Write down the situations causing negative emotions/ bad habits. try to find patterns and alternate solutions
Current Ongoing
Put my phone away in drawer during the full work day, check it very minimally, often turn it completely off not even bringing it to lunch
Presence. Learning.
Read most days! Summer read so far: How to win friends and influence people(done), afterword(done), the power of habit(done), lullaby(quit quarter), exhalation stories(quit halfway), sapiens(in prog),
Phone locked to max 30 mins YouTube+TikTok (reduced to 5 mins tiktok, youtube unimited) and max 20 mins Instagram (for over a year now I think!)
Going great! Highly recommend. Have someone else set the password
Curiosity and excitement
Past Challenges
Ask out random person on the street
No silent elevator rides
Run Tue, Thu, Sat for the rest of the semester(11/18) update and running a couple times a week since
Running at the front of a group is mentally SO much better than me for some reason than the back. I was failing the mental game (found it really hard and awful), and now I’m just starting to have happy associations with running.
Thinking more about what the other person wants & giving more of that
Improving my singing! Doing chicago and next sing and random acapella with Shreya
6 hours of focused work/day before I can sleep challenged by Eric (11/28) SUCCESS
Less than 2.5 hours of phone screen time per day (11/28) SOME OF EACH
Must touch phone for 5 Mississippi before clicking FAILED
arghhh the dopamine, also super hard to remember
Try out for as many clubs as possible (rejection therapy) SUCCESS (did 4 dance groups, 2 acapella groups, 1 frat)
3/7 success rate
Never tell anyone anything that happens to me (except work related or emergencies), no photos, for 1 week (started 7/10) COMPLETED as a test of if I only do crazy things / creative learning things for the story
Can’t say much, but was refreshing and would do again
Fully track time for 1 week
Very interesting! Recommend
Pointing north whenever I remember to for 1 week (started 3/12) to become better at directions COMPLETED
I didn’t get any better at it
Prove everything assumed in my Linear class (started 2/6) COMPLETED (most)
Always recommend this in all math classes
Don’t ask for anything for a day (3/21) challenged by Tinah FAILED
I keep on forgetting! Just in casual “Hey could you look at this photo etc”
Diary at least 1 sentence a day for 1 month, include happy moments (started 3/18) challenged by Nora FAILED
I haven’t been as inspired to diary since COVID (and being more lonely) since I prefer to tell people. I guess you reading this this is a version of a diary.
Listening to Love on Top by Beyoncé before any focused work session to build a focusing habit (started 2/6) challenged by Zach COMPLETED
3/18 Don’t feel an association with the song yet, but the ritual of saying “I’m going to work now” seems to work
Will continue work vibe type habits
Vegan for 1 week (started 2/5) challenged by Ryan COMPLETED with a couple of mistakes
I continue to be vegetarian (except if meat would not cause more suffering ex: would be thrown away)
Easier than I thought in the dining hall
Phone black and white extended 2 weeks (started 1/26) FAILED
Too annoying
Phone black and white for 1 week (started 1/26) challenged by Alex COMPLETED
I want to do this again next time I feel too phone addicted
Old but a favorite: met 50 strangers with Isabelle!