Best Apps to Achieve Your Goals

Millions of resolutions are made and abandoned before the end of January. This year, take advantage of your holiday tech gifts to perk up your life by setting goals and sticking with them.

There are multiple kinds of web-based and mobile apps for tracking goals, creating habits, and managing tasks. Some are free and others require payment for the app or service.

Want to share your success with family and friends? Try an online community platform.
Motivated by money? Choose an app with financial incentives.
Need a way to stay organized? Create interactive task lists.

Here are a few apps to help you get started:

SMART Goals

SMART goals are specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timely. Apps like Lifetick and GoalsOnTrack help you set and achieve SMART goals with tasks, reminders, journals, data tracking, charts and tools.

Task Management

Organization is the key to productivity. Toodledo incorporates to-do lists, notes, outlines and reminders to help keep people organized and on task. Bonus: Tasks sync across your computer, tablet, and phone.

Goal and Habit Tracking

It can be hard to stop bad habits and maintain new one, but organization apps Strides and Coach.me make it easier to track goals and build good habits.

Financial Commitment

Incentives and consequences make people far more likely to achieve a goal. With apps like Beeminder and stickK, users create a commitment contract with cash stakes. Failing to achieve personal goals or veering off track will cost real money.