I don't have any trouble choosing my pledge this year - I've been doing the 120 habit pledge for the past couple of years I think? I think last year I made 160 days and this year I've both achieved 120 days so early and overshot it so much that I'm now determined to hit the next pledge level as a kind of stretch goal and get 180 days in before the end of the year. I can and will make that goal as I only need to write on 7 out of 11 days remaining in order to get 180 days, and aside from Christmas Eve there isn't actually anything this month (anymore) to keep me from getting the work in, so that's very satisfying. especially considering this week I just moved from one country to another and I am exhausted, lmao. I have done so much moving prep these past two months I'm amazed I'm still on track to reach the stretch goal.
all that to say: I've signed up for the 120 days pledge again!
I've come to realise over the past many years that setting a low pledge level and achieving it is far more motivating to me than going for the next tier up and potentially struggling or stressing about achieving it. I do the same with reading challenges - I set a low goal of 10 books for the year, and when I get close I up it in increments of 5 until the goal says 50 books. after that I no longer up it and let it overshoot. I usually manage to get at least 50, but it works better for my brain to be able to up the goal as I go along than to continually see how much further there still is to go.
I don't know if these musings will help anybody who's in a similar place, but I hope so.
(as a small aside, because I don't want my secondary tracking to be words or pages or hours or whatever it is that the GYWO habit tracker includes as standard, I always unhide the columns with the secondary tracking bits and modify so that I can set 'sessions' as the secondary tracking. so if I write in the morning for 10 minutes, 15 minutes on the commute, and then 1 hour in the evening, I can count 3 sessions for the day. it's more fun for me to see how many times in a day (sessions) I've worked on a given project than how many hours as number of hours doesn't necessarily mean anything (for me). the number of sessions is always higher than the number of days, and when looking at individual projects it becomes very clear which one occupied my brain the most as I've been adding in sessions as many times as I can in certain periods :D)
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all that to say: I've signed up for the 120 days pledge again!
I've come to realise over the past many years that setting a low pledge level and achieving it is far more motivating to me than going for the next tier up and potentially struggling or stressing about achieving it. I do the same with reading challenges - I set a low goal of 10 books for the year, and when I get close I up it in increments of 5 until the goal says 50 books. after that I no longer up it and let it overshoot. I usually manage to get at least 50, but it works better for my brain to be able to up the goal as I go along than to continually see how much further there still is to go.
I don't know if these musings will help anybody who's in a similar place, but I hope so.
(as a small aside, because I don't want my secondary tracking to be words or pages or hours or whatever it is that the GYWO habit tracker includes as standard, I always unhide the columns with the secondary tracking bits and modify so that I can set 'sessions' as the secondary tracking. so if I write in the morning for 10 minutes, 15 minutes on the commute, and then 1 hour in the evening, I can count 3 sessions for the day. it's more fun for me to see how many times in a day (sessions) I've worked on a given project than how many hours as number of hours doesn't necessarily mean anything (for me). the number of sessions is always higher than the number of days, and when looking at individual projects it becomes very clear which one occupied my brain the most as I've been adding in sessions as many times as I can in certain periods :D)