Today, I finally got off my lazy ass and went to the gym for the first time in months. My New Year’s resolutions are kind of sputtering to life over the waning January days, but they are very much alive. It feels good to set and accomplish a goal — even a small one such as "do 45 minutes of cardio after work today." Now to see if I can keep it up for the rest of the week.
To that end, I have added a new little sidebar widget under the heading "My Progress" (see bottom right). Joe’s Goals is a free website that tracks your daily objectives and gives you a numerical score based on how well you are doing. I like they way it assigns both an overall daily score and weekly average while incorporating the OCD feel-goodness of checking off individual goals in little boxes. It is here on the front page not because I necessarily have anything interesting there to communicate to the world, but so that I may derive some additional motivation from the fact that my progress chart is out there for anyone to look at (and quietly judge).
Ugh. I just made the horrible observation that my score for the past week is negative. Sounds about right.