Ready for 2005 to be OVER! 2006 resolutions... (page 2)

PoliticallyNeutered2

Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert. The stuff in this email could be false. If you use it, use it at your own risk. Also, since about 7/05, I've earnestly tried to keep my large-scale internet presence politically/religiously neutral. Stepping on big toes with such new and powerful technology seems highly incautious in my case.

1. Use my little python scheduling script, a cold-shower-negative-punishment schedule, and a public confession routine in the form of a web page recording my daily estimate of my "successfulnesss" that day (by percentage, about 75% of which is planned to be dependent only on whether I have followed my own punishment/reinforcement schedule) to hopefully develop more organization and self-discipline than I have ever had before.

2. Leave much of the time for unscheduled exploration, to avoid external time-manipulation techniques which might otherwise "guide" the course of my mind in ways to which I would not consciously consent.

3. Unless my plans change: Spend much of the time working on starting a little game-programming business (Nothing too big or fancy, at first), and much of the time developing a simple, unpowered exoskeleton for myself to protect my back (I've mentioned the scoliosis which wikipedia says puts me in a less than 1 out of 2500 class) and possibly lead to other things.

Speaking of 1, why in the heck didn't I think of cold showers as a negative punishment earlier? They work great! I thought about negative punishments, but this one didn't strike me until I was almost 30. What a waste. Oh well. Hopefully, I'll have a few years left to accomplish stuff. Every few years I've seemed to learn something which has left my world-view reeling to the point where I have had to readjust my course substantially and reconsider things for a few months, and plot a new course, as I have in the last 6 rather unproductive months.

Oh well. Apparently on course now. Charge!
"I feel so Alive! For the very fist time! And I think I could fly!"
http://www.lyrics007.com/P.O.D.%20Lyrics/Alive%20Lyrics.html

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fairchild

Stop smoking.

DAVE?????? DAVE????? *Goes searching for that recent post where Dave said he had quit smoking* tsk..tsk..tsk..

Faichild's resolutions for 2006

*Clean the house at least once this year.

*Read at least one page of useless information a day.

*Do not hit snooze button more than 6 times

*Be nice to the neighbor and to his %$#& dog

*Do not wait to wash dishes until cupboards are empty

*Do not fall asleep with face on keyboard, there's plenty of room on the mouse pad.

*Water in tub will foam with HALF the amount of bubbles

*Do not leave house while having water on stove for tea.

*Last but not least. I want to see if I can get through a full year without locking myself out of the house.

PoliticallyNeutered2

from FairChild:

*Do not fall asleep with face on keyboard, there's plenty of room on the mouse pad.

LOL :)

fairchild

Hehe, and I even did all of the dishes today after writing my resolution in this thread.

PoliticallyNeutered2

Here I resolved, among other things, to start a little website where I would post publicly about whether I had been following my own reinforcement schedule and resolutions:

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/104628/1811255/post.ashx#1811255

Here is the extremely simple site:

http://home.earthlink.net/~empatheticthinking/

Has anyone else tried something like this, or other motivational techniques which they would like to share? :)

Thanks for letting me post this. Now that this thread is started, I don't intend to let it die! Muahahahaha!!!!

PoliticallyNeutered2

Reporting on progress of resolution:

I was doing well, as shown by my public confession link above.

Then, last night, I was asked to work an extra day at work. I must depart from the schedule for now, I guess; but, I hope that this overtime thing doesn't become a habit. If I can't find time to build a simple, unpowered exoskeleton to replace or enhance my lack of a good internal skeleton, it may be difficult for me to make my life worth living if I'm asked to stand up at all. Pretzel-boy. :(

If you've read this far, thanks for listening to me whine. :P :)

liquidsky

PN,

Your kinda wacky. In a good way.I love reading your posts.

PoliticallyNeutered2

from liquidsky:

PN,
Your kinda wacky. In a good way.I love reading your posts.

Thanks! That cheers me up quite a bit! :) :) So tired of talking to myself, I'm just glad that someone was reading! :) :) I'll try to keep posting wacky stuff! :) Don't have much time right now because I must go to work... Thanks again! :)

PoliticallyNeutered2

Progress report:

I think that I found a way to get out of overtime at work. Hurray! Back to the schedule next week, I guess. :)

PoliticallyNeutered2

Disclaimer: I don't claim to be an expert. The stuff in this email could be false. If you use it, use it at your own risk. Also, since about 7/05, I've earnestly tried to keep my large-scale internet presence politically/religiously neutral. Stepping on big toes with such new and powerful technology seems highly incautious in my case.

Progress report and slight adjustment:

On point 3, I mentioned the phrase "unless my plans change." My plans have changed slightly. I now only have 30 minutes per week allocated to trying to build a simple, unpowered exoskeleton for myself to support my back. I hope that I don't injure it in the interim. Also, Instead of spending "much" time only on a simple game-programming business, I've divided that time a bit. I intend to spend some of it on building some expertise in the field of building simple computer games for the Java VM; but, on my current schedule, it may take me almost 4 years to reach expert status in a related field. I've scheduled an equal amount of time on human networking and tuning skills for ethical persuasion. Perhaps that will help me to find a better job in a shorter time.

With regard to point 2, I've scheduled yet another equal amount of time for various meditation and mental-improvement exercises. I apologize to the powers that be for mentioning these specifically at all in the past. I didn't realize how "political" that could be. What I mentioned was highly and publicly available, guys! On google! First hit status! Give me a break (respite)! :P

Thanks for being there to glance at this, everyone. :)

(edited to add link to 3 points:)

http://www.jehovahs-witness.com/6/104628/1811255/post.ashx#1811255

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