WordPress has updated some features I think?
I’m pretty sure there wasn’t a streak counter before, there is one now and that poses both a solution and a problem to me; I am a sucker for maintaining long streaks on various websites, so this will now mean that I will be obsessing over maintaining this streak of blog posts, because of the streak counter.
I have this same problem on DuoLingo it isn’t the lessons keeping me there as much as it is the streak counter and the same thing too, with 750words.com though saying that, I am very serious about learning Italian to fluency.
I have been learning Italian on DuoLingo now for 432 days! I do a minimum of one lesson which is 10 minutes per day, to sometimes 1 hour.
I had to give up my streak on 750.words.com because I can no longer afford to pay a monthly fee. That really grinds me too.
If I am to be a productive person, I mean really productive. I need streak counters and tight schedules set by others, or I don’t tend to take things seriously. This is how I know, if I am ever published, I would be addicted to writing more than ever, because of the pressures that my colleagues may or may not impose on me to do things. I at least hope it to be the case anyway. I guess it will be so, because I do love schedules and maintaining streaks etc.
I think this is why I tend to finish NaNoWriMo early on the times I do it undisturbed. I have been unlucky to get pneumonia one time doing this and very unlucky that my son became extremely sick with gastroenteritis another time.
One thing about me is that when I have been in work, I have become quite quickly a workaholic. But it takes me a long time to recover if I am released from positions for whatever reason.
I thrive with work and tasks and I literally wither away without it.
The thing is, Paul can be too liberal with me, he isn’t pushy like other people have been in my past and that is both nice and also in some ways bad too. Because I need someone to nag me, shouldn’t you be writing now? I mean you have been on Spore now for 4 hours…
I do lose track of time and sometimes I need that wake up call!
“Gosh 4 hours, you sure? shit I don’t have time to do this other thing too, yes, I should write”.
But no, that doesn’t happen here, I lose days at a time by being consumed by games, books and YouTube videos and nobody brings me back to reality, I am alone in trying to figure that one out for myself.
Paul just seems to think and feel that I need to be left alone, to do whatever I like, like some spoiled child. He does spoil me, lets me get away with far too much and I am not so sure he should to be honest! Though it is nice he is so liberal, it is also very frustrating that he doesn’t seem to remember to help me get back to reality, you know?
I am not blaming him for my lack of focus far be it, but I do feel I need a personal nag machine.
Maybe this will change when Paul gets the Amazon dot, maybe I can program Alexa to nag me?
Worth a try, I think.
Happy Reading!
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