Day 280: Week 41 Plan

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Week 40

Goals

  • Life

    • ❌ Be in bed by 12am at least 3 times

      • Nope. Only happened once.

    • ❌ Work out at least 3 times, do yoga at least twice

      • Worked out twice, did yoga once, and ran twice. I feel pretty good about that but since I didn’t meet the criteria I set, it gets an X.

    • ✅ Meditate for 20+ minutes at least 3 times

  • Browserflow

    • ✅ Allow sharing flows

      • Changed flow storage from local to cloud (Firebase)
      • Allow sharing flows from Browserflow
      • Created basic flow page (WIP)

    • ❌ Publish and share “Unfollow everything on Facebook” flow

      • Since I didn’t finish the flow page, didn’t publish and share

Hm, it seems that I’m just not motivated enough to go to bed early since I’ve failed basically every time I’ve set this goal. When I wanted to break the habit of using my phone in bed back in 2017, I used the “anti-charity” concept to commit to donate $100 to the National Organization for Marriage, a non-profit dedicated to work against the legalization of same-sex marriage in the US. I really didn’t want to donate my money to that cause so I figured it’d be super effective at helping me break my habit. I made this commitment publicly via my Facebook page at the time, and it got considerable backlash from people who were appalled that I’d even risk donating to such an organization. The criticism that it seems unnecessary to contribute to potential societal harm for my personal goals was fair, so I changed the punishment to something I also find repulsive but one that’s still acceptable in society: eating meat. No one complained about that one.

Anyway, the anti-charity approach was super effective because I kept the commitment for the rest of the year and completely broke my habit of using my phone in bed. I’m tempted to do a similar challenge for going to bed at a reasonable hour, but I have more reservations about this one — what if I wanted to stay up and hang out with friends (assuming that becomes possible in the foreseeable future)? What if I can’t fall asleep? With using my phone in bed, there weren’t any reasons why that’d ever be necessary, but going to bed at a certain hour has too many other factors outside of my direct control.

Is there a lower stakes commitment I can make to correct my sleep schedule? Maybe I’ll try something like “I can only play Starcraft if I went to bed before 12am the previous night”. Okay, let’s start with that. (I downloaded Starcraft two days ago so I can play with my sister and yup, I’m hooked again. Woe is me.)

Week 41

This is it. After weeks and weeks of talking about creating a flow gallery, I finally have enough of the pieces together that I think it’ll actually happen this week. Fingers crossed!

There are a bunch of aspects of the sharing experience that I still need to think through (what flows go in the gallery? just the “official” ones or anyone’s? etc.) so I’ll probably write about that some more this week.

Goals

  • Life

    • Be in bed by 12am at least 3 times

    • Work out at least 2 times, do yoga at least once

      • This is the minimum I’d like to hit so I’ll set it to this for now

    • Meditate for 20+ minutes at least 3 times

  • Browserflow

    • Complete shared flow page
    • Create waitlist page
    • Create gallery with at least 3 shared flows
    • Publish and share “Unfollow everything on Facebook” flow

Unrelated, I followed another Procreate tutorial and drew this koi fish today:

  1. I’m literally following step-by-step instructions (and not doing that great of a job at that either). If the above makes it seem like I have some artistic talent, you are mistaken. You’ll understand what I mean when you compare it to what it’s supposed to look like:

    omg that shading

  2. Procreate is such an impressive piece of software. Wow.