My first five-point day

If you scroll down to the bottom of the right sidebar, you'll see a little graph titled "Joe's Goals." Underneath the graph you'll see that it is personalized for me: "Jen's Goals." Joe's Goals is a web site that helps you keep track of, you guessed it: your daily goals. You create an account, sign in, and set it up to meet your specifications. For instance, my daily goals involve my work productivity, my diet, my exercise regimen, whether I walk the dogs or read, whether I overeat ... you get the idea. I assign a certain number of points (positive or negative) for each goal. At the end of the day, the more points I have, the more goals I reached that day.

The highest number of points I can get is five, and the lowest is minus two. Usually I come in around two or three ... actually, the graph will tell you that over the past 30 days my average is only one point. That sounds rather sad, but over the past 30 days there are days when I didn't log any goals, and sure, I've had some bad ones too. But the idea of displaying my "Jen's Goals" graph for everyone to see (including myself) is that it will drive me to improve.

And some days, improvement really shows. Yesterday I hit my first five-point day! In other words, I completed every task that I hope to do on a daily basis, and didn't do any of the things that I try to avoid. It is a really good feeling. The taste of five points for the first time is very sweet, and it makes me want to come back for more.

I really don't know who this Joe guy is, but this web site of his is pretty slick. Thanks, Joe.