December 31st, 2007
Resolution Reminders!

Happy New Year everyone! One of my resolutions is to continue blogging regularly and what better way than to start off with a post while the new year celebrations are still in the air.

Here’s the article I sent in today for my column at New Indian Express.

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Today will see the highest turnout of joggers at Elliots Beach. Today will see the highest enrollment in gyms and slimming clinics. Today will see the lowest sales of cigarettes. Fast forward to February and all those fancy new year resolutions will turn into big guilt pangs.

Sounds familiar? Well, take heart for a whole lot of us have been down that road every year. We fixed resolutions without fail only to see it fizzle out within weeks. Its time to fix that…with a little help from handy online applications.

43Things : It’s a fantastic site for you to list down your new year resolutions. Once you list them down, you can also know who else has got similar goals as you. More importantly, you can also connect up with folks who have successfully achieved the goals and they can be an excellent source of tip for you to achieve yours. Visit www.43things.com

Email the Future You: Forbes has a future email service that allows you to write an email time capsule to send to yourself at a future date 1, 3, 5, 10, or 20 years down the road. Visit http://forbes.codefix.net/capsule/

HassleMe: This is one hassling you won’t get pissed about. HassleMe is a service that reminds you of your new year resolutions at a time you would least expect. It sends out reminders at unpredictable times. Visit http://www.hassleme.co.uk/

Password as reminders: With so many times that you login into your email, how about adding one of your new year resolution as a password. That’d act as a constant reminder. For example, ‘rundaily’, ‘KillTheSmoke’ etc.

SMS Reminders with PingMe: You tell PingMe.com your New Year resolutions along with the dates and it’ll ping you when the time comes. No escaping. You can add events to PingMe through the website, email, or SMS.

Good luck!

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15 Responses to “Resolution Reminders!”

  1. Arun Sundar says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:19 AM

    Happy New year kiruba :)

  2. sai krishna says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:19 AM

    Happy new year….submit all your blogs at http://www.indiantags.com we are social submitting site just like digg

  3. Mr. M says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:19 AM

    wishing a new happy new year

  4. S says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:20 AM

    Happy New Year Kiruba. Been following your blog throughout last year and hope to do so this year too.

  5. NinA says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:21 AM

    Happy new year to you.

    i was searching ur article in Express 4 the past two weeks but in vain.

    is ur article published only in chennai ?

    if so, tell the indian express people that there is a dying subscriber here in cuddalore and it should be published for the whole of tamil nadu.

    srinivasan
    cuddalore

  6. Kunal says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:22 AM

    Hi Kiruba, Wish you a fantastic year ahead… happy blogging!

    Do let me know if you are ever in Bombay would like to catch up with you.

    Regards
    Kunal

  7. Matsonian says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:22 AM

    Add one more… download a free trial copy of QuickPlanner Plus and use it to layout an effective list of resolutions for 2008… creating a strategic life plan in the process.

  8. Vivek Yadav says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:25 AM

    Happy new year!!!

  9. Umesh says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:25 AM

    Happy new year kiruba

  10. pg says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:26 AM

    hi Happy New year kiruba following your blog throughout last 4 mounth and hope to do so this year too.

  11. Enigma says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:26 AM

    Happy new year Kiruba…Well about resolutions, thought about taking only one resolution and still havent started working on it yet.

  12. Shriram says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:26 AM

    Happy new year Kiruba.

    Btw, the URL for ping me is http://www.gopingme.com/

  13. Sanjeev Unnikrishnan says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:27 AM

    Hi Kirubha,
    First let me wish you a happy new year.
    I have been following your blogs and your podcast from August 2007. The podcast is very informative and able to find new innovation and business model they use to create revenue.
    I just read in todays indian express on go green . That you cycle to work once a week.That gr8.
    i’m planning to start cycling to work for 2 days a week. Hope this will help us go green and keep me fit.
    Other than cycling i believe you also run.Would like to join for a 5K run with you in chennai.

    Bye for now.
    Keep running and cycling.
    Sanjeev

  14. rambhai says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:27 AM

    hey all you ppl a very happy new year. i think the forbes thing is kinda cool as you can set your own targets and also set reminders for achieving it
    regards
    rambhai
    http://www.rambhai.com/

  15. sushilsingh says:
    May 26, 2009 at 6:27 AM

    Dear,Friend
    “NEW YEAR IN INDIA New Year is the moment of grand celebration

    and excitement in all parts of India. However, the festival is

    celebrated in all parts of the country at different time and in different

    manner. India is a land of diversities yet with unique culture and

    traditions.
    Please visit for more detail
    http://desidirectory.com/indian-festival-events/

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