Update

Hey guys,

Feel like I've let you down with the regular updates thing.  I'm gonna try and get back to at least once a week.  

First of all, my updated goal sheet:

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You have 225 Days to Change Your Life

-Become More Productive

HAVE TIME FOR YOURSELF

-Four hours of focused work 5/7 days for 1 week

-Checklists and 80/20 analysis of all my home tasks

-Checklists and 80/20 analysis of all my school tasks

-Become “Over Organized”

NEVER WORRY ABOUT LOSING ANYTHING AGAIN

-Go 30 days straight without misplacing anything

-”A Place for Everything and Everything in It's Place”

-Absolutely no clutter in any area

-Take Advantage of the Unique Opportunity

TRAVEL, FUN, ADVENTURE, EXCITEMENT, and GROWTH

-Fly to LA to visit sister and friends

-Buy a digital video camera

-Go skydiving

-Learn Microexpressions

Are you inventing things to do to avoid the important?

ACT NOW.

Secondly, what I've been up to:

1. Getting Things done is succesfully implemented for the last few weeks and i've been keeping it up very well, it's super helpful.  I've been constantly rereading it along with four hour work week to make sure I don't start to forget the principles.

2.Been promoting my magic shit, trying to get a decent amount of shows done.

3. Trying to get a better job besides the movie theater.

4.I ordered The Organizing Sourcebook by Kathy Wadhill, and Organizing from the Inside Out by Julie Morgenstien, which were as far as I could tell from reviews and questions sent to experts, the top two books for beginning organizers out there.  They should be here in a few days, at which point I'll start implementing them systematically, and keeping you guys updated along the way.

I know, you're thrilled to be able to get an inside look at how I organize ever mundane detail of my life.

Me too!

-Matt

Success on Autopilot: Process Outline

This is the system I've created for changing habits.  It's all coming together nicely now.  I've been using it for myself and it's excelelnt.

For existing change efforts:

1.Determine what stage of change you are in.

For new change efforts:

Precontemplation:

1. Determining Values, Principles, and Beliefs

2.Determining Defense Mechansisms.

Contemplation:

1.Start listing areas of life which are protected by defense mechanisms or contrary to values.

2. Rank the areas on a scale of 1 - 10 ease of change,(1 = super hard, 10 = super easy) and 1 - 10 importance of change (1 = I could care less, 10 = This NEEDS to change).

3. Take the outcome farthest from zero (easiest and most important) and find the new outcome that you desire (eg.  I'm fat -> I'm thin, I smoke -> I no longer want or need cigarettes).

4. Research information about the old and new outcome... what people have made this change already, what are the vital behaviors you need to enact to get the new outcome?

5. Evaluate your own feeligns about the old and new outcome... how do they fit in with your values?  What are the positives and negatives of changing?  What about the positives and negatives to other people?

6. MAke it salient, Begin imagining the result of your old outcome and new outcome.  Watch a movie, read a story, or create an experience for yourself to make the consequenses real.

7. TEll other people about your contemplation.  Enlist someone to support you, be very specific about the support you want at this stage.

Preparation:

1. Commit, set a date in the next two months that you're going to act.  Go public with your commitement.

2.Start Measuring.  Make things visible, figure out what and how frequent your current behaviors are.

3. Determine Triggers, consequences, substitutes, and reinforcers for both new and old behaviors.

4. Determine what sources of influence you want to use, and to what behaviors you want to influence.

5.Create a relapse prevention and warning signs sheet.

6.Determine next actions for sources of influence.

Action:

1. Put plan into effect, use whatever sources of influence you have determined are good... the exact steps have already been laid out based on the work done in the preperation stage.

Maintenance:

1.Continue new behavior.  Keep measuring outcome to see if behavior is haing intended effect.

2. Start weekly review of Relapse Prevention Sheet.  If any warning signs are noticed, enact relapse plan.

3. You are now ready to begin changing the next most important habit.

Termination:

Success is now on autopilot, no further work will ever be needed on this behavior ever again.

Todo January 3rd

You have 235 Days to Change Your Life

-Become more productive- HAVE TIME FOR YOURSELF

-Become more organized- HAVE YOUR SHIT TOGETHER

-Take advantage of the unique opportunity you have!

6 Month Dreamline:

-Fly to LA to visit sisI'll ter and friends

-Buy a digital video camera

-Go skydiving

-Learn Microexpressions

Are you inventing tasks to avoid the important?

ACT NOW.

 

#1 Task:Write Script for Noodle Noggin N' Bean