This is why putting goals on someone’s calendar helps that person achieve those goals. If you have to tell your app that, once again, you aren’t going to work on your novel, as planned, there’s no hiding the fact that you are cheating yourself. That’s why Goals worked so well it’s now used by millions of people. The app that Dan and I were working on, Timeful, was bought by Google, and now Goals is a feature on Google’s Calendar app.