Two years ago, inventor and “the queen of shitty robots” Simone Giertz had an idea. An idea specifically tailored for everyone who’s never managed to keep a New Year’s resolution. The Every Day Calendar.
The calendar is essentially a very advanced personal gold star system. Designed to help you stick to your goals, whatever they may be. It’s the exact kind of invention that someone like me, who’s had a DuoLingo subscription running for like two years now and can maybe string together one sentence in Spanish.
It doesn’t even have to be a goal, it can be a chore that you keep forgetting, like watering your plants, or forgetting to pay your rent for 21 days and subsequently receiving an email from your real estate agent warning you that you’re on the precipice of eviction.
The Every Day Calendar has a “non-volatile memory,” so if it loses power or turns off, it’ll remember all the days you kept your habits.
Below, Giertz has outlined how to get started with The Every Day Calendar:
1. Read this list. You’re doing great so far.
1.5 Get an Every Day Calendar. (Using the ”.5” somehow makes this feel less pushy)
2. Set a goal for yourself. “Being healthier” is a great intention but let’s make it more tangible than that. I struggle a lot with stress, so my goal was to meditate every day.
3. Lower the bar. Make it something you can do even on the most chaotic of days. You can always do more on days when you have more time. My goal was at least ten minutes of meditation a day.
4. Hang the Every Day Calendar in your home, office, workshop, cavern, laboratory, castle, barn or boat. Just make sure that it’s someplace where you see it every day. The Every Day Calendar is 0% internet connected, so no apps, wifi, bluetooth or computer programs are needed to set it up. Just plug it into the wall and you’re ready to go.
5-∞. Live your best life with the Every Day Calendar.
The calenders are currently up for pre-order, if you think this little gizmo is something you need in your life, head here.
