In keeping with the 101 Goals in 1001 Days series, if you have any goals that involve keeping (or avoiding) a habit for a set number of days in a row, you may want to make Don’t Break the Chain your homepage.

(Don’t worry, you can change it back to sites that help you learn something new everyday when you’ve completed the goal!)

A spin-off of the new chain feature at Joe’s Goals (which was in turn inspired by Seinfeld’s productivity secret), Don’t Break the Chain is an extremely simple-to-use calendar for tracking the number of days in a row you did (or didn’t do) something. You can keep multiple calendars for tracking multiple goals, and the service is completely free.

I personally prefer to mark a real calendar, ala Benjamin Franklin and his spots, but am keeping this site bookmarked as part of my goal to completely digitize my life (which means no print calendars!).

For those of you who aren’t up-to-date on your TED Talk vodcast (I’ve got about 30 I haven’t watched yet myself) and/or who are in need of a good kick in the pants, please point your browsers to:

Andrew Mwenda (Warning: The video starts playing automatically.)

If you don’t have 17 minutes right now, let me summarize: “Bono, stop buying our corrupt government officials cars and start investing in Africa’s people and ideas and potential.” Wow. Go Andrew!

Though not the first time this has happened in response to a TED Talk, I was definitely leaping up and clapping loudly when I watched this last night.

Ever since I turned off the television, my productivity has skyrocketed. Still, I missed being able to engage in casual conversations about the latest reality show scandal or “Desperate Housewives” storyline.

The solution: VH1’s “Best Night Ever” vodcast. In less than five minutes, a (normally humorous) host takes you through the best five clips from last night’s television lineup. Once a week, they also post the half-hour “Best Week Ever” show straight from VH1 — but without the commercials.

After almost a year of subscribing, I’ve been able to make small talk in the grocery store line without a problem.

I love to have Stanford’s Entrepreneurial Thought Leader Seminar podcast playing in the background while I’m writing blog posts, making plans for my business, or completing my weekly review.

Each podcast runs about an hour and features one well-known entrepreneur sharing stories of their personal successes and failures.

Some of my favorite speakers include Janice Fraser of Adaptive Path and Katie Rodan of ProActiv (see the 2006 Schedule for podcast links).

You can watch videos and listen to podcasts of these seminars at http://etl.stanford.edu/.

Tynan over at “Better Than Your Boyfriend” shares the secret to leading an interesting life: it’s all in how you spend your time.

How to Have an Interesting Life

If you are at all interested in independent film, give Atom Films To Go a go. This vodcast posts a new short film (ranging from two to twenty minutes each) every couple of weeks, which are great when you want to take a short break from work and explore something new.