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Thousands of people use Joe’s Goals to track tens of thousands of different goals. They are a lot more creative than I am so here are some quick ways that real users take advantage of the site.

Hope this gives you some ideas as you track your own goals.

1. Track your blogging habits and encourage yourself to post regularly like Matthew Stibbe does. If you don’t blog (or even if you do) you can read his 18 tips and tools to blog like a pro here.
2. Track your sleep habits like Beth. Maybe you give yourself a check for ever two hours you sleep during the night. You could also create a negative goal to track the days you oversleep or are late for work.
3. Remind yourself to keep in touch with friends and family. Goals such as write, phone, IM, and visit are easy to add and keeping in touch with those who are most important to you will make you feel good about yourself and will be a blessing to them.
4. Follow Ian’s example and use the badge to show others how much time you spend playing music instead of browsing the Internet. You can create a goal to track how often you do something you want, but you could also create a negative goal to track your time wasters such as browsing YouTube or getting lost on digg.
5. Reward yourself when you get a certain number of points by making a blog post. If you don’t blog you can always pick another reward as well.
6. Remind yourself to keep your Finances up to date.
7. Use Joe’s Goals to keep track of your New Year’s Resolutions...and actually stick with them this time!
8. Give yourself a point every time you drink a glass of water. And give yourself two points when you complete a task.

So there you are. Just a few of the many ways real Joe’s Goals users make the goal tracker work for them.