Willa

Introduction I committed internally and externally to following self-created rules for specific parts of my life to change habits and improve my production to consumption ratio. Here's what I did, why I did it, and what I learned after 5 weeks! Reasoning My use of time was bad, I had a very unbalanced production vs consumption ratio and spent the majority of my time passively consuming content or otherwise not doing much outside of work hours. Changing habits is hard, so I wanted help and made an external commitment to help with accountability and improve my likelihood of following the rules I created. The goal was and is to increase my deliberate use of time and productivity, with addon benefits of improving my mood, health, and general well-being. External Help I filled out lsusr's commitment form and submitted once per week progress reports, this was good accountability and helped me quite a bit with habit changing experiment. Timespan 3 Months was too long, a few days much too short, so I settled on about 5 weeks, this experiment ran from: 27 December 2021 through 30 January 2022 The Rules, My Goals for Each Rule, and What Actually Happened + My Thoughts Exceptions Banned or limited activities are fine if done in-person with friends / family unless excessive; e.g. watching 2 episodes of TV or a movie in-person with others or going to a theater are all fine, but no binge watching. LAN parties and social gaming are fine for the most part, but gaming online even while on comms with friends for more than 3 hours is excessive. YouTube * Write a minimum 300 word review for each video watched. Goals * Reduce passive consumption of YouTube content * Improve my categorization of videos and channels, that way I know more readily what videos and types of videos from each channel I watch are more often not-worthwhile product placements, not very fun entertainment, ads, or some combination thereof * Contribute to building my knowledgebase via content from a