Numbers have power, but only if we know how to use them. Having them in front of me reminds me to just drink more water! Whatever you want to push yourself to do, consider adding it to your daily page. Specifically, I track my coffee, water intake, reading, and one walking meeting a day, each day. But I also choose a few habits to feature each day in my planner, too. Where do I put it?Īs shown, I have a separate, longer monthly habit tracker. This makes it easier to create measurable goals, too, like: Some ideas might be:Ī cool hack I’ve seen is tallying up at the end of the month – how many times you did a habit all month, and how many habits you did per day. Lastly, what behaviors do you want to increase? If you’re like me, you LOVE checking off a box, so being reminded of these desirable habits really helps me. Going through my belongings to donate or sell.Blank boxes are enough to remind me to floss or check my car fluids. There are things that I tell myself I do more often than in reality – ahem, washing sheets – so I like tracking these less frequent but important behaviors. Personally, I wanted to go in-depth with my sleeping issues so I had a separate detailed tracker for sleep (below). For the sleeping question, you might track things like “Went to bed before 11PM”, “had coffee after 2PM,” or “really stressed.” For headaches you might track “Drank 6 glasses of liquid” or “had a migraine.” Relationship ones may be, “Skype date or phone call,” “date night,” or “girls night.” Perhaps you’ll see a connection. How often do I actually floss my teeth?įor each, it helps get a realistic baseline and it might even reveal how one habit influences others.Why am I sleeping poorly? (this is one of mine).To get clarity on what data you need, it helps to know what issues you want to learn about. Human memory sucks so tracking is the best way to answer some of those questions. What are the questions you’re trying to answer? If you’re not using the data, you don’t need to track it. We only have so many heartbeats, so we need to decide how we want to use them.
Now that we can track anything we want to – from FitBit, Garmin, to a high-tech waterbottle – it’s easy to get lost in numbers. Many months later, I have a YouTube video that talks about how I track my habits! There many ideas about which habits to track – those adorable Hydrate stickers are everywhere! – but how do you begin figuring out what to track and how? Over the years I’ve read Leo Babauta‘s work on how to form and maintain habits and love how people are finding more creative ways to track theirs.
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