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I was doing the 750 words writing challenge for several months. (http://750words.com/ for example.) It was pleasant, and I used it as a good time to write explicitly about things I was thinking about. I used it to make a lot of self-evaluations (eg: which purchases have I made recently were worthwhile and which were not? What does that tell me about what I should buy in the future? The answer for me was that upgrades weren't worth it unless there was significant frustration caused by the item it was upgraded. Going from an OK mouse to a nice one doesn't change anything even though it feels like it will. But going from a mouse where the right button doesn't register half the time to an OK mouse is worth it.)

I worry that it might have reinforced some thoughts I was having at the time that were counter-productive, and in the end opening up to a friend was more beneficial than writing about it. YMMV