Easy Mode

I'm adding a couple of new suggestions to the instructions concerning lessons I've learned in this last maker. Here's a copy (I moved what I had as #1 down because these are more important).


1. Start off as easy as possible - your quest log should only have things you look forward to changing. As you gain confidence and create more time for yourself by doing the easy ones you can move on to higher difficulties.
2. Makers are easier than Breakers - always use a maker over a breaker if you can. Example - if you want to eat out less, don't make a breaker to eat out less - instead, use a maker to eat in more.

Success = Sweet

Some things are just so much easier once you get started. The eating at home more maker is working out great. My wife and I are enjoying having food in the house all the time and not having to go out every night.

I think there's another suggestion in here - that we should start off with makers/breakers that we look forward to, making it that much easier to stick to it.

Epic Failure

I'll just say that...every time I fail, I learn something new or something real motivational like that. I sucked at the 10 things cooked from my kitchen every week.

But truthfully there is something to learn here - there's not a daily thing to do in this quest - it's vague because it's a 10 times a week thing. It at least needs a better way to track it - a list to check off to track my progress through the week. I lost track of this one was really the only problem.

I'm going to try again with a check list this time. I'll start it on the best day there ever was - today.

Also, I don't want the lessons learned from these failure to be lost with me - and need to be redone by others so I'm also going to start some kind of suggestion list - what to do and not to do while making these lists - this lesson was, always make sure you have a way of continually monitoring your progress through the maker/breakers...something like that.

I'm adding it to the rule book.

Private Breaker 1

If you missed it, this post has information on what private maker/breakers are. The possible pitfall I see with these is that you could drop them without feeling any pressure because nobody really knows what they are. But I think if we say you can't just post them on your quest log and delete them if you fail - you have to post saying you are creating one and post when you fail so the pressure is still there.

Anyway, I'll give it a try - posting a private breaker now.