[throwaway8879]

I have a weekly(Monday) chat session with an accountability buddy where we discuss the previous week's goals and make new goals for the coming week. It's a little bit more involved than just ticking off items, and involves being mindful about how to do things differently in the coming week. At first it was strictly work-related but morphed into including other areas such as health goals, mood/emotional goals etc. We're nearly one year into it.

My friend delivers mail for a day job and works on a fantasy novel the rest of the time. I'm sort of a code person working on a startup and various other things.

Somehow it works for us. And better than other approaches I've tried before.

[bbody]

I have been doing something similar with a friend. I think consistency is the biggest factor in making it work.