Hi Lifetickers,

Well today is a big day for us here at Meridian 86 because after much anticipation we are finally proud to announce the arrival of Lifetick Coach! We believe it will offer a whole new opportunity for mentors to engage proteges. If you are a Life Coach, Manager, College Professor or Sporting Coach then Lifetick Coach is for you. In fact, Lifetick Coach can be applied in a host of situations. Here’s why:

• Coaches get a complete overview of proteges’ goal setting and progress.
• Coaches can interact with their proteges through the system. Whether it be encouragement, inspiration, advice or links to resources, the Coach can be in touch 24/7.
• Proteges can feel empowered to set ambitious targets for themselves under the guidance and mentoring of their coach.
• Coaches can access full reporting from the journaling that proteges enter. You can track, report and graph everything from Sales to Sprints, Gym visits to Grades achieved, Hours of study to Hours of training or even Courses completed to Calories consumed.

You can access more information from our newly revamped website. Furthermore, our FAQs have also been updated to reflect the addition of Lifetick Coach. In the meantime though, here are a couple of answers to questions you may have:

1. All Lifetick Coach plans come with a free 30 day trial. You can cancel anytime within that period and you won’t be charged.
2. If you already have a Lifetick account you can sign up for the Lifetick Coach product with the same email address. You will then be prompted to merge the accounts. Lifetick is given free to all Lifetick Coach account holders so they can manage their own goals through the existing Lifetick portal.
3. Users (proteges) you add to your account do not need to buy their own Lifetick account. These are included in your Lifetick Coach plan.
4. Users can also create private goals and journal entries that only they see giving them the freedom to record absolutely anything and everything.

We hope you enjoy everything Lifetick Coach has to offer and, as usual look, forward to your feedback.

Finally, a thank you to all the support we’ve received along the way. The launch of Lifetick Coach represents the second major milestone in our journey and we are greatly appreciative for the words of support you’ve given along the way.

Lifetick Coach. Motivate. Mentor. Empower. Need we say more?

Hi Lifetickers,

You are probably wondering why we’ve been quiet as of late. Well, I’m here to say that it has been with good reason. Over the last few months, we’ve been working away on a brand new product that extends Lifetick into a whole new market. It’s called Lifetick Coach and as you may have guessed is targeted toward Life Coaches, managers, personal trainers, sporting coaches and anyone who assists others in achieving their goals. Here’s a simple breakdown:

• Coach creates accounts for clients
• Clients use Lifetick to create and manage goals
• Coach gets to monitor his/her clients’ progress
• Clients and coach can communicate through Lifetick

For clients, this tool captures the full functionality currently available in Lifetick with the added advantage of communicating directly with the Coach. Goals and journal entries can also be marked private for information that isn’t to be shared with the coach.

For the coach, a whole new way of managing clients is presented. Through its monitoring capabilities, Lifetick Coach ensures the relationship is able to be a proactive one with endless opportunities for the Coach to motivate and support his/her clients no matter what their pursuits.

If you’d like to be notified as soon as Lifetick Coach becomes available, simply go to http://lifetick.com/notify.html and complete your details. An email will be sent to you on launch day.

You may be asking when Lifetick Coach will be released. Rest assured it is not too far away. In the meantime, as always, good luck with your goal setting and thank you for your ongoing support!

Hi Lifetickers,

Hope the goal setting is going well and that the goal achieving is going even better. We hope our very first feature release will be music to your ears!

We are happy to announce that we have developed a web based version of Lifetick for the iPhone. Simply go to http://lifetick.com/iPhone from your iPhone to log in. Alternatively, you can click on the log in button from the normal site on your iPhone and the same result will be achieved.

In keeping with our design philosophy, we’ve kept this as simple and streamlined as possible. Therefore, the following functionality has been included: goal lists, task lists, task creation and completion and finally (for paid subscribers) journal entry and viewing.

As part of our release theme of “On the go”, we’ve also provided a “calendar subscribe” function which will synchronise your tasks and goals in calendar applications that support iCalendar (e.g. Outlook 2007, Apple iCal, Google Calendar).

The final component of our release is some print functionality. For those who are less technologically capable on the go or simply don’t have an iPhone (like me), you can print goal lists, upcoming and overdue tasks as well as individual goal breakdowns. We hope this will help keep you focused when you’re not logged in. (In fact, I almost had a coronary when I printed out my overdue tasks.)

Oh and we’ve thrown in a couple of new widgets and some minor tweaks and improvements.

So, good luck with your goal setting… now on the go!

Hi Lifetickers and welcome to our newly launched blog!

Firstly, we’d like to say a huge thank you to all of you for your ongoing and prodigious support. We are most appreciative of the feedback we’ve received along the way. After months of development, it is an enormous relief and source of satisfaction for us to know that people are genuinely excited about Lifetick.

Like most web 2.0 companies, we see the blog as a way for us to communicate new features, news items, advice on goal setting, tips on using Lifetick and any philosophical ramblings we feel the need to express at that point in time. We also welcome the opportunity the blog presents for users to respond to our posts and engage each other with their own tips and experiences.

Since launching Lifetick three months ago, we’ve seen our usage stats slowly climb. With a total of 9,706 tasks created for 2,883 goals, we are hopeful there will be many wonderful success stories you can share with us. In a world driven by instant gratification and short attention spans, it is our hope that the art of goal setting (and achieving) will add just that little bit more meaning to our lives.

Stay tuned for more posts in the near future and as always, good luck with your goal setting!