Three months of daily weather tracking finally paid off

I started a small weather log in my bujo back in January just to see if my memory of how rainy spring actually was matched reality. Turns out I was way off. I thought we had maybe 10 rainy days in April but my log showed 18. The unexpected result was noticing a pattern where my mood dips on the third straight gray day. I ended up using that info to schedule indoor projects on day three instead of forcing outdoor ones. Has anyone else found weird personal patterns from tracking something mundane?

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jenniferwells3mo ago

My sister actually got me into tracking my sleep a few years back and I thought it was such a waste of time. I told her she was overthinking everything. Then I started a little mood tracker in my journal last fall just to prove a point and I ended up finding out that my worst days always came two days after a bad night of sleep. It was like clockwork. I rearranged my whole work schedule around it and it helped way more than I expected. So yeah, I was totally wrong about the whole thing.

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gavinh263mo ago

Pretty sure the two day delay thing is actually pretty common, sleep scientists call it a "lag effect" where your body takes a bit to show the crash. You found the pattern though, thats the main thing.

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