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# 16-11-23 Guaranteeing I be Meta

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[Read the original document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wf6uRC4R56VOx8ug_YYt2aXQION8xvjCTdDgiKXyJE0/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076930000&usg=AOvVaw2lsaNlH0eENn6X0nc4hvzK)

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This is a really shittly list of ideas.

15 ideas for ways to guarantee that I do meta every day (daily goals, free writing, time tracking, scheduling, weekly goals weekly, monthly goals monthly, idea list).

1. Habit. This has to be a cornerstone of the strategy, but it’s clearly a chicken-egg problem. That said, there are sub-ideas that make this more feasible.
2. Social accountability - andrew did huge work on this axis. I can revive that. Perhaps with Andrew, perhaps someone else. But this will open up so much time that it’s really worth it. I’m sure that Josh Cho or Chris Read would be down, or someone new. Speaking of, social exploration needs to happen.
3. Schedule it in
4. Strategy for dropping it - establish a clear plan / penalty if I ever miss a day. What tends to happen is I start missing day in a row at that point.
5. Do it with someone - possibly do it at the same time as Hikari every day, so that we’re on the same page.
6. Attach it to something - take something that I do daily, like going to work, for example, or waking up / falling asleep, and attach it to that activity. Trigger an if wake up, do meta type habit.
7. Reward - establish some juicy reward each time I successfully track a day during the same day. Reporting a high score on daily goals is one way, but I could also literally treat myself (tasties, or games, or reading, or something)
8. Streak - complete it every day and keep track. Use coach.me and have milestone victories, that kind of thing.
9. Open up my text editor for it in advance of doing it, so that my environment is set up for it.
10. Set an alarm for whenever I’m meant to do it, and drop everything and do it when that alarm goes off. Set an alarm after that to really remind me if I drop it for whatever reason.
11. Use habitica to gamify it.
12. Same time every day - great idea in general. 
13. Create a punishment for failure that I’ll actually feel, like giving away $200 or being forced to post something awful to social media or something like that.
14. Talk to enough people about it that I’d be embarrassed to fail
15. Post my results to social media every day so people can see if I’ve failed

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*Source: [Original Google Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Wf6uRC4R56VOx8ug_YYt2aXQION8xvjCTdDgiKXyJE0/edit?usp=drivesdk&sa=D&ust=1596495076930000&usg=AOvVaw2lsaNlH0eENn6X0nc4hvzK)*