Beeminder tiny habits12/14/2023 ![]() “But doesn’t the caveat give you a really easy to sleep in and just lie about it?” – a friend asked If it’s not your fault, it’s not your fault (though after a couple weeks my body has started automatically waking up before the alarm goes off). I think this is a good thing to add, as you never know if something will happen to your alarm. There’s one other part to my tweet: the caveat. It also means that sleeping in just once will probably cost me $25. Cause some embarrassment (but not offend anyone)Ĭrafting it this way increases the potential embarrassment because my followers are much more likely to call me out if it’s going to profit them.While the Buffer wake-up method has worked 100% of the time at getting me out of bed, there was one (only one) morning when I actually forgot to edit the tweet and it went out.įor this reason, I’ve crafted my tweet so that it will: There’s always the slight possibility that some piece of technology could be broken when you wake up – your computer, the power in your house, the internet, etc – which would render you unable to edit your tweet.Įven more likely is the possibility of forgetting to reschedule the tweet after waking up. I’m guilty of this. When it comes to creating a tweet, it’s a good idea to use something that would be embarrassing or painful enough to motivate you – but not bad enough that it would do damage to your life if it went out accidentally. I make sure to give my self a 15-minute window to move the tweet once I wake up, as I need time to wake up, drink some water, and get to my computer. Make sure you wake up early enough each morning to move the tweet’s scheduled date to tomorrow.Use the Schedule Post feature (which lets you set a custom time for a tweet) to set the tweet’s time to 10-15 minutes after you want to wake up.Create a tweet in Buffer that contains a message you wouldn’t want anyone to see.That’s the thinking behind this method – I use the threat of social shame (and monetary loss, as you’ll see) to make myself wake up on time. ![]() Of course, this also means you could easily schedule updates you don’t want people to see later. New ones just fill the next time slot.īuffer is great because you can schedule updates that you want people to see later. A pre-set daily schedule defines your posting times, so you don’t have to manually choose the time for every tweet. With it, you can enter your tweets and posts whenever you want, knowing they’ll be spaced out over the day and be posted at times when people are more likely to see them. Yep. If you haven’t heard of it, Buffer is a tool that lets you schedule tweets and Facebook/LinkedIn/Google+ posts ahead of time. “But wait – isn’t Buffer that social media scheduling app?” The fact that it hinges on Buffer is a bit weird – but trust me, it’s effective. ![]() This is a habit I’ve always found extremely hard to get into, so figuring out an external system that actually works is awesome. ![]() For the past two months, I’ve been using a simple trick with Buffer that forces me to wake up early every morning. ![]()
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