Give Me a Sticker!

I have realized recently that I respond really well to reward systems. My mom was smart and figured that out when I was little. If she really wanted me to do something I would get a sticker for each success. I was an enthusiastic participant in Read and Lead every year because it involved filling in a chart and tracking your progress, and prizes. I like tracking progress for prizes almost as much as I like writing lists. If you let me write a list to track my progress and then give me a prize for it I will be so excited. Today I was googling "life organization" and I came across a site called joesgoals. It's pretty simple but it lets you enter in goals and makes a chart where you can put little check marks. You can put in habits to break and habits to build, and the bad habits get frowny faces while the good habits get smiley faces. You receive or loose points depending on if it's a good or bad habit you are feeding. You can give goals more points if they are ones that you really should (or should not) be doing. If there were stickers and prizes involved it would be better, but I am strangely drawn to the idea all the same. It might help me not to procrastinate.

I'm still trying to decide what all to put on the goal list, but so far I have:

To do:
1. Exercise
2. Read Books
3. Blog
and other ones I'm not telling you.

To not do:
1. Eat Out

That's my only frowny face. I feel like there's more that I could put there, but I can't think of it right now. I think most of the habits I want to break I put in positive terms.

They had a list of goals other people had recently used, and I found it amusing/alarming to see that among goals listed was brush teeth. I didn't see any with the goal to shower. Maybe they don't know how smelly they are because their breath is so bad.

Some runners-up for my goals:
1. Watch a show with british accents
2. Weekly massages
3. Bake Cookies
4. Pedicure
5. Be rich

Now I get to go put a checkmark next to "blog."