by Tdarcos » Sun Jan 01, 2023 7:39 pm
Hell yeah! That's like, 20 years in Internet time.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 7:36 amI will check in with this thread monthly. I will sticky it for the first time ever. ... The biggest waste of time in my life is pursuing the internet
Yeah, really, there's nothing of any use there, it's all one enormous dumpster fire and every website is a match, and every posting is a can of napalm, made from Styrofoam marinated overnight in gasoline. Plus all those people telling ways to construct explosives, like telling people that you can make the same explosive (ANFO) that Timothy McVeigh used by mixing fertilizer and diesel fuel, or how to make anti-personnel chemicals, like mixing bleach and ammonia makes poisonous chlorine gas, but it can become even more dangerous by adding hydrogen peroxide. That sort of thing, telling people how, that's a thing nobody should ever do.
Ice Cream Jonsey wrote: Sun Jan 01, 2023 7:36 amI am also trying to occupy my mind with stuff to get #1 accomplished.
Just keep drinking lots more water, you'll soon be accomplishing #1.
Now, if I may offer some advice, which is worth every cent you're paying for it, is that if you really want to accomplish something, you need to do two things.
First, have metrics. List each thing you want to do. Divide each item into task blocks of slightly less than what you're capable of over a period, and measure the progress for each period. You make the goal something you can reach, even if you slack off occasionally. If you don't, you can congratulate yourself for exceeding the period's goal. Next, I think your period of one month is too long; it doesn't tell you when you're falling behind until you seriously are. I'd recommend weekly periods or milestones.
Let's take 1 example: Lose 30 pounds. If you only check once a month, if you don't lose, now you're behind at least 5 pounds so far over the six months. Catching up can seem impossible. Divide by weeks, and it's 1 1/2 pounds, which is doable if a bit aggressive. So, if at the end of a week you've only lost 1 pound then you either have to do better, reduce the goal, or increase the time-line. But you have time to change your actions or change your goals.
Second, have explicit time blocks set aside for these tasks. You can either assign some tasks to an everyday basis (like 1/2 or 1 hour a day on Cyberganked), every other day (1/2 an hour of exercise), every three days (an hour fixing the snowblower), etc. And consider the ways that you can make activities desirable as opposed to a chore (instead of exercising alone three times a week, make love to your wife three times a week.)
Each week, you can check to see what you need to improve (only exercised twice last week, have to tell her we need to make love four times this week), whether the pace you set is doable, and if you're consistently falling behind, maybe readjust the schedule (Now I discover the wife likes lovemaking four times a week, have to cut some time from snowblower work and the musical composition since I have a different beaver I have to work on).
If you don't measure on a regular basis, you can't tell how you're doing. If you don't measure often your goals can slip badly before you know it. If you don't set aside time to do them, you'll complain you don't have time.
Good luck to you.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=133415 time=1672583809 user_id=3]
A year is too long for me[/quote]Hell yeah! That's like, 20 years in Internet time.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=133415 time=1672583809 user_id=3]I will check in with this thread monthly. I will sticky it for the first time ever. ... The biggest waste of time in my life is pursuing the internet[/quote]Yeah, really, there's nothing of any use there, it's all one enormous dumpster fire and every website is a match, and every posting is a can of napalm, made from Styrofoam marinated overnight in gasoline. Plus all those people telling ways to construct explosives, like telling people that you can make the same explosive (ANFO) that Timothy McVeigh used by mixing fertilizer and diesel fuel, or how to make anti-personnel chemicals, like mixing bleach and ammonia makes poisonous chlorine gas, but it can become even more dangerous by adding hydrogen peroxide. That sort of thing, telling people how, that's a thing nobody should ever do.
[quote="Ice Cream Jonsey" post_id=133415 time=1672583809 user_id=3]I am also trying to occupy my mind with stuff to get #1 accomplished.[/quote]
Just keep drinking lots more water, you'll soon be accomplishing #1.
Now, if I may offer some advice, which is worth every cent you're paying for it, is that if you really want to accomplish something, you need to do two things.
First, have metrics. List each thing you want to do. Divide each item into task blocks of slightly less than what you're capable of over a period, and measure the progress for each period. You make the goal something you can reach, even if you slack off occasionally. If you don't, you can congratulate yourself for exceeding the period's goal. Next, I think your period of one month is too long; it doesn't tell you when you're falling behind until you seriously are. I'd recommend weekly periods or milestones.
Let's take 1 example: Lose 30 pounds. If you only check once a month, if you don't lose, now you're behind at least 5 pounds so far over the six months. Catching up can seem impossible. Divide by weeks, and it's 1 1/2 pounds, which is doable if a bit aggressive. So, if at the end of a week you've only lost 1 pound then you either have to do better, reduce the goal, or increase the time-line. But you have time to change your actions or change your goals.
Second, have explicit time blocks set aside for these tasks. You can either assign some tasks to an everyday basis (like 1/2 or 1 hour a day on Cyberganked), every other day (1/2 an hour of exercise), every three days (an hour fixing the snowblower), etc. And consider the ways that you can make activities desirable as opposed to a chore (instead of exercising alone three times a week, make love to your wife three times a week.)
Each week, you can check to see what you need to improve (only exercised twice last week, have to tell her we need to make love four times this week), whether the pace you set is doable, and if you're consistently falling behind, maybe readjust the schedule (Now I discover the wife likes lovemaking four times a week, have to cut some time from snowblower work and the musical composition since I have a different beaver I have to work on).
If you don't measure on a regular basis, you can't tell how you're doing. If you don't measure often your goals can slip badly before you know it. If you don't set aside time to do them, you'll complain you don't have time.
Good luck to you.