Programmable Self

I use it for iPhone and it really works...

Save money by resisting the Urge to Splurge. Urge is the Power of Small Change.

This is an iphone app (link to app store) that lets you transfer between your accounts when you resist spending urges programmatically. 

Basically you can say "I am not going to get starbucks today" and then transfer that money instead to a savings account or your "cruise savings fund".

Clever.

According to themselves:

Everest is an iPhone app that helps you live your dreams and achieve personal goals. 

It is a pretty interesting goal setting app that I will be trying! They also have a blog where they promote how their users have used the app to reach goals... itself a pretty cool motivational technique.

Thanks to John Loehrer for turning me on to this!!

Obviously I am most interested to see the long term weight lose, which is really the hardest to do....

Magic the Gathering creator Richard Garfield discusses game balance.

Not sure what the lesson is here for personal change, except to say that there is one.

Perhaps we should more often imitate our avatars.

Had not thought of that one...

Gympact has launched on RunKeeper.