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<img src="lib/website/favicon.png" height="48" width="48" /> Three | |
Daily Things | |
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<h6 class="text-center">(that will make your life better)</h6> | |
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<p>The reason why I wrote this app is best explained with a story | |
about myself.</p> | |
<p>Like most people, I want to be fit an healthy. To achieve this, | |
I sign up to my local gym. But it doesn't take long for the unknowns | |
to start rattling around in my brain. How many reps and set should I | |
do? Should I do cardio before or after resistance training? Should I | |
be taking supplements? Is it best to work out in the morning or | |
afternoon? Which exercises are best?</p> | |
<p>All these unknowns start to weigh heavily in my mind. I begin | |
to wonder if I am wasting my time. I skip a few sessions, and before | |
I know it I haven't visited the gym in weeks.</p> | |
<p>So many beneficial aspirations in my life have followed this | |
path. I like the idea, I try it out, I get overwhelmed by the | |
unknowns and eventually I give up.</p> | |
<p>So I asked myself, what was it that I really wanted out of my | |
gym membership? The answer is right there in the first sentence: to | |
be fit and healthy. And I realize that I can achieve this goal | |
without actually knowing the best ratio of sets to reps, the most | |
effective exercises and without taking supplements. All I need to do | |
is walk through the gym door. Simply being in the gym day after day | |
and doing some sort of exercise achieves my goal of being fit and | |
healthy.</p> | |
<p>In a nutshell, my problem is that in seeking perfection I often | |
end up with nothing. The solution was to convince myself that | |
continuing to focus on these beneficial activities, even if I do them | |
imperfectly, will eventually get me the result I am looking for.</p> | |
<p>That is why I created Three Daily Things. It is a way to remind | |
myself that any time I spend working on the three things that I feel | |
would most improve my life is worthwhile.</p> | |
<p>The app is deliberately simple. You list the three things that | |
you feel would most improve your life, and when you spend any amount | |
of time working on them, you give yourself a tick. The report allows | |
you to quickly gauge how often you have made time (any time) for these | |
three things over the last week.</p> | |
<p>For such a simple idea, my personal results were quite | |
incredible. Prior to writing this app, I would estimate that I would | |
have spent time on my three most important things maybe six or seven | |
times a week, giving me a weekly score of around 30%. Using the app | |
daily, my weekly score usually sits between 60% and 80%. That means I | |
have easily doubled my focus on those three things that I know are | |
improving my life.</p> | |
<p>This started out as a personal motivational tool, but it has | |
worked so well that I decided to make the web site free to everyone | |
in the hopes that others would find Three Daily Things as simple and | |
effective as I have.</p> | |
<p>Matthew Casperson</p> |
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