Stickk.com

I have just read the excellent book Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Thaler and Sunstein. Lots of useful information in there. One thing that is immediately useful though is their reference to a website called stickk.com. It's a site to help you achieve your goals by putting your money on the line. An old idea, but implemented well on the web. I have not picked a goal yet (or more importantly decided how much to risk!), but I will get one done before the beginning of next week. Not procrastination, just want to pick something useful from the number of things that I want to do.
Stickk.com

No TV for January

I have been wasting too much time watching mindless telly lately. I broke the subject gently with my wife last weekend. Afterall me taking a break from the box and her still watching is not a runner. I am not sitting upstairs in a chilly bedroom while she watches desperate housewives. She was pretty happy with it, but then I told her that the ban extended to the weekend too. We will see how that bit goes, but I am off to bed now. We have just had our first TV free day. Did not miss it at all. I finished a good book and we had a good chat. Will see how we get on as the week progresses.
This can't do us any harm.