# Experiment: Using Beeminder for the sting, but not as the cue

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**Created:** [June 4, 2020, 11:27pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/experiment-using-beeminder-for-the-sting-but-not-as-the-cue/6853 "2020-06-04T23:27:34Z")\
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**Author:** ![mary](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/mary/32/317_2.png) [@mary](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mary)\
**Post date:** [June 22, 2020, 1:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/experiment-using-beeminder-for-the-sting-but-not-as-the-cue/6853/17 "2020-06-22T13:40:20Z")

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I’ve started a [Beeminder Experiments Journal](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/marys-beeminder-experiments-journal/6923) so that I can report on how the individual goals do while relying only on the external triggers and talk about what triggers are and aren’t working and etc.

It’ll take a while to get them all in there as I update each and review or build their triggers, but I’ll work towards getting each done one by one.

> **Aside about values and life areas**
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> > [@zedmango](#):
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> > I’m curious what you mean when you equate them with governing values - to me that’s a different topic. I think of areas as being like “relationships,” “family,” “career,” and so on.
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> I think of them as being very tightly connected because those things/areas only matter cause I/you value them. (I have an “Instrumental” category for things I have to do but that I don’t value intrinsically.)

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