records are for the day before, but the actual act, blogging, and SRHI are for the day of.
I can see this potentially getting me a little off track.
Today I completely and totally forgot about doing this until I caught myself in my head before prepping to go out. The ideal is the exact opposite - to completely do this activity right when I get up in the morning automatically. So my SRHI today reflected that I had almost forgot and this task was as far from automatic as could be possible.
However, I have been on and off recording things, which resulted in a slightly higher score. Shrug.
Either way, it’s clear that record keeping is a horrible oversight in this whole process since I haven’t at all gotten into the habit of doing it consistently, and this seems to be the linchpin in the habituation process.