# Precommitting to data points **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [July 20, 2015, 4:24pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/precommitting-to-data-points/972 "2015-07-20T16:24:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 3
**Author:** ![philip](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/philip/32/1505_2.png) [@philip](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/philip)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2015, 9:20am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/precommitting-to-data-points/972/3 "2015-07-21T09:20:32Z")
> [@drtall](#): > > Suppose you could enter pre-commit data points for the future which become mini-contracts. I really like this idea. It’s a generalisation of my desire for an [uncle!](http://forum.beeminder.com/t/feature-request-derail-or-archive-straight-away/391) button, consistent with the [GTBee](http://blog.beeminder.com/gtbee/) idea, **and** puts more control in the hands of the user. _Aside: I worry somewhat about folks being too aggressive with their deadlines, but that’s the same problem we have convincing people to be slightly less aggressive with their goal slopes. After a few self-inflicted derailments, they/we find a balance that helps us achieve more in/with our lives._ * * * > [@drtall](#): > > Using arbitrary deadlines to stagger your eep!s. I don’t care for this option because it feels crushingly arbitrary when there’s only one eep! in the day. I’ll see your arbitrariness and raise you a theory: it’s always arbitrary unless there is a real-world reason for that particularly deadline. e.g. garbage night, end-of-work-day, etc. In some cases that arbitrariness feels helpful. Other times we become too, too aware of the games we’re playing. I sure can’t predict in advance how I’d like my goal deadlines to be staggered across any given future day. But I might have the presence of mind to force myself to get things done earlier on a particular day. --- _[View the full topic](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/precommitting-to-data-points/972)._