If it works for the guy why are you knocking it?
You'd be surprised what I've managed to forget (literally stuff right in front of my eyes), and I'm not as old as the OP of this thread.
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You'd be surprised what I've managed to forget (literally stuff right in front of my eyes), and I'm not as old as the OP of this thread.
Start a habit, and it will be your friend.
I've found geo fencing to be unreliable, anyways.
The problem with habits is that they don't friggin work if you forget about them.
Also, another problem here is presumptious people, who think that just because something works for them it must work for everyone.
Also, another problem here is presumptious people, who think that just because something works for them it must work for everyone.
If you forgot about them, then you haven't truly made them habits. Keep at it until they actually become habits. They don't just happen overnight.
You see, this is what I'm talking about when I'm mention presumptiousness...
Just because it works for you doesn't mean it will work for me.I for one am no good with habits because they never stick. Ever. Example: I'm a habitual tea-drinker, to the point if I don't get my daily pot I will get the mother of all headaches (or even fever-like sweating and shivers possibly) after roughly a day and a half or two without tea. Yet it still happens occasionally that I forget about it. That's just how I work. Patiently explaining to me that I will succeed eventually if I just keep trying to form my habits misses the point I'm trying to make entirely, because how can you make a habit out of something if you forget you're supposed to make it a habit? And don't mention technology, because I'd just get annoyed with constant reminders or I'd be preoccupied with something else, and it would slip my mind. I've tried this avenue already.
The old saying of a person would forget their head if it wasn't attached? That's me, personified.
You see, this is what I'm talking about when I'm mention presumptiousness...
I for one am no good with habits because they never stick. Ever. Example: I'm a habitual tea-drinker, to the point if I don't get my daily pot I will get the mother of all headaches (or even fever-like sweating and shivers possibly) after roughly a day and a half or two without tea. Yet it still happens occasionally that I forget about it. That's just how I work. Patiently explaining to me that I will succeed eventually if I just keep trying to form my habits misses the point I'm trying to make entirely, because how can you make a habit out of something if you forget you're supposed to make it a habit? And don't mention technology, because I'd just get annoyed with constant reminders or I'd be preoccupied with something else, and it would slip my mind. I've tried this avenue already.
The old saying of a person would forget their head if it wasn't attached? That's me, personified.
That's a caffeine addiction though. You might be different, but most people who make something a habit do it subconsciously to the point that they do it without fail.
You see, this is what I'm talking about when I'm mention presumptiousness...
I for one am no good with habits because they never stick. Ever. Example: I'm a habitual tea-drinker, to the point if I don't get my daily pot I will get the mother of all headaches (or even fever-like sweating and shivers possibly) after roughly a day and a half or two without tea. Yet it still happens occasionally that I forget about it. That's just how I work. Patiently explaining to me that I will succeed eventually if I just keep trying to form my habits misses the point I'm trying to make entirely, because how can you make a habit out of something if you forget you're supposed to make it a habit? And don't mention technology, because I'd just get annoyed with constant reminders or I'd be preoccupied with something else, and it would slip my mind. I've tried this avenue already.
The old saying of a person would forget their head if it wasn't attached? That's me, personified.
LMAO!!!
So how do you remember to charge your phone each night? If you say you don't and have a dead battery in the morning, well that's hopeless.
The rest of us use habits well. Plugging my phone in? Flip the mute switch off. Problem solved.
It's a comment / suggestion that works for most people. No need to get bent out of shape over it.
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I don't charge mine every night. With my regular useage pattern, my phone could probably run for three days on a charge no problem. There's plenty margin in the battery for me to remember to plug it in before it runs flat. The watch is a bit more precarious; while I usually end up with 50-60% charge remaining at the end of a day (or sometimes even more), I still feel uncomfortable using it for two days straight because I don't want it to hit power reserve mode. I tried turning it on manually once just to check what it's like, and was unable to turn it off again without rebooting the entire watch... Meh!
Going back to the OP, he does charge every night, so the the habit suggestion would work well for him. Or whatever he did to have a wake up alarm before he Apple Watch came out
