Lifehacker Top 10: Top 10 Tools for Sticking to Your New Year's Resolutions

10 suggestions on tips and techniques for your long-haul commitments. ^{link »}

10. Schedule your goals inside your high-energy times ^{link »}

9. Make them S.M.A.R.T. ^{link »}

S pecific ("Run 2 miles, three times a week"); M easurable ("Improve my mile times by 25%"); A chievable (Avoid pie-in-the-sky goals that you can't expect to achieve.); R ealistic (Give yourself the time necessary to achieve the goal. Don't expect overnight success.) T imely (Have a real deadline with progress check-ups; get your first 5K under your belt by Sept. 1, instead of "Run a long race this year") ^{link »}

8. Mint.com for all your money resolutions ^{link »}

7. Channel your Inner Seinfeld—Don't break the chain ^{link »}

6. Track them all at once with Joe's Goals ^{link »}

5. Keep your reminders/motivators away from your computer ^{link »}

4. Remember the Milk ^{link »}

3. Be a dweeb and write them down ^{link »}

2. Advanced calendar tweaking ^{link »}

1. Remember Ryan Adams' creed—It's just a simple task today ^{link »}

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