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Comment by maxklein | Hacker News Reader

An alternative is this: What I do (using my super secret self designed software) is that I monitor my usage of the internet, and for every hour firefox is open, I send $10 to my credit card account. So while I procrastinate, I lose cash money but repay my debts.

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Perhaps people without your super secret self designed software could use http://www.stickk.com/ for something similar.

The reason its super secret is that it works with my bank account only with my banks online banking. It would only work there, so no need to try to make it available to others.

Can't you use RescueTime?

RescueTime is not a sticky app. You can install it and forget about it completly. Sending money out of my account is something that I see everytime I open my bank account.

I'm not sure whether you are rewarding or punishing yourself.

I'm just making myself aware that in spending time on these sites, I'm taking away from my on-hand cash and moving it to a location that it will be difficult to extract from. So I'm doubling the loss involved in procrastinating.

The loss is just a short term loss with a longer term profit, but being the animals we are, the short term profit overweighs the long term profit, so I tend to keep this in balance.

Also, if I procrastinate a bit, but them work very effectively, I will earn money to cover for what I lost earlier. So it balances out.

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