[jesseendahl]

One more thing:

I have a strong urge to not be the kind of person who tells people he's going to do something and then doesn't. So if I really want to make sure I accomplish something, what I do is tell a bunch of people about my goals and set a realistic date where I want to have met some certain metric, and then I ask them to ask me about about my progress on a regular basis. If I tell enough people, then usually at least one of them remembers to ask about every other week, and after awhile I'll go "shit, if I don't actually do this, I'm not going to reach my goal and everyone will know." It's basically manufacturing peer pressure for a positive purpose. It's really scary to do this (at least for me), but that's also what makes it effective.