Habit tracking is an amazing way to hold yourself accountable to your resolutions.
Whether you track your habits in a planner like the Kokuyo Jibun Techo or create your own trackers,
you can use these tools and tips to help you achieve your goals.
Why Use Habit Trackers?
Habit tracking helps you monitor short- and long-term goals.
It can give you a sense of accomplishment to see your progress over time--
especially if you’ve worked on something for weeks or months.
Habit trackers can help you find ways to improve, or recognize where your intentions were too ambitious.
Even if you don’t manage to complete your goal, you can learn from the experience.
Don’t get discouraged if this happens--you can always adjust your goals.
What Can I Track?
Here are some of our ideas:
1
Things you want to do more
Building good habits starts with consistency.
For example, if you often forget to take vitamins, you can remind yourself with a habit tracker!
Other similar habits to track include exercise, meditation, or reading.
2
Actions you want to limit
You can also record the times you limit yourself,
like not using your phone before you sleep or cooking instead of eating out.
3
Self-care
Mark down when you pamper yourself with a spa day or treat yourself to a nice restaurant.
If you see that you haven’t allotted time for yourself in a while, you can schedule it in.
4
New skills
When learning a new skill, such as knitting or playing an instrument,
it can be encouraging to visualize your progress over time.
We recommend adding a note when you’ve learned a special technique or made it past a difficult level.
Now let’s talk about how to use habit trackers.
A week is a relatively short period of time,
so it’s a good span to judge whether or not you want to continue tracking a habit.
If something isn’t working out for you, you won’t have to commit to it for a whole month.
You can create an in-depth plan to turn tasks into habits.
Use the Kokuyo Campus Weekly Visualized Study Planner to write down habits you want to spend time on.
Assign a color to the tasks so you can add detailed tracking in the hourly blocks.
For example, if you want to reduce screen time,
set a goal and fill in how much time you spend on your phone or computer.
You can also set incremental goals with a weekly habit tracker,
like the Nombre Mizushima Task Week Stamp.
Try to improve every week by increasing the distance you run, drinking more water, or reading more pages.
Turn short-term goals into sustainable habits with monthly trackers.
Monthly habit trackers are especially useful for binary goals that are either complete or incomplete.
The Midori Journal Habit Tracker Sticky Notes are a handy way
to keep your trackers exactly where you need them.
If you prefer an option with days of the week,
Suatelier Planner Month Sticky Notes let you write in the dates on the Sunday-start calendars.
You can move the sticky note from one page to the next, so you won’t forget to fill it in.
Now that you have a handle on what to use habit tracking for,
try these tips to make the process a mindful experience.
1
Break down goals into steps.
If you feel overwhelmed by what you want to accomplish,
try breaking down large goals into achievable steps.
Use BGM Special Errand Washi Tape to turn your year-long project
into a manageable checklist of tasks.
2
Make your tracking distinguishable.
Use unique symbols or a variety of colors to mark your habit trackers.
Kuretake Zig Clean Color Dot Double-Sided Markers have a squishy round tip on one side
that makes larger dots with more pressure.
Fill in your habit tracker with small and large dots
to show how well you achieved your goals.
3
Keep your habit tracking at your fingertips.
Make sure you fill out your habit trackers on a regular basis.
Midori Clip Bookmarkers make it easy to turn to the right page.
Plus, they won’t add extra bulk to your planner.
They’re not just bookmarks though:
you can even use them as stencils to add fun designs to your trackers!
4
Create neat and stress-free trackers.
A messy and smear-filled habit tracker page will only cause frustration and stress.
Use a Midori Multi Ruler to draw tidy charts and store it with your notebook.
If you like color-coding, use pens that resist smudging under highlighters and markers.
The Zebra Sarasa Mark On Gel Pen has a special ink formulation that cuts down on smudging.
Do you have any habit tracking tips to share?
Let us know in the comments below.
Find all of the items we mentioned at JetPens.com.
You can also check out our guide on our favorite habit tracking stationery in the card above.
Thanks for watching!