Over the last two days I haven’t been doing much of anything I had planned to do with this trial. I did manage to stick with visualization and not eating any processed starches, cheese, or foods with refined sugars.

Since I have those two previous goals locked in as habits, for the remainder of this trial I’ll just focus on one additional goal – waking up at 6:00am and staying awake. This leaves me with 3 total goals this trial.

Why I’m cutting back

In the original trial I had 7 goals. After Day 2, I could see that this trial had gone from creating long-term empowering habits to an overwhelming and frustrating job. On Day 4, I just let it go.

I kind of laughed at myself when I first realized I had too many goals. I’ve read lots of self development material strongly advising against taking on too much. However, you don’t know how much is too much until you push yourself to the limit.

There’s no rush to create long-term habits. From now on every month I’ll tweak the trials, but I won’t add more than one goal to focus on.

Having too many goals cuts my focus right now. I can’t spend time tweaking and learning about better ways to do each goal because I’m spending so much time actingg on the many goals I set up for myself.

The time matters

Getting these habits done in a productive way is just as important to me as what I actually do. For instance, I’d like to wake up and visualize soon after waking up each day. I didn’t add that specifically in my goal, but I definitely have become aware that I do want that specification in there if I want to set up the day I envision.

That’s about it for this update. I was thinking about making another blog on this website. I would have a blog for 30-day trials and a regular blog. I don’t want this blog to just be overloaded with my 30-day trials and updates.

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