The Daily Habit

[Shantelle Wenske]

Recentlymy friend and fellow blogger Scott Young did a great post entitled, New to exercise? Make workouts daily. It was an excellent post, and perfectly timed as it mirrors my own recent efforts at making exercise a daily habit.

My husband, Joseph, and I had only been married a few months when we signed up for a marriage retreat at our local parish. We knew we had a lot to learn when it came to married life, and we wanted to start out strong.

On the last day of the retreat, this seasoned couple modeled what their daily prayer looked like together. They wrapped each other in a hug, put their foreheads together, and prayed out loud over each other. During their prayer, they also thanked God for a quality in their spouse that they admired and loved.

Immediately, both Joseph and I knew that we wanted to make prayer together a daily priority. But we also wanted to make affirmation a habit in our marriage. So that night when we got home from retreat, we took turns sharing with each other something that we saw that day in our spouse that we loved.

The most endearing quality of the day could be anything from how Joseph got up with our toddlers in the middle of the night to the way he looked in a new shirt on his way to work. Or it might be the way that he hugged me in the kitchen while we made dinner together.

The other day I ordered takeout from one of my favorite Indian restaurants for dinner. My family had a tight timeline that night, which meant we would only be together for an hour before everyone had to run off in separate directions.

I still have a lot to learn, but I can certainly say that my daily gratitude habit has made a difference for my long-term happiness. It has been one way that I have been able to live out gratitude on a daily basis.

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James Clear writes about habits, decision making, and continuous improvement. He is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller, Atomic Habits. The book has sold over 20 million copies worldwide and has been translated into more than 60 languages.

I like to use Weekly Notes, and I am trying to create a Habit Tracker that tracks daily habits, inside the weekly notes. The challenge is that most of the cool habit tracking plugins expect daily notes!

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I just completed ready a book on habits, and as a regular asana user, I want to create a habit tracker within asana, I know how to create a recurring task, is there any way to review my task history weather I missed the task on last Friday or completed the task last Friday, (Idea is to create a calendar which shows the task is completed or not on a past given day.

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Then in 2018, I decided to raise my monthly learning KPI from 1 book to 2 books and at least and 22 articles; I set also part of my monthly salary as a "ring-fenced expense" for purchasing books/attending seminars and other learning opportunities in general. By the end of 2018, I was starting to consume some really cool podcasts regarding tech, startups, governments and entrepreneurship and it became my favorite morning ritual early in the morning and while in traffic. I think there are great podcasts out there so you can learn a lot.

By January 2019, my wife was already 4 months pregnant and I thought that the advent of our first baby should be driver and not blocker on my personal growth journey. I was ready to embrace the chaos, but I was very straightforward that I am not negotiating my personal time. I decided to stick to my learning plan and to make sure I am blocking 1-1,5 hour daily on my calendar and 4 hours during the weekends to ensure success.

Even I prioritize lifelong learning there are moments that we should keep a balance between personal, professional life. For instance, by the beginning of the year, I was honored to get accepted by Stanford to pursue summer courses, but I finally prioritized family and more precisely how I should bond harmoniously with my first newly born baby. I did not regret it.

Some of you still wonder, how I can find time to do it; The answer is that I wake up between 4:30-4:45 daily since January while I sleep no later than 22:30 during workdays and as I explained above I am blocking my calendar so I communicate clearly that it's my personal time. To form any habit it can take up to 66 days and this is backed by science.

The study examined the habits of 96 people over a 12-week period. Each person chose one new habit for the 12 weeks and reported each day on whether or not they did the behavior and how automatic the behavior felt.

I decided this year I wanted to take a new approach. Instead of listing out projects, I wanted to build systems and habits that would hold me accountable to my goals along the way. Instead of sprinting, I wanted to create small, sustainable habits that would help me cross the finish line with more ease.

My goal has never been to just work on a bunch of projects. When I thought about what I really wanted, it was to grow into the type of person who made small progress on my lifelong goals every day, week, and month so it was a part of my life instead of something I just did for the sake of doing.

I know I know, I said the goal of this board was to be more than just a workflow. But we still have to have the workflow in there, because the real goal is about creating balance, not avoiding projects!

2. A project or task has to be something that contributes to my annual goals (see the TOC). This should be closely aligned with my priorities, but my annual goals require more specific criteria.

I do the same thing for my actions each week, and create a weekly checklist card of things to accomplish. It almost feels like a scavenger hunt! When I have a few free minutes, I scan through the list and see what I can knock off.

Do you know what a daily habit tracker is? Have you seen them used in bullet journals? Today we are going to explore the daily habit tracker, and how it can be successfully used in your homeschool. But first, we need to define what a daily habit tracker is. Quite simply, it is a month at a glance of all the habits that you wish to incorporate in your daily life. Before we really get into the nitty-gritty of how to use these trackers in your homeschool, I want to invite you to grab the free daily habit tracker printable I created specifically for you below:

Use this in both your personal life as well as your homeschool. One of the best ways to build habits is to have that list in front of you. If you look at it every day and methodically go through your list, you will build habits in your personal life. When you take away some of the decision fatigue because you have built these decisions into habits you no longer think about, you will be more productive. Not to mention you will have a happier outlook on life in general.

The simplest way I have found to keep track of all that we do is to keep the daily habit tracker. It is extremely easy to manage, and something that allows me to breathe a little bit more. You know you are doing enough when you look at this sheet at the end of the month. Instead of being concerned that there are so many holes that need to be filled, and no time left to do it.

Using the daily habit tracker allows you freedom to know that you are actually doing something in your homeschool. We can easily get bogged down with the details, and feelings of not doing enough. But, in reality, we are covering a lot of ground each month.

If you get to the end of the month, and see that you have a subject you have only touched on once, you may want to revisit that subject more in the next month. Or it could also show you where you are spending too much time. Is it necessary to do Geography every single day? Probably not.

There are so many other uses for the daily habit tracker. When I first started using the Erin Condren Checklist pages, I would write out everything pertaining to my kids and what I wanted to cover with them. This included school subjects broken down into manageable bite-size labels. It also included character training, chores, extracurricular activities we were involved in. Looking back on those checklist pages allows me to have the big picture of how our year would go.

Using a daily habit tracker is an easy way to make sure you are doing everything that you want to do in your homeschool. It allows you to see holes that need to be plugged. It also gives you the ability to take a deep breath and realize that you are accomplishing more than you think you are.

I am working on something similar, including referencing some of the theory behind forming habits. It is far from finished, but the page Daily Update shows you the table structure that Christiaan has mentioned. At the bottom of the page is also a graph that tracks for each habit how many times you did it over the last 30 days.

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