Car talk: My technique for discipline

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[@kooraiber]

This is an awesome advice that I actually need in my life currently. For various reasons I had to get 2 part time jobs with my full time job. And it's been difficult to organise my day and to just not lose time on meaningless shit. Thanks!

[@invalid3422]

Introduce some obstacles in your way: Rule#1: Move all your social apps to a secondary phone and throw that phone inside car. Rule#2: Sitting front of your desktop? Do nothing other than work or simply turn it off. Rule#3: When it comes to talk or procrastinate, do that inside your car because car will eventually make you go out and move at some point.

[@satysin630]

I don't know if you built this methodology yourself or read about it but you just perfectly described Atomic Habits by James Clear :) A small (1%) change done every day out of habit will compound over a year to become a massive change. Of course this is true of both good and bad habits! So make sure you establish good habits by removing the friction that prevents you from maintaining good habits and create more friction to stop you from continuing bad ones.

[@zoomerslayer8244]

Thanks man I really needed this rn.

[@lionkor98]

Coming back after a year or so after watching this - thank you, it helped a lot.

[@ncot_tech]

This seems to work for me too. Setting goals always feels like a final thing - once you've reached the goal there's some sort of reward and you're finished. Except often the reward is to continue towards the next goal and it feels like trick - you get to the end and think "wait, we're not done yet? there *more*?". Making it be a routine just makes it part of your day, and also makes it easy to schedule things around it. What I also find helps is writing down what I've done and then occasionally looking back over these notes.

[@gil0mendes]

Awesome advice as always. I would love to see you talking a bit about your daily routine, like wakeup, working and social hours, and that kind of stuff. Thanks :)

[@magenstarr4327]

According to psychology motivation is not what comes first if it does at all, for some it just does not. Motivation can come later on which will feed the drive. Your explanation makes complete sense and is easier for people to relate. I started something like this not that long ago and it is beneficial for me too. Your mention of doing something everyday for at least an hour everyday will progress in say a years time. That hour a day changes to 365 hours, progress!

[@DavidPalmer_blinder]

this is fascinating! and this is really very much like what i do, but i have this "mind hack" that i do, when my motivation is gone and i don't want to do strength training or get my 10k steps, or just want to not work on my music and just sit around and do nothing, i just have this thing i say to myself, sometimes even out loud, "i'm not interested in your opinion." it's me saying to my unhealthy, lazy side of my personality that it has been in the driver's seat far too long and i'm not interested in it having a voice any more. i will get my exercises done, i will run and walk my 5 miles, i will do the other things that i actually want to do, and sitting around and doing nothing is no longer an attractive alternative. it's working so far, 3 months in, i'm down a significant amount of weight, my fitness level has never been as high as it is, and i'm writing music again, along with the other adulting that has to happen in between :) so yeah this is awesome and yeah making the healthy things just part of the routine/ritual/process is exactly what it is and motivation is completely unreliable!

[@nvrgr]

Thank you Andreas. This is useful. :)

[@your_utube]

This works for me too, but can be used with a small degree of motivation. Thanks for reminding me. I achieved many things in my life like this.

[@Amplefii]

my motivation is exactly the same as your's this is great advice i have noticed the same thing with myself with having to make something a habit. The only issue i have is turning an idea into a proper habit or routine

[@abhaynayar]

The goal vs. process approach is one of the cornerstones of "Atomic Habits" by James Clear.

[@luv2stack]

You're very inspiring

[@johnhammer8668]

thanks for sharing

[@yeppiidev]

The GUI::MesageBox t-shirt is awesome.

[@yeppiidev]

And yeah, you started selling merch!

[@MartinsTalbergs]

“Discipline is freedom!” - do you agree?

[@awesomekling]

That's an interesting insight. I think I do agree. :)

[@wwmik]

run, Andreas, run!

[@yeppiidev]

How does SerenityOS GUI compositor work?

[@bool2max]

Motivation is a lie!!