No new years resolution but in Febuary I decided to get out of obease BMI and did it then in April decided to get out of overweight and did it and now I am in normal bmi. Been holding steady since thanksgiving despite tis the season for cookies.
Putcher money where your mouth is. I was listening to a podcast the other day and one tactic discussed to fight procrastination was to give a trusted friend say $50 on the basis whether or not you do your goal. For example: “Friend, I’m going to work out 3 times this week, here’s $50, and if I don’t do it it will be yours.” Pretty nifty eh? That’s one way.
Lets take it up a notch.
Say @Narfcake wanted to stop buying so many cat shirts. (I know, crazy, right? But this is just an example) He could go to http://www.stickk.com/ and set up an account that will donate his bet to Trump 2020 campaign if he fails. That adds in a little kicker. Maybe he doesn’t mind if his buddy gets $50, but with the added incentive of the donation, that might be just the kick in the pants he needs.
@therealjrn Magician Penn Jillette employed a modified strategy to help him lose 100+ pounds. He weighed himself every day and the scale would automatically email his weight to the same 5(?) friends. (and for those thinking it, simply not weighing was, at least in his mind, just as damning recording a weight gain)
For many people, the desire to avoid public embarrassment makes a much greater incentive than a monetary expenditure.
/8ball Blame? Yes definitely
/roll 2d20 You rolled a total of 14
/8ball Blame? Most likely
/roll 3d20 You rolled a total of 24
/8ball Blame? Yes definitely
/roll 5d20 You rolled a total of 26
But how does that allow for adjusting your vision as things happen,or learning what it takes as you go, rather than simply being punished for failure?
I prefer re-casting failure as useful information, re-strategizing, re-conceiving, and going forward.
Knowing how to turn failure into success is a skillset that must be learned, explored, habituated, innovated-upon, and taken on like a second mental and emotional skin.
I’m not sure that adding to the “cost” or “shame” factor will help in many cases.
/8ball Is @therealjrn trying to rack up even more blames than @mfladd? You may rely on it
/8ball Really? Yes definitely
/roll 7d20 You rolled a total of 76
4k
Wait, what were we talking about again?
@spitfire6006006
Got mine here. Unfortunately, it was not during the New Year season.
Why wait for the new year to make a change? If it doesn’t matter enough to do right now, it won’t matter enough to do later.
Remembered them for at least 2 seconds.
Uh-oh. Oops. Sorry. Failed that too.
I resolve to not be the GoaT in 2018.
@therealjrn You do realize @Thumperchick will delay the changeover just because of that resolution, right?
@msklzannie Whaaaaat?
@msklzannie Yup. I’ll just have to be stuck in celebratory mode and “oops” forget…
No new years resolution but in Febuary I decided to get out of obease BMI and did it then in April decided to get out of overweight and did it and now I am in normal bmi. Been holding steady since thanksgiving despite tis the season for cookies.
@CaptAmehrican Those are mine this year. Congratulations! Success = hard work.
@CaptAmehrican
That’s is great!
If you wanna share any techniques and motivators that worked well for you …
So cool that you did this.
Resolutions are setting yourself up for failure.
@TheCO2
Fail, learn from it, innovate both techniques and goals, adapt, keep going.
<anyway, I’m trying to learn how to do this>
@f00l Unfortunately, most never learn.
Putcher money where your mouth is. I was listening to a podcast the other day and one tactic discussed to fight procrastination was to give a trusted friend say $50 on the basis whether or not you do your goal. For example: “Friend, I’m going to work out 3 times this week, here’s $50, and if I don’t do it it will be yours.” Pretty nifty eh? That’s one way.
Lets take it up a notch.
Say @Narfcake wanted to stop buying so many cat shirts. (I know, crazy, right? But this is just an example) He could go to http://www.stickk.com/ and set up an account that will donate his bet to Trump 2020 campaign if he fails. That adds in a little kicker. Maybe he doesn’t mind if his buddy gets $50, but with the added incentive of the donation, that might be just the kick in the pants he needs.
Interesting huh?
@therealjrn Magician Penn Jillette employed a modified strategy to help him lose 100+ pounds. He weighed himself every day and the scale would automatically email his weight to the same 5(?) friends. (and for those thinking it, simply not weighing was, at least in his mind, just as damning recording a weight gain)
For many people, the desire to avoid public embarrassment makes a much greater incentive than a monetary expenditure.
@therealjrn You. Are. One. Sick. Fucker.
/8ball Blame?
Yes definitely
You rolled a total of 14
Most likely
You rolled a total of 24
Yes definitely
You rolled a total of 26
/roll 2d20
/8ball Blame?
/roll 3d20
/8ball Blame?
/roll 5d20
@narfcake
@therealjrn
One approach.
But how does that allow for adjusting your vision as things happen,or learning what it takes as you go, rather than simply being punished for failure?
I prefer re-casting failure as useful information, re-strategizing, re-conceiving, and going forward.
Knowing how to turn failure into success is a skillset that must be learned, explored, habituated, innovated-upon, and taken on like a second mental and emotional skin.
I’m not sure that adding to the “cost” or “shame” factor will help in many cases.
/8ball Is @therealjrn trying to rack up even more blames than @mfladd?
You may rely on it
Yes definitely
You rolled a total of 76
/8ball Really?
/roll 7d20
@f00l The cost factor (as you call it) I believe is for simple goals–things like “start flossing every day” and “stop buying so many cat shirts”
Certainly one should learn from failure.
Next year’s resolution: kill more brain cells with alcohol.
Already ahead of it.
@PocketBrain
No. Sorry. You are still working on this year’s resolution.
Next year you start fresh, as always, killing brain cells for 2018.
No cheating.
When you don’t make any resolutions, you can’t fail at them.
The heart of nog season is like the heart of darkness.
@Durago
That Conrad quote:
There’s a nice universal.
Good stuff.
@Durago
/youtube Nightmare