Forge new habits

www.habitforge.com

So this site claims that it takes 21 days to forge a new habit. Yuu sign up, decide what new habit you want to forge and every day you receive an email asking you if you did what you had to do.

I'm on my first day trying to forge the habit of meditating 20 minutes in the morning.

Let's forge some habits, commit, Watmm.

fuck taht

How exactly does one meditate?

Sit down straight, close your eyes, try to think about nothing. YOu can focus on something to help you meditating, for instance, I focus on a visualization of my breathing.

Good luck with that.

  On 5/25/2010 at 3:36 PM, Root5 said:

Good luck with that.

It works.

thanks. i'm going to use this to stop biting my nails.

Good luck with that, it's been years I've been trying and no success so far.

getting some stupid email reminder about something is pretty silly. you should just man up and do it. set an alarm on your phone or something.

  On 5/25/2010 at 4:35 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

Good luck with that, it's been years I've been trying and no success so far.

Success at what? Is there a goal beyond your previous description?

The Intrawebs telling you how to do things = life FAIL

  On 5/25/2010 at 5:08 PM, Philip Glass said:

The Intrawebs telling you how to do things = life FAIL

What if a friend would send you a reminder every day, would it also be a life fail ?

it's like new years resolutions. you'll only go through with it if you really want to.

yes but little things like this can help you rmemeber what you really want. Giving up on resolutions is so easy.

why not get your mum to tell you every wednesday

I could get you a new habit in about 4 days, with about £40.

  On 5/25/2010 at 5:13 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

  On 5/25/2010 at 5:08 PM, Philip Glass said:

The Intrawebs telling you how to do things = life FAIL

 

What if a friend would send you a reminder every day, would it also be a life fail ?

that isn't if you have a friend

Instead of bothering friends with that, go with that site.

  On 5/25/2010 at 4:49 PM, theSun said:

getting some stupid email reminder about something is pretty silly. you should just man up and do it. set an alarm on your phone or something.

Yeah emails are stupid and silly, but phones are good and righteous

this is great. i'm going to use this to HELP ME start meditating and exercising.

  On 5/25/2010 at 4:35 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

Good luck with that, it's been years I've been trying and no success so far.

actually i successfully quit cold turkey last summer. I didn't bite my nails for months. I started again when school began in the fall :P

  On 5/25/2010 at 6:22 PM, iamabe said:

  On 5/25/2010 at 4:35 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

Good luck with that, it's been years I've been trying and no success so far.

 

actually i successfully quit cold turkey last summer. I didn't bite my nails for months. I started again when school began in the fall :P

yeah same lol.

as for forging a new habit, it'd be a laugh to get a reminder to pick my nose every day. doesn't have to be good habits, right?

  On 5/25/2010 at 5:33 PM, Dirty Protest said:

I could get you a new habit in about 4 days, with about £40.

lawl

I will be using this to keep myself from constantly checking my e-mail.

  On 5/25/2010 at 5:31 PM, keltoi said:

why not get your mum to tell you every wednesday

What if your mom's dead?

  On 5/25/2010 at 12:56 PM, the anonymous forumite said:

www.habitforge.com

 

So this site claims that it takes 21 days to forge a new habit. Yuu sign up, decide what new habit you want to forge and every day you receive an email asking you if you did what you had to do.

 

I'm on my first day trying to forge the habit of meditating 20 minutes in the morning.

 

Let's forge some habits, commit, Watmm.

heard of this before; i think it was a dashing and clever idea to turn it into a web service.

see this:

http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2005/04/30-days-to-success/

steve pavlina is kind of a tool, but his blog is good on days when you're feeling demotivated and/or ADD. lots of good ideas.

edit: p.s. one 30 day thing i did was giving up watmm. i made it and promptly started wasting time again