A couple of nifty sites

Accomplish lets you set goals for the year - and track them.  I set up about 30 goals myself - some of which are really projects rather than goals, but that's okay.  Here's the goods on it:
http://lifehacker.com/5863496/accomplsh-makes-setting-goals-simple-and-slightly-social?tag=productivity

750 words is along the lines of Julia Cameron's The Artists Way, where you write 3 "morning pages" every day.  Here's their site:
https://750words.com/

Here's a couple of really good articles - on starting and finishing:
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/02/get_your_goals_back_on_track.html
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/06/how_to_become_a_great_finisher.html

And one on When Healthy Food Makes you Hungry - I know!  What's up with that anyway?

This is fascinating: Identifying and Battling Temptation
On page 8 of the study paper, the researchers described the effect of menu choices (healthy or unhealthy) and layout of the menu.  What would people choose if everything was jumbled up in one big menu OR if the healthy and unhealthy choices were separated?  Apparently they eat healthier when they're on separate lists.
This made me think about the ramifications of this on a to-do list system and makes it logical for a person to not put their fun and mindless activities (like websurfing or tv) or sort of unnecessary and not so fulfilling tasks on the same list as your priorities.  No, duh.  But it's nice to see research backing that up.

Another plug here for fitbit.com and loseit.com - after a couple of days of using this fitbit gizmo, I have 1000% faith in my ability to stick to my weight loss goals for the year.  It's incredibly easy to use, self-updating, HIGHLY motivational and cheaper than a month of weight watchers meetings.  I think the reason it is so motivational is because it relies heavily on the "to-go" concept in Halvorsen's article on finishing above.   Basically, every day you start fresh and try to reach activity thresholds for the day which is balanced against your food intake.  Exercise more and you get to eat more - woohoo!  It's incredibly addictive though. ;-)