Steve Dotto here.
How the heck are you doing this fine day?
Me?
I am inspired to be better than I once was because I have found the true path and the
true path is in Google.
I know you’re looking at me right now going, “Steve, how can it be?”
I will tell you how it can be today on DottoTech.
Sit back folks and be amazed because our friends at Google have figured out exactly what is
needed for each of us to improve ourselves dramatically.
I may be overstating the case but Google has added into their calendars a new type of data
and it’s called Goals.
Now you don’t access the goals in the desktop calendar.
No, instead it’s right now baked into the mobile app.
So if you pick up your phone and you go into the Google Calendar in the mobile app, if
you go to Add a new event by hitting that little plus sign down there at the bottom,
you can add an event, you can add a reminder and now you can add a goal and the goal is
kind of like returning to New Year’s Eve.
All of the things with exception to diet I think that you might set as a goal for yourself
on New Year’s Eve, as a New Year’s Resolution are articulated here in choosing a goal within
your calendar.
What’s it going to do, this is actually going to prepopulate all of these goals into
your calendar once you’ve determined what your goals are.
So let’s take a look at what they might be.
At the top of the list: exercises; building a skill—they’ve got tightrope walking
there in the picture; I don’t know if that’s a skill many of us are going to try and build;
spending time with friends and family and what we want to do with friends and family;
me time, I like the idea of a me time; and also, organizing my life.
But let’s look at the lowest hanging fruit which is the exercise one because that the
one we all probably want to add more, too.
So it’s kind of interesting how it all fits together.
Recognizing that it’s going into our calendaring map, the first thing it asks us is what type
of exercise do you want to do?
So you can choose a workout, run, walk.
You could also do yoga or you can customize.
Now they’ve got a whole bunch of different ones pre-customized, including I imagine the
slightly humorous wiggle ones’ ears and you can also type in your own.
So I’m going to type in to walk my dog.
Even though they have walking, I’m going to put in specifically “walk the dog”
because Farley needs a walk each and every day.
So I’m setting that as a goal every day.
How often?
Every day.
So you just go through and you answer the questions.
How long does it take each day?
One hour.
So what’s the best time?
This is what’s important.
You put in the best time, morning or afternoon or whatever, and what it does is it looks
at your calendar then and then it slots this in.
So it doesn’t rigidly put it at any single time.
If you take a look here, it’s already prepopulated it into my calendar, looking for holes in
my calendar when there’s a one hour contiguous hole in my time.
And here, for example on Thursday, it didn’t find an hour because I had my whole morning
blocked off.
Since I preferred it being in the morning, it didn’t actually put it in for that time.
So you have to understand there are little variations on how it works but the bottom
line it’s put it in now as a goal in my calendar.
Now when we actually go into it—let’s go into it on the phone because typically
speaking you would say you’ve done it on your phone—you can click it here and mark
it as done and it’s going to keep track of how often you attain your goals.
It’s going to measure it and it’s going to give you a little bit of feedback telling
you that you are getting close to your goals because we always want feedback.
But the combination of this easy scheduling of self-improvement, automatically finding
holes in our calendar to make it happen, the ability to defer it if we need to defer it,
is all part and parcel.
So Google has given us the mechanical capabilities to improve ourselves.
Actually doing the practices, that’s going to be up to you and it’s going to be up
to me but I think it’s a step in the right direction.
So thank you, Google.
I think it’s a great addition to the Google Calendar.
I hope that you found today’s video useful.
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Till next time, I am Steve Dotto.
Have fun storming the castle!