0922, Liban has not been planning and implementing his plans nor was he acting on the basis of his intuitive insights: doing what he knew needs to be done. As a consequence, he was not making substantive progress in many areas of his life.
Liban will carry $5 and give it to a deserving person right away if he fails to report every hour. Main project for him today is work related, business development, Horn of Africa, self- development, cleaning, and buying groceries.
Liban bought coffee and met an immigration expert to discuss about his observation in Kenya. It was not necessary but he felt urge to do so to benefit others. He could have used the time to do other things that were important to him; he also, browsed their net for sometime. 1058.
Liban did not improve that much this hour; he did few things that were important to him; however, he spent significant period of time browsing the net checking websites: animals creating their own houses; he also read news items. 1213.
Libin had a chance to report at 1300, but he failed to do so; he did a great job this hour working on business development but then he returned back to the old habit of just browsing without reacting to the materials that he was browsing, passive browsing; fine must be paid
Libin knows that there is such a force within him that prevents him from doing what he knows is best for him; he must continuously find ways to outsmart that force, so as to do things that he knows he should do; also, to overcome the stigma of being ineffective. 1329.
Liban continued to work on tasks that were important to him; he also communicated with his family; he learned that his small baby did not want to sleep at his usual time; he cried a little bit. He wrote this on time, but he did not said tweet right away. 1432.
Liban will not report in the next two hours. He will be back around 1700, reporting before 1800.
Libin just finished a meeting; he’s sleepy right now; so he will take a 20 to 30 minutes nap and then he will buy groceries, prepare food for himself, and then he will work on Horn of Africa, self development, and cleaning: he will buy also cleaning products. 1716.
Liban slept from 1730-0100; he almost slept seven hours. This was close to the time that he used to sleep in Kenya. Distractions are always waiting him ready to claim his time and energy. 0216. Liban does nod know now what to do.
Liban went out to secure some ingredients to prepare some food; he is now going to sit and start some labor; his primary task today is to finish the tasks of yesterday, edit old works, and remain fully focused. 0309.
0428, Libin spent the last hour reviewing an article; he finished that; he does not know what to do next; this shows the need for a plan or to do list every day; Liban is presenting dislike for this planning talk, leave alone its implementation. Fine will be paid for being late
0509, Liban slept around 10pm last night and woke up around 0400. He felt too tired to wake up and start his day even though he was not feeling sleepy. It appears to him that was aversive stimuli presented to stop him from starting his day; with tiredness, let him do his work.
Liban was not using known processes of work, such as sitting mind- mapping, oral mind-mapping, oral mind-mapping while walking or standing ; he was not using his strengths to overcome deficits, such as disposition to distraction. He may even use his distraction: mind-map a lot.
0527, Another principle that prevents him from doing his work is doing easy things, such as browsing the net or watching comedy show. He will do a lot of easy things; the strategy of doing easy things is strategy used by habits which still a lot of liban’s time.
0328, Liban is currently presenting anxieties about his ineffectiveness: failure to combine spontaneity and plans to lead more worthy and reasonable life. How can he teach others if he cannot develop and maintain good habits, such as exercise, sleep, work schedule and so on.
0402, Liban will decide an outcome for the hour and use that to judge the use of the hour. He plans to edit journal notes done yesterday and also edit some old notes to catch up with editing.
0501, Liban edited yesterday’s notes and even some old notes. A lot of work remains to be done. So, he will take a break and work on editing again old notes.
Liban used the last hour editing old work. He plans to develop the habit of daily journaling, daily editing and storing to build materials that will need two more editing before it becomes a book. He plans to do this for political analysis, self-development and business. 0507.
Libin missed focusing resulting from dignified sitting posture, breathing, focusing on a particular point and focusing resulting from movement while talking about a particular topic. He wants to produce materials while he is in these two conditions. 1
0511.
Libin used the last hour to edit and add some evaluations to journaled notes. Liban is very proud of doing that. However, he went back to his old habits of distraction by just browsing for the sake of browsing: this became a habit that is self stimulating and self-sustaining. 620
Libin slept at 2 AM last night; he woke up around 8 AM this morning; he ate breakfast and prepared himself and his son; he then went back to sleep for a couple of hours; he will work on having a sleep schedule and exercise ; he will work on politics, psychology and Business.
Libin is currently sitting in a coffee shop having difficulties accessing Internet;
he cannot do much in the absence of the Internet; he did buy Airtel Internet but it’s very slow. He does not recommend it. Hey paid $50 for Airtel in addition to regular $120 phone bill in US.
He plans to send some money to Somalia and then work on some immigration paperwork; that is his plan; but he would like to get some work done on Horn of Africa and Business utilizing the two minute rule: start tasks and finish them in two minutes, and then start again.
1029, Liban woke up not feeling well; his relationship with one important person to his life is strained. Liban was rehearsing presentation when close relative watched him and he kept getting the feeling that the person was disapproving his work.
Today Libin plans to continue to report every hour and failing to do so he will pay a fine of $10 ; he will also start exercising because he gained some weight; he will plan ahead and subsequently implement his plans; that will be his work today. 1038.
Liban was playing with his son and eating breakfast. He also meditate a little bit. His mind was empty.1100
Implications of rule based bahaviors is that they become easy to identify them, note their shorter term and longer term implications; if so, then one gains knowledge to do the right thing and may even have motivation to do the right thing.
‘ I am able to get distracted again and again, and I have not seen anything bad happen as a consequence of that aimless browsing’ Liban’s rule based behavior with regard to browsing and not pursuing things important to him. Stressing consequences and immediate punishment helps.
When Liban finishes presentation, he enters another state where pleasure browsing is not tempting and awareness is present; the same applies when he meditates, does tai chi and takes a long walk or works on a project for a long time, and so on; he gets a glimpse of better state