Kickstart Your Life App identifies ‘Time Suck” activities

Out of of job? Spending endless hours with Call of Duty: Black Ops? Sleeping more these days?

The Scoop: Bam. No more. Put the controller and cheesy poofs down, get off the couch, get a clean shave and get ready to put your life back into gear because Haley Taylor is one Brit you don’t want to mess with and she’s got the online app just for you, you lazy bums.

How much time do you waste per day?

Aptly named the “Kickstart Your Life App,” you’re first required to take the Time Suck Quiz to determine how much time you’re spending unproductively. Inevitably, you’re going to come to a part in the quiz that asks how much time you spend gaming. Be honest. If you don’t, you’re only going to hurt yourself. Of course, cheesy poofs and Black Ops isn’t a time suck for me, it’s time well spent. But then again, I have a job, a career, a family and goals. So I do what I want.

But I digress.

AvatarLabs, in partnership with Lifetime Television, released the Kickstart Your Life online time management tool to support the premiere of Lifetime’s all-new original unscripted series, The Fairy Jobmother.

The online tool features two main sections, “Time Suck,” which indentifies time-wasting activities and “My Goals,” which allows users to enter, follow and attain individual goals along with their Facebook friends. Exclusive video content and messaging from The Fairy Jobmother will be featured throughout the activity to encourage users and to keep them motivated.

When users first log on to the site, Taylor will walk them through a survey that uncovers the time the user spends on wasteful activities, such as surfing online, napping, texting, and shopping. As the survey is completed, a pie chart will animate, illuminating the user with the surprising results as to exactly how they spend their free time. Upon completion, users will be presented with suggestions of meaningful activities or goals that could be accomplished in the same time they spent on wasteful activities.

Users are then brought to the “My Goals” component, which enables the user to put time towards one or several goals, and track their progress towards each. Users will see their goals displayed, with a meter showing how much time the user has put towards achieving them. Goals can be added or deleted throughout the process. If users sign in though Facebook, they will be able to see their friends’ progress towards their goals, and are given the tools to challenge or encourage each other along the way.

What’s Hot: Users will also be able to post their own progress onto their Facebook profiles, prompting further encouragement from their friends and giving them the opportunity to inspire others. As users log back in and enter the amount of time spent on their goals, the success meter will eventually hit 100 percent, and Taylor will congratulate the user for achieving their goal.

What’s Not: The reality that I spend too much time gaming. Of course, I have a job so it doesn’t matter.

Final Verdict: It’s a fun way to spend a some time figuring out how much time you waste that could otherwise be spent doing something productive. It’s worth checking out and can be viewed here.