Habit Tracking

Most notably featured in the semi-recent book Atomic Habits, habit tracking is tangentially-related to Bullet Journaling, but not exclusively. (Pre-printed planners of all kinds include grids for habit-tracking now, wow!) Some Permies do habit tracking for housework, and I was wondering who else uses habit-tracking for keeping yourself visually accountable for progress in all manner of things? Slow and steady wins the race, as we see over and over in Atomic Habits and in the similar book The Slight Edge which I recently re-read. Trackers make the slow and steady stay steady with the visual accountability.

Currently I have an April habit-tracker in my planner for completing another project to offer on my website in the next few weeks, as well as another one for getting a regular journaling habit going. I will be doing a weekly one for getting a new patch of soil in my garden each weekend. (Imagine how lush it will be out there end-of-season!)

There's so much I want to do--I feel like this will help me reach a lot of my goals by keeping them from intimidating me.

Related to this slow-and-steady success idea is my experience with two dense (400+ page) nonfiction books I read in about a year, just reading a two-page spread a day. Just two pages a day, every day, until they were done. (I love to read, as y'all well know, but some books are too huge and dense even for this word-addict.) I got them done very slowly, but I think digested them more thoroughly, and even enjoyed them much more than I would have, had I read them at a more normal reading pace for me. That was a wonderful surprise.

Next up, an 8-volume world history set of books!