It's interesting to see resolutions from years past, and to note they haven't changed all that much. I started in 2007 with "Exercise", "Take Risks", and "Maintain contact", and in 2008, I swapped exercise with "Spend time learning". "Spend time learning" was a worthy idea, but it was too vague to actually cause significant change to my behavior ( Read more... )

Five months ago, I followed a tip I saw on LifeHacker and created a small signature file to append to all mail messages I sent from work. The template looks like this:

This email is: [] actionable [] fyi [] social
Response needed: [] yes [] up to you [] no
I realized today how much I use it when I automatically looked ( Read more... )

Last year, I set several resolutions and decided to use Joe's Goals to track them. I wasn't always good about going to Joe's Goals and clicking when I did something, but it's still interesting to see what the lower bounds are for the number of times I completed a goal:

Goal Number of checks Exercise111 Take a risk62 Maintain a contact54Habit ( Read more... )

Back when I was working for IBM, they hooked up their health portal to a Web site called SparkPeople. I used it for a while to track food and exercise and really liked it, but eventually stopped using it when I started seriously running. The external goal of my first marathon made tracking health and nutrition somewhat redundant. Anyhow, I wandered ( Read more... )

I recently stumbled on a cute application called Joe's Goals and have been using it to track my New Year's resolutions and smaller goals. It's set as one of my bookmarks in my Daily Links folder in Firefox, so when I use the Open All in Tabs feature, it automatically pops up as part of my daily reading ( Read more... )

Once a year, Better Homes and Gardens magazine has a suggestion for a crafty way to create a family bulletin board to keep track of all the stuff a family needs to smoothly function. But there's a much slicker, more modern solution: Use a family Wiki ( Read more... )