Checking your portfolio way too often? Here's a fix.

I have been glued to my phone ever since I have started buying Crypto. Crypto isn't stable and we absolutely LOVE it. The very fact that every time we open the app and crypto prices are not where where they were when you last checked gives you a motivation to check it often.

But most of us are long term HODLERS. Having an anxiety of short term price change is of no use if you are not going to sell. Here's how you fix this:

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Every time you have the urge to check crypto, do 15 pushups before.

Make this a binding covenant. You have to do 15 pushups before you check your portfolio.

(Of course, you can decide the number of pushups according to how much you want; for me, 15 is enough)

Either of two things will happen:

1. You will do way more pushups than you usually do.
2. You'll stop checking your portfolio often, because you don't want to do the pushups.

For anyone interested, this is called the Premack's Principle: An opportunity to engage in more probable behaviors (checking crypto prices/portfolio) will reinforce less probable behaviors (doing pushups).

This will be your version of Proof of Work ;)