Updates of experiment

The base line is more or less completed...
Just a quick update of the recent events that has happened.
On 9 Oct Thursday, I was supposed to meet Wilson for Shepherding. The time to meet was 10.45am but i only managed to reach at 10.52am. The reason I was late was because I was hanging around in my room.
Next I was going for HP 307 lecture at 2.30pm, I reached at 2.36. Although i was only slightly late, and the lecture did not start even after i reached, according to our definition i am considered late. The reason I was late was because my friend didn't want to go so early.
Next I was supposed to meet my care group friends at 6pm. I reached in time because i was there for quite early at 4.30 after my lesson ended.

On Friday 10 Oct, I had Korean Class at 10.30am. I reached there on time though I was almost late as I reached just on the dot. The reason i was able to reach on time was because i left my room with 30 mins to reach there and the bus came immediately after i left my room. However, because i was rushing my Homework, I almost didnt go to class on time.

Later in the night, I had MB 106 Class at 4.30pm. However i reached only at 4.50pm. The reason i was late was because again i was sleeping in my room. When i finally left my hall, I had to print notes for the class which was the reason i was so late.

On 11 Oct, Saturday, I was supposed to meet my friends in at dhoby Ghaut at 2.15pm Although i left my house a little late, I didnt make it there at all as i was mobilized for the Army and had to go there instead. However i noticed that before i left my room, i was dallying in my room toying with my computer.

On the 12 Oct i had to reach my friend's place for my church's member appreciation day party at 10.30pm. I reached there at 10.02pm. Although I reached there quite early, that was because i thought that the meeting starts at 10pm! However, considering that I thought it was 10pm and i arrived "late", the reason that happened was because I was at home reading newspapers before i left.

Then in the afternoon, I met my project friends at 2.08pm. I was supposed to meet them at 2pm but couldn't reach in time because once again I dallied at the party area when we were playing games.

All in all, the pattern of my behavior has been following a certain pattern. I realised that I NEVER leave my house on time or at a stipulated time. Rather i always dally around until the exact time before i go out of my house. But at the exact time, something will happen or I'd be so engrossed with what i was playing with that i leave my house a few minutes later than initially planned.

My course of action for this behavior modification programme is to from today onwards, I'll leave exactly 10 minutes before the exact time. For example, I have a lecture at 1.30pm later for HP308. From my house, it takes about 1.5 hours to reach safely taking into consideration the travelling and waiting time for public transport. So if i leave my house at 12pm, I'll reach in time. However, to counter the dallying time, I'll move out 10 minutes earlier at 11.50. This way, even if i dally i wont affect the time to reach my destination. If i reach on time, I'll reinforce myself with a chocolate bar(any type) which is my favorite. I feel that I cannot get someone else to administer the reinforcement for me as this tardiness event is applicable quite frequently and I'd want to be able to reinforce myself immediately so that i can associate the reinforcement with being on time.

If i'm late however, then the guilt of being late will be my punisher. Since it is intrinsic and i do indeed feel guilty, it will do well as a punisher. Hopefully, my reinforcer will go from once every time I'm early to once every few times and eventually phase out and live on intrinsic motivation alone. I'm intending to after 3 days on the 16 oct, to stretch the ratio to 1 reinforcement every 2 times im on time.