The tools look dope, a buddy of mines showed me another mac tool, tired of macs and all their tools…need to get one! lol.

I’ll be watching and trying something similar myself, thanks bro.

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I personally found this to work best (for getting started) when you make that goal a must something like Tim Ferris once did. He set up a thirty day challenge of no complaining. If he complained during those 30 days he went back to day 1.

I got rid of the habit of watching TV this way…although through those 30 days I had cravings to watch some TV I remembered that if I do that I must go to day 1…so it’s a pain against a bigger pain. So I barely spend 2 hours weekly watching TV nowdays as the results of eliminating that habit.

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Self control is important. It is also important to organize or plan out things.

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I met Eban last year, great guy.

Yes, I am familiar with his teachings, I believe he said 45 mins and 15 break when I saw him, but I may be wrong.

My main problem has been getting started… so I was keen to do it longer than normal for that reason.

Your point about 30 days is very valid as well.. I believe the scientific average was 21 days.

I will post as a 7-day experiment, and hopefully I can continue for 30 days and longer.

Thanks for your comment.

Dean

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Eben Pagan based his ideas on Tony Schwarz book “The power of full engagement.” You might want to read the article he recommends in which a research is done and it is concluded that human self control is very limited (but can be expanded.) So he recommend something similar that you do.

Just instead of 2 hours, 1.5 hours (with 30 mins breaks) or 1 hour (with 20 mins break) in which while you work you are 100% engaged, no multitasking, no phone calls, no email, even lock the door for no outsiders if needed (programs like the firefox extension you mentioned can help except for the last thing.)

By the way, the ideal time for this one is 30 days (the time it usually takes to form a habit.) So it would be a good idea to form like a 30 day challenge in which you and eventually us would post our progress. It really takes lots of commitment to achieve this but once it is done it can be profound.

Cheers

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