Free Tool Helps you Achieve Your Goals

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Today was a fantastic fair weather day in NSW so a mate and I decided to go for ride on his motorbike and enjoy the sun. We  went all over the place. What a blast!

Later he commented on being disappointed that we never got to the Blue Mountains. I was somewhat dumbfounded.  We were never even in the vicinity!

This incident illustrated so clearly that if we don’t decide where we want to ‘get to’ beforehand, there is no way we will ever get there.  And even if we do know where we want to be, if we don’t tell someone else, how can we expect them to help us?

More pertinently, people do this all the time in life and especially in business. They either set no goals so consequently have no idea where they they DO decide but they don’t tell anybody else.

If we don’t tell anybody and we don’t ‘make it’, then nobody knows except for us and so we save ourselves from feeling “bad” in front of others. The problem is once we choose to make this behaviour a habit we entrench ongoing failure. This is how we end up having the same unachieved goals year in and year out.

It’s at this point that we need help!

Step up Stickk

Basically this is a site is built around the principle that goal setting has to go deeper than just writing these down. According to Stickk, the two most important keys to achieving a goal are to create incentives and assign accountability.

This they facilitate by way of a Commitment Contract which obliges one to achieve a goal within a particular time-frame. By doing so you challenge yourself  by saying “Hey, I can do this,” but more importantly you’re also putting your reputation at stake.

If you are unsuccessful, the site lets your friends or whoever you have agreed to be accountable to, know. As if losing face with your friends isn’t bad enough, what is the one thing no one can stand to part with? You guessed it! Your cash!

Straight from the horse’s mouth: “As a true test of your commitment, stickK will let you put your money on the line for any Commitment Contract. Achieve your goal and you don’t pay a thing (and you’re much happier than before, aren’t you?).

But if you aren’t successful, you forfeit your money to a charity, an anti-charity or even that neighbor who keeps stealing your newspaper.”

Of course you don’t have to enter into the money agreement side of things. It’s all up to you, much the same as whether you will achieve that goal or not.

The best part about StickK is that it’s absolutely FREE!

Having your friends laugh as your money disappears isn’t the only way a Commitment Contract can help you achieve your goal though. The site provides you with email reminders, a commitment journal to track your progress and a community of support to help you achieve your goal. Procrastinators beware though; the Commitment Contract has an end date.

So if you have a goal that has been hanging around for a while and you are SERIOUS about achieving it, head on over there right now.

I might also add that my view about goals has changed somewhat since I first wrote this post. I do not believe that there is a one size fits all when it comes to goals. Feel free to read some of my more recent posts on this topic to get a balanced viewpoint. So am I saying sites like this don’t work? Not at all. It might work for and if it does, keep on doing what works but it’s not for everybody. 

Do you like the idea of this site? Why do you think it may or may not work for you?

Be Happy!

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