More Rules - Soon, There Will Be Too Many Of Them

In today's self improvement session, I focused on:

* slippage: I have been getting into the habit of pushing back the time limits in the existing rules (e.g. a time limit of 21:45 could be pushed to 22:15 to allow for more reading time)

* cold feet. After doing ablutions, my feet are too cold to sleep

My expanded rules are now as follows:

1. at 09:00, set a time to start being productive, 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. to avoid cold feet, you do ablutions when A goes to bed
4. at 21:00, set a completion time in calendar by 21:05
5. 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)
6. "being productive" means just that - YOU MUST BE ACTUALLY WORKING!
7. no pushing time back! You must either save the reading, or categorise it as either "actionable" or "not actionable". Pushing time back triggers forfeit.

As is obvious, the rules are becoming numerous and complicated. At the next meeting, I will consider reducing them, or using automatic reminders. It may be that continued usage of them will make me familiar with them anyway - but they're not the kind of things I'm likely to remember in the heat of battle.

My NeuroSky headset has arrived. The software for it takes quite a bit of setting up, and I haven't had a proper chance to try the best programs for it yet.

The state of the nation: making steady progress (and to be fair to myself, I have been very ill with a nasty chesty cough that makes breathing difficult). However, I am concerned that there might be a bigger problem that all this self-work will always help only temporarily.