If you are a journal or planner person, you’ve likely seen glam shots of habit trackers all over your Instagram feed. Trackers are a big deal in the world of journaling and planners, and for good reason. Keeping track of our daily tasks, goals, and progress in attaining new healthy habits can be life changing for productivity. There is a beautiful satisfaction in being able check off tasks and visually track progress.
Bullet journal and happy planner fans shouldn’t be the only people who get to reap the awesome benefits of tracking habits. My husband is a spreadsheet kind of guy and his Google Drive is a treasure trove of resources, meal plans, chore lists, contact lists, etc. Praise God for a man who loves organization and lists even more than I do. He is also the kind of person who needs daily reminders right in his line of vision, to stay on top on his goals, and sometimes an overcrowded Drive folder can’t provide that visual clarity.
He’s been requesting that I post our health goals (lbs we want to lose), our finance goals (debt we need to pay off), cleaning to-do list, and now weekly and daily habits in our bathroom so that we can see them each day. Okay, be honest. How many of you have your command center in your bathrooms? You better believe I already self-consciously scoured pinterest for bathroom command centers… no such luck. Maybe if our shoebox of a kitchen were a bit more Joanna Gaines magazine ready, he’d have requested that I post these things in our kitchen.
Whether you are a newbie to habit tracking, like my sweet honey, or a seasoned pro, here are a few fun ways to track your habits in 2018.
Spreadsheet
If you’re a spreadsheet fiend, you can set up a simple sheet to track whether you complete your habit each day. This is a good way to have your tracking right on your phone. It will keep your tracking visual so you can get an idea, in a glance, about how you’re doing. If you’d like to copy this free printable spreadsheet, click here to sign up for my mailing list.
Habit Tracker Journal
I recently backed The Habit Journal on Kickstarter which offers a focused pen and paper approach to tracking habits. This journal focuses on habits and would need to be supplemental to other journals or planners.
Bullet Journal Habit Tracker
I love my bullet journal and couldn’t be without it. It acts as my planner, calendar, drawing board, dream catcher, and habit tracker! I follow a pretty traditional tracking style. If you’d like to save some time and download a printable, which you could glue into your own journal or hole punch and add to an agenda book or planner, please click here.
Apps
There are tons of amazing habit tracking apps out there. If you are the type of person who only needs one tool in their life, and that is their phone, then one of the many great habit tracking apps would be right for you. Productive, HabitBull (pictured above), HabitList, and Habitica are a few of the great apps available for habit tracking.
Dotted Calendar
I used to keep this style tracker before bullet journaling entered into my life. The concept is quite simple. Assign a different color or symbol to each habit and at the end of each day, mark your calendar with the assigned color. You’ll need to tally up your marks at the end of each month if you want to keep track of your progress.
No matter the method, habit tracking can be life changing and I hope you’ll give it a try. What are some of your favorite ways to track your habits? Have any habit tracking tips or tricks? Let me know in the comments.
