At Lift, we’re looking for ways to help you achieve your goals by breaking them down into simple habits that you can track. There’s no better time to reflect on your goals and your plans to meet them than at the turn of the year. When we surveyed 1,500 of you in December, we learned…
How to Succeed at the 4-Hour Body
We just finished a very successful four-week trial of the the 4-Hour Body diet with several thousand participants. 84% of people who stuck to the program lost weight and the average weight loss was 8.6 pounds. These numbers are very strong. The diet is based on developing a few key habits: Slow-carb diet (no processed carbs…
4-Hour Body Success Stories
While we were crunching numbers from our 4-Hour Body Challenge, people started sending in stories about how successful they’ve been. The challenge was based the diet from Tim Ferriss’s book, The Four Hour Body. The primary habit in the diet is to eat a Slow Carb Diet (SCD). That habit is augmented with eating protein as…
Funding to Lift Human Potential
How do you build a universal motivational tool? With a lot of help. Jon and I work extremely hard to find experts to support the Lift mission and who live in the spirit of incremental improvement each and every day. To that end, we’re extremely pleased to announce that Lift has closed a Series A…
Release Notes: 1.1.2
We’ve just released a new update to our Lift app which makes for more compelling activity feeds and gives progress summaries which do a better job of highlighting accomplishments like streaks. Download it from the App Store. With each release, we also include release notes explaining the thinking behind the update. Those are below. Every…
Top Ten Habits
Yesterday, Lift users made progress in 3,500 different habits. I personally only track ten habits, so it got me wondering, what is everyone else up to? Top Ten Popular Lift is a blank slate which allows you to track any habit. The results have included some pretty surprising habits like “Tumblr during class” and “No…
There's a Lift for that
Lift is a simple way to achieve any goal. Our first version is available, as of today, in the Apple App Store. Go get it. Unlimited Aspiration In beta testing, we saw our users achieve habits across 180 different goals. This is just the tip of the iceberg—people have an unquenchable desire to pursue their…
There’s a Lift for that
Lift is a simple way to achieve any goal. Our first version is available, as of today, in the Apple App Store. Go get it. Unlimited Aspiration In beta testing, we saw our users achieve habits across 180 different goals. This is just the tip of the iceberg—people have an unquenchable desire to pursue their…
Everything There Is To Know About Lift
A while back, we announced that we were forming a company to push the envelope of human potential through positive reinforcement. Since then, we’ve been working very hard, but communicating very little. This post is to catch you up. Launch We’re going to launch an iPhone app in August—a simple, positive way to achieve any…
Join the Lift Team
Lift is working to push the boundaries of human potential. We’re a seven person startup based in San Francisco.Our first product is an iPhone app and we just released two new versions: a website and Android App. We’re hiring and if you’re interested in working with us, you can let us know through this form. Of course,…