Life Hack: Finally Figuring Out How To Motivate Myself: The Fan Flip Index

I finally had to admit to myself that I was totally screwed for the next day’s test.

The carefully-crafted schedules sat abandoned on the table as I watched my third episode of Friends. I looked guiltily over at it and sighed.

[By the way, I know this post seems long, but that’s just because it has lots of pictures.]

Over the past year and a half, I’d tried all sorts of desperate things to force myself to do work: rewards (I wouldn’t do the work and I’d…