# How to track an activity you want to complete 5 out of 7 days in the week?

**URL:** <https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-an-activity-you-want-to-complete-5-out-of-7-days-in-the-week/243>\
**Category:** Akrasia\
**Created:** [November 16, 2014, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-an-activity-you-want-to-complete-5-out-of-7-days-in-the-week/243 "2014-11-16T09:07:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![chrislagarde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/chrislagarde/32/114_2.png) [@chrislagarde](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/chrislagarde)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 9:07am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-an-activity-you-want-to-complete-5-out-of-7-days-in-the-week/243/1 "2014-11-16T09:07:12Z")

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I want to meditate at least 5 times a week. I’ll be happy with that number. How do I make this into Beeminder goal?

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**Author:** ![drmaciver](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/drmaciver/32/80_2.png) [@drmaciver](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/drmaciver)\
**Post date:** [November 16, 2014, 1:25pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-an-activity-you-want-to-complete-5-out-of-7-days-in-the-week/243/2 "2014-11-16T13:25:25Z")

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The natural solution to this is to create a beeminder goal which is to meditate with a desired rate of at least 5 times a week and add a data point of 1 every time you mediate. Is there a reason that doesn’t work for you?

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**Author:** ![mel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/mel/32/103_2.png) [@mel](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/mel)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2014, 10:02am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-an-activity-you-want-to-complete-5-out-of-7-days-in-the-week/243/3 "2014-11-19T10:02:42Z")

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Beeminder will automatically keep you at an average rate of 5/week if you set up a do more goal with rate of 5. Since this isn’t a partial thing, but rather meditate (1) or not (0), the graph might indicate you need .5 to stay on track, but you’d just meditate and record a 1. You could also set up number of minutes of meditation if you want to track it that way. It’d keep you at a weekly rate of X number of minutes then.

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**Author:** ![amesha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/76d3ee/32.png) [@amesha](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/amesha)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 6:57am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-an-activity-you-want-to-complete-5-out-of-7-days-in-the-week/243/4 "2014-11-20T06:57:37Z")

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I have _exactly_ this same goal, meditate 5 times per week. The rate is 5/week and I enter a 1 when I meditate.

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**Author:** ![chrislagarde](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/chrislagarde/32/114_2.png) [@chrislagarde](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/chrislagarde)\
**Post date:** [November 20, 2014, 1:52pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/how-to-track-an-activity-you-want-to-complete-5-out-of-7-days-in-the-week/243/5 "2014-11-20T13:52:13Z")

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Thanks to all who replied. The answer as you pointed out was easy. The goal setup wizard took care of it. It had been awhile since I used the wizard (I’ve only setup one previous BeeMinder goal). Reading the blog posts about more esoteric ways of tracking goals confused me.