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- [Mike] Hi, this is Mike Schmitz, and welcome,
to another weekly tip video.
This week, we're gonna look at how
you can create positive habits, with a little reinforcement
from a habit tracking app for iOS called Productive.
Productive is a simple app that helps you build a routine
of life-changing habits.
It allows you to set personal goals, track your progress,
and motivate yourself to achieve new levels
of personal growth.
The app is free to use, but offers an in-app purchase
of $23.99 US Dollars per year,
for premium features and no limit on the number
of habits that you can track.
The free version is limited to five habits,
but even without the in-app purchase,
Productive gives you the tools you need
to start creating positive habits,
track and analyse your progress with statistics,
and reminders, to help make the positive changes
you want to make stick.
So let's fire up Productive,
but we're gonna start from scratch,
because this first screen is very important.
This is gonna show you how you can add habits to Productive.
To add a habit to Productive, just drag down
from the top of the screen, a blue bar appears,
and you can release it to create your first habit.
You can select from one the pre-configured areas,
or you can write your own.
Let's select the health area, and in the health area
there are a bunch of pre-made habits that you can use,
or you can create your own, by tapping on "Write my own",
that's what we're gonna do here,
and I'm gonna create a habit to be tracked in Productive
called Read Bible.
This is a habit that I want to create,
and I want to do it every single morning.
So we put in the name of the habit we want to create,
we can choose whether we want to do it
with or without a timer, we can select the colour
we want to use, I'm gonna select this blue colour,
and then the icon that we want associated with it.
So I'm gonna scroll down and select this book icon,
and then tap next in the upper-right,
to go to the next screen, which is where
we're going to set the schedule information for this habit.
We can choose whether we want to do this
daily, weekly, or monthly.
I want to do this daily.
And we even select the specific days if we want.
I want to do this every day.
And we can choose a period of the day
that we want to associate with this,
I'm gonna put it in the morning.
I'm not gonna add a time or a location,
we'll leave it as it is, and tap done.
Okay, so now we have one habit in our list,
under the heading of morning habits.
And because I'm recording this ScreenCast in the morning,
Productive is going to break the habits down
into the appropriate time period, and show me only
the things that I should be thinking about right now.
To illustrate, let's create another habit,
by pulling down from the top of the screen.
This time let's select a fitness habit,
and we'll use the top one here of hitting the gym.
Okay, so the name of the habit is pre-configured for us,
we're gonna do it without a timer.
I'll select the colour, we'll make it orange,
and we'll select the icon.
It's got this barbell icon selected already.
That one looks fine, so we'll use that.
Tap on next.
Then for the schedule here, I want to do this daily,
but I don't want to do it every day.
So by default, it's gonna show me Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday as options, and I can toggle these on or off,
just by tapping on the specific days.
In fact, if we toggle off Monday, Wednesday, and Friday,
it's gonna default back to every day,
because we've selected daily.
I'm gonna go back and select Monday, Wednesday, Friday,
three times a week sounds good for this particular habit.
And then I'm gonna select afternoon for this one,
and again, we'll tap done.
And we can see now, that we've got the read bible habit,
which is available, plus one additional habit,
which is going to be available later in the day.
If we tap on that link, it takes us to a screen,
that shows us all of the habits that we have available
to be completed today.
Alright, so we've got a couple habits in the app now,
let's start marking these things off.
To complete a habit, just swipe from left to right,
we'll get a green indication that the habit
is gonna be marked as done, and that is going
to show up on our Streak.
Productive is built on the idea of Streaks,
as you complete things every day, and eventually,
it becomes a habit, and it's automatic,
you don't have to worry about it anymore.
To incentivize you, it tells you how many days in a row
you've completed a specific habit.
But you can also skip a habit, if you want to not do
that habit for the particular day,
but you don't want reset your Streak information.
To do that, you just swipe from right to left,
to reveal the skip interface.
I do not want to mark hit the gym as skipped,
so we'll leave that for now.
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