stickK: Goals & Accountability

Such a cool concept, but the app functionality is super glitchy and terrible. You can barely set up an account and create a goal. Multiple steps stall out and don’t work. It’s such a bummer because there’s no one else who will let you add financial consequences, which helps so much with motivation! Forfeit is a way better functioning app, but they don’t let you actually *forfeit* anything if you don’t meet your goals. : /

First of all, the methodologies that stickK uses are phenomenal for building new habits. My complaint isn’t with their system, but with this application. Despite having notifications “on” in the app, and on the settings in my phone, it fails to send me a reminder notifications to report. This is led to multiple failed reporting periods and thus donations to my anti- charity. This is pretty frustrating since I am keeping up the habit that I Set out to accomplish.

I have been using StickK every week, without fail, for over a dozen years. I credit it for boosting my incentive to reduce weight, be more disciplined about exercise, keep more focused and reduce procrastination. A BIG side benefit from StickK comes when I faithfully record my weekly progress data. Simply measuring and entering data has given me the peace of mind that I am overall “moving in the right direction” - regardless of the many ups and downs that may occur from day to day. As a retired psychologist, I think StickK is a brilliantly designed method for leveraging a person’s built-in motivation to obtain progress toward long-term goals, especially those goals that require steady discipline to create effective new habits.