I started this challenge on January 23rd, making today day four. I haven’t cracked once since I started it, but it sure hasn’t been easy. I seek out distractions when my brain gets tired of focusing on one thing and it’s been interesting to notice just how often that really is. That said, I thinkContinue reading “Web reading challenge: day 4”
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Web reading challenge: morning one
Mornings are when I expect to have my most difficulty with this web reading challenge I’m doing. I tend to spend a lot of time in the mornings settling into the day reading this stuff. I didn’t have any trouble at all this morning. Haven’t even been tempted. Stopping myself from clicking certain things byContinue reading “Web reading challenge: morning one”
A challenge to end the endless clicking and refreshing
I’ve made a rash decision I’ll probably hate tomorrow, but I’ve decided to give up infotainment for a while—indefinitely would be better. I’ll accept the rest of this month and February as a compromise. To say I spend too much time clicking and refreshing is minimizing the amount of clicking and refreshing of web pagesContinue reading “A challenge to end the endless clicking and refreshing”
Quitting caffeine update
I love coffee; it really doesn’t love me. I blame the caffeine.
Today starts a two week experiment with a new schedule
Here’s the writing schedule I’m going to follow for the next two weeks. 9:00-10:30 1:00-2:30 7:30-9:00 Why have I changed my schedule yet again? The other schedule wasn’t working for me. At all. I didn’t write one single time during my scheduled writing time. Right now, in particular, I’m having trouble with getting started, andContinue reading “Today starts a two week experiment with a new schedule”
Experiments update
In my post about how moderation doesn’t work for me, I laid out a plan for an experiment with abstinence and a strict adherence to my schedule. It’s been a few days. And yeah. Some of it’s working out pretty well. Some of it isn’t. Here are the details. The no sweets experiment is goingContinue reading “Experiments update”
Fuzzy feeling but no headache—yet
I’ve kept to my plan to take ibuprofen today in advance of the headache I’m worried about, and so far, it’s paid off. I had a really fuzzy feeling just before, during, and after lunch, but I tried to nap at 12:30, but I never drifted off, got back to work, stared at the screenContinue reading “Fuzzy feeling but no headache—yet”
July 11: follow up & the decision to go all in
I’m really disappointed in myself right now. A couple of things happened that stopped me from returning to my work at 1 pm today, one of those being a headache. That’s a legitimate issue, but in all truth, I should have worked through it. I needed to work through it. I know what was toContinue reading “July 11: follow up & the decision to go all in”