1. set a reminder every evening to make a schedule for the next day (problem this was solving is that lack of schedule means I procrastinate somewhat endlessly on things)
2. cleaned up the many bags lying around my closet door. now it is much easier to approach and use my closet.
3. looked into what grocery delivery services exist, made an Instacart account, decided to do the free trial of their annual subscription, and preliminarily decided that if that goes well I intend to just go ahead and pay for the annual subscription. (for this to be fully solved I still need to go ahead and actually try ordering some stuff; that’s a more-than-5-minutes task probably)
4. I do a few weights exercises every day and I’d noticed that as I get stronger some of the exercises are no longer hard enough. so I thought through the exercises I do and decided on which ones I’d increase the number of reps I do and by how much. this also let to me adding a new exercise to the routine upon realizing it would be a good idea.
5. my tea drawer had too much stuff in it and was hard to use. I thought I’d need to fix this by just getting rid of some tea I don’t care about very much, but it turned out that just consolidating the tea into fewer boxes sufficiently solved this problem for me.
I said yesterday that none of my many bugs felt like difficulty 1 because if something is actually quickly solvable I would have probably fixed it by now. All of the above were listed as difficulty 2 (except #3 which was 4 or so), but clearly they were in fact things I could fix right now, they just felt vaguely aversive or did not quite reach the priority level at which I’d actually make an effort to fix them. (I guess 1, 3, and 4 are not actually fully solved as I’ll need to follow through with these changes to see if they’re actually effective. But they at least have a good chance of already being solved, and if not then they’re on a path that will almost certainly lead to them being solved.)
Did this today. Results:
1. set a reminder every evening to make a schedule for the next day (problem this was solving is that lack of schedule means I procrastinate somewhat endlessly on things)
2. cleaned up the many bags lying around my closet door. now it is much easier to approach and use my closet.
3. looked into what grocery delivery services exist, made an Instacart account, decided to do the free trial of their annual subscription, and preliminarily decided that if that goes well I intend to just go ahead and pay for the annual subscription. (for this to be fully solved I still need to go ahead and actually try ordering some stuff; that’s a more-than-5-minutes task probably)
4. I do a few weights exercises every day and I’d noticed that as I get stronger some of the exercises are no longer hard enough. so I thought through the exercises I do and decided on which ones I’d increase the number of reps I do and by how much. this also let to me adding a new exercise to the routine upon realizing it would be a good idea.
5. my tea drawer had too much stuff in it and was hard to use. I thought I’d need to fix this by just getting rid of some tea I don’t care about very much, but it turned out that just consolidating the tea into fewer boxes sufficiently solved this problem for me.
I said yesterday that none of my many bugs felt like difficulty 1 because if something is actually quickly solvable I would have probably fixed it by now. All of the above were listed as difficulty 2 (except #3 which was 4 or so), but clearly they were in fact things I could fix right now, they just felt vaguely aversive or did not quite reach the priority level at which I’d actually make an effort to fix them. (I guess 1, 3, and 4 are not actually fully solved as I’ll need to follow through with these changes to see if they’re actually effective. But they at least have a good chance of already being solved, and if not then they’re on a path that will almost certainly lead to them being solved.)
I guess 5 minutes is longer than I thought.