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If You Have a Routine, You Don’t Need a Habit Tracker
Stop wasting your time and start structuring your day
Look at all thirty-one of my coloured squares. Blue is for drinking water, orange is for working out, and purple is for eating breakfast. Maybe you have different goals, use other colours, simply checkboxes, fill in circles, or cross days off. Whichever it is, odds are you’ve tracked daily habits in some way at some point in your life.
If you make a daily to-do list that features the same or similar tasks every day, you track habits. Chances are your habits have been followed by someone, or something, since the day you were born. Many parents create a structure for their children from infancy onwards, and if they don’t, schools do. Today, my iPhone knows when I’m most likely to text my mom, what music I like at different times of the day, and when I go to sleep. In our productivity-obsessed culture, habits are the groundwork for our hustle.
Tell me this, do you have a writing habit that you track? Maybe it’s a reading habit. I’m here to tell you that, however, you’re keeping track of whatever it is you want to make a habit, stop right now and do this instead.
Make a routine.
