Broken streak
Mar. 24th, 2015 10:57 amFor I think the first time since starting habitRPG I failed to shave and get to work by 9:30 just because. I did do most of the other parts of my morning routine.
I'm proud of keeping it up so far, and hope that I can get over the hurdle of keeping it going even when one failure. That's often the riskiest time, when you start thinking "well, I can't do it perfectly, so what level of imperfection is ok?"
I think this what some of habitRPG's class features are for, to allow you to fail occasionally but maintain a "perfect" record, except I haven't started trusting them because previously I didn't need to and didn't know if they were well-balanced or not.
I think my problem is that for the first few weeks, checking things off was exciting and made me feel good. Then I started to get complacent and doing the minimum didn't feel like an achievement any more -- so I lost motivation and didn't do it, which is exactly what I was trying not to do. I think maybe I need to start watching the streak counters, how many days on the trot I've done it. If I can say "every day for N months", it gives me just a small amount of investment in keeping it going even when it's become normal.
I'm proud of keeping it up so far, and hope that I can get over the hurdle of keeping it going even when one failure. That's often the riskiest time, when you start thinking "well, I can't do it perfectly, so what level of imperfection is ok?"
I think this what some of habitRPG's class features are for, to allow you to fail occasionally but maintain a "perfect" record, except I haven't started trusting them because previously I didn't need to and didn't know if they were well-balanced or not.
I think my problem is that for the first few weeks, checking things off was exciting and made me feel good. Then I started to get complacent and doing the minimum didn't feel like an achievement any more -- so I lost motivation and didn't do it, which is exactly what I was trying not to do. I think maybe I need to start watching the streak counters, how many days on the trot I've done it. If I can say "every day for N months", it gives me just a small amount of investment in keeping it going even when it's become normal.