Today was probably the most productive day of my life. I didnt know you can get as much work done in one day as I did today. Whenever I wanted to stop writing I simply  told myself „Stop being a fucking joker“ (TM Sebastian Marshall. Great post, read it if you dont know it). Occasionally I would change my location and carry my notebook to a bench in the forest or take a walk around my village to regain focus. It worked like a charm. In the end I got like 300% more done than on previous working days. The only real break I took was for going to the gym 90 minutes.

Today was easy though. The first day of changing a habit is always easy. The hard part will be to keep this up for 3 months. I decided I will be ready with the rough, unedited text of my book on Friday night. That gives me 3 more full days to write around 50 – 100 pages (Already got 80). My goal for tomorrow is thus to write at least 20 pages. Wish me luck.

Picture is todays vegan lunch :)

Just a quick update for everybody who wonders how its going. Not perfect, but quite good actually.
I made good progress in all 3 of them. I didnt succeed like 100%, but as long as Im not giving up and moving in the right direction Im perfectly satisfied. I think you need to have a shitload of willpower to change 3 substantial habits at once like this. Respect to everybody who can!

Well. Lets break it down in 3 areas:
Healthy eating: Here im really focusing on what Tynan wrote lately. My main goal is not to eat vegan, but to start disliking Fast Food and to start liking healthy foods instead. I remember reading something similar from Steve Pavlina. In order to reach your goal, you dont have to take a series of action, but rather change your personality. Thats it. Thats lasting change. So how am I doing? Unfortunately I was truely addicted to fast food so I already cheated 2 or 3 times (cant remember). The main problem is Im really weak, when presented with the opportunity to cheat. When im driving past Burger King and Im super hungry and no one is looking, I failed. Next time was in the middle of the night, again hungry and in a bar, while everybody was ordering bread with bacon. Fortunately it only lasts for 1 day and the next day Im back on track. Then again, mistakes are only acceptable if you learn from them so I tried to deal with those "tempting moments". I printed a detailed list why it is a very bad idea to cheat and carry it in my wallet all day long. I committed myself to reading it before I ever eat something wrong again. It includes bullet points like "If you dont follow up on the goals you made yourself, you will create brain patterns that encourage you to fail. Youre causing long term damage for a piece of Pizza. Dont eat it." etc. Its about 10 bullet points.

Also I dedicated a full day to read about healthy food. I ordered a vegan cooking book to learn more recipes and studied those today. Then I studied some more about the negative effects of bad foods and also the positive effects of good foods. I read some stories about people who irreversibly destroyed their health with unhealthy eating habits, I looked at fat people in Google Images, etc. etc. Again, I tried everything to force myself to dislike foods. Since then I havent cheated anymore.

Even if I will, every time I failed so far I got better afterwards. So key here is really not to give up in the long run and eventually I will succeed.

Media consumption:
Regarding watching media its been GREAT. I havent seen a movie since I started and only streamed 1 single episode of TV. I did some surfing though, which led me to create a password for my Safari Plug-In that blocks all time wasting homepages like reddit (I had the block before, but just deactivated it when I didnt feel like working). Actually my girlfriend created the password and I dont know it. So shes in charge wether I can surf or not. In a bright moment I made her promise that she wont enter the password if I ask her to. I imagine once I go "cold turkey" like this regarding time wasting homepages for a while, I dont need to babysit myself any longer and can go without the plugin. Already dont have the urge to watch any TV anymore. 

Work:
This is the most important section. Actually the other 2 habits mostly came up just because I wanted to increase my ability to work harder. So whats going on in this key area so far?

I finished my book by now although I didnt meet the deadline of last Friday. I learned to work a lot more efficient regarding writing. My writing speed today is about 3x faster than at the beginning, so that I produce around 2.500 words per day.

Regarding the hours I put in its increasing, but slowly. I still give in too easily on distractions. In the morning I start right away, then I get to write like 2-3 hours and feel exhausted. I take a break (Usually sports or cooking) but then after, I get distracted for up to another 3 hours with other stuff (Socializing, playing ping pong lol, etc.). So I guess a good starting point for increasing my working hours is not to take these breaks. I could take a break of writing, and start doing some other productive things like designing the book cover or learn how to use Adobe InDesign. I will try that tomorrow.

Wow that was long. Not sure if anybody even reads this, but it was great for reviewing myself ;) 
What helped me a lot to write this post is the Full Screen mode of SETT. Nice feature! It didnt work to add a photo though (Safari 6.0 on Mountain Lion). Neither add photo nor Embed media works when editing for me right now.

Will report back in a few days. Heres a vegan meal my girlfriend prepared for me today:

Awesome man, keep it up!
Remember that it is about process not outcome, so don't get discouraged if you don't meet your aims even if you are working hard (I personally often overestimate how much I can get done in a set amount of hours).