# Possible trick for making new goals without being overwhelmed?

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**Created:** [September 17, 2015, 2:11pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/possible-trick-for-making-new-goals-without-being-overwhelmed/1157 "2015-09-17T14:11:53Z")\
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**Post date:** [September 18, 2015, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/possible-trick-for-making-new-goals-without-being-overwhelmed/1157/7 "2015-09-18T16:16:19Z")

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> [@erickthered](#):
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> The only downside I see is that you lose the ability to realize you have set it up wrong the first week and immediately cancel it.

Don’t forget about @mary’s [autodialer script](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/just-do-better/1111) that gently increases the goal’s slope based on actual doing. You may still need a bump to get you started, of course, but it should reduce the danger of overcommitting at the outset.

(I like the idea of autodialing so much that I think it should be a standard feature, to reduce goal-creation friction.)

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