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Beeminder tiny habits12/5/2023 ![]() ![]() Never in my life did I think I’d be advocating for a specific productivity tool. Sure, you can repeat tasks, but that just depressingly fills your calendar up with the same exact schedule over and over.Īnd Now For Something Completely To-Different (Hint: It’s Beeminder) Your old and completed list usually ends up deleted or in the garbage.Įach day you have to go over what needs to be done. ![]() The worst thing that happens is the background color of your overdue tasks turns a shade of dark red, which just makes you feel guilty.Įach day or week, you start up a new list, a bunch of new things that need to be done. Nothing is pushing you towards your goals. Nothing, other than the reward being the journey getting there, which is lame. What’s the pay-off for completing things that were difficult to do? Four Reasons Why To-do Lists are Fundamentally Flawed: Project management should never be a project itself. However, once I finally finish writing up everything that I need to do, the motivation to actually start going through everything dissolves. I’ve tried many different productivity programs - Todoist, Trello, Omnifocus, etc.Įven analogue methods, such as bullet journaling and dash/plus. There’s nothing more satisfying than creating an organized, hierarchical to-do list. I’ve realized the dire need to plan out our lives, to find the wiggle room, no matter how small. It sounds cheesy, I know, and also difficult.īut while it’s not an easy task, it’s also not an impossible one.Įver since I picked up a self-help paperback at a garage sale when I was eight years old, I’ve been a self-improvement junkie. One of the most difficult pills to swallow is that when we put our dreams on the backburner, they usually end up staying there forever.īut if we don’t want to put dreams on the backburner, there’s a need to integrate what we really want to do into daily life. Life is busy, a high-strung juggling-act of responsibilities. Why don’t we work on the things we 1) find important or 2) enjoy doing? I’ll have a late-night epiphany while trying to go to sleep or in the middle of a shower about what would make a good post.Įventually, those supposedly great ideas just disappear, and I grow old and whither away and die, and never publish anything. There will be eighty different half-finished pieces in my drafts. To-Doing Things Is HardĪs a writer, I find that I sometimes get into slumps where I don’t write anything. Tune in next time for Brennan’s beeminding tips and hard-won lessons. We liked them so much we asked him to come guest blog about how Beeminder is the secret of his success. Tracking for Good (What I’ve learned using Beeminder religiously for a month). How to Create & Plan Better (Using the Internet and Bees) He achieved this coveted status (haha, but it does involve us mailing you stickers) by writing two pretty amazing Medium posts: ![]() Mathematical fun fact: superlativity doesn’t imply uniqueness!) (Don’t worry, we have a lot of favorite users. Has been using Beeminder for two years this week and is our new favorite user. ![]()
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