You can reduce the amount you have pledged, just one band at a time and it takes a week to take effect. Would that be sufficient for you or is the initial stressful period still too much?
Heya! I was a slacker and let one of my goals (practice four pages of Cued Speech transliteration per week) get to $90 before I finally started taking things seriously instead of going "Eh, I don't feel like it. I'll just pay the money." After I reached that point, I managed to get through the rest of the year without screwing up, and finally reached my goal date. It was nice to see that smiling "Fin" icon on my chart, but I hated the idea of putting that $90 sword of Damocles back into play, so I just let it sit there for several months without restarting -- and without doing any Cued Speech practice either. If it were possible to step the penalty amount back down to $5 after successfully reaching a goal, I'd be all into it, but at this point I'm waffling between deleting that chart and setting up a new Cued Speech goal from scratch or just scrapping it altogether and putting something else there in its place. The $90 penalty was enough to get me white knuckling through the rest of the year, but the thought of having it hanging over me for the rest of time is just too painful; I'd rather avoid the whole thing.Is this Beeminder working as it should and me just being a coward? Or do y'all agree with me that achieved goals should offer the chance to step back down to the lowest penalty?
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Heya! I was a slacker and let one of my goals (practice four pages of Cued Speech transliteration per week) get to $90 before I finally started taking things seriously instead of going "Eh, I don't feel like it. I'll just pay the money." After I reached that point, I managed to get through the rest of the year without screwing up, and finally reached my goal date. It was nice to see that smiling "Fin" icon on my chart, but I hated the idea of putting that $90 sword of Damocles back into play, so I just let it sit there for several months without restarting -- and without doing any Cued Speech practice either. If it were possible to step the penalty amount back down to $5 after successfully reaching a goal, I'd be all into it, but at this point I'm waffling between deleting that chart and setting up a new Cued Speech goal from scratch or just scrapping it altogether and putting something else there in its place. The $90 penalty was enough to get me white knuckling through the rest of the year, but the thought of having it hanging over me for the rest of time is just too painful; I'd rather avoid the whole thing.Is this Beeminder working as it should and me just being a coward? Or do y'all agree with me that achieved goals should offer the chance to step back down to the lowest penalty?
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