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My new favorite goal: Bless Others

As the stress and chaos of the Holiday season bares down upon us I thought it was a fitting moment to tell you all about my new favorite goal. Inspired by another Joe’s Goals user I added a goal to my tracker to “Bless Others.” I don’t have that many checks yet, but I’m […]

Impossible objects that will amaze you

For your consideration:

How did they do that? Or, better yet, why did they do that? That is the question that keeps going through your mind when you browse John Rausch’s Puzzle World. The site offers a huge selection of web puzzles as well as many many profiles of impossible objects, real world puzzles, and obscure […]

Ten reasons why ants are better at setting goals than humans

Achieve IT! has a fun little article explaining the top ten reasons why ants are better goal setters than you. Well worth the read.
As a child I used to love torturing ant colonies in my backyard each summer. I’d burn them, flood them, spray paint them, stomp on them, and spray anything I could find […]

Google Gadget: Add Joe’s Badge to your Personal Homepage

Thanks to the awesome coding skills of Daniel Beck you can now add your Joe’s Goals badge to your Google Personalized Homepage! Daniel is a Technical Writing undergraduate student at the University of Central Florida. Everyone give him a round of applause! You can view his blog by clicking on his name above.
To add the […]

Weight Tracking and the High Cost of Being Overweight

According to the Centers for Disease Prevention and Control, in 2003-2004, an estimated 66 percent of U.S. adults were overweight or obese, along with 17 percent of children and adolescents. The total annual cost of obesity was an estimated $117 billion in 2000.
J.D. has a great article up at Get Rich Slowly talking about the […]

Introducing Joe’s Goals Badges - plus bug fixes and more

“How can I show my score to my friends?” That is one of the most common requests I get as captain of the H.M.S. Joe’s Goals. Well ask no longer!
Today, thanks to the mad Jedi coding powers of an ordinary Joe’s Goals user, we are introducing Badges. Joe’s Goals Badges are live graphics that you […]

In the news: Screencast for Logbook, Reviews, and more

So back when I launched Joe’s Goals I was really excited/blown away when someone put up a Screencast of my little baby application. Now the good people at Screeniac have done it again with a very good Screencast of the combined Joe’s Goals/Joe’s Logbook application. This is an excellent resource if you’ve been having touble […]

Introducing Joe’s Logbook

This is the day note taking finally came to Joe’s Goals. The project I’ve been working on in secret since the launch of Joe’s Goals just went live. It is called Joe’s Logbook. The idea behind it is to let users track daily notes with their goals and create personal journals to record their daily […]

The Gestation Project: The Interview

A couple of days ago I sat down with my friend Matt Pressnall of EnjoyYourDigitalLife to talk about his super cool Gestation Project. Basically he took a picture of his wife every day during her pregnancy
and combined all those pictures into a single video. Check out the video here.
IS: Why did you create EnjoyYourDigitalLife.com?
MP: […]

Top ten goals for each week day

I’m constantly surprised by the way people use Joe’s Goals. Recently a user named John emailed asking me about patterns I’ve observed in goal tracking. His questions eventually lead to the report below. I thought it would be interesting to see what the most popular goals were across a week. As you can see the […]