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.
0611, Libin spent more time on editing old notes; he took a break and cooked tea for himself. He will continue to edit old works this hour too and then plan something else next hour.
0709, Libin worked on editing old works; he realized that plenty of work remains. He could have done that work on a daily basis but he failed to do so. He also plans to do daily political analysis and business development work and edit them on a daily basis
Libin spent the last hour studying reports about Ethiopia; he wrote two tweets about them. He did not do anything else; he was not distracted; he sustained focus on chosen tasks, but he now decided to focus on Somalia which he has not been focusing on it for sometime
0917, Libin read articles and watched clips about Somalia; he had reactions and interpretations; he did not analyze, discuss, mind-map and tweet about them. He will do that in the next hour.
1016, Liban did few important tasks, but he did not write a single tweet about Somalia; instead he read about Western Sahara; his idiocy is gaining the upper hand; it had started controlling him by making him focus on tasks that are not priority for him. He will buy coffee now.
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1316-1416. Most of the time was spent working on Ethiopia. The rest of the time was used to buy more groceries. Liban will not report in the next two hours. He will pay fine for failing to report for three hours.
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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.
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
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.
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