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Last night the maintenance minder came on in my SUV. It gave the code A1 and said maintenance due soon. I looked up the code and it said that A1 means oil change and tire rotation. This morning I called the dealership and got my SUV right in for service.

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All of this got me thinking that it would be nice to have a maintenance minder for other parts of my life, especially my health. Wouldn't it be nice to get a reminder to eat better each day, to exercise, to get enough sleep and take my vitamins. I need a maintenance minder that won't go away until I actually do the things that would help me take better care of myself. It seems like I'm always taking care of my family and things around the house or with the vehicles, but I tend to procrastinate taking care of myself. I shouldn't be that way, but sadly I am. I didn't put off taking care of my SUV, so I shouldn't put off taking care of myself.

What parts of your life would you like to have a maintenance minder for?
 
I need a maintenance minder for bedtime. I stay up too late and it wasn't such a problem...then I had kids, and they do NOT care how tired I am: they want me up and paying attention to them the (early) moment their own eyes blink awake!
 
I'm on the look out for something to help me with all of those once a year tasks around the house. The kids just switched rooms and it made me realize that although their rooms were "clean", once furniture was moved and such, there were a lot of things that needed to be done that we had ignored. I've started a list of deep cleaning tasks, now to figure out how to organize and manage this list.
 
I've been making a lot of use of digital reminders. For instance, I have an "event" with a reminder repeating on March 1 every year to change my water filter. I even have reminders to take down the trash and recycle bins. I wish I'd set myself a reminder to put the ribs in the slow cooker this morning. I have done that in the past, but not today. And I forgot. So dinner was a hurried insubstantial thing squeezed between co-op and a rehearsal.

My digital reminders are in my calendar app as well as the Reminders app. I think Evernote does reminders too, and there are other to do list apps. My husband recently started using Trello and I think it can do alarms.
 
I need someone to follow me and bark at me to "Stop eating that!" and "Get up and MOVE!" Since we got a new washing machine, it actually has a light that comes on to let me know that I need to use the Affresh washer cleaner each month. So, I added it to my Google calendar and also run a cleaning cycle on my dishwasher with Affresh's dishwasher cleaner on it each month when it pops up. I also put monthly reminders for my dogs' flea/tick medications into my calendar on my phone. I have a "Clean Mama" list each month of cleaning tasks, but I wish I could have them added to my Google Cal without having to sit down and enter them each in- she has daily, weekly and monthly tasks organized simply and efficiently. Unfortunately, I tend to print the list, stick it to the side of my fridge and then not actually follow through with the tasks for each day.
 
I put things in my calendar, but then I just swipe to dismiss the reminder and then it's outta sight, outta mind.

I'm always setting the time on the stove so I don't forget to go places. I know I can do it on my phone, but there's just something about the stove beeping at me that gets me up and going... maybe because I associate that sound with food cooking and not wanting to burn down the house... lol
 
I actually usually ignore those reminders for checkups.. I am not good at these things. Especially car-wise, I learned which ones are just reminders, which ones are more serious but just as a 'do sometimes within reasonable time', which ones just go away after a while (and then sometimes not..) and which ones are super urgent. :backing

I do have my Fitbit set up to buzz when it's almost my bedtime and I have gotten better at actually responding to it and getting ready for bed. So maybe if these reminders just keep on coming, I eventually learn to respond to them?
 
Lol, this post is so true and made me laugh. I agree but I have to say ... I have daily reminder apps for all kinds of things: drinking more water - to reach my daily goal, workout schedules, to take a 10 minute "me time" meditation break, step on the scale and weigh in weekly ... problem is ... I tend to ignore them!

I set reminders for literally everything. Even when I'm running errands and I know I have one last thing to hit on my way back home - I'll tell Siri to remind me to make that last stop (at a certain time) - otherwise I will forget!

I am fully tethered to my iPhone.
 
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