Wine Experiment

#experiment @start(2025-05-28) @due(2025-06-28)

Aim: Don’t have wine after dinner

Context: #family

Pact: I will not drink wine after dinner for 5 days a week for 4 weeks

Notes

  • 6/9/25, 10:18 AM – Completed as far as I’m concerned. I have wine once a week now with my wife. The rest of the week I give her a glass and have mineral water.

Review

Result Alternatives

Evaluate after the experiment completes:

  • Persist – Stay the course – persist on the current pact but extend the time
  • Pause – Take a break – may restart later or may not
  • Pivot – Still Curious but the experiment could benefit from a few tweaks tweaks

5/29/25, 10:26 AM – Pivoted to do every day for 5 days starting today

6/3/25, 3:10 PM – my five day experiment went better than it could have. I did not drink wine 4 days out of the five and the last three were in a row. I think I’ll extend it another five days

6/9/25, 10:17 AM – The experiment worked this time. Changed Log status to Pause

Log

5/29/25, 10:26 AM – Pivoted to do every day for 5 days starting today
6/3/25, 3:10 PM – my five day experiment went better than it could have. I did not drink wine 4 days out of the five and the last three were in a row. I think I’ll extend it another five days
6/9/25, 10:17 AM – The experiment worked this time. Changed Log status to Pause
6/29/25, 4:28 PM – Regressed – trying again
– 4/28/25, 10:49 PM- No
– 4/29/25, 9:30 PM – No – Two days in a row — Yes!!!!
– 4/30/25, 9:02 PM – No – three in a row
– 5/1/25, 10:05 PM – No – Four
– 5/2/25 – no five
– 2025-05-04 20:02 – No
– 5/29/25, 9:53 PM – Yes; First day after restart – 4 days to go. Wasn’t hard after I got over the initial urge to have a glass
– 5/30/25 – No, what an ass I am. Only lasted one day
– 2025-05-31 22:15 – Yes
– 2025-06-01 – Yes – two days in a row!!!
– 2025-06-02 – Yes – three days in a row!!!!
– 2025-06-03 – Yes -→ four in a row and 5 of 6
– 6/5/25, 21:16- Yes
– 6/6/25 – yes, no wine → 6 days in a row
– 6/7/25 – No, but I had a restless night sleeping and felt not quite as good Sunday morning
– 6/8/25 Yes
– 6/9/25, 10:35 PM- No I had wine tonight and I should not have. Should I have said no?
– 6/12/25, 20:57- No

Restart
– 6/29/25, 10:10 PM- No Wine Tonight
– 6/30/25, 21:31- No Wine Tonight
– 7/1/25, 21:35- No Wine Tonight
– 7/2/25, 21:40- No Wine Tonight
– 7/3/25, 21:23- No Wine Tonight .- YES
– 7/4/25 – Yes
– 7/5/25 – Yes

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