User blog:TheSkybax/Hello Self

Welcome to the inside my head!

This short post is to help you get a little insight into my daily life. I'll be going over some habits and dailies that I've found useful in my quest for self-betterment! Keep all appendages inside the thought-coaster at all times. Thanks!

My Habits include both good and bad habits, being things that I want to continue doing, or things that I want to stop doing, respectively. Some good Habits include eating meals, putting dirty clothes in their place, being on time, giving compliments, and learning new things! Some bad Habits include biting my nails, being late, procrastinating, making messes, giving insults, and buying video games. I buy a lot of video games >.>

I'm happy to report that most of my Habits are green! Thank you Habitica!

One thing that I've started doing recently, is refining my Habits so that almost none of them have only one modifier. If something only has a negative, then I cannot be rewarded for resisting the Habit! The same goes for something that only has a positive. Because of this, I've added various stipulations in the Habit notes. For example, in the "Bite Nails" Habit, it has both a plus and a minus. The minus is obvious (when I bite my nails), but the + isn't. In the notes for the Habit, I have written "If you make it through the day without putting fingers in your mouth, give yourself a +".

This way, I can be rewarded for resisting bad Habits, and not simply for doing good Habits! Yay for positive reinforcement!

Some of my Dailies are pretty standard. Finish my computer work (a two parter), take out the trash, help my wife with housework. But I also have some more ambitious goals that I hope Habitica will motivate me to do! I have a workout regime in my Dailies, as well as various spiritual goals that I know I need to work on. I also have a goal every day to make my wife laugh at least once.

Sometimes bettering yourself involves influencing others positively! :)