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Success and happiness cause you to regain willpower

I discovered this a while ago and found a good hack for it. I created a fake index, and within this index, I listed companies. Each company means something: progress in work, proficiency in English, learning, reading, self-improvement...

The day opens at 10 A.M, when I wake up. The trade begins. If I work or make money, the index rise (one of the company indexes or more). If I procrastinate, I lower the index. This makes me uncomfortable, because I'm looking to grow the index and not actually lower it. So, I get back to work to get the index up or reduce loses.

Sometimes I'm very productive; I don't even check it out. I don't rise it a lot after that. But other times, I procrastinate a lot, so I return back to the index and drop it dramatically. I feel like I'm obliged to safe the situation, so I work to reduce the loses.

This also keeps me with all my goals, as I care about the global index and also companies indexes.

hint: You need to make this index a part of your life. That's necessary if you want that it forces you to work.




Did you write an app to do this? Sharing it would be awesome...


No, I'm using an Excel Sheet. I'm considering an App. and a system to save the data online, once I get a smartphone and some free time ;)


Bringing some game mechanics like this is a great idea. The rewards of doing work are usually distant but an index like you describe makes it apparent immediately..




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