Rule Set Complete At The Moment

To quickly summarise where I am (see previous posts for details): after years of lack of success in improving self control, which included reading many books, I took an online psychometric test which caused me to think that I'm basically going to have to solve my issues myself!

To my genuine surprise, this "debugging" has been going unbelievably well! Using the basic idea of establishing some rules that I believe that I can follow, and implementing only small forfeits for when they're not met (so that I know that the forfeits will be carried out), I have made a lot of progress.

The other big problem that I hadn't yet tackled was getting myself to bed at a reasonable time when an activity took me past the previous rule that prescribed behaviour at 21:00, and I have now implemented a rule to cover this as well - and even that is working!

Here are the current rules in full:

1. at 09:00, set a time to finish browsing, on pain of forfeit
2. lunch starts at 12:00, forfeit if not productive again by 14:00, unless a work issue arises during lunch break, in which case set a new time on calendar
3. at 21:00, set a completion time in calendar by 21:05
4. when an activity finishes after 21:00 (footy, TV programme etc), switching on a PC triggers an immediate forfeit (healthy sleep cycle trumps what other people think is important)

Simple but effective. So far, so good. My confidence is such that I am widening the gap to the next self-assessment meeting to 3 days.