Archive for September, 2007

What it means to master something

Have you ever truly mastered something? Sure you have. At some point in everyone’s life they master something, even if it is only tying their shoes or stacking the dishes “just so” on the rack.
More than nature
Mastering isn’t a survival instinct; it’s an urge to excel. Mastering is one of the experiences that delineates us […]

Zeenami: your personal self-improvement center

What do you want to accomplish? Lose weight? Quit smoking? Exercise? Which of the thousands of products and plans out there are most likely to help you succeed? This is exactly the question Zeenami is trying to answer.
Zeenami is a new self-improvement portal that ties together your results from several personality and fulfillment quizzes to […]

How to quit drinking caffeine (comic)

Basic Instructions is a fun web comic authored by Scott Meyer and taken under the wing of Scott Adams (i.e. Dilbert). One recent comic gives you a quick/useless guide to quiting caffeine. It doesn’t mention Joe’s Goals but given that quiting soda and coffee are some of the more popular goals people track I figured […]

Ok, ok - I changed the way chains work for bad habits

Since rolling out chains I’ve received at least one email a day telling me that I should change the way they work for negative goals. To quote one example:
Please change the way the chain tracks for negative goals. If I have a negative goal called eat out I want to see the number of days […]