How do you actually keep your New Year’s Resolutions? Well, Alexander Kharlamov has a couple of good ideas: How to make and keep New Year’s Resolutions. A short summary of the main points: Identify the right goals, Add actions to goals, and Remind yourself regularly of your resolutions.
Adding actions and reminding yourself of your goals, is what I found most important: Breaking your resolutions into smaller To-do lists. In this way your goals should be easier to overcome.
So what better way than to have a task list where you can fill in everything on your to-do list. You can simply do this with a calendar, plugging in dates and deadlines. I have had great experience with both Entourage and iCal. Or like Kharlamov suggests, make a homepage emphasizing not to procrastinate, Google offers some good online calendar and homepage services.
There is also task list software like this one recently reviewed at 43folders: Task List: Handy student app for tracking assignments. Although this review focuses on helping students, I guess the software can be used to track other assignments as well. It also integrates with iCal, Widgets and Email, but I am not too happy that the only way of online uploading and downloading is currently using .Mac. Task List also lets you add goals and take notes. I previously wrote a suggestion for studying effectively with note taking, also check the link in the comment.
43folders, if you have not heard of 43folders before, it is a good blog about personal productivity.
For a forum-like place for resolutions and goals check out: 43things.com. (There are even people wanting to learn Norwegian, yeah!)
For another organizing tool online there is Backpack: “Backpack is a simple web-based service that allows you to make pages with to-do lists, notes, files, and images. Backpack also features a Calendar and Reminders that can be sent via email or to your cell phone at predefined times. Tagging pages makes it easy to group related pages together.” -Source backpackit.com.
This looks pretty similar to what you can fix yourself with Google homepage and calenders, but it is an already finished product for being organized.
Some good tips from WebWorkerDaily: 20 Different Ways to Manage Your To Dos
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