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“…And a Happy New Year?”, by Bruce McCosar

“I Wish you No Sniffles”, by Terry Elisabeth Wynd

“Grizzly Man”, by Sara Donadei

“Year 2007 in a flash”, by Cheng Ling

“Blessed “, by Sara Donadei

“The Goldan Compass”, by Sara Donadei

“New Year, New Decisions, New Me???, by Kristen Coss

“Your Name”, by Alexis Heikkinen

“when something magical happens”, by Caroline M

“Being Homeless in a Frigid Season”, by Pea Eye Parker

“The Gayest Essay Ever”, by Alexis Heikkinen

“Making use of Dandelife”, by Terry Elisabeth Wynd

 Jessica Cook

Yann Leroux

Deepak Ravlani

Mika Parikka

Dave Hogg

Jose Angelo Almeda

askar obidov

Graham Bratzel

Thomas Willemsen

Matthew Selznick

Le Mous

jamie pascal

I noticed on Lifehacker this week a lot of links to sites that help you with your New Years Resolutions. The site is chock full of good advice from setting realistic goals to finding the free sites that will help you manager those goals (my personal favorites are Mint and Traineo). Naturally, there are already a lot of Lifehacker readers here on Dandelife because of the generous coverage they’ve posted regarding our timelines in the past. Then again, what’s Dandelife but a big geek-to-live Lifehack in general?

Below are some screenshots that will help some simple ways to fold your new years resolutions into your life in general. I also posted a video which shows all of the same screens in action: Tracking New Years Resolutions.

 
The “quick post” feature quickly lets you post goals for the future, not just stories from the past. Keep them private, add tags, or share more details once you accomplish them. The key is to tag the goals with keywords that make sense. So if you’re dieting, tag the goal “diet, resolution”. If you want to run more, tag it “running, resolution”. Tags are comma-separated and will allow to track your goals along multiple timelines.

Of course, Dandelife is a light blogging platform too. So if you want to add photos and videos, you can. you can embed any content you want, really. But since it’s a personal blogging service, you can keep your stories private (which is often the case with sensitive goals such as weight loss and saving money).

Here’s a timeline of my “running” goals. You can see over time what the goals are and how I’ve progressed. I’ve also chosen to share one of the stories publicly as an accomplishment. Doing so allows others to comment on it and your story immediately goes into a larger public pool of stories that share share the same tags.

Again, one of the great things about Dandelife is that it’s not just a place you can track your goals for the new year. You can record your stories for all your life’s events. Go way back, deep into your past, but also plan for the future. Either way, ambitions and actions are great material for you life blog here.

Here’s to a prosperous 2008 for all. Whatever your ambitions - be they for a better world, a better self, or better circumstances - may they all come true.

Thrive!,
K

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