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One and a half million checks! Isn’t that amazing? Who would have thought Joe’s little goal tracker would make it so far?

Take a look at these stats as we voyage into the realm of endless goals and see just where all these checks were placed.

Most checked goals

These are the goals with the most users and the most checks. Joe’s Goals has an amazingly “long tail.” The top ten goals only make up around 10% of total checks. There are literally tens of thousands of goals that are unique and tracked by only one person. The top ten, however, show the habits the majority of users are working on.

Goal	Users	Checks
Exercise	3973	48112
Drink Water	529	17584
Eat Out	1201	14391
Brush Teeth	357	11814
Meditate	661	11026
Take Vitamins	367	10204
Floss	514	9502
Read	489	8573
Workout	637	7935
Eat Breakfast	401	7373

Beverage wars
Call it coke, pop, cola, or soda; there are sure a lot of people trying to break the habit. Here is a summary of the most popular terms people use on Joe’s Goals and how often they’re tracked:

Goal	Users	Checks
Soda	116	3322
Pop	37	1061
Dr Pepper	5	519
Diet Coke	7	503
Coke	14	289
Mountain Dew	7	183
Diet Pepsi	4	147
Cola	10	90
Pepsi	4	56

Minutes of productivity

If you were to quantify the minutes of productivity any tool adds to someone’s life, how would you do it? Well Joe’s Goals doesn’t necessarily add any time, but it does provide the inspiration and encouragement many people need to spend their time more wisely. Here are the most popular “minutes” goals users track.

Goal	Users	Checks
Exercise 30 minutes	39	1281	That’s 640 hours!
Reading 30 minutes	40	1885	That’s 942 hours!
Walk 30 minutes	25	328	That’s 164 hours!
Freewrite 15 minutes	2	156	That’s 39 hours!
Do nothing for 15 minutes	2	116	That’s 29 hours!

A lot of people have a thing for Chocolate

However you track it, it is still delicious.

Goal	Checks
Chocolate	1224
Ate Chocolate	90
Eat Chocolate	89
No Chocolate	88
Candy/Chocolate	44
Had Chocolate	24
Too much chocolate	22
Eat Chocolates	19
	and many more…

Face time above all

The goals that warm my heart the most are the family goals — family dinner time, date night, kid play dates, quality time, etc. It is necessary to human health and happiness that we have contact with other people. In this age of family decay it is wonderful to see people stepping up and making the extra effort to keep their family together. These folks have made that effort.

Goal	Users	Checks
Time with [Child’s Name]	8	1484
Time with kids	21	179
Time with family	9	157
Time with a friend	2	32

Some use Joe’s Goals to track their diet, stay on their meds, keep track of those days they just want to cry, track when they go to bed, when they get to work on time, finish their homework, or reach out to friends via an email or phone call.

I’ve resisted all pressure to try and force people to pick standard names for goals. Joe’s Goals really means Your Goals. People use it to track what is important to them. To break their bad habits. To track their desires, their efforts, their tears. If it helps just a little to call a goal something specific like “Play Frisbee with kids” then, by golly, it is worth it.

If, in all these checks and goals, just a handful of real people were given enough permission and enough encouragement to make a real difference in their own lives, then Joe’s Goals has been a success. A huge success. That has been my hope and prayer all along.

Thank you for using Joe’s Goals. I’m honored to be a part of your lives, and I hope you are as excited as I am to see what the future holds.

P.S. If you want to see even more data like this, check out the Get Inspired section on Joe’s Goals.