Hi! My name is Olivia. I have a goal to build up my new freelance writing business to have a solid roster of clients so I can support myself and my freelance journalism endeavors. Living off savings for the past year, I’ve made so many excuses to put off prioritizing this work which has repeatedly led to anguish, stress, low self-confidence and disappointment in myself. Not anymore! I am going to invest in myself and my future by setting my goal of 6 hours of Focusmate sessions per weekday, working on my business which will include deep work writing sessions, self-marketing tasks, and admin/organizational tasks.
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Hello! My name is Shannon, and (according to my Screen Time), I’ve spent 5 hours on the Beeminder forums and blog in the past 3 days.
Safe to say, my time management and prioritisation skills are absolutely top notch.
I gave this whole Beeminding thing a chance a few years ago, but that was at a time in my life when the threat of $5 was both too much for me to lose, and not enough of a stick to get me to brush my teeth once a day.
Things are much better now. Before I settled down to spend even more of my evenings on the forums, I was walking up and down my living room to get those pesky Beeminder-tracked steps in.
In all seriousness, I’m both employed now (yay, money that I can afford to lose), and I have enrolled at University this year. I actually have the shell of a routine built, and Beeminder is finally the right fit for my life.
I’ve been a bit naughty in paying to get unlimited goals… but my justification to myself is that I’m already a Hashtag Quantified Self-er, so the only difference now will be the fact the data is getting wired up to my bank account via Beeminder.
I certainly won’t be the first ADHD’er to say “oh yeah, I’m gonna Beemind all the things!!” before disappearing off into the nether… but I’m… hopeful that I keep the good things happening!
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Wonderful! Welcome back! I’m amused that your idea of naughtiness is splurging on unlimited goals. We’re actually gradually working on making that unnecessary. At risk of sending you down another rabbit hole: Feature Announcement: Parceling Out Goals Sting-ily | Beeminder Blog
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Hey there 
Kyle here. ADHDer and Product Manager for the local public media station here in Seattle, and an MBA student as well! I first tried Beeminder like…a decade ago?? Like lots of others I have spent lots of time looking for the right solutions to my every wandering brain and difficulty building habits. I was somewhat successful with the platform a few times since I first tried it, but it never stuck for a variety of reasons.
Moving forward to the present(ish) I started Beeminding my first goal in mid-December of last year and for whatever reason was able to stick with it this time. I added one other goal shortly after and am on a 3+ moth streak with both of those. There are a variety of factors that I think have led to me sticking with the platform longer-term this go around - but I’m also scared to question it too much for fear of it all falling apart 
Though I am not very worried about that at the moment 
I now have about 10 goals I keep up with regularly and am constantly tweaking and adjusting what that mix looks like. Overall, this year I have been the most successful with my goals as I have ever been - and Beeminder has played a big part in that! And now that I feel fairly solid in my use of the platform I thought now would be a good time to do an introduction and start posting a bit more frequently. I have been really enjoying reading about all the cool things people have been doing with the platform on the forum 
You can get a fairly good idea of what I have been working on lately on my goals page. Outside of work and school I have been learning Piano via Piano Marvel, going through the freeCodeCamp curriculum (into JavaScript now!), working my way through an in depth online cooking course from Rouxbe, and am on track to read 52 books this year from all different genres! I also have a personal website kylepace.net that I’m working on - it’s pretty barebones right now but planning to beemind some regular blog posts on it soon and add some case studies.
Glad to be here and looking forward to connecting with others in the community! 
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