Today was supposed to be a busy day for me, but it mostly turned into sleeping in and only getting to the library at five pm, rather than the nine am I wanted. When I got there I only did one part of the work I wanted, and got stuck when I was trying to centre a JLabel… I was back home by seven.

I think the definite biggest hit to today’s motivation was not getting up on time. It just pushed everything back a few hours, and once your schedule is kicked off course by that much you tend to think “meh, what’s another hour later going to change?” Getting up on time is tomorrows aim in that case. It seems so petty, and childish though. Some people have to get up at four am to get to work on time. My sometimes getting up to eleven o’clock is just horrible.

It would be better if there was some kind of motivation. A website with a Lost input-the-number-every-108-minutes type function. Not every 108 minutes, but rather every morning, before 0830 (and then again at 0900 to make sure you’re actually up). I might do that right now…

There needs to be some kind of reward at the end though. I’m not too sure what that could be. It can’t cost me any money, but must somehow give that minireward feeling that I get from WoW…

Oh, achievements!

This wasn’t going to be a post for my Idea A Day, but I guess I’ll make it so. A website in which you get achievements for things that are to the betterment of your life. “Get up everyday for two weeks before nine am.” (Described above.) “Go camping in the Lake District.” (Tracked by GPS.) “Be sociable! Spend more than an hour in six different places in a week.” (GPS again.)

I’m sure there are others. They don’t have to be provable always; although there’s a tiny competitive part to it, I just like collecting achievements.