Attack plan

Tomorrow is D-Day, the first day where I put my plans into place to work World of Warcraft back into my lifestyle, this time I won’t let it take over my life and I won’t let it hamper my studies. I’m going to keep it at arms length by simply restricting my play time by self regulation. Starting tomorrow I will be keeping track of various things I do over the course of the day, allocating a certain amount of game time to them. Some of them are things I already do, others are things I should do and a couple miscellaneous bites are to encourage me to not be quite as lazy and do little things. Most of the time on any activity will be 1:1 however I’m thinking others will be double, or half and they may change as different things in my life become more important.

1:1 activities

• Building my own website
• Building the Wamuran Community Website
• Cleaning
• Preparing for my 21st

The idea here is that I want to spend equal time practicing with web technologies as burning time in WoW. Cleaning is included because I feel I need to contribute more to my household and this will hopefully push me to make the effort to add the 15 minutes to my game time.

1:2 activities

• Fitness

I have put personal fitness as 1:2 because I feel it is an important part of my life, I like to run morning and night from anywhere between 13-20 minutes so this will give me a little extra time to indulge myself or take the edge off negative time. I don’t always run twice a day, and my weekends are too busy sometimes to run at all, but the time it will grant me should allow me to raid about one night a week. If I find it is giving me too much time to play, I might scale it down.

2:1 activities

• Working on websites at work
• Writing this blog

I work in a very simple retail job and I can use the time to learn new technologies or read about new standards, I didn’t want to put too much worth on this because I should really be doing my job so it is time already spent, but it’s just a bonus instead of slacking off and I wanted to put my blog on the clock because I want to be motivated to maintain it.

Miscellaneous time

Are just little ways to reward myself for personal quirks, like when I remember to do my daily tangram puzzle I want to reward myself with 2 minutes of time.

These are the ways I am going to accrue time, and playing WoW will decrease that time, my game time available can go into negative numbers until I log off for that session but I can’t log in again until I’m back in the green, pretty good practice for other things like credit cards. I plan on keeping track with a stopwatch and an app on my phone called iSum essentially all it does is store a number and you can add or subtract from it. Nice and simple.

So now, I just have to wait until tomorrow to get the ball rolling and see if all my numbers will line up and I can play WoW without sacrificing time that I need to spend on more important things. Tomorrow is maintenance night though. Inconvenient.