Jo Walters has a guest-post at Organize IT where she shares a brilliant idea:

Go Public! Share Your Goals With The World – Work smart, play smart

Initially I thought the blog would just be a handy way to keep everything in one place but it has turned out to be one of the best bits of my silly project. Publicly announcing my challenge, including posting the full list online, has become the biggest incentive to keep going and to actually do the things on my list.

I suffer from newprojectitis and usually lurch from one new shiny thing (fortnight long interest in photography) to another (cushion-making business?!) as the novelty wears off, so keeping a public blog has forced me to stick with my challenge as I know people are watching. As my friends, family and colleagues know about my blog, I know I’d have to explain any lapse in my efforts and that people reading it and following my challenge would notice if I stopped.

I kept a productivity journal that I published online with my “grade” for each week, and I will tell you what, people read those posts and hounded me when I slipped. It seems that they were doing something similar and counted on me to keep them motivated…perhaps I should start doing something like that again.

What do you think?