- I was dissatisfied with life. Bitter about the two years I had to waste away serving national service right after graduating high school. Sorry for my own state of mediocrity that I felt was imposed upon me by conscription.
I use the Reminders app on the iPhone to remind myself to write everyday, and rely on myself to remember to exercise. But this app seems to have an appealing interface, and I second the author's point of the motivating power of maintaining a streak. I heard somewhere that the stand up comic Seinfeld had a calendar he would use to keep track of days he did something substantial to further his career. A big X through the day. (I'm not sure exactly what Seinfeld's definition of a successful day is, but the point is he kept a visual aid to tally progress.) He said that once the streak of Xs started, he would never want it to stop. I'll see about using this app in the same way.
I look forward to trying this out. Today's my birthday so it's the perfect time to start new habits. Thanks stranger!
Downloaded the app. Today is my birthday as well and I had the same thought. July 6th for life
Happy birthday to you and lolsociety. You two share a birthday with my sister. I too have downloaded the app and plan on using it to train for a 1/2 marathon I'm running in October. I'm in awful shape. I was using Fitnesspal but fell away from it as life/stress wore me down. Time to "man-up" as they say.
If you commit to run a couple times a week, you'll build up the endurance quicker than you might think. You might even get addicted; in which case I'd recommend buying a decent bicycle as it's all the joy with zero dread, for me. :) For running, check out the couch to 5k regimine if you haven't already,
It's not my first 1/2, I've been an avid runner in the past and I know I can get back up to speed relatively quickly, it's just taking those first few runs that's difficult. In fact, the very first Hubski podcast I made was titled "Running Sucks" -check it out. Now, biking I've never really gotten in to. I have a decent bike though, I should do it!
This is cool but: This is excessive. The body needs time to repair muscle tissue. It would be better to spread out the workouts, to alternate between them all every 2-3 days. Otherwise you can potentially damage/hurt yourself.Exercise — 100 push ups, 40 V-ups crunches, 20 jackknife crunches, 150 bicycle crunches a day — 251 day streak.
I appreciate the concern! I genuinely feel perfectly fine though, and that's probably because I started really small and increased the number of reps only once every few months. I haven't even been feeling any muscle aches, and that's a signal that I should increase the number of reps I do. Everything that I do is dedicated to sustaining my streak. Moving away from boredom and stagnation is a natural part of this to me. What do you think?
I used to use LIft, never could get into it. Though, having been drastically peculiar in my time of unemployment (sometimes working until 5AM on writing projects while doing nothing throughout the day), perhaps I'll give it another try and get some actual structure going.
Oh yeah me too, as long as its not a trend line clearly showing the various stages I achieved on my steep slide into abject failure. A clear and simple exposure of my lack of achievement at even the most modest of goals. As long as its not that, I'm all for pretty graphs.
Hey, I'm the author of that article! Thank you so much for sharing it. Seeing that it's made a positive impact and possibly inspired some of us here into reaching for our goals through Lift (or any other app) is absolutely mind blowing. "as long as its not a trend line clearly showing the various stages I achieved on my steep slide into abject failure." - It's completely up to you man. Better the failure I could see than all the ones I had ignored before this.
Yes, that's was a great article. I especially like your note to self. That's some deep stuff right there and very true. I've been doing pushups as well, and have my goal at 20 as well. I've tried a few streak apps that are based loosely on Jerry Sienfeld's productivity hack where he uses a calendar to mark his writing streaks. He said for each day he does his task of writing, he'd put a big red X over that day and talks about streaks as a chain you don't want to break. I've sort of settled on using the Habit Streak Plan app but am checking out Lift now. HSP has a pretty easy to use UI but definitely lacks some of the visualization features it seems like Lift possesses.You land yourself in the circumstances you’re in, and that circumstance is death. With nothing done.
Because only when you’re dead do you not have energy and you ran out of time.
Find the energy, find the time and land yourself in the circumstances you want to be in — Note to self
"After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain."
Jonathan, Welcome to Hubski! Like others in this thread, I downloaded the app because of your article. I will be using it to help train for a 1/2 marathon. Regarding your writing, feel free to post links to your own work. Personal content is welcome on Hubski and when it's good, it's encouraged.. If you have any questions about the site, feel free to pm me.
Welcome to Hubski, Jonathan! Just saw this article and I've got the app now too. I think it will be a nice way to stay motivated on a couple of different things (learning Ableton and some Webdev things, for instance). We'll see how it goes. I lifted your 5 pages a day since I like that goal a lot and it's better than "a chapter when I feel like it" which is what I'm currently doing.