I don't know if you're interested in more psychological motivation-type stuff, but for a while I found Luc Reid's posts and the stuff on Zen Habits really helpful! ...though it's possible that it was just the old stuff; I stopped reading them a while ago because it seemed like the newer posts were no longer so relevant. But they can be fun archives to browse through. (Luc Reid's posts on mental schemas and emotional antidotes were especially helpful for a very long time.)
I've been on a minimalism kick recently. And while I'm not really living a minimalist life, I have cut down the stuff I own/need a ton over the past coupla years, with the result that, now that I'm living in the cleared-out half of a friend's storage room, I find I'm actually quite happy with my one suitcase and my desk fulla stuff and just enough room for the desk beside the air mattress.
That was substantive! Ish!
...I should probably look into a fitnessy thing, but for whatever reason, tracking those things tends to make me twitchy. >_> Chores, too; I tried ChoreWars for a while, but then I dropped out of it right quick after maybe a week. I think the only tracker-type thing I use with any regularity is Mint, and that's because it tracks everything for you, and as far as I know, technology's not good enough to register all your exercise for you yet.
Though I do really like the idea of Zombies, Run! And... that other app that was similar but which I can't remember the name of. (If only one didn't need an iPhone to use them. And if only I could keep up with a running program for more than... no time.)
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I don't know if you're interested in more psychological motivation-type stuff, but for a while I found Luc Reid's posts and the stuff on Zen Habits really helpful! ...though it's possible that it was just the old stuff; I stopped reading them a while ago because it seemed like the newer posts were no longer so relevant. But they can be fun archives to browse through. (Luc Reid's posts on mental schemas and emotional antidotes were especially helpful for a very long time.)
I've been on a minimalism kick recently. And while I'm not really living a minimalist life, I have cut down the stuff I own/need a ton over the past coupla years, with the result that, now that I'm living in the cleared-out half of a friend's storage room, I find I'm actually quite happy with my one suitcase and my desk fulla stuff and just enough room for the desk beside the air mattress.
That was substantive! Ish!
...I should probably look into a fitnessy thing, but for whatever reason, tracking those things tends to make me twitchy. >_> Chores, too; I tried ChoreWars for a while, but then I dropped out of it right quick after maybe a week. I think the only tracker-type thing I use with any regularity is Mint, and that's because it tracks everything for you, and as far as I know, technology's not good enough to register all your exercise for you yet.
Though I do really like the idea of Zombies, Run! And... that other app that was similar but which I can't remember the name of. (If only one didn't need an iPhone to use them. And if only I could keep up with a running program for more than... no time.)