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nostrich: jakelodwick: This is a self-management experiment. Living by myself and reporting to no boss makes it easy to fall into a mindless routine. I have not been living up my potential as an ‘untethered creative person’. My lack of discipline has allowed me to drift into a hazy groove. I need some accountability. Here are my “STANDARDS” for the next week. Each day, I aim to meet all of them, and will keep track of my success or failure. Eat each meal within 1 hour of 9:30, 1:30, & 8:00 One 3-hour creative block One 1-hour book reading block I really like Jake’s STANDARDS experiment — save for the annoying capitalisation. Like Jake, I’m relatively untethered (insofar as I’m an unemployed bum for the time being) — though my creativity is questionable — and I tend to find it difficult to make productive use of my free time without some sort of forced routine. I like how this differs from most GTD systems, in that it’s a lot less demanding — rather than telling you what to do, it merely requires that you do something. I should implement something like this for my thesis.

nostrich:

jakelodwick:

This is a self-management experiment. Living by myself and reporting to no boss makes it easy to fall into a mindless routine. I have not been living up my potential as an ‘untethered creative person’. My lack of discipline has allowed me to drift into a hazy groove. I need some accountability.

Here are my “STANDARDS” for the next week. Each day, I aim to meet all of them, and will keep track of my success or failure.

  • Eat each meal within 1 hour of 9:30, 1:30, & 8:00
  • One 3-hour creative block
  • One 1-hour book reading block

I really like Jake’s STANDARDS experiment — save for the annoying capitalisation. Like Jake, I’m relatively untethered (insofar as I’m an unemployed bum for the time being) — though my creativity is questionable — and I tend to find it difficult to make productive use of my free time without some sort of forced routine. I like how this differs from most GTD systems, in that it’s a lot less demanding — rather than telling you what to do, it merely requires that you do something.

I should implement something like this for my thesis.