21habit: Make or Break a Habit in 21 Days
Happy New Year!
If you’re like me (and most of the country), you’re probably making promises to yourself that this year you’ll eat less, move more and work more effectively.
Yeah, yeah. We’ve all heard it (and done it) all before. But I just discovered a tool that may help! Experts say it takes 21 days to make or break a habit, and 21habit is a simple tool to help you through it.
You set up a goal to do (or not do) something every day, and every day for 3 weeks you’ll get an email or check in at the website to report on your progress.
A free plan has no real ramifications, but sign up in Committed Mode, and you invest $21 toward your challenge. Every day you succeed, you get a buck back. If you fail (or don’t check in for three days), you lose a buck. Your money will be donated to a list of 21habit charities.
I’m committing to start getting in shape for my marathon (read the very important reason I’m doing it here), so I’ll report back to you in 21 days on my progress!
PhotoFunia: Easy, fun photo effects in seconds
This morning I was using StumbleUpon to discover new tools, and I happened upon PhotoFunia. What fun it is! The site has a bunch of backgrounds onto which you can impose your own pictures, making it seem like people are looking at your portrait in a gallery or passing you on a billboard. 
It’s free, of course, and very, very easy to use. This video shows how I created a fun graphic in less than 50 seconds.
Fiverr.com: Cheap labor, clever ideas
by Beth on September 8, 2011
in Beth Favorite, Low-Cost, Upgrade to Free Book, Web-Based, Worth Paying For
San Diego real estate broker Kimberly Dotseth turned me on to one of the coolest bargain sites I’ve seen in a long time. Fiverr lets people put up offers to do a kabillion creative, fun jobs for a fiver — five bucks. Here’s a sample of products and services you can buy for five bucks:
- Create a simple banner ad
- Write a customized limerick
- Make a tough decision for you
- Tweet your message to thousands of followers
- Record a voice over in a native British accent
- Add music to your video
- Send your child a personalized letter from Santa Claus
- Create a QR Code
- And on, and on and on… Hilarious and fun!
