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Why you can't have goals

Why Can't I Have Goals?

Since goals have been fairly thought of as the ultimate way to success, the frustration of being unable to have any goals could be harsh. Feeling of emptiness, confusion and anxiety about our life and our future grows day after day. What is happening to us?
Julie Nguyen
Julie Nguyen
Personal Development
Colto's CTO pursuing his passion of learning Japanese

How Colto’s CTO Pursued his Passion for Learning Japanese

After talking with Davide, he blew me away with his story of how he managed to work a fulltime job as the Chief Technology Officer of Colto, an award-winning game development agency, and pursue his passion for learning Japanese in the past 3 years.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Success Story
Meaningful goals in life

7 Meaningful Goals in Life

Chasing meaningful goals brings purpose and happiness into our lives. They are the compass leading to a fulfilled life full of growth and impact. These are 7 goals that can kickstart your journey to a more meaningful life.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
Deadly mistakes in goal-setting

10 Deadly Goal Setting Mistakes in Personal Development

The wrong intention from the start already ruins our process: setting goals to impress other people, refusing to go beyond our Comfort Zone… and then we make more mistakes during the tracking and implementation. These are 10 goal-setting mistakes that I have gathered through personal experience, as well as learned from the top performers.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
How many goals should I set at once for personal development

How Many Goals Should I Set At Once? [Personal Development]

So many of us have set up too many goals only to find ourselves achieving few to none of them. It’s just hard to handle everything at once. We then realize that we should have fewer goals to focus on, but how few, exactly, to get things done?
Julie Nguyen
Julie Nguyen
Personal Development
Should I set goals for myself?

Should I Set Goals? [and How to NOT Mess it Up]

With so many productivity gurus and self-help experts promoting goal setting, we can often overlook scenarios when goal setting goes wrong. Here are the things that I have discovered about the dark side of goal setting and how to counterbalance them.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
Pawell Success Story

On living a mentally fulfilling life with Pawel - Business Analyst at SoftServe

Usually, business analysts are caught with dreadful reports and screens full of query codes. It seems like the numbers eat up their life until they exhaust themselves and break down. That just proves that Pawel Stelmach is not a typical business analyst, at least not like I imagined when first getting in touch with him. Having over 30 habits on his plate, Pawel is often found busy juggling between healthy activities, self-development acts and professional tasks. 
Alan Nguyen
Alan Nguyen
Success Story
Round up of Success Stories

The Success (Stories) in Our (Five) Stars Ratings

Alan shared his process of contacting over 200 Habitify users to find out how Habitify has made an impact on their overall success in their life.
Alan Nguyen
Alan Nguyen
Success Story
Why goal setting is important for students

Why Goal Setting Is Important for Students

Goal setting is an invaluable skill for students as they serve as the tools to not only solve immediate problems, but also foster a student’s confidence to go after his lifetime ambition.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
Why goal setting is important for leaders

Why Goal Setting Is Important For Leaders

Whether you are a solo-entrepreneur, a manager of a small team or you just want to know more about leadership, understands the importance of setting goals will be a highly effective skill set worth mastering.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
Why goal setting is difficult

Why Goal Setting Is So Hard

Through countless failures at goal setting, now I have grown wiser in the art of setting goals and understood what are the common traps that we often fall into. Realizing how these traps are getting in the way of achieving your goals can save you months and years of fruitless and frustrating actions.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
How to start a bullet journal

How to Start a Bullet Journal

Introduced among the digital age, an analog system takes the world by storm by bringing productivity, mindfulness into our lives through a beautifully organized notebook. Learn how to start your own bullet journal through this guide.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
how to journal for self improvement

5 Journaling Ideas for Self-Improvement

Journaling Ideas for a better life and explosive growth in your personal development, productivity, mental clarity, and self-awareness.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
Mike's success story

Leveraging Habits to Improve Professional Life: The Story of a High Tech Q&R Manager

Back again with another rendition to the Success Stories from one of our long-time users, where he shares about his habit-building experience and deliver wisdom that can all benefit our professional lives.
Alan Nguyen
Alan Nguyen
Success Story
how to start journaling, how to start a journal

How to Start Journaling

We all know Journaling is one the most helpful tools to sharpen your minds, boost your productivity and increase your self-awareness. In this guide, you will know every step of the way to start your journal in your own way plus a few bonus tips to get more from your journals.
Jack Cao
Jack Cao
Personal Development
David Wang's Success Story

David Wang on Shifting Focus From Goals to Enjoying Life to the Fullest

With each new post of this category, we all feel over the moon and extremely honored to serve as a helping hand to so many transformational stories. As the 12th story, David Want shares how he manages to excel both at his business and his personal life by using Habitify.
Alan Nguyen
Alan Nguyen
Success Story
Max's Success Story

Learning Malay Day 365: How a Young Entrepreneur Balances His Work and His Passions

In this installment, we get extra practical with all the wisdom from Max's many experiments and successes with Habit Tracking. Now he's willing to share all of his secrets with us through an interview.
Alan Nguyen
Alan Nguyen
Success Story
Professor Success Story

A 10-year Battle with Procrastination of an Associate Professor

The 10th addition to our transformational stories differs from the rest: we have a professor who has beaten procrastination using Habitify and other habit tracking methods.
Alan Nguyen
Alan Nguyen
Success Story
Dymtro Success Story

An Entrepreneur Secret to Work-Life Balance, Mindfulness and Productivity

Dymtro (or as Alan call him as Dima), joins in our 9th story on the impact he has felt after using Habitify. While living a busy life, Dima still manages to cover more than 40 habits, developing and transforming his life on all fronts.
Alan Nguyen
Alan Nguyen
Success Story
Edward's success story

How a Financial Analyst Pushes His Limits by Managing 80 Habits a Day

Continuing our series, we have a financial analyst who has figured out how to leverage technology in his favor to transform his life.
Alan Nguyen
Alan Nguyen
Success Story