For the time that runs out
One hour a week. While you still can.
Committo keeps one hour a week free for her.
Not a call from the car on the way somewhere. An hour, a coffee, and the stories only she can tell — the ones you'll wish you'd asked for. Committo holds the hour so life doesn't quietly fill it with everything else.
- The hour with Grandma: Logged today: one hour, one coffee. The week is done.
- Week by week: The week joins the history.
- A week without: Week 4 didn't happen. The hours before it stay counted.
- Your coach notices: It reminds you what the hour is for.
Protect the hour
One visit a week, tracked as gently as it deserves. Committo shows the weeks you showed up — no streak to shame you, just a quiet record of the time you chose to spend.
You say
“I want to spend real time with my grandma every week”
Committo builds
Relationships
An hour with Grandma
Choose your target
Call her every week
EasierAn hour together every week
RecommendedA weekly visit, phone away
ChallengeThe evidence behind this
We grade what we lean on, and we show the grade. A is settled science; B is real but modest or genuinely contested — we say so rather than quietly leaving it out.
After 85 years and three generations of following the same families, the Harvard study keeps landing on one headline: the quality of your close relationships predicts long-term health and happiness better than money, fame — or your cholesterol at 50.
ASources and the caveat
Sources
- Waldinger & Schulz 2023, The Good Life (Simon & Schuster)
- Waldinger & Schulz 2010, Psychology and Aging 25(2) · doi:10.1037/a0019087
- Diener & Seligman 2002, Psychological Science 13(1) · doi:10.1111/1467-9280.00415
The caveat
One extraordinary cohort plus convergent correlational work — "predictor", not experiment. The cholesterol comparison is the study directors' own summary (book-level), not a single paper's table.
Spending money or effort on someone else reliably beats spending it on yourself, mood-wise — found in a Science paper, replicated from Canada to Uganda. Kindness has a measurable effect: small to moderate, and yours for free.
B+Sources and the caveat
Sources
- Dunn, Aknin & Norton 2008, Science 319(5870) · doi:10.1126/science.1150952
- Aknin et al. 2013, JPSP 104(4) · doi:10.1037/a0031578
- Curry et al. 2018, J. Experimental Social Psychology 76 · doi:10.1016/j.jesp.2018.02.014
The caveat
A 2020 registered replication of the original spending experiment found a smaller, measure-dependent effect — the finding holds in large samples but is more modest than the headline. Chosen, concrete acts work; obligation doesn't.
Give her the hour
Tell Committo who you want more time with. It sets a weekly rhythm in seconds — free.