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Re: Why some people will never be happy (and what to do about it)

Lori Taylor Love — Thu, 30 Mar 2017 16:51:04 -0000

What do I do when I'm my mother's caretaker(who has been negative all my life-I'm now 63) and she still is--also has a severe case of OCD--. She drove my father to an early grave and I am a Christian and pray and watch my own behavior (which can be quite difficult at times), She is an impossible-to-please woman and now has dementia. Lord help me(and he does), that's how I get through my day!

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Chris — Mon, 02 Jan 2017 06:25:21 -0000

Thanks so much for this excel sheet. Extremely helpful for tracking my goals.

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

ali — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 04:02:22 -0000

Thanks a lot so I created
Please share your file in Excel?!

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Jon Guerrera — Fri, 12 Aug 2016 00:04:43 -0000

Ah, great catch! You'll need to expand the dates the good ol' fashioned way, using the drag bar. See here: http://webapps.stackexchang...

I've updated the spreadsheet's instructions to reflect this step. Thanks for pointing it out!

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Frugal Frequency Holder — Thu, 11 Aug 2016 20:09:34 -0000

Just finished reading Tim Urban's article on this subject, and my next impulse was to see if anyone had taken the time to create a Google Docs version of it. And you did. Thank you!

One question: I've entered my birthday in cell A1. I've entered my start date (today, 8/11/2016) in cell A3. But the subsequent cells aren't updating with tomorrow's date and so on. Is this as designed?

Re: How to Maintain Your Gratitude Journaling Habit Once and for All

Alexandra Carmichael — Sat, 06 Aug 2016 15:52:27 -0000

Awesome, Jon! A tool I really enjoy is 750words.com - it's very simple and clean, and it helps me process whatever I'm experiencing by putting it into words. Love your blog! :)

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Glenn Jimerson — Wed, 22 Jun 2016 12:17:15 -0000

Ok. That makes sense. I was thinking too rigidly and not realizing your sheet accounted for the exact day. The KPI thing is a great idea. It's a useful way to sit down at the end of the day and really evaluate if you are on track.

I found it helpful to set up a scoring table so I have a concrete definition of what it takes to get a 1, 2, etc... .

Great template! Thank you Jon.

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Jon Guerrera — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 20:13:24 -0000

Thanks for the comment, Glenn! When is your birthday? The Life Calendar is oriented to your birth month, so in your example, I'm guessing the Life Calendar tab is showing it to be the 32nd week since your last birthday. Let me know if that's not the case! -Jon

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Glenn Jimerson — Tue, 21 Jun 2016 19:50:23 -0000

Just a heads up, I used the calendar and the week of the year isn't displaying properly. For example today is the 25th week of 2016 yet the "Life Calendar" tab shows it to be the 32nd week.

Re: How to Chart Your Success Through Life, Week By Week

Artur Dorovskikh — Mon, 20 Jun 2016 22:43:17 -0000

Thanks!

Re: Six Lessons About Success I Learned in 2015

Jon Guerrera — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 20:52:22 -0000

Laney, thank you for your kind words! If there's anything you'd like to see more of, please let me know! I hope your gamification efforts are going well :)

Re: Six Lessons About Success I Learned in 2015

Laney — Wed, 20 Apr 2016 20:23:46 -0000

I've really enjoyed reading your blog the last day. I've recently gotten really into gamification and happened across it in my searches to optimize my life gamification. Really excited about implementing the key life indicator system you came up with also. Thanks for such quality posts, I've saved so much of what you've written about gamification in my evernote!

Re: How to Use Gamification to Break Our Addiction to Our Phones

Armand K — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 13:07:21 -0000

Likewise, thanks @Jon Guerrera !

Re: How to Use Gamification to Break Our Addiction to Our Phones

Jon Guerrera — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 09:12:29 -0000

Glad you liked it, Jess! Hope all is well!

Re: How to Use Gamification to Break Our Addiction to Our Phones

Jess Milligan — Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:58:57 -0000

I love the simple but meaningful tips in this post. I'm going to try to plant some digital trees this week. Thanks for sharing, Jon!

Re: You have to be crazy to be highly successful.

John Jones — Thu, 03 Mar 2016 13:57:38 -0000

You are right on my head! but being crazy even for killing and screaming at people is an psychological disease it may causes to death it stresses and it makes the person fat and also it makes the demon ride on his soul so i disagree on this my topic but too much can be dangerous and my theory now regarding your article of what you ive wrote being motivated or crazy on work,love,sex and comedy is much better because at least it doesn't scrambles your home not at least it can scrambles the world if left uncontrolled with many populations of this world. Take Care of Yourselfs O World!!

