# Gradually-increasing goals

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gradually-increasing-goals/1130>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [September 7, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gradually-increasing-goals/1130 "2015-09-07T12:01:52Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![strickvl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/strickvl/32/529_2.png) [@strickvl](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/strickvl)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 12:01pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gradually-increasing-goals/1130/1 "2015-09-07T12:01:52Z")

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I’m getting back into standing more as/while I work, but I was hoping to track this via beeminder. I know that people have proposed a gradually increasing curve goal in the past, but has anyone figured out a way to automate this so I don’t have to keep tweaking it (and then seeing changes only start to happen a week later etc).

Ideally I’d set it a very low amount to start with, then it would gradually increase the rate over a period of months.

Any idea how to set this up?

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**Author:** ![chelsea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a3d4f5/32.png) [@chelsea](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/chelsea)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2015, 7:13pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gradually-increasing-goals/1130/2 "2015-09-07T19:13:50Z")

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i think an [exponential](http://blog.beeminder.com/exproad) road might work for you here - start at the amount you currently stand at work, then increase that amount x% a week (potentially reaching a maximum at some point, then flatlining the graph to maintain).

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**Author:** ![strickvl](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/strickvl/32/529_2.png) [@strickvl](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/strickvl)\
**Post date:** [September 8, 2015, 5:31am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gradually-increasing-goals/1130/3 "2015-09-08T05:31:44Z")

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Hmmm ok thanks. I’ll see if I can make that work on my own. I’ll be manually entering data in any case since LumoLift doesn’t have an API (I think).

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**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\
**Post date:** [September 11, 2015, 8:31pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/gradually-increasing-goals/1130/4 "2015-09-11T20:31:46Z")

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Alex, here’s [the thread you were looking for](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/just-do-better/1111). @mary has automated exactly that, setting the goal’s slope based on actual recent performance.