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An acquaintance of mine (Kate Hudson – not the actress) developed this really cool program to help organize goals — with the ability to put specific goals into multiple categories (as when the classes I am taking are moving me toward both personal enrichment and fulfilling requirements for a Master’s in Teaching and eventual employment…). Each goal can be assigned as many steps as necessary. So my goal of getting a job as a teacher has the steps: get a master’s in teaching (which also is listed as a goal with its own set of steps), get additional endorsements, and volunteer in the areas I am interested in.
I actually signed up for this last spring, but didn’t have much that I was doing (or able to do) to work toward it. But the program faithfully sends a little reminder… “you haven’t updated” to my email periodically. And today I decided to do something about the reminder! You can see in the screen shots that in addition to the ubiquitous “sort through boxes” steps I have now added some specific education-related goals. I will be playing with this more intensely over the next few days, weeks and months as I work actively toward my top goal.
Basically, it lets me choose when I have finished something (and if it will recur when that should happen, or if it’s truly done). I can add, rename, delete and change things as I need. I can specify WHERE something takes place! And, if I don’t use it within a week, it will send me a reminder until I at least look at it. As a champion procrastinator (what, you hadn’t noticed?) I need this small nagging sometimes, especially when I have gotten myself into a few more things than I really need.
Now, I have always been a list maker, this just makes it handy from any computer, even if I am away from home. I don’t have to carry around yet another “thing” along with schoolbooks and the laptop. So it will work in conjunction with the Google calendars and the “Joe’s Goals” that I link to from the Cool Things page and use to track daily activities.
Goal Organiser is using Google Ads to generate some income. But the placement is inconspicuous and they are not jarring (or moving, or flashing, or…) so it doesn’t bother me. I like the colors chosen for this app — calm, professional but not depressing.   And I am looking forward to future updates. Will we be able to purchase this tool and use it without ads? Or select our own color palette? Choose fonts? Add links to websites that will help us meet our goals? The ability to prioritize the goals?
Kate has a lot of talent. I think we can expect great things from her in the future!