Re: Are You Using Evernote All Wrong? An Introduction to Spaced Repetition for Rapid Learning

Jon Guerrera — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:14:35 -0000

Thanks, supermikko! I'm a fairly basic user of spaced repetition -- I don't do anything fancy (yet), so Anki satisfies my needs pretty well. But thanks for letting my readers know about memomash!

Re: Are You Using Evernote All Wrong? An Introduction to Spaced Repetition for Rapid Learning

Jon Guerrera — Thu, 07 Jan 2016 11:13:37 -0000

I'm glad you enjoyed the post, Joshua! Anki is fantastic. The iOS version is also solid, but only if you don't mind the hefty price tag.

Re: Are You Using Evernote All Wrong? An Introduction to Spaced Repetition for Rapid Learning

supermikko — Tue, 05 Jan 2016 13:48:00 -0000

Very nice idea to use spaced repetition system like general a notebook!

I have used spaced repetition just to study for exams. Actually I have even developed my own system, because I didn't quite like the available free systems. If you want to check out my system, it's available at www.memomash.com (you can even import cards from Anki) Do you have any suggestions, what would be useful features for a SR-system, when used like you do? I would imagine that a powerful search through all your cards would be nice, so you could check something easily even if you're a little uncertain if you recall the information correctly.

Anyways, thanks for the great post!

Re: Key Lifestyle Indicators: A Powerful Tool for Long Term Success

Marina — Tue, 08 Dec 2015 10:57:18 -0000

Many thanks, Jon, I really appreciate that. It helps a lot.

Re: Key Lifestyle Indicators: A Powerful Tool for Long Term Success

Jon Guerrera — Tue, 01 Dec 2015 21:40:38 -0000

Ah, gotcha. I'll describe how to do it below, but also link you to a spreadsheet that probably gives you what you need.

So what you need to do is create a new identity for each week. Instead of "Week of Life", you'd make a "Week of Year" that would have values like "12015" for January 2015. The formula to generate "Week of Year" is:

=concat(weeknum(A8), year(A8))

From there, you'd create a separate pivotal table of "Week of Year" summing up the scores for each "Week of Year" value, and then update the vlookup on the actual calendar to reference that new pivotal table with the value of Week + Year. That ends up looking like this:

=VLOOKUP(concat(B1, $A3),WeekByYearScores!$A:$B,2, False)+0

Anyways, here's a template you can work from that does a rough implementation of this. I hope this is what you were looking for!

https://docs.google.com/spr...

Cheers,
Jon

Re: Key Lifestyle Indicators: A Powerful Tool for Long Term Success

Marina — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 03:44:50 -0000

Hi Jon, thank you for your answer. The calendar is in sync, but we have now the calendar week 49 and I would like to have the weekly score displayed in this week, not in the week nr. so and so from my birthday, as it is now. I just can't come up with a formula that takes the weekly score and displays it in the current calendar week.

Re: Key Lifestyle Indicators: A Powerful Tool for Long Term Success

Jon Guerrera — Tue, 24 Nov 2015 14:25:14 -0000

Hi Marina! Glad you liked this post. I still use KLIs daily, but you're right, the Life Calendar is not something I look at anymore (I ended up buying the real thing on WaitButWhy.com). The Life calendar was designed to start on your birthday, counting up through every week of life (e.g. if you're born on 6/1, week 1 is the week of 6/1), rather than the new year. If I understood correctly, the calendar appears to be out of sync? Hoping you can clarify!

Re: Key Lifestyle Indicators: A Powerful Tool for Long Term Success

Marina — Fri, 20 Nov 2015 02:54:48 -0000

Hi Jon, on my search for the motivational blogs and texts I found your blog and was really impressed. Thank you very much for everything you do and write. I began to use your spreadsheet and tweaked it a bit to work for my goals. I just noticed though that the weeks in the "Life calendar" are not the same as the calendar week of the year, so your template shows the green in the week 48, but you started to log on 1/1. I would like to have the aligned view with the calendar week but couldn't come up with a formula to bring it together with the week of life and the score sum of the week. May I ask for your help here? I understand that the post is 5 years old and you probably don't use the spreadsheet anymore, but would really appreciate a word or two. Thank you a lot

Re: Are You Using Evernote All Wrong? An Introduction to Spaced Repetition for Rapid Learning

Joshua Long — Sat, 31 Oct 2015 15:36:52 -0000

Great solution to the overwhelm that is Evernote.

Spaced repetition is the Holy Grail for me, but haven't found any apps (until now, thanks to you) that seemed to scratch my itch in how I capture info.

Thanks for sharing this!