February Habit Tracker Check-In

At the beginning of January, I introduced the habit tracker that I have in my new bullet journal.  It’s nothing original, so many bullet journalists are using the same idea or something similar, but I was pretty proud of it, and was motivated to keep up my new good habits… until I went on vacation…

Okay, if I’m really honest I never did have a single day where I fully did every habit… so I can’t really blame my vacation…  And I started this blog to keep myself accountable, so let’s take a look at how things went…

Here’s how the January habit tracked ended up:

#1 – Morning Routine: 8 half successful days… and 1 success… Basically, I have a really really hard time getting up at 5:30am.

#2 – Exercise: 16 successful days.  I was doing very well, and then I went on vacation.  It is true that while on vacation I did do a lot of walking… but didn’t count that… But I also don’t really count that as a failure either.  It’s just the way vacation is…

#3 – At Work by 9am: 10 successes.  2 half-successes. (I had planned appointments that made me get to work late.)  But I wasn’t expected at work on weekends, or during my vacation… so… really, there were only 2 days of the month that I didn’t do this when I should have… So, that’s a huge win.

#4 – Blog Posts: I did 6 blog posts in January.  If I was following my Tuesday/Thursday scheduled, I should have done 8… and they weren’t always actually posted on Tuesdays and Thursdays like I want either.  Some work to do here…

#5 – Reading: I only had 8 days in January where I read a book… And by “read a book” I mean that I picked up a book to read it… I may have only read a couple pages on some of those days, but the intent was there… But in any case, that is not enough if I am going to get through 12 books this year…

#6 – Budget Review: I didn’t want to do this every day, but at least once a week… And I did it 6 times in the month, so that’s often enough for me… Success!

#7 – Evening Routine:  1 success and a partial… Not good… And I think my evening routine is a good one… helpful… I must work on it… As I sit here finishing up this blog post after 10:30pm…

For February I have kept those same 7 habits, but have added in a #8: drink 8 cups of water a day.

It is now 10 days in to February (well 11, but I took this picture yesterday…), and I still haven’t spent any significant time reading… Still no good.  Exercise is still not a problem.  I have struggled with my morning routine a bit, and so have been later to work than I’d like…

I think my struggles come with TV… I sit down in front of the TV and hours go by without me noticing… Maybe I should have a no TV challenge?  Sports, home improvement shows, food network shows, crime dramas… I love them all… Once I get on the couch, I stay up too late, then don’t get my evening routine done, don’t get to bed early, struggle to get up in the morning, scramble to get organized and out the door, and then I’m late for work… Which means I work later, come home later, scramble around for dinner and my evening activities… get tired, sit on the couch… It’s a vicious cycle.

Have you been working on any new habits?  How are they going?  Can you offer me any advice to improve my success rate?

Advertisement