Thank you for the quick reply and I definitely think that's a great starting place.
The thing is that I'm hoping to start up a chain of events that I can look at and in a glance say "I've done activity xyz for N number of days in the past so I should continue to work on it". It's the same strategy that Jerry Sienfeld uses in order to motivate him to do more comedy.
Here's a link:
http://lifehacker.com/281626/jerry-s...ctivity-secret