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So I’m using this neat little web-based tool called “Joe’s Goals” to motivate myself to do some things and keep some resolutions. Here is my “badge” of results for this week so far. It’s really kind of cool. I have four goals set up. They are:

- Exercise
- Update blog
- Bring lunch
- Drink water

Is it working? I don’t know…I must admit, it does remind me to do things that I planned to. You can set the thing to email you if you’ve gone a certain number of days without updating your progress, which is kind of a nice little nag. I’m not terribly strict with myself, so it’s pretty easy to meet most of these goals, most of the time. For example, when I stop at Target in the morning and buy a sandwich to take to work and eat for lunch, I count that as “bring lunch,” because it’s much cheaper and better than the crap that I otherwise end up buying at the food place in the building. And as far as “drink water” – that’s totally open to interpretation, with no specific goal, just more of a reminder to myself to drink some fluids (I’m really bad at this for some reason).

Speaking of fluids, here’s a random observation: this afternoon I noticed that my car smells like coffee. I think it’s because I’ve spilled my Starbucks in there so many times. Pathetic.