How to Build a Habit Tracker - 2 Easy Steps!

If you are looking for a Habit tracker that can help you track your life, and give you actionable insights to improve your life,

You have landed at the right place. 2 easy steps to build a Habit Tracker.

On a personal note, I prefer a Handwritten journal – It’s a lot more spiritual, and I am able to connect to myself, and the journal a lot more, and to top that – I can trace my day through my journal entries, incase I see an inconsistent behavior in any of my habit patterns.

However, I track my monthly habit patterns in an excel sheet – This way I don’t judge myself based on my feelings. I may think I exercised a lot in 2021, but looking at my tracker – I get an instant realisation – My memory was falsified.

Here’s a glimpse into one of the trackers from September 2020. Left most column (in red) – That has the habits I want to track, and the right includes the patterns through the days.

2 simple steps to get your Habit tracker in place – 

1. Track the habits on the left – Include bad habits too. Tracking helps build good ones, and break bad ones. On the above photo – There are some bad habits in there – Can you guess which ones are bad? 

2. Days / Weeks on the right – Ticks for yes, Cross for No – Or quantifiable habits can have numbers – I rate myself and the day on 10 everyday, so that’s what you see as “Overall”. 

An important thing to note – Do not fall in the trap of wanting to track it everyday – You will fall flat, and fail, and get so irritated that you will stop this habit altogether. 

Understand this – Tracking a habit is a habit itself, and it takes time to build that, right? 

So be patient, and kind to self, and if you miss a few days or even weeks – Do not be guilt striken – It’s okay – The idea is to. continue. If you miss a few days, it means nothing if you are tracking long-term, right? 

You missed tracking in Nov’24, so what? You have data on several more months / years. It’s fine. 

The key is – Think long term, and don’t play a short game. 

Alright? 

Hope this helps. Here’s a 30 second video, incase you want to watch it. 🙂