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12:00PM Angus Kidman | June 30 marks the end of the financial year in Australia. As well as inspiring lots of last-minute business purchases for tax purposes, it’s also a sensible time to make some new work and finance plans for the year ahead. More »
Make Your Financial New Year Resolutions
12:00PM Angus Kidman | June 30 marks the end of the financial year in Australia. As well as inspiring lots of last-minute business purchases for tax purposes, it’s also a sensible time to make some new work and finance plans for the year ahead. More » 
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The Best iPhone Apps For Keeping Your New Year’s Resolutions
1:00AM Kevin Purdy | Last week we suggested 10 tools for sticking to your New Year’s Resolutions. Those with an iPhone or iPod Touch, though, have a few additional, always-available tools for keeping up the good self-improvement fight. Here’s our list of apps that make tracking, remembering, and motivating your resolutions easier than willpower alone. All of them (except RunKeeper) run on both iPhones and iPod touch models.Day Zero: The 101 things to do in 1,001 days project
8:00AM Sarah Stokely | If you find that New Year’s Resolutions aren’t working for you, Day Zero is a website where you can undertake a more structured to-do list challenge, over a much longer time frame.Describing itself as an internet meme, the 101 Things to do in 1,001 days project gets you to create a list of 101 things you want to achieve, with the criteria that:
“Tasks must be specific (ie. no ambiguity in the wording) with a result
that is either measurable or clearly defined. Tasks must also be
realistic and stretching (ie. represent some amount of work on your part).”
There’s a degree of public accountability too – to sign up you’ll need a website or blog, and your registration at Day Zero won’t be accepted until your list appears on your website. Once it’s up, you’ll be able to add your list to the master list on Day Zero. It’s a nice idea to share everyone’s lists publicly, particularly if you’re searching for more interesting goals to add to your list than “clean out the garage”. Of course, if you don’t really want to trumpet your goals to the world (”stop eating twinkies”, “finally toilet train the cat” not really the image you want to project?) then this won’t be the GTD project for you.You can get some ideas and suggestions on how to get started here. And if you’d like to see how other people are travelling on their 1,001 day journey, you can check out the group blog here.
Day Zero – The Home of the 101 Things to do in 1,001 Days Project More » Brainwash Your Way to Change
10:00AM Adam Pash | Weblog Unclutterer recognises the difficulties in changing long-standing habits, suggesting that the best ways to inspire personal change may be to employ techniques commonly associated with brainwashing. For example: People are more susceptible to programming when they’re exhausted. If you’re going to listen to motivational tapes or talk yourself into being self-disciplined enough to do work, you should do it right before bed after a long day of physical and mental activity. Most of the observations in the post come from a book called How to Work the Competition into the Ground and Have Fun Doing It, and while the idea of using brainwashing techniques on yourself may sound a bit extreme, if it’s all about making changes you want, the idea makes sense. If you’ve ever tried similar techniques, let’s hear how they’ve worked for you in the comments. Brainwash your way to a clutter-free life? [Unclutterer] More »Check in with your New Year’s resolutions
9:00AM Sarah Stokely | We’re one month into the new year, and the first day of February seems like a good time to see how our new year’s resolutions are proceeding.
If you’ve been wavering or having a hard time sticking to your resolution, now’s the time to honestly evaluate what is making it hard to stick to your plan.
Here are some of the tools and tips which have helped me stay on track so far this year. One is that I set two different goal tracker gadgets on my iGoogle home page. One is Don’t Break the Chain, which I’ve found to be a really helpful motivator. Getting to tick off each day has helped me stay motivated to achieve my exercise goal every day. The other is a simple weight loss tracker. I’d stress that the weight tracker is working is because I set myself very low and achievable weight loss goals of around 2kg a month. So far I’m ahead of schedule which is a great feeling.
So how are you tracking with your goals for 2008? If you have any tips on how to keep on track, please share in comments. More » 
