Comments | matt1993: My resolution: -4791×-313

matt1993

My resolution: -4791×-313

Jan 08, 2011 18:02

School has been pretty good so far - there hasn't been very much homework yet :) Unfortunately, that will probably change within a week or two :(

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Comments 6

rovanda January 9 2011, 12:38:29 UTC

My usual approach to daily goals like this is to reset the meter each day. That means that if I fail to work on my novel on Saturday (which I did), then it's disappointing, but I let go of it and on Sunday, I only need to work on my novel, I don't need to work on it twice as hard.

The problem with cumulative daily goals is that each day you fail makes the next day harder. If your ultimate goal is to improve your habits, then I think that viewing each day as a new chance to succeed or fail is more beneficial than viewing each day as a chance to fail at making up for previous failures...

Good luck!

matt1993 January 9 2011, 20:26:15 UTC

Thanks! :)

The first New Year's resolution isn't actually a daily goal - the goal is to do less than 1,460 stupid things by the end of the year. It's just that the number was chosen so that, on average, it would be less than 4 per day. The fact that I had always done more stupid things than my "daily" goal says to only means that if the amounts of stupid things I did each of those days were repeated over and over for the rest of the year (i.e. 8 stupid things each Saturday, 6 each Sunday, etc.), then I would fail, but there's still hope of doing few enough stupid things to catch up. Especially since yesterday, I only did 3 :)

pathvain_aelien January 10 2011, 00:19:50 UTC

Glad you had a good first week back at school! Maybe it will be closed tomorrow! And you got Stephen fantasy books, I got him some trapping stuff that he wanted. :)

matt1993 January 10 2011, 00:38:05 UTC

And you got Stephen fantasy books, I got him some trapping stuff that he wanted. :)

Ah, I thought we decided that one of them was from me and one was from you :)

eccentricrabbit January 12 2011, 04:02:14 UTC

Yay for not much homework yet! I wish I could go back to school. I have accidentally written "Dora," as my name before. My friend gave me that nickname, and I had it stuck in my head. It would have looked pretty silly! Totally different from 'Chrissy,' !!!

Boo for needing to clean your closet.. That's not fun. I thought when I was a kid that when I grew up I'd be "naturally" (for want of a better word right now) tidy like my mum... But my closet is just as filled with stuff as always.

matt1993 January 13 2011, 02:23:36 UTC

Actually, now I am starting to have as much homework as I normally did last semester. :(

I cleaned my room (with pathvain_aelien's help) somewhat recently, but within about 2 weeks it already started to get messy again. :(