Goals

Hmnnn. I haven't even read Pauls latest post about goals. It just made me think too much, which in my current state of mind is not very much at all.

But anyways.

I'll read what he has to say soon, but I went over and watched some of the uberman vlogger videos. There is so much [guilt] over there. I see these sleep goals being set, and every once in a while a little stumble, and I get the sense that there are these major feelings of guilt and disappointment, particularly with topping345. If it is not guilt, there is some useless feeling there if it is a bad one.

About goals. I think that is what is kind of missing in this. I have, as it appears to me others do, put off some of the goals that I have in order to be out of my mind sleepy and not cause any damage to anything.

I think what I am trying to say in such a fragmented way is that another element that might help with these schedules is to find ways to cause minor triumphs throughout the "day". Instead of just kicking oneself down, and recording so many failed attempts, or deciding to do something that may fail, I would rather take things a piece at a time measuredly, in chunks small enough to accomplish something and yet just substantantial enough to feel like something was really done. Like cleaning up the dorm room. Or studying one chapter in a text. Do something every waking period that you can finish and end on an accomplishment.

Some of the hardest working people I've ever known were farmers. They would work the entire day, dawn to dusk, and yet grumble about it very little. In fact they, as I do, saw it as a very great life. I think what was key to that is that they had their chores that had to completed each and every single day and they did them with such regularity it was as natural as simply walking along for them, yet they accomplished something, they sustained themselves with their own hands and sweat.

I think some of what is happening here when we decide to do the uberman is some of us just hang up everything and put everything on hold. And that means everything. The regular day to day rutines that we operate in between night and night gets broken, literally smashed into big unidentifieable chunks. And so we suffer without our rituals.

I think as a pre-requisite to starting the uberman, and it has been said before, but one *must* figure out just what it is that one is going to do while they are awake. What is it they are going to do with all this time. And even just as important what is it that they are going to do while they are adjusting to the new time reframe.

And then go even farther and describe them as routines. I'll wake up and do this... and that leads to this. Steve Pavlina talks about this in how to fall asleep and wake up early. He describes that he gets up and moves directly in to accomplishing something.

Don't just let the program be "notice it is nap time, lay down, take nap, hear alarm, wake up." We probably need 4x the "daily" activity as we do the night activity in a constant routine. If we just end with wake up...and don't put that next step in there, a next section of rail, our minds will find an "unplanned" next step.

And we need to reward ourselves, making it fit in to the routine that we finish something, accomplish some small thing, even if it is easy enough to be as automatic as walking, or milking the cows is to the farmer.

Don't leave a wild expanse of time for unexpected behaviors to grow in.

Ok, time for some sleep. I'll update on how I'm doing, which is OK, probably next waking, as that seems to be my routine to at least update each waking (I've been awake for 16 hours now, but only had a couple of hours of very broken sleep before that).