LifeTango.com Blog

Welcome to Tango Tips–the blog for LifeTango.com. The purpose of these articles is to be entertaining AND to give you education and advice to help you accomplish your goals.

In addition to sharing inspiring or humorous stories and examples, we’ll also include key learnings from studies and research on goals, and we’ll tag each article to make it easier for you to find information you’re interested in. For example, if you want to quickly see all the articles written on the value of sharing your goals with others, just click on the “Share” link in the list of “Categories” to the right.

In addition to clicking on topics in the list of categories, you can also search our archive of articles.  Just enter the keyword(s) you are interested in in the search box in the upper-right-hand corner of the screen and click Search.

Best wishes!

Brent

If you look in the right-hand column of this page (toward the top of the page), you’ll see a list of “Categories.” One of the categories is “LifeTango Challenges.” Roughly once each week, LifeTango will suggest a challenge or goal for LifeTango members to adopt. Hopefully these will be inspiring, commendable, or just plain fun, and by having LifeTango members like you accept these challenges, we hope we can make the world a little better place for all of us.

To view past challenges, just click on LifeTango Challenges in the category list.

We built LifeTango to help you get more fun, more fulfillment, and more “whatever you’re looking for” in your life. Here you can create your “life list” (the list of things you want to do in your life), share your list with friends and family, and find others in the LifeTango community who have similar interests or backgrounds.

But how did LifeTango get started? In the summer of 2004, my wife, Cara, and I were visiting friends in Minnesota when they told us about a “club” they had started with some friends. Like a book club, the group got together once a month, but instead of discussing books, they were creating and discussing the things they wanted to do in their lives. They would provide encouragement and support to one another, apply some friendly peer pressure, and when someone came up with a cool idea, other members would add it to their own lists.

Cara and I were inspired and started our own lists. Mine included things like going on vacation to Hawaii, writing a novel, getting in shape, and more. But a few months later, we’d misplaced our paper lists and weren’t making much progress.

Then it occurred to me–the internet is the perfect place to create a list you won’t lose, share your list with others (via email), and even find others across town or across the world who want to accomplish similar things.

There was only one problem–I’m not a web developer. I’m a marketing guy (and as any computer developer will tell you, marketing folks are barely one step ahead of the duck-billed platypus on the intellectual food chain). I took a shot at building the site, but . . . well . . . let’s just say you’ll never see MY version of LifeTango :).

That’s where Sean came in. A former roommate of mine in college, Sean’s been doing web development for the past decade. With his technical know-how, and my . . . well . . . uh . . . I brought the food (good food) to our brainstorming sessions . . . LifeTango was born. And after many late nights and long weekends, we’re proud to give LifeTango to you.

Hopefully, LifeTango will help you get more out of life by giving you a place to create your Life List, share it with friends and family (who can provide encouragement and support and even join you in accomplishing some of the things on your list), and find others in the LifeTango community who want to do similar things.

Let me know what you think by sending me email at brentj@lifetango.com, and most importantly, enjoy!

Brent