# New Month's Resolutions **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [December 28, 2023, 4:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions/11321 "2023-12-28T16:11:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 7
**Author:** ![enbee](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/enbee/32/4796_2.png) [@enbee](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/enbee)\ **Post date:** [December 30, 2023, 11:56pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions/11321/7 "2023-12-30T23:56:01Z")
i want to reiterate that i very much **love** this idea! especially since i can easily see myself using it for not only picking up new, long-term habits, but also for finishing short-term goals (like maybe getting rid of all my non-permanent beeminder bookmarks in a month?). so, [fregstreme](https://www.beeminder.com/enbee/fregstreme): this is a more extreme version of the [fregs](https://www.beeminder.com/enbee/fregs) goal that i set up for the new year’s resolution—credit to the idea goes to @shanaqui and their 3 (?) different intensity levels of reading goals for this year. i thought of that again today and found it to be the perfect middle ground between testing a steeper rate of my fregs goal without committing to that for the whole year and possibly burning out / getting frustrated by it. like fregs, fregstreme also has an autoratchet of 7 days, but the rate is 3/day, not 1/day like fregs currently has … (upped from 6/7 today, taking effect next week.) one month seems like a good testing phase for getting a feel for the numbers—is 3 still too low, is it too high, is it about right? we’ll see! starting with 7 days of initial buffer as well. i’ve set it to end after january, and i very likely won’t let it run beyond that, especially since it requires me to enter the same data in two goals … --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/new-months-resolutions/11321)._