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Ask HN: New Year's Resolutions / goal monitoring sites

4 points by frossie ↗ HN
Okay, so New Year's resolutions can be fairly pathetic, but I can't help asking whether the HNers will partake, and (more to the point) what apps y'all might be using to try and stay on track.

I quickly googled (well, asked the duck) and it seems there are a number of options. eg:

http://habitforge.com/

http://www.joesgoals.com/

http://www.createnewhabits.com [no demo without signup? shame!]

http://rootein.com/

Does anyone want to recommend these or any other online tools?

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kaerast
New Years Resolutions are overrated, with failure rates pretty high. Instead last year I opted for 101 Things in 1001 days or Day Zero Project. The idea being that you create a list of 101 things you want to do and then spend the next 1001 days doing them. You're far more likely to get a great number of them done because you don't have to start immediately. There used to be a good website for keeping track of yours and other people's 101 things, but it seems to have been down for a while.

I've pretty much given up on my list after a year working on it, but in that time I've achieved quite a lot and got so much benefits from the things I've forced myself to do.

The year before my resolution was to say Yes more. I'm still saying Yes more than I was, which is leading to a lot of fun and worthwhile achievements but is taking up a lot of time.

I'm toying with doing Rejection Therapy this new year, since shyness stops me from going out and selling myself. I'm rather scared to commit to a whole month of it though.

fezzl
Why do you need some random date to tell you to set goals?
frossie
I don't, but a lot of the world does, so I thought it's a good time to talk about goal setting apps. Clearly I am in the minority :-)
caroline_o
Beeminder is really interesting, although they're in Beta and I don't think taking new users. Their post on "How to do what you want" is useful even if you're using something else to keep track. http://messymatters.com/2010/11/15/akrasia/ It's also an interesting answer to why you would want to have a New Year's resolution (so long as you find a way to self-enforce it.)