Do you have a few goals that you can’t seem to accomplish?
Do your New Year’s resolutions fade before the champagne goes flat?
If so, then check out stickK, a clever new website that helps you make good on your goal. Here is how it works:
stickK allows you to put a “Commitment Contract” out on yourself. Want to lose weight? Write the great American novel? Eat healthier? Run a 10K?
If it’s still just a goal, it means you haven’t reached it yet.
This ties in the two things necessary to accomplish a goal:
1) creating incentives and
2) assigning accountability
Your Commitment Contract obliges you to complete your goal within a particular time-frame. Not only are you challenging yourself, you put your reputation at stake. You enter ‘friends’ and ‘witnesses’ on the site. If you are unsuccessful, stickK tells them all.
For some people, reputation isn’t enough, so stickk uses one more incentive.
Cash.
stickK allows you to put your money on the line for any Commitment Contract. Achieve your goal and you don’t pay a thing. But if you aren’t successful, you forfeit your money to a charity or (even more incentive) an anti-charity, an organization you wouldn’t normally support.
The risk of contributing your own money to the “Kill Baby Seals” fund is usually enough incentive to get off the couch or choose a salad over pizza.
My good friend Paul has already accomplished many of his goals using stickK.
You know you have a goal. Log it in stickK. If you want, put me as one of your supporters and I’ll personally help you stickK to it.
