5 Apps that help you set and achieve your freelance goals

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• 5 Apps that help you set and achieve your
  freelance goals

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Setting goals and retaining the motivation to
achieve them is often the best way towards
success. This is true for both personal and
professional goals. Freelancers are prone to
having problems with that since they mostly work
alone. As such, they rarely get external
motivation and must rely on their own intrinsic
drive. And while freelancers tend to be very
committed individuals (how else would you create
your own business?), a little push in the right
direction can never hurt. In case you often find
yourself wanting some additional external
information, youve come to the right place! This
article summarizes five of the best goal-setting
tools out there. The best part? Almost all of
them are free.
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1. Irunurun
The creators of Irunurun describe it as a
greatness app. It focuses around the motto that
actions speak louder than words and essentially
helps you hold yourself accountable. Irunurun
gamifies the process of goal-setting, which a
lot of productivity apps do, but this is arguably
the one that feels most like a game. To use it,
you enter a few actions that you want to
consistently complete each week and assign them
priorities. Throughout the week, you track your
progress and at the end, get up to 100 points
according to how well you did. Irunurun lets you
sign up for free with their personal version
and only asks you to pay for a team or enterprise
account.
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2. Goalsontrack
Goalsontrack has a ton of features, probably most
than any other of the popular ones out there. It
guides you through the process of creating a
goal, breaking it down into small, manageable
chunks and tracks your progress. Additionally, it
also allows you to set helpful habits you want to
make your own and write down your thoughts in a
goal journal. Last but not least, Goalsontrack
focuses on helping you visualize the desired
outcome, pushing your motivation even further.
The app itself is very visually appealing, but
can be a bit overwhelming. Goalsontrack offers a
lot. Which is why its the only paid app that
made it on our list. It costs 68 a year or a
little over 5 a month.
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3. Lifetick
Lifetick is a web-based app that follows the
SMART methodology. This means that your goals
should be specific, measurable, assignable,
realistic and time-specific. That method really
helps you create goals that make sense and might
be worth taking a look at regardless of how you
manage your daily motivation. Lifetick also
focuses on core values and lets you invite other
people to track your progress. It has a free
individual version, but it only allows you to
track four goals at a time.
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4. Coach.me
This next app is one of the most popular and
oldest ones out there. Previously called Lift,
this app helps you track your habits. Its all
about being part of a community and getting
external motivation from that. You can create
your own personal plans or let yourself be
inspired by other members of Coach.me. If youre
the type of person that likes to share their
goals with others and be held accountable from
them, this is definitely an app you should try
out. The app is free and has the option of hiring
a personal coach starting at 15 a week.
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5. StickK
StickK is a free goal-setting tool with a unique
twist. Created by behavioral economists from
Yale, it lets you set stakes for completing a
goal. You can freely decide to depose a certain
amount of money and a neutral referee who will
track your progress. If you fail to achieve your
goal, you lose the money. Now all of that is on a
strictly voluntary basis. However, the creators
say that referees increase your chances of
success two times and financial stakes make you
as much as three times more likely to achieve
your goal.
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