Tracking my NYRs (new year's resolutions)

Friday, December 30, 2011

Tracking my NYRs (new year's resolutions)

I Googled and tried out a few online goal-tracking tools. I really like the fancy ones at LifeTick.com. They even have apps for your iPhone or Android devices! The only thing is, the FREE version only allows you to track FOUR goals (for $20/yr you can track unlimited goals). I found a simpler, no-frills one, but let me talk about LifeTick.com first.

First, you create "Core values". I created four: faith, health, family, and hobbies to correspond roughly with my list of NYRs (new year's resolutions).

After you're finished entering Core values, you are directed to the next screen so you can list specific goals related to each core value. Here are my limited four -- you see the goal name, progress (and how many you want to accomplish), as well as the due date.

When you first "Create a goal", the following screen pops up -- you enter the "task" in the first box. Click on the calendar icon next to the second box, and then click the "recurring" option towards the bottom of the pop-up.

You can choose the start date, how often you want the task to repeat, and when you want the task to end.

The last box is how often you want a reminder sent to you about the task.

Easy and beautiful! There are enough nice reports/stats that it generates, but only for paid users. Boo!

Now, onto the free, no-frills goal-tracker, Joe's Goals.

This is the initial screen:

Choose to create a "Goal" or "Logbook". Creating a "Goal" let's you check-off when you've completed a task for a day. Creating a "Logbook" let's you write-in notes for each task each day.

Click on the Goal link and the following screen pops up. Enter the goal name, tags (which are like Core values at LifeTick.com), how important the goal is, whether it's a positive or negative goal, the days you want, and what stats to show.