Is it effective to try and increase the value of a task by setting unrelated, external goals? For example, if I acheive a goal of doing a certain number of hours of work in the week, I’ll buy myself a pint after college or I’ll put aside money for an album or book?
My worry is that this perhaps doesn’t do much to increase the value of the task itself: I want to work because I know I enjoy the satisfaction of completing work, but gamifying it by associating it with unrelated goals doesn’t increase that. In thinking about implementing a reward system, I anticipated some ways that I’ll attempt to game the system, and tried to account for those.
Based on past experiences, my main problem with overcoming procrastination is lack of self-discipline; high impulsiveness and a tendeny to not stick to plans I’ve set down. Recently, stricter scheduling and, in the case of one particular task, logging exactly the time I spend at it (if I sit down to work at 18.03 I’ll record 18.03, not 18.00).
Is it effective to try and increase the value of a task by setting unrelated, external goals? For example, if I acheive a goal of doing a certain number of hours of work in the week, I’ll buy myself a pint after college or I’ll put aside money for an album or book?
My worry is that this perhaps doesn’t do much to increase the value of the task itself: I want to work because I know I enjoy the satisfaction of completing work, but gamifying it by associating it with unrelated goals doesn’t increase that. In thinking about implementing a reward system, I anticipated some ways that I’ll attempt to game the system, and tried to account for those.
Based on past experiences, my main problem with overcoming procrastination is lack of self-discipline; high impulsiveness and a tendeny to not stick to plans I’ve set down. Recently, stricter scheduling and, in the case of one particular task, logging exactly the time I spend at it (if I sit down to work at 18.03 I’ll record 18.03, not 18.00).