I just hit upon a site called "Joes Goals" that seems to be really easy to use and could really help me achieve a variety of daily goals. It builds a small weekly calendar you can just click on when you achieve either a good goal or perpetrate a bad habit.
You can also setup a "journal" that takes in small entries about what you did for various things. For instance, let's say you wanted to set up a goal of exercising 20minutes a day, four times a week. You just add the goal "20 minutes Exercise" and then,when you actually exercise you can click on the day and a little checkmark will appear. You can also set up a journal called "Exercise" which will also be in the same calendar grid. After you exercise, if you want to mention what you did you can click on the exercise box for the day and quickly enter some details about your activity.
The site is free and seems to generate all of its' revenue via Google Ads. Sign up is exceptionally easy (provide an email address, first name, and password) and adding goals and journals isn't much harder. You do need a pretty modern web browser to use the site (Firefox, Opera, or IE7+) due to it's slick interface.
If you have any small daily type goals this site might be just the ticket for you. I don't think it would be that great for big goals that have a lot of parts to them - but for small tangible goals it looks great. It is also good for keeping yourself from doing bad things (say, like eating dessert) because you can setup negative goals that you check only when you mess up.
Here are some other "daily goal" suggestions:
- Read to my child
- Clean Kitchen before going to bed
- Write a blog post
- Eat Sensibly
- Jog
I'm sure it will be easy for you to find plenty of your own little life improving goals or bad habits to try and avoid such as (the following are "bad goals"):
- Go out to eat
- Yell at kids
- Pick Nose
- Lick frozen lamp posts
Most of all have fun and use the tool to help make small, but positive changes in your life!