I’ve been reading, thinking, and making notes about living a healthier and happier life, I want to work on about 3 small life-style goals a month, and I want to share what I’m doing with all of you who read my blog.
I’m investigating goal tracking software that will hopefully help me track and share my progress. I’ve been looking for a goal-tracking Wordpress plug in, or some kind of blog badge where I can give myself some virtual stars everyday to track my progress. Here is what I’ve found so far:
- GoalsTogether you can type in a goal, share it, and it has a blog badge, but there is no simple way to check off completing the goal. There is a space where you write the percentage complete the goal is. 0-100%, I guess you just keep going back and changing the number everyday. Won’t work for my purposes.
- Move Mountains has a very useful and easy to understand way of entering your goals, plus great advice for making and managing your goals. I recommend checking this one out if you don’t care about adding the goal tracker to your blog or website.
- MyProgress.com I didn’t get too far into setting goals with My Progress Log. It kind of creeped me out during the registration phase. It wanted to know exactly where I live and my occupation. I started to suspect that my info was going to be used by marketers in the near future. Once I registered, my front page encouraged me to input my earnings. After all, as it says on My Progress, “Your profitability is essential when it comes to figuring out what a person you are.” Not the one for me.
- SuperViva I like the tone of the site. It seems fun, friendly and open. It seems like a fun way to list all of the things I want to do, places I want to travel, books and movies I want to see etc… It would work for all kinds of lists. You can add the list to your web page or social networking site. Looking at this site made me realize that I don’t really want a goal checklist as much as I want a habit tracker. I want a daily checklist kind of tracker. Still searching for the tool I want to use.
I found these goal tracking tools at Mashable, you can go there to see more tools, screen shots, and longer descriptions.
After looking at all these goal tracking tools, I realized that:
What I really need for my purposes is a HABIT tracker!
Tune in tomorrow as I rate and review online Habit Trackers.
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May 11, 2008 at 10:47 am
Yak
Interesting - I recently decided I needed to track some goals too - there’s a thin line between a goal & a habit - I guess what I was going for would actually be a habit too - or the goal of developing a particular habit or two.
What I’ve come up with so far is very simple - a little student calendar notebook - 1 week per page with about 7 lines per day for making notes.
I can quickly code a habit I’ve accomplished for the day -
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Will check back in to see what you find.