I wanted to share something that has got me lucid 3 times in 3 nights so far. It might just be a coincidence but I'm not sure.
Recently I read in a book a helpful way to make and stick to goals. The steps were roughly like this:
1. Make a list of goals you want to achieve.
2. On a separate piece of paper for each goal, write a heading for what the goal is, WHEN you want to achieve it by, list the steps you will take to achieve it, possible obstacles and how you can overcome them.
3. SIGN it and DATE it.
I tried this with a bunch of goals, so I have a small stack of papers that are kind of like official contracts to myself. So far they've all been going surprisingly well, so generally you might like to try it if you have goals you wanna work on. But in particular it's worth noting that, of course, one of my goals was to LD. For the date, I set it at Dec 31, just because I wanted to have at least one this month. For the steps, I put things like doing research, RC's, and recording dreams.
And boom, 3 lucids in 3 nights. I was pretty stoked.
Don't rush in and just make a single contract for LD's though. I think the key here is to have several varied goals that you are willing to work on. That way you really feel like you are accomplishing your goals step by step, and LDing will then just happen naturally as a fulfillment of your goals. Signing it and dating it makes it seem like a promise to yourself, so I think that's important too.
Please try it and let me know how it goes. And stick with your goals no matter what they are.
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