Hey Ilya
Thanks a lot for your posts, I appreciate the time and effort you're putting into helping XD
I'm slowly getting the feeling that I've over valued, or misunderstood the concept of self-discipline. You describe it as a "conscious tool" which takes resources and energy to apply (and therefor burns out after a while) which seems to make more sense to me.
In the end I want to do the following tasks on a daily basis but have them running on autopilot (habits) some of them are simply industry tasks but others like Exercises, Tai Chi, Linguistics and Drawing, I want as installed as habits to ensure constant progress in these skills.
06:00 up
Exercises (30 min)
Tai Chi (30 min)
Grooming
--------------------------------->Breakfast
Goals + Motivation
University----------------------->Lunch
Drawing (2 hours)
--------------------------------->Dinner
Linguistics (30 min)
Read (1 hour)
Journal
Water (2 liters)
Mac Max free (1 hour)
Max TV (2 hour)
Up until now I've managed very well, but it's exhausting 'cause I have to constantly put conscious effort into getting myself to do a task. Do you maybe think that it's maybe because they are tasks that are constantly progressing and changing that they're so difficult to install as habits? How would you approach this, if your goal was to master these skills and to do so you needed to practice regularly? And how would you approach the other regular tasks? (Not the skill ones)
Would you suggest starting with the easiest and doing it over a while, till I feel comfortable with doing it regularly (habit) and have a certain level of ability (skill)? What do you mean by "alternating schedule"?
To me it's little about getting rid of bad habits, it's a lot more about installing proper new ones.
Steve mentions it in this
article at the beginning about installing habits, I can't find the article where he says it takes on average 25-30 days to install or de-install a habit. But in general, it's a matter of doing a given something regularly over a given amount of time and at some point it'll just be automatic, right?
You were saying that it depends on the results/feedback your getting, do you mean to say whether it's positive or not? For a habit to be successfully installed you need to receive positive feedback over a given amount of time? Maybe that's why the practicing hasn't settled in a habit yet, well yes and no. I have received good feedback, as in seeing progress in what I do etc, but then for Linguistics for eg. I'm currently setting up a plan (which has proven to be Very complicated) and there hasn't been any positive feedback on that one, but it varies, it can't always be positive can it? Do you mean, feel good when you say "positive feedback"?
Your view on laziness sounds interesting, I'll give my lazy voice a long listening. Would you suggest totally drop my plan for the moment as good way to listen to the "lazy voice"?
Cheers