I hit some nice and easy challenges today—replacing my shoes that have holes in them, getting a new ice scraper that isn’t broken in half, and setting some reminders to take out the trash before it overflows.
The most successful Yoda timer-like item I’ve hit recently was upgrading my work setup. I work at a small built-in desk in my apartment, too small to fit two monitors. I also use the desk both for work and for school/videogames. For a long time, I just dealt with working on a small single monitor and having to get under the desk to unplug my mouse and keyboard from my work laptop at the end of the day and plug them into my personal computer. A few weeks ago, I finally decided to see if there was a better way, and ended up purchasing an ultrawide monitor and a USB switch. Now I can have two large windows open on my screen, and I’m a single button press away from swapping inputs!
Thanks for posting this! I’m feeling in a bit of a rut currently and will be giving the 30-day sequence a shot.
To start off, I can’t think of anything especially strange, but I’ll share a good bugfix story from undergrad. Spring of freshman year, I found myself struggling somewhat in an intro thermodynamics class. I resolved at some point to always read the textbook as I was eating breakfast, and carried on this tradition for whatever my hardest class was each following semester. While it did result in a lot of hot sauce-stained textbooks, I found it to be an extremely good way to encourage consistent review and practice.