One thing I’ve been trying for a while is tracking how often I scratch itches. When my ear is itchy I try my best to resist scratching it; if I fail, I record that, then I graph how many itches were scratched each day. You can also use this to kick other small habits like lip-biting.
Perhaps you should give yourself a grace period, say right before you fall asleep, to make sure you don’t develop skin problems or something from accumulation of dead skin flakes.
Here’s another idea: Lie on the floor on your stomach. Put your hands on your head and your elbows on the floor. Now lift yourself up using your elbows and your toes. No other parts of your body should touch the floor; your back and legs should form a straight line. Hold this position as long as your willpower permits. Time yourself, but without time-elapsed visible to you while you’re holding the position.
Your time will gradually increase over time due to muscles strengthening, but perhaps you could adjust for that. I suppose you could substitute any other exercise for this, but this one seems better to me.
These measure willpower, which I think is pretty much the same as not-procrastinate-ability.
You could just measure how motivated you feel every hour, or how prone you seemed to be to procrastinating that hour. I think your self-evaluations would be accurate enough about this.
Your time will gradually increase over time due to muscles strengthening, but perhaps you could adjust for that.
I’d expect that after the first dozen times you do that, any further improvements will be due to muscles strengthening to a far greater extent than to more willpower.
One thing I’ve been trying for a while is tracking how often I scratch itches. When my ear is itchy I try my best to resist scratching it; if I fail, I record that, then I graph how many itches were scratched each day. You can also use this to kick other small habits like lip-biting.
Perhaps you should give yourself a grace period, say right before you fall asleep, to make sure you don’t develop skin problems or something from accumulation of dead skin flakes.
Here’s another idea: Lie on the floor on your stomach. Put your hands on your head and your elbows on the floor. Now lift yourself up using your elbows and your toes. No other parts of your body should touch the floor; your back and legs should form a straight line. Hold this position as long as your willpower permits. Time yourself, but without time-elapsed visible to you while you’re holding the position.
Your time will gradually increase over time due to muscles strengthening, but perhaps you could adjust for that. I suppose you could substitute any other exercise for this, but this one seems better to me.
These measure willpower, which I think is pretty much the same as not-procrastinate-ability.
You could just measure how motivated you feel every hour, or how prone you seemed to be to procrastinating that hour. I think your self-evaluations would be accurate enough about this.
I’d expect that after the first dozen times you do that, any further improvements will be due to muscles strengthening to a far greater extent than to more willpower.