YALP!- Tracking Your Goals Online…

Track Your Goals Online

[edit: 3/2/08: this is included in "best of" because it is the first time I wanted the radical accountability. Took many restarts.]

So–if not my muse, a clear purpose has presesnted itself to me today–and the technology allows me an elegant way of doing what I want to do. I guess the technology has always existed, but the super-simplle OXYGEN way it exists hasn’t.

I want to get to 73,611 by 12/6/07.

I want to shed 30 pounds by the end of the year.

And I want to open my life up–the numbers of my life–so people can see them wherever and whenever. I know about how many people check in on this blog, and I know about how many people are around. They’ll watch. I had 21 people check out my books read (work in process) list.

So people will check it, enough that will know when I’m screwing up. And that’s pretty exciting to me.

I’m going to open as much as I can up to people; I don’t want to get into a situation where I’m a slave to updating myself–but to handle a list of trackable things that I want to cover on an iterated basis. I can cruise through this stuff fairly quickly especially if I get the framework right the first time and re commit myself to breaking it down correctly.

I also don’t have to check in every DAY. I think I can get i so it takes less than 3 minutes a day to manage this; I can adapt it later to be more sophisticated.

It’s easy

Cumulative Type Goals:

• contacts made
• Minutes of cardio
• Calories Consumed
• Pages Read
• Applications Taken
• Apps Dropped out
• Net Applications
• Applications submitted
• Deals closed
• Hours Worked
• hours Prospected
• Fee income
• Net Wages

Check-in type goals:

• Checking balance
• 401k Balance
• Weight
• Pipeline Volume
• Pipeline units
• Pipeline Fee
• State of house?

Checklist Type Goals:

• Rose at 4:30
• Planned food?
• Said affirmations
• Did morning Pages
• Got to Gym by 8
• Practiced Scripts
• Hung out with Jack
• Read bible

The above goalsets are just EXAMPLES–and not meant to be taken too seriously/literally. One CAN track darn near every activity over time, that doesn’t mean I should.
This isn’t perfect, but I can get this organized so it’s easy to see. I can break it down and have some easily disseminated percentages: (Chris Johnson’s contact goal is 21 per day, he is 3.39% off his current mark).

Now…No more projects till I think about this a minute, and nothing new till I get my taxes done. Kicking it like it’s 2003.