9 Apps to Help You Stick to New Year's Resolutions
It’s no secret that plenty of people who make New Year’s resolutions start off in January feeling seriously motivated and gung-ho, only to fall off the wagon later on in the year. In fact, according to the Statistic Brain Research Institute, while 41% of Americans usually make New Year’s resolutions, only about 9% of people surveyed felt they were successful in achieving their resolutions. But that doesn’t mean you should give up on the idea of making resolutions altogether. Rather, once you set your goals, look to specific strategies and resources that will help you stay on course and achieve them — like apps. These 10 apps can do just that.
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Photo: itunes.apple.com2/11Streaks
Streaks is a to-do list app that will help you stay organized and motivated in regards to your 2017 resolutions, by tracking up to six tasks you want to complete each day with the goal of building, well, streaks of consecutive days. The app, which was a 2016 Apple Design Award winner, is available for Apple Watch with cool features like supporting the Apple Watch Breathe app and helping wheelchair users track their number of pushes and distance rolled.
Photo: itunes.apple.com3/11WaterMinder
Making sure you drink enough water every day seems like an easy enough task, but so many of us struggle with it. If you plan to take hydration seriously this year (like, resolution-seriously), let WaterMinder help you. The app tracks your water intake, shows you a visual representation of your progress, and reminds you to drink water to reach your daily goals.
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If your New Year’s resolution has anything to do with being healthier, more energized, or more productive, getting good nights of sleep is key. (And hey, maybe your resolution is actually just to get more — or better quality — sleep.) The Sleep++ Apple Watch app uses the watch’s built-in motion tracking capabilities to turn it into a sleep tracker which measures the quality and duration of your sleep.
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If your resolution is to expand your horizons, or learn more about different topics this year, listening to and watching TED Talks are a great way to do so. The TED app gives you access to more than 2,000 talks from a huge variety of people, on a huge variety of topics, for you to discover at home or on the go.
Photo: itunes.apple.com6/11Pocket Yoga
Want to get into yoga this year? Complete your yoga sessions in from the comfort of your own home with the Pocket Yoga app, which provides voice and visual instructions for more than 200 poses, and tracks your progress as you evolve in your yoga journey. Use the Apple Watch version of the app to more easily sneak glances at the pose illustrations while you’re doing them, as well as view the time left for each pose, your heart rate, and your calories burned during the workout.
Photo: itunes.apple.com7/11EWG’s Healthy Living
With all of the harmful, unnatural, and environmentally unfriendly products out there, it can be really difficult and really overwhelming to make the switch to safe, natural, and environmentally friendly options. But the Healthy Living app, by the Environmental Working Group (EWG) makes it a lot easier. Scan or search specific products (including food, cleaning, and cosmetics) and immediately get the EWG’s rating and information on things like nutrition, ingredient concerns, and level of processing.
Photo: itunes.apple.com8/11Mint
If you’re committed to saving money and budgeting better in 2017, start off on the right foot with an app that will help you plan and keep you accountable. Mint makes it easy to keep track of your accounts, set and stick to budgets, and plan for the future — kind of like your own personal accountant.
Photo: itunes.apple.com9/1110% Happier
Meditation can be a seriously powerful tool for battling stress, and staying focused to achieve your goals, whatever they may be. 10% Happier is the app follow-up to ABC News anchor Dan Harris’ 2014 book of the same name, and provides a frill-free, easily accessible path to learning and continuing meditation.
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PEAR offers real-time personal training and audio coaching from actual Olympians and world-class athletes to help you achieve your 2017 fitness goals, whatever they may be. And the Apple Watch version even responds to your body’s feedback (by measuring data like your heart rate, distance, and pace) to help personalize your training and experience.
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