Background
Interview at Goal Geek
Just letting you all know that GoalGeek.com has posted an interview with me about HabitShaper.
It’s turned out to be a good summary of my philosophy for HabitShaper.
As the site name implies, Rick is a Goal Geek, meaning he is a great supporter of taking advantage of software to help us achieve our goals.
While you’re there, [...]
Scientific Research into Habits and Goals
I’m working on a physics PhD, and I’ve always been a scientifically-minded person.
So when I started working on habit forming software, and reading about goal setting, I naturally turned to science journals for some concrete evidence about the statements I had read.
For instance, it is often stated that making your goals specific will make them [...]
The Quantum Cigarette…
This post is about how HabitShaper handles the “Quit Smoking” goal, when you’re almost at the finish line.
If you’d rather try it out yourself, just Download the Free Trial!
(Windows only)
What’s so special about this thing?
There are thousands of pages that give you guidelines on how to start good habits or stop bad ones. And frankly, there is too little information spread out over a very large number of pages.
There are S.M.A.R.T. Goals, GTD workflows, 7-step, 11-step, 15-step programs. There are ToDo lists and Project managers and Goal-setters and [...]
What is this “HabitShaper” thing, anyway?
HabitShaper is a computer program that helps you develop good habits, and stop (or reduce) bad ones.
You can develop the habit of exercising every day, or reading more. Hell, if you’re a die-hard bookworm and you’d like to read less, you can do that instead. If you are trying to quit smoking, this worked for [...]
Self-imposed Deadlines
Ah, deadlines… I remember frantically scribbling the last lines of my calculus assignment, in class, minutes before the teacher went around collecting them. (on non-deadline days, I would usually be asleep by then).
Or, when I was designing brochures freelance, I would always show up at the client’s office with bags under my eyes, and the [...]