# Show off your goals and how you're Beeminding them!! **URL:** \ **Category:** Akrasia\ **Created:** [November 12, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465 "2020-11-12T22:50:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![gustavohsouza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/gustavohsouza/32/3833_2.png) [@gustavohsouza](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gustavohsouza)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465/1 "2020-11-12T22:50:58Z")
I looked around to see some successful use cases and examples of what people are Beeminding and I couldn’t find much information in an organized way. Then the user @shanaqui suggested me to create this post. To make things more structured (after all, we’re all data nerds) I’d like to suggest this initial structure: **What I’m Beeminding** : **Link** : **Integration used and some context** : **Personal motivation for it** : (optional) **How successful I am so far** : (optional) ---
**Author:** ![shanaqui](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/shanaqui/32/3513_2.png) [@shanaqui](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/shanaqui)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 11:14pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465/2 "2020-11-12T23:14:02Z")
Alrighty, I’ll get us started with arguably my most impactful goal so far: **What I’m beeminding:** The number of hours I work in a day, keeping them below 6.5. **Link:** [https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/clockoff](https://www.beeminder.com/shanaqui/clockoff) **Integration used and some context:** Toggl, so it started as a do-more goal. It tracks my cumulative hours worked, so everything for all my different contracts. I converted it to a custom goal and flipped the road over to become a do-less goal, and then modified it to be non-cumulative, and flat at 6.5. I decided on that instead of just making a do-less goal because there’s no fussing about with auto-ratchet or something, and it’s easy to compare days across time. **Personal motivation for it:** As a freelancer, I set my own hours, and it’s tempting to work as much as possible every day. It wasn’t very healthy, though. I still work every day, though I’ve been decreasing my weekend hours, but this goal sets a firm and healthy cap on my hours. **How successful I am so far:** I’ve derailed a few times; some of those were non-legit, because they happened due to things it was hard to plan ahead for (like meetings of unknown length). I’ve found it has the effect I want, though, and I’ve found myself returning to some of my online haunts and offline habits that I missed but felt I had no time for. ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 11:38pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465/3 "2020-11-12T23:38:13Z")
**What I’m beeminding** : User-Visible Improvements to Beeminder **Link** : [https://beeminder.com/meta/uvi](https://beeminder.com/meta/uvi) **Integration used and some context** : Manual (though could be automated with our Twitter integration) **Personal motivation for it** : To keep Beeminder moving forward and demonstrate to users that we’re always improving **How successful I am so far** : Beeminder unambiguously wouldn’t exist without this! ---
**Author:** ![brennanbrown](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/brennanbrown/32/3680_2.png) [@brennanbrown](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/brennanbrown)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2020, 11:40pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465/4 "2020-11-12T23:40:12Z")
I have quite a few examples, and I talk about them a lot in [my thread](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/brennans-beeminder-journal/6340/51), so here you go! Looking at my page, each goal has a little written purpose in its description. My apologies for not keeping with your format. 🙂 > **Writing** > > - **[Writing](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/writing)**: This keeps track of each word that I type on [Draft](https://draftin.com), which eventually will become a finished work within one of the following: > - **[Blog](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/blog)**: My current blog, connected via IFTTT on [Medium](https://brennanbrown.medium.com) for ease of automation. I’m still trying to find my voice and what I’d like to consistently write about, but I am going to be starting to post bi-weekly. > - **[Journalbar](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/journalbar)**: That’s my Bee journal thread! A side-blog where I force myself to review and reflect what I want/ought to be doing vs. what I’m actually doing. > - **[Morning Pages](https://beeminder.com/morningpages2)**: Using Google Docs and URLminder, since that allows you to change the 12am default deadline. Under construction still. 😅 > - **[Poetry](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/poetry)**: I’m currently writing a new poetry chapbook, and publish one new piece per week via Tumblr and IFTTT. > > - **[Twitter](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/twitter)**: Not exactly related to my other writing, but I’ve been using Twitter as a private, short journal for daily summaries and progress. > **Productivity** > > - **[Productive Time](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/productivity)**: A daily count of software and website monitoring with RescueTime. Recently had to increase the rate to 3 hrs/day, since I’ve been on the computer so much. > - **[GitHub](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/github)**: Keeping track of the commits I push to my coding repositories, also had to increase the rate since I’ve been programming a lot. > - **[Courses](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/courses)**: Keeping track of the courses I’ve been taking, currently on a good tutorial about SCSS and Tailwind! > > - **[Distracting Time](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/distraction)**: Ideally, I want to be spending all of my recreational time on analogue, since I have to spend so much time in front of a screen for work, also with RescueTime. > **Physical Health** > > - **[Daily Activity](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/fitness)**: I’m aiming for 10k steps a day, and I usually take an hour-long walk or bike ride daily–I find it really helps with my ability to work mentally, via FitBit. > - **[Sleeping](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/sleep)**: Sleep hygiene