Every day, no exceptions. A 60-minute walk, playing disc golf or something equivalent is the daily minimum.
I will not bet on this market.
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3.00@redcat :( sounds like you did not have a very good run 🏃
I bet "no" here just because every day is just really hard for anything, especially something that takes an hour. A goal focused on lower number of days averaged over many months (like "10 a month for 6 months"), as well as definition where can do it in 10 minutes if short on time/avoid excuses (like "jog at least 0.5 miles") might lead to better success. Also something where can track something and see you are getting better at it is nice too. Otherwise you are just trying to avoid breaking some arbitrary streak instead of keep getting better at something.
Best of luck next time! 😊
@Anonculously Thanks for the feedback. I get what your saying. In this case, however, I really wanted to do some exercise EVERY day to see if that helps me. The background to this is that I suffer from chronic depression and routines help me to deal with it better. I can understand that it can be helpful for others to set goals around improving performance. However, the performance aspect doesn't matter for me. Rather, I want to transform my everyday life step by step by establishing routines.
At the same time, you are right, it isn't ideal if it becomes a mere chore, if it's just about avoiding to break a streak. I have experienced that with all of my personal goals markets, to some extent. But it's certainly better doing it this way, rather than not building those routines at all. And I've tried other methods, they didn't work for me.
My idea for a new market is to add a joker rule to the daily routine. If I've been to the gym or swimming twice, i.e. something that has a higher intensity than taking a walk, I collect a Joker. With a joker, I can then skip a day.
@redcat makes sense. Definitely have felt this at times as well and have looked to build routines to help. This hasn't always worked, but at least exercise is one I've currently got to feeling pretty good about after years of struggling off and on with it. It took finding the right definitions, goals, and environment conditioning that worked for me (obviously everyone's different).
Even if you want to keep an every day goal, consider adjusting the time. A 1hr minimum is really hard to never miss for everyone, unless someone has a perfect setting (perfect weather, not getting sick, external encouragement, no new stressors where feel like can't spare an hour, etc). Seems like you can score a win for every day routine in less time than that. Whether less time would get to some fitness/health target is a mute point if don't have a goal there in the first place, so seems like might as well set a winnable routine goal. Again, random unsolicited advice though.
The joker scheme is interesting. It's cool you're trying different things. Hope you can find something you're happy with! (and something I can make a profit on with a "yes" bet 😉)
@JeremyPerret sorry for the late reply. It was going well but today was awful, I'm sorry to say I had to resolve NO.