{"id":1302,"date":"2015-09-07T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-07T21:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.robinglauser.ch\/blog\/?p=1302"},"modified":"2015-09-13T13:08:33","modified_gmt":"2015-09-13T11:08:33","slug":"use-beeminder-to-force-yourself-into-writing-regular-blogposts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robinglauser.ch\/blog\/2015\/09\/07\/use-beeminder-to-force-yourself-into-writing-regular-blogposts\/","title":{"rendered":"Use beeminder to force yourself into writing regular blogposts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beeminder<\/a> is a online tool to track goals like blog posting, weight loss\/gain, read mail or how much you go biking. I&#8217;m now using it to force myself to write 3 blogpost per week.<\/p>\n<p>The catch behind the idea is that you pledge a certain amount like 5.-\/$\/\u00a3\/\u20ac for reaching your goal. If you can&#8217;t reach your goal in the given time the money goes to Beeminder.<\/p>\n<p>This gives you a certain pressure to do the stuff you should do.<\/p>\n<p>For counting the blogposts I&#8217;m using the plugin <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philnewton.net\/code\/beeminder-ping\/\" target=\"_blank\">beeminder-ping<\/a>. This automatically updates the count on the Beeminder if I publish a blogpost like this.<\/p>\n<p>So from this moment on, if this works, you&#8217;ll see more regular blogpost here.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.beeminder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.beeminder.com\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Beeminder is a online tool to track goals like blog posting, weight loss\/gain, read mail or how much you go biking. I&#8217;m now using it to force myself to write 3 blogpost per week. The catch behind the idea is that you pledge a certain amount like 5.-\/$\/\u00a3\/\u20ac for reaching your goal. 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