a busy mom