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Why can't I do a single thing?
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Hi, first of all you all have been very nice to me putting up huge comments to help me out. Thank you so much. I'm kinda moved lol.
Coming to accountability partners, I think I am very shy person and I don't like sharing self improvement things with anyone irl not because they are bad (I have a sweet family) but I just don't like to share my goals and then get asked questions about it whether it is good or bad.
I have an online friend with whom I share a lot of things which I don't with people irl, and maybe I can convince them to be my accountability partner.
I have few questions about the goals though. Do they have to huge like the one you shared? Do I have to report back everyday to my partner? How do I go about it.
Once again thank you for looking out for an random internet stranger <3 I was gonna reply later to you all one by one, but you keeping the timeframe out for me to check on me had be typing all this on the spot. Thanks <3
I can only speak from my own experience.
My strategy is committing to planning my day at the beginning of the day (9:10AM after I've gotten my kids to school) and then talking with my wife before bed about how well I managed to stick to the plan. Ie did I actually plan tasks for the day, did I accomplish those tasks, is there anything she'd like me to add to tomorrow's tasks etc.
Planning my day includes assigning time frames for the tasks, including one task right after planning. If I know I'm likely to want to play video games that day, plan a time and duration, and set an alarm on my phone to interrupt my play at the time I thought I should stop.
Try really hard to frame things in an analog way. Ie As progress instead of as victory or failure.
What I mean is you didn't do exactly what I asked, and that's fine you made real progress towards developing a sustainable solution.
I use a paper productivity planner to plan my day and I've found it very helpful. maybe do 30 minutes of research into options available to you.