User blog comment:Rabidcentipede/Balancing the game/@comment-177-20140115131425

Sometimes, when we're unmotivated, it's easy to avoid a very hard or daunting task by creating smaller goals for ourselves that are unrelated to our daunting task. an example of this is when you do the vacuuming instead of writing your essay. after you finish vacuuming the floor, you decide to vacuum the curtains (you tell yourself 'while you're there', but in the back of your mind you might be going 'oh no, now i've got no excuse not to write my essay!')... and then you decide to do something unimportant and non-urgent, but which is satisfying busywork - vacuuming the cat. There is a balance between 'hitting the checkbox often enough so that using habitrpg feels good' and 'entering spurious things, which I am able to do perfectly well without the incentive/reminder that habitrpg provides'. It really depends on a few things. Maybe Checklists and the Difficulty settings might help you tailor things?