A suggestion: Can you think of systems that you can set up for you to do the actions tomorrow. It's suprisingly harder to convince yourself to go for a run right now; but surprisingly easier to set up an expectation that you will do it later/tomorrow.
Simply the act of preparing your running stuff, (shoes, water bottle etc.), then put it in a place where you can't ignore it. (i.e. a doorway) so that you "just do it".
might be a viable course of action to get you to do the desired thing...
I've tried it and it doesn't work, unless those are very basic and fast things, e.g. applying night cream, but not going for a run.
I've developed (as protective mechanisms against my mother) lots of ways to not let myself succeed at anything. I know now that I need to move very slowly to get anything done, so I'm mostly untangling my thoughts and aliefs about myself.
This is one of the few occasions when habitually seeing situations and problems from more than one side doean't help.
lots of ways to not let myself succeed at anything.
That seems like a different problem...
To remind myself time and again, until my brain learns and understands it: without a change in diet (or lifestyle) there is no change in weight.
back to this - if that's what you are trying to do - have you tried signposting yourself; in places that you will see?
There was a movie "hollow man" where the main character had a sign above his desk so when he lent back in his chair and looked at the roof he saw it, it said "get back to work".
Do you know where you will find investors? /who you will meet with? (this seems like the hardest step)
I have an interested investor already, as well as a couple people who have expressed interest in meeting with others.
I have a small network which can at least get me three meetings, but I will have to expand it after that.
I was surprised to find for myself that having a really fast moving imagination can be a problem.
Same here. One problem with accomplishing my goals is that I am too good at inventing new ones. So it's difficult to stay focused on one goal as long as is necessary to complete it. It's rare to have a goal that feels so important that even weeks later it is still a priority #1.
A rough ordering by amount of time needed is actually very important. I'm not saying you need to be accurate within 10%, but having some idea of what's likely to take minutes, an hour, a lot of hours, weeks, or months is the only way you can tell whether you're likely to achieve a goal-- or make progress toward it--- in a given chunk of time.
Inspired by the group rationality diary and open thread, this is the second goal setting journal (GSJ) thread.
If you have a goal worth setting then it goes here.
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4. GSJ Threads should run for no longer than 1 week, but you may set goals, subgoals and tasks for as distant into the future as you please.
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