# Beeminding by k1rsty **URL:** \ **Category:** Life\ **Created:** [February 8, 2022, 12:30pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-by-k1rsty/10130 "2022-02-08T12:30:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 84
**Author:** ![k1rsty](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/k1rsty/32/3165_2.png) [@k1rsty](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/k1rsty)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2024, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-by-k1rsty/10130/84 "2024-05-13T19:34:12Z")
![](https://flat.badgen.net/badge/urgency%20load/29/green) ![](https://flat.badgen.net/badge/derailments/2/green) ![](https://flat.badgen.net/badge/total%20goals/34/blue) # Derailments - my pomodoro goal derailed; nothing bad I’d just lost momentum and buffer whilst moving house. - my instagram goal derailed; head scratching over this one probably coming later in this post # New Goals - new month’s resolution for May is a readinghour goal intended to stop my books goal derailing. so far it’s working as intended! # Comments I went from having no thoughts about Beeminder in my last post to having all the thoughts. I’ve been thinking a lot of my goals aren’t very coherent for a while but not doing anything about it. I’ll spare you the all the thoughts I had but some major ones were: - maybe a lot of my goals are a Beemindery version of the sunk cost fallacy? I said I’d do this thing a long time ago and therefore I am still doing it, even though it long since stopped making sense to do so. - the way I had goals tagged as work/home/health etc was obvious but also meaningless - what the hell am I trying to do here anyway? The train of thought ended up - more or less - with this chart: ![beeminder goal tree](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/uploads/beeminder/original/2X/3/3502c618763868ad8245e0bbcd843d8f13af6eee.jpeg) - My goals started to make sense as a whole when I put them into three categories - But I could also split them into - Or there’s a third way - And I really like the pattern where some of my goals make trees and several smaller, often short term, goals feed into a bigger, long term goal. I did all that a couple of weeks ago and this morning I decided to go through and archive a lot of the goals I thought were just cruft in the system without looking back at the chart before I picked the goals. I’ve crossed those out on the chart (along with a couple I’d archived in the meantime). It was pretty much all the tracking goals that got culled. I don’t think these belong in Beeminder. I’m not holding myself to any commitment with them, just using Beeminder as a handy place to see progress. A lot of them were autodata - if they’d been manual data I’d have got bored with entering it long ago. I feel like I need a different system to keep tabs on some of these metrics but I don’t think Beeminder is the right place. And now I feel like I have an idea what I’m actually trying to do with Beeminder and can expand again. Some things I might do soon: - add a couple of extra goals for reading that support the books goal (eg to read more non-fiction) - add some more goals to the **improve** category of goals to balance wanting to do a hundred different hobbies without feeling overwhelmed by all of them - figure out what a consolidated **improve** goal would look like --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/beeminding-by-k1rsty/10130)._