MY TRACKING OF THIS COMPLETELY FELL OFF A CLIFF AT THIS POINT [writing this on 28 Aug 23] I've just listened to a Huberman podcast on goal setting and realise I need to employ these tactics. Clearly this The One Thing technique can work, but I need to try again (and possibly again and again) to achieve what I want to. The problem is that I haven't truly know previously what I wanted and I'm still afraid of it. I'm afraid of what success could mean (hate mail and being visited by the police, maybe!) but, putting that aside, I know I'll be unhappy if I don't try this. So, using this interesting quote, perhaps I can forge ahead, knowing that I'm willing to pay the price for standing up for the truth: "Success comes down to a simple choice: 1) Decide exactly what you want. 2) Determine the price you have to pay. 3) Choose if you're willing to pay it." Being a coward is more scary, and harder to live with, than being vilified. That's the theory anyway!
I have still made some progress during this time, learning masses about HBC and recording a podcast on it, tracking my cycles, creating diagrams to understand the biology and writing mind maps on what I've learned. It's been a live experiment these past few months and quite gratifying. It seems like I've managed to naturally regulate my cycle after 20 years on HBC, so (if all continues in the positive direction it seems to be going in) then these 3 months have certainly not gone to waste, but AT THE SAME TIME, I would prefer to get into a consistent way of pursuing goals that I can rely on rather than just going off on a tangent and going with my whims, which inevitably takes too long and means I'm subject to too much distraction and procrastination.
- Do a 12-week cycle - good macro time to focus on
- How many hours each week and per hours per day you'll spend pursuing goal
- Which days per week in particular
- Write this down with a pen and pencil - increases your probability of achieving the goal
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