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. [...]
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 [...]
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 go to habitshaper.com!
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 [...]
HabitShaper is a Windows program that helps you develop good habits, and stop bad ones. You can develop the habit of exercising every day, or reading more. If you are trying to quit smoking, it’s the same system. Just decide what habits you want to create or remove, and HabitShaper does the planning for you, [...]
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 [...]