is a major issue for me. I need to convert this to a custom goal since I also want to cap the amount that I’m sleeping to further improve my consistency, also via FitBit. > - **[Weight](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/weight)**: Tracking the fluctuations in my weight, also also via FitBit. > - **[Foodlog](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/foodlog)**: Manually writing down everything I eat during the day. Definitely should be transferred to something more automatic (like w/ FitBit) to actually count calories and nutrition. > **Mental Health** > > - **[Gratitude](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/gratitude)**: Manually writing down one thing that I’m grateful for, each day. > - **[Meditation](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/meditation)**: Tracking the amount of time I meditate each day via Apple Health integration on the iOS application and various meditation apps. Currently just doing simple timed meditations with Insight Timer. > - **[Prayer](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/prayer)**: Practicing the Rosary prayer via the Rosarium app on iOS which has a nifty Beeminder integration. > **Lifestyle / Misc.** > > - **[Duolingo](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/duolingo)**: Currently in the emerald league! Aiming for two lessons in French per day. > - **[Clozemaster](https://beeminder/brennanbrown/clozemaster)**: Similar to Duolingo, just tracking the amount of points I earn per day. A good supplementary that’s easy to add. > > - **[Books](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/books)**: Currently taking out audiobooks on [Libby](https://www.overdrive.com/apps/libby/) which are not only free, but also give me only two weeks to make sure I get through the entire book. > - **[Jobs](https://beeminder.com/brennanbrown/jobs)**: Tracking with Google Sheets and IFTTT, I add the company, job title, date to a new line on the spreadsheet, and that triggers IFTTT to add the data to Beeminder. ---
**Author:** ![hiddenspark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/c5a1d2/32.png) [@hiddenspark](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/hiddenspark)\ **Post date:** [November 13, 2020, 12:23am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465/5 "2020-11-13T00:23:24Z")
Okay, so, some background here… I’m nearing the end of a bachelor of law degree and as any student ever has done I’m prone to bouts of procrastination and lack of motivation (especially given the current worldwide happenings). **What I’m Beeminding:** Study hours! **Link:** [https://www.beeminder.com/hiddenspark/studyingtime](https://www.beeminder.com/hiddenspark/studyingtime) **Integration used and some context:** I choose not to use an intergration for this, although I could have incorporated toggl easily enough, because it wasn’t about how much I actually studied per se. If I studied more than an hour? Great, but I didn’t feel as if I really need to know _exactly_ how much. Which means that technically my units are a little vague. There is one rule I’ve set for myself though… I can only round down, I can’t round up the hours. **Personal Motivation For It:** When my depression rears its ugly mug I can find it hard to self-motivate. So, there’s a little push here to help me. Plus, it ensures I do it more regularly and don’t binge my study sessions into 7 hours in one day or something silly. **How Successful I Am So Far:** I’d like to say relatively successful… we’ll see when my grades come back 😉 ---
**Author:** ![dreev](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/dreev/32/4311_2.png) [@dreev](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/dreev)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 4:10am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465/6 "2020-11-17T04:10:07Z")
> [@brennanbrown](#): > > Practicing the Rosary prayer via the Rosarium app on iOS which has a nifty Beeminder integration Ooh, it does? I didn’t know about that one! We should help promote it. See also [Code and Catholicism: Beeminding Praying and Integrating Beeminder on iOS | Beeminder Blog](https://blog.beeminder.com/rosary/) ---
**Author:** ![brennanbrown](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/brennanbrown/32/3680_2.png) [@brennanbrown](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/brennanbrown)\ **Post date:** [November 17, 2020, 6:28am UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465/7 "2020-11-17T06:28:14Z")
> [@dreev](#): > > Ooh, it does? I didn’t know about that one! It’s actually the same app, they just renamed it haha! ---
**Author:** ![gustavohsouza](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/forum.beeminder.com/gustavohsouza/32/3833_2.png) [@gustavohsouza](https://forum.beeminder.com/u/gustavohsouza)\ **Post date:** [November 29, 2020, 7:38pm UTC](https://forum.beeminder.com/t/show-off-your-goals-and-how-youre-beeminding-them/7465/8 "2020-11-29T19:38:58Z")
My turn! After 15 days of testing, I’m certain this was the **BEST** decision I’ve made this month. **What I’m Beeminding** : My sleep. More specifically, the latest time I’m allowed to go to bed. **Link** : [https://www.beeminder.com/gustavohsouza/offlinenights](https://www.beeminder.com/gustavohsouza/offlinenights) **Integration used and some context** : RescueTime + IFTTT **Personal motivation for it** : Sleeping well is as important as eating healthy. And I’m not happy with my current sleeping habits. I’m going to bed much later than I wish. 100% of the time it’s because I’m on the computer or phone doing all sorts of things. If I tinker with my computer or pick up my phone after 12am, I programmed RescueTime to send and alert to Zapier and Zapier will send this to Beeminder. That will sting me. Weekends are days off. **How successful I am so far** : 15 days so far and no derails. I’ve been having much better nights of sleep because I’m keeping a routine. * * * **What I’m Beeminding** : Meditation **Link** : [https://www.beeminder.com/gustavohsouza/meditation](https://www.beeminder.com/gustavohsouza/meditation) **Integration used and some context** : Apple Health (Apple Watch’s Breathe app + Headspace) **Personal motivation for it** : Meditation is a great habit I’ve started to build at a point in my life but completely derailed. I’m starting with a very easy goal and I plan on increasing it over the next months. **How successful I am so far** : No derails so far. But there were days I didn’t meditate and was relying on my buffer minutes previously accumulated.