As you already know, in both June and July I haven’t achieved my target goal which was 90% of the final score.
So I was thinking for other ways to make this goal achievable, and upon checking my notes about the early month of these years (these aren’t published yet).
I found I had this rule called “RESCUE PASS” which enables you to pass the objective if you have 88-89% of success rate.
And this can only be used 3 times a year.
Because I have never used for this year, I thought why not activate it this month just in case.
So the goals of the habits that I am working on are the same as last month.
It’s just some habits have higher objectives. (linear progression of some of the habits).
1) Reading → for 14-29 minutes a day.
2) Planning → for 2.5-4.5 hours a day.
3) The Stillness Finder Learning Project → (Meditating for 40-46 minutes / Studying Meditation materials for 10-30 minutes)
4) The Yoga Explorer Learning Project → (Doing yoga for 10 minutes or more depending on the workout / Studying Yoga Materials for 10-30 minutes)
5) Journaling → writing about my day and answering 7-9 daily reflection questions.
6) Time tracking → logging in at least 5 hours/day
7) Cold showers → from 30- 60 seconds
8) Drinking water → from 1.2-2.2 litters/day
9) Making bed → the first habit of the day
10) Brushing teeth → 1-3 times per day
11) Sweeping the floor → to maintain a clean room.
12) Habits statements → reading flash cards of each habit statement digitally or using the physical flash cards.
13) Upgraded Memory Learning project → studying for 1-2.5 hours a day.
14) Money Tracking → Using an android Application to log in the expenses and income
15) Sleep Schedule → Second Attempt of the Zest Mode = 6 hours & 20 minutes
16) Food Tracking → Documenting the things I eat during the day
17) Productivity System → using 2-5 tools
18) Content creation → for 23-48 minutes
19) Habit documenting → using 2-3 tools
20) Dark Mode → closing my eyes before 2-10 minutes of sleep
The results of regarding the perfect habits
Apparently every month , the amount of Perfect habits in descending trend.
During August I had 3 perfect habits that’s half amount the perfect habits i had back in June.
The explanation for this, it’s because I was focusing on doing more rather than less, because I am not focusing on streaks but rather working on balancing my efforts on some habits while prioritizing some for their importance for example the Stillness Finder Learning project.
The three habits are : Time tracking, habits statements and making bed.
Ranking other habits from the best to worst score
4 habits I did for 30 times: we have brushing teeth, sweeping the floor, stillness finder, and money tracking.
For the stillness finder, because it has both theory and practice, that day I missed I didn’t miss the practice, but the reading session, otherwise I would have gotten a perfect 31 days.
For the other 3, sometimes it just happens I don’t do them because I try to group many habits at the last moments, so I end up leaving some unchecked because at 9 pm I cannot execute any habit (at least not more than 3 times per month I have extra 5 minutes past 9 pm which can be used to finish a habit or two).
Now let’s go minus one, we get 29 days score.
We got 4 habits sitting on this score which are : food tracking, journaling, productivity system, and the Yoga explorer LP
Food tracking tend to be the easiest out of three, it only take me one minute or less to finish the habit.
Journaling in the other hand it can time consuming, especially when I tend to recall a story that happened to me in that day, or simply ruminating on something that I stumbled upon.
The productivity system feels like a second nature to be, but using the fifth tool, hasn’t become automatic yet.
I am glad to be able to do yoga explorer for 29 days, in the last month it wasn’t that good just did it for 20 days.
Yet despite doing it almost everyday, I am far behind the learning project, I feel stuck in this book of Yoga for dummies, which I need to finish as soon as possible.
Drinking water is done 28 days. for instance you might think is this person seriously skip drinking water for 3 days a month? no way, there is not a single day I miss drinking water, be it summer, winter or whatever, but during those days I failed to hit the target which is a minimum of 1.2 liters per day.
Same as drinking water, did the habit of reading for 28 days. the time invested in reading was 13 hours and 57 minutes which was better than last month.
Planning and content creation both them executed for 27 days.
I did the cold shower 25 times this month.
Learning project (upgraded memory) and habit documenting for 23 days each.
Dark mode being done 20 times.
And lastly, we have sleep schedule with 16 days performance.
Last month, I mentioned that both dark mode and upgraded memory deserves more attention so I had a better progress.
Upgraded memory learning project was 12 days last month to 23 days this month
and for dark mode I jumped form 7 to 20 that’s almost triple progress.
But when it comes to sleep my score dropped by 5 days.
You might ask, wait a minute there is a contradiction here, if you have done the dark mode of 20 days, how come the sleep isn’t following the same score.
Well, the reason is that, for example, on some days, I miss waking up at exactly 3 a.m. If I wake up about 30 minutes late, it makes me review the habit document and change last night’s sleep habit from done to undone. However, since I slept during the time I consider the ‘dark mode’ habit remains checked.
I hope that cleared the confusion.
The final results
To succeed in the challenge, I had to complete the habits at least 546 times out of 620.
To my pleasant surprise, I scored 546. It felt like I was in a very risky position to miss my target, yet despite the challenges I faced, I managed to achieve my objective for this month.
It’s all thanks to the rescue pass, as I got exactly an 88% success rate; the odds were in my favor this time.
Although I have to mention that I was in a much better position to get a higher score, the problem arose when I went to visit a friend in another city and spent a week there. I didn’t set my boundaries right away. In my mind, I knew I was supposed to sleep at 9 p.m., but I was more considerate of the situation for him and his family.
But instead of explaining this habits thingy to them, I could have just summarized with one sentence: I have remote work and I need to be up by 3 am.
That would have worked.
Anyways, at least now I can add my 21st habit after so many failed attempts.
You will find out soon which habit that I added.
Take care of yourself and your habits.
See you in the next post!
