I'm starting a new accountability project this year and I need your help. Accountability is useless if no one is holding you to it. So I need feedback, reminders, harassment or whatever to help keep me on track. Here's how it works. I have a list of Ten Things that I need to do each day. …

I got a pedometer at work, so I've been trying to keep track of my walking. I think I've got a pretty good average so far, so I think it's time to start working on upping my average. Here's what I've got so far.

Maggie asked how I learned to work on my budget and savings goals. I'm about to give her much more of an answer than I think she bargained for. I talked about this a bit in

Well... breakfast has been a success. I've had a cup of yogurt with grape-nuts each morning. I'm now starting to switch from the fruit-on-the-bottom to plain yogurt and mixing in frozen fruit. This will remove a lot of ingredients like the infamous high fructose corn syrup. (Considering the ingredients list in the plain yogurt is "milk".) …

So far so good. My goal last week was to drink at least 64oz of water per day. I have, so far, achieved this every day. This week's goal is to eat breakfast every day. I've been having a cup of yogurt with bran grape-nuts type cereal in it. Hopefully this will help me manage my …

I'm going to try to set some goals for this year. Rather than resolutions, which tend to be the fairly ambiguous, I'm going to try to use the SMART formula for setting the goals. The goals need to be Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistic, and Timely. To this end, I think I'm going to start by setting …

So, I've done some math, and I'm way behind on my 101 in 1001 goals. I should be averaging a completion every 10 days. Which means, as of today, I should have 11 items done. I have ten marked as "in progress" and none complete. Oops. Granted, some of these are long term goals, that I …