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Today's tip is to find gentle accountability.

Lots of people find it easier to stick with their goals and habits if they know that other people are expecting them to.

There is no need to take extreme measures.

Almost any bit of accountability can be helpful.

A few weeks ago, I hosted my annual time tracking challenge,

when thousands of us tracked our time together for a week.

I encourage people to sign up for daily motivational emails from me, and I posted my own

time logs on my blog.

I've been doing this challenge for 10 years now, and I've had several people tell me that

they do it each year, and find it helpful for tweaking their schedules.

Now, on some level, that is a little strange.

Because if you know time tracking is helpful,

why wait until January to do it?

What is it about the fact that thousands of other people are tracking their time

that makes it feel more doable?

Because that's honestly all it is.

Knowledge of the crowd and daily mass emails. As I tend not to be following up with individual

people and checking in on their time logs daily and such. And yet I know that even this gentlest level

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