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Resolutions for 2008

January 7, 2008

Posted by leah.jones

While I realize that I kept marking the days off on my calendar, I'm shocked that 2008 is already here. That means resolutions, goal setting, list making, intention creating or habit breaking, guess it depends on how you look at things.

Coming up on day 8, I honestly have no idea what my resolutions are this year. Sure, sure, sure. Like everyone else and their mother, I want to eat better, exercise more, and balance my checkbook. I want to frame the resolutions as positive tasks that I can reach, instead of sweeping life changes that will be overwhelming and go ignored due to stress.

Regardless of the resolutions I eventually pick for the year, here are five tools I might use to complete them. All different list making tools available for free and recently featured in a Friday5.

1. 43 Things is a site that asks you, “What do you want to do?” Users ender short phrases, in fact the shorter the better, and 43 Things tells you all the other people with the same goal.

2. A free offering part of 37Signals suite of software is the very simple Ta Da List. You can set up an account in seconds and share the list with your team. For a team list, you can subscribe to the via RSS for updates.

3. “Honey, remember the milk!” You won’t have to be told to Remember the Milk anymore, not when this aptly named site will remind you via IM, text, or email. This site is far beyond a simple to-do list and includes integration with maps, mobile, email and calendars.

4. If you just want to track a few things that you hope to do routinely, then Joe’s Goals might be the right place for you. Set the must-dos and hope-not-to-dos on Joe’s Goal and mark it with a check mark or frown every day.

5. Getting Things Done has spawned plenty of sites for GTD implementation like GTD TiddlyWiki and Nozbe.

How are you tracking your goals this year?

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