VOMIT is a system of journalling created by struthless.

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V — Vent

• “Write what makes you angry” — Po Bronson
• helps you over the hurdle of starting
• helps externalizing stuff going around in your brain

O — Obligations

• mind-dumping responsibilities
• use your brain to solve problems, not store problems
• actionables
  • obligation dump
  • organize
  • prioritize
    • one guiding question: ==will it make the boat go faster?==
    • Tim Ferris: Which thing, on this list, if done, would make everything else easier?
  • bare minimum + killing it

M — Mindset

• Reframing: “How is this the best thing to ever happen to me?”
• Possibility
  • “because…”
  • write an identity statement: “I am healthy”
  • find reasons while the identity is true
• Inversion
  • When you’re stuck on a questoin, invert it, ask the opposite to make the answer clearer
  • “I want to draw more” —> how can I draw less
• Perspective
  • other people’s problems are much easier to solve than your own
  • if you were a friend who was giving you advice on this situation right now (and you REALLY REALLY wanted you to succeed) — what advice would you give?
• Discipline
• Gratitude
  • what are 3 things that you’re grateful for today
  • something mundane
  • something that happened by chance
  • something that you made happen

I — Ideate

• write idea list
  • write out 30 answers in 5 minutes, see [[Ideaflow]]
  • don’t edit the list
• “How would [blank] solve this problem?”
• Open the loop
  • write the question —> go to sleep —> hopefully have a solution

T — Trajectory

• Direction
  • write down goal: I want to save a thousand bucks
  • are you moving away from that goal, or towards?
  • evidence
  • write down plan / actionables
• Day-to-Day
  • hidden metrics: intangible things like happiness or peace of mind
  • make hidden metrics visible
  • three questions
    • What excited me today?
    • What drained me of energy?
    • What did I learn?
    • for three days