# Between Lion and Ladybird, or Figuring Out What Works

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/between-lion-and-ladybird-or-figuring-out-what-works/1705>\
**Category:** Life\
**Created:** [December 5, 2015, 11:20am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/between-lion-and-ladybird-or-figuring-out-what-works/1705 "2015-12-05T11:20:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![windairen](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/windairen/32/551_2.png) [@windairen](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/windairen)\
**Post date:** [December 10, 2015, 1:59am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/between-lion-and-ladybird-or-figuring-out-what-works/1705/25 "2015-12-10T01:59:20Z")

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> [@strickvl](#):
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> it’s hard to calculate what other BM goals will be going on at point X or Y in the future, so planning how multiple goals interact takes a bit of thought.

Agreed! I spend a kind of embarrassing amount of time figuring out how to adjust my goals and rates. One thing that has helped me is to (mostly) stick to a rule that I can’t increase more than one goal rate per week, and if I’m making a significant increase I need to also decrease a goal somewhere. Which is very helpful with figuring out priorities! (i.e. what am I willing to do less of in order to do more of this?)

And using the Beeminder calendar from [this thread](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/planning-emergency-days-in-advance/1557/6) was helpful. I actually ended up getting overwhelmed with having all my goals on my calendar, so I started using IFTTT to add an event to my calendar when specific goals whose deadlines are most important are approaching, and that has worked really well for me.

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