How To Use Your Habit Tracker Effectively
- Using your habit tracker consistently is a habit in itself. So make it stick
- Keep your habit tracker simple, accessible, quick to complete and resistant to wear and tear. Friction is the enemy of action.
- If it’s a behavior you have already made into a habit or one you don’t want to, don’t add to your habit tracker. It detracts from what matters and is needless work.
- Start a new habit tracker if you can’t stand looking at the failures in the current one.
- When you fail, don't give up or indulge in old ways. Missing sometimes is inevitable, but don’t miss twice in a row so you don’t lose momentum.
- Start with a single key habit and don’t try to develop new ones until you’re comfortable that the first will stick.
- Make your habit realistic and consider simplifying it and building it up over time so you don’t overwhelm yourself.
- Make your habit relevant and exciting to you. It’s easier to keep them this way than aiming for habits because others say they're important.
- Do it under the same conditions each day so your brain links habit and context, and thus easier to stick to.
- Use habits as cues for more habits. So when you complete habit A, you always start habit B.
- Track your habits until you can't imagine them not being part of your day.
- Accept relapses as normal and track them again until reestablishment.
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