It sounds like what the author is looking for is accountability. It was difficult, but I eventually found a reliable person on Craigslist to call me daily to check-in on my progress towards my goals and habits.

I had a lot of success with this and eventually started a business to make it easier for other people to sign up for daily personal check-in calls:

http://www.personalcheckin.com/

(I later sold the company when I realized the difficulty of scaling up phone calls, though I still am a happy client!)