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Aug. 31st, 2015 06:11 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pedantherI am getting better at getting out of bed at a reasonable time in the morning. There are multiple reasons for this, obviously, but a big one is that I'm also getting better at getting into bed at a relatively reasonable time at night.
Signing up for HabitRPG has been a big help with this, in a way separate from the reminders and rewards by which it is designed to help. (Though of course I'm using the reminders and rewards as well.) The thing is, the application inherently has a deadline: if you don't get a thing done before the calendar rolls over at midnight, it gets counted against you as an incomplete for the day, even if you do it afterward. And this acts as a counter to my previous tendency to say "I'll just get this one more thing done today" until, several one-more-things later, it's ridiculous o'clock in the morning. It's much easier, now, to tell myself "It's too late to do this thing now, I might as well go to bed and do it in the morning", especially since I can now be confident I'll actually get up in the morning in time to do things before work.
(Sometimes, of course, there's a thing that really does need to be done before I go to bed, but the deadline is also leading me to be a bit better at prioritising so I can get things like that done before midnight, and not procrastinate until they can only be finished by staying up until ridiculous o'clock.)
Signing up for HabitRPG has been a big help with this, in a way separate from the reminders and rewards by which it is designed to help. (Though of course I'm using the reminders and rewards as well.) The thing is, the application inherently has a deadline: if you don't get a thing done before the calendar rolls over at midnight, it gets counted against you as an incomplete for the day, even if you do it afterward. And this acts as a counter to my previous tendency to say "I'll just get this one more thing done today" until, several one-more-things later, it's ridiculous o'clock in the morning. It's much easier, now, to tell myself "It's too late to do this thing now, I might as well go to bed and do it in the morning", especially since I can now be confident I'll actually get up in the morning in time to do things before work.
(Sometimes, of course, there's a thing that really does need to be done before I go to bed, but the deadline is also leading me to be a bit better at prioritising so I can get things like that done before midnight, and not procrastinate until they can only be finished by staying up until ridiculous o'clock.)
