Raising work standards with Beeminder without spooking yourself

I use a rate improvement goal to encourage me to assess my goal rates regularly. Once a week on average, I pick one goal and increase its rate slightly. I wrote a bit more about it at Advent 2022: 04. Overwhelmed or In Control? / Rate Improvement Goal but the basic idea is trivial (very helpful to me though).

I should rename it to “goal improvement” rather than “rate…” because these days my rates are often pretty good so I sometimes record some other kind of adjustment, such as increasing the pledge or creating a whole new goal.

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