Top 5 Apps to Keep You on Track in 2014

Set yourself up to be successful this year with these apps that help you keep your commitments to healthier behaviors! I've used all of these apps personally and have found them to be awesome tools, whether to help you start new habits, effectively manage your money, eat healthfully, practice mindfulness, or get organized. Best yet, they are all FREE!

Used alone, each of these apps can be very helpful in supporting your efforts to meet goals for the New Year. To really enhance your chances at success, consider working with a coach, whose mission is to help you stay on track and accountable to achieving the life you truly want. I'd be happy to talk with you about ways we can partner together to help you achieve transformation this year, in one or many areas of your life.

1. Lift

Lift helps you keep your commitment to starting, changing, or ending a habit. Set daily goals and track when you follow through. Lift can send you reminders as well as messages of encouragement to keep you on track. Lift also connects you with a community of other people who have the same goal(s), so that you can share successes and gain ideas from others.

FREE and available on both iPhone and Android devices.
https://lift.do/

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2. Mint

Mint links with your financial accounts to help you track your spending throughout the year. You can set financial goals, keep and track budgets, and monitor your account activity. Mint automatically categorizes your spending and shows you charts of where your money is going so that you can make informed decisions about how to spend your money in the future.

FREE and available on multiple devices.
https://www.mint.com/

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3. Pepperplate

Though not advertised as a tool for healthy eating, Pepperplate can easily support you in eating more healthfully by planning ahead. Pepperplate allows you to save, organize and store recipes online, both by clipping recipes directly from websites like Cooking Light or Food Network as well as entering your own family recipes. You can create menus for the week as well as save time by adding ingredients directly from recipes to a shopping list. Minimize last-minute take-out by doing easy planning ahead for cooking at home.

FREE and available on multiple devices.
http://www.pepperplate.com/

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4. Transform Your Life

This app delivers daily inspirational quotes, encouragement, and assignments to support you in meditation or awareness practice. The general focus is on building awareness and self-acceptance. There's also a space to journal or jot down notes in response to each day's message.

FREE and available on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/transform-your-life-year-awareness/id381788004?mt=8

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5. Evernote

Get organized with Evernote, an app whose tagline is "Remember everything." This app does so many things it's hard to list them all here. Make notes to yourself, snap pictures of items you want to remember, clip articles from websites, save important emails...and sync everything across all of your devices. An amazing tool that keeps everything in one place, in close reach whenever you need it.

FREE and available on multiple devices.
http://evernote.com/

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Do you have goals that you'd like support in reaching? Contact me if you'd like to set up a 30-minute complimentary coaching consultation, no strings attached. I'd love to discuss ways that I can help you create sustainable changes in your life that last beyond the New Year.