Don't Give Up: Four Apps To Help You Keep Your New Year's Resolution
>> Thursday, March 1, 2012
Like many Americans, I find it hard to stick to New Year’s resolutions. This year, I resolved to do
things to improve my overall wellness.
This means exercising regularly, getting plenty of sleep, and
maintaining financial wellness. After
struggling to keep my resolution for a month and a half, I decided to pull out the big
gun… my iPhone. Here are four mobile apps
that help me keep my 2012 resolution:
BitGym is a mobile app that turns monotonous cardio machine
exercise into a fun videogame. The app
uses the iPhone and iPad’s forward-facing camera and accelerometer to power and
control a bike down an European bike trail or a gondola through a Venetian canal.
Sleep is critical to your physical and emotional
health. The Go To Sleep! mobile app
helps users monitor sleeping patterns and learn how to optimize their sleep by
improving their personal “Sleep Score.”
Morsel is a mobile app that makes wellness resolutions a bit
less daunting by offering easy-to-achieve micro wellness challenges that add up
to a healthier lifestyle.
Mint is a mobile and web app that aggregates financial
accounts online and helps users manage their personal finances. This makes it easy to set and monitor budgets
and achieve savings goals.
Behavior change through technology is an increasingly hot
topic in the health and wellness tech circles.
With raising health costs, corporations are resorting to innovative
wellness programs like Keas, to keep employees healthy and costs low. For these corporations, this isn’t just about
keeping a resolution- it is about finding a business solution. I suspect brands will start taking advantage
of these new technologies. First we will
see hyper-relevant ads such as a sleeping aid advertisements that pop up
whenever the Sleep Now! user routinely doesn’t get a quality night’s
sleep. Eventually, we will see more
brands and agencies partnering together to build their own technology that is
relevant, valuable and changes buying behavior.
In other words, who knows what technology we will be using in 2013 to
help us stick to our resolutions!
Have you used any apps to help you keep your 2012
resolution? Have you used any of the
above apps in the past? What was your
experience?
Stay well,
Ryan Drumwright
Jr. Planner
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