“People don’t decide their futures; they decide their habits and their habits decide their futures.” F.M. Alexander

Sometimes, even when you fail to achieve your target, just the fact that you kept tracking lets you feel a good sense of progress, or bad about the lack of progress. That emotional feedback helps you maintain new habits for the long term. Find a system fits you, so you’re more likely to track your habits every day. And remember that whatever system you use, when starting new habits, ticking them all off daily for months on end is unlikely. Focus on improvement in the long-term, as opposed to perfection.

The Importance Of Regular Feedback 

<ol><li>You increase confidence and control of your destiny.</li><li>You increase motivation as you get a sense of everyday accomplishment.</li><li>You learn which habits you find difficult being consistent in, thus making it likelier that you’ll make adjustments.</li><li>You feel in control of your life and won’t look back with a sense of forgetfulness – you’ll know what you did and didn’t do.</li><li>You can break your social media addiction by daily tracking your accesses.</li><li>You can better appreciate the connections between your habits and your current life and use them in your favor.</li><li>You recognize that people’s place in life come from the compound effect of their habit</li></ol>

Benefits To Tracking Your Habits

The extra work involved with tracking things&nbsp;discourages and can make some self-rationalize not tracking their habits for the long term. Tracking your habits makes it easier to stick to your desired patterns in the long term. And it’s important to persist as your habits determine your current and future life.

You Have Negative Beliefs About Tracking

When it comes to setting new habits, we have some resistance to deal with and the luster of starting a new practice dissipates sooner than we’d like to admit.To help establish them, we need a feedback loop to keep us committed when motivation ebbs. We can do this by setting up a tracking system, on a spreadsheet or app, that allows us to give ourselves a check-mark/cross mark for each habit execution.

We Need a Tracking System 

Many of us try out new habits to improve the quality of our lives. Often they do; whether it's starting a daily practice of flossing, reading, or writing - or else; new habits can transform our life experience. But if you've tried to instill new daily habits before, you'll know that they can be challenging ...

The Importance Of Regular Feedback

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