I think it is exactly 10 days after new years that most of us forget not only our resolutions, but that we even made any in the first place! I AM kidding here, but it is hard to stick with a new pattern when we have lived with the old ones for so long. So this year I gathered together some wonderful sites whose aim is in keeping with some of the most popular resolutions to help keep you (and me) on track.
1.Budgeting -If you goal this year is to budget better, CNBC's website has a wonderful chart. You enter you take home income and it breaks it down into percentages which makes it easy to see where you might be over and where you might be under:HERE
2. Diet and exercise - For this one I have two great sites to share, they have similar goals, but their styles are different. For both you can keep track of you calorie intake, and create an exercise plan. Additionally Sparkpeople.com has a whole section where you can create healthy meal plans while MyFitnessPal.com is more of a journal and great place to find out where you need to make adjustments. These are truly wonderful sites which have been a great help in my family.
3. Organization - This one I am excited about, with a family of 5 I am always looking for ways to be a bit more organized and this year I found a time tracker:HERE. It has an easy and free sign up just your e-mail, username, and password. After that you enter in all the things you do in a day: cooking, cleaning, blogging, facebook, twitter, errands, working, etc. Then you can start a stopwatch to see how long you spend at each thing.
4. Be Debt Free - CNN Money has a wonderful debt calculator you enter the total amounts, interest rates, and monthly payment amounts and it will calculate how long it will take to be debt free. Or there is an option of seeing how much you would have to pay monthly to be debt free in a certain amount of time. See the debt planner HERE.
5. Volunteer to help others - If it is you goal to volunteer more in this next year www.serve.gov is put together by the US government. You just type in how you are interested in helping and your city and state and it takes you to a list of opportunities in your area.
6. Get a Better Job - OK, I am stealing this site idea from my middle schooler's classroom curriculum, but it is quite fascinating even if you are not looking for a better job. It lists occupations and the average gross annual income for each see it here: www.wois.org
7. Quit Smoking - Having come from a family that smoked (most of whom successfully quit) I can tell you that the first step is to admit that as much as you hate the addiction, you also love smoking. And once you have done that, ask for prayer specifically for healing. And then draw on resources. Did you know the U.S. Govenrment has a stop smoking site? www.smokefree.gov. There you can talk to experts for free and find other resources.
8. Daily Bible Reading - DailyBible.com has an awesome daily e-mail program, they even have an app. you can find on your phone or ipod. And they have different options from daily scriptures to a program where you can read the whole bible in a year.
Happy New Years and Best Wishes!
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3 Comments:
Have you found an alternative for Time Tracker? It's no longer operative?
Wow Kal, I took a look and your right, I will have to take a look around and see what is out there. Too bad too, this was a really nice program.
Well I took a look and it seems they moved to toggl.com Or at least you can find the same set up there. Nothing to download, very simple, an email address and pasword and then enter what you are working on and it will keep track for you. I have updated the link in this post as well.
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