I'm all about quantification and visual representation of data. Feels gooood.
Oh yeah me too, as long as its not a trend line clearly showing the various stages I achieved on my steep slide into abject failure. A clear and simple exposure of my lack of achievement at even the most modest of goals. As long as its not that, I'm all for pretty graphs.
Hey, I'm the author of that article! Thank you so much for sharing it. Seeing that it's made a positive impact and possibly inspired some of us here into reaching for our goals through Lift (or any other app) is absolutely mind blowing. "as long as its not a trend line clearly showing the various stages I achieved on my steep slide into abject failure." - It's completely up to you man. Better the failure I could see than all the ones I had ignored before this.
Yes, that's was a great article. I especially like your note to self. That's some deep stuff right there and very true. I've been doing pushups as well, and have my goal at 20 as well. I've tried a few streak apps that are based loosely on Jerry Sienfeld's productivity hack where he uses a calendar to mark his writing streaks. He said for each day he does his task of writing, he'd put a big red X over that day and talks about streaks as a chain you don't want to break. I've sort of settled on using the Habit Streak Plan app but am checking out Lift now. HSP has a pretty easy to use UI but definitely lacks some of the visualization features it seems like Lift possesses.You land yourself in the circumstances you’re in, and that circumstance is death. With nothing done.
Because only when you’re dead do you not have energy and you ran out of time.
Find the energy, find the time and land yourself in the circumstances you want to be in — Note to self
"After a few days you'll have a chain. Just keep at it and the chain will grow longer every day. You'll like seeing that chain, especially when you get a few weeks under your belt. Your only job next is to not break the chain."
Jonathan, Welcome to Hubski! Like others in this thread, I downloaded the app because of your article. I will be using it to help train for a 1/2 marathon. Regarding your writing, feel free to post links to your own work. Personal content is welcome on Hubski and when it's good, it's encouraged.. If you have any questions about the site, feel free to pm me.
Welcome to Hubski, Jonathan! Just saw this article and I've got the app now too. I think it will be a nice way to stay motivated on a couple of different things (learning Ableton and some Webdev things, for instance). We'll see how it goes. I lifted your 5 pages a day since I like that goal a lot and it's better than "a chapter when I feel like it" which is what I'm currently doing.