# Most elegant way to create one-off must-do event with penalty?

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**Created:** [August 29, 2018, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/most-elegant-way-to-create-one-off-must-do-event-with-penalty/4274 "2018-08-29T20:02:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![zedmango](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/c67d28/32.png) [@zedmango](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/zedmango)\
**Post date:** [August 30, 2018, 8:15pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/most-elegant-way-to-create-one-off-must-do-event-with-penalty/4274/4 "2018-08-30T20:15:00Z")

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1. Create a goal that needs to be done twice a month or less.
2. Retroratchet to your desired deadline.
3. When you do the task, archive the goal.

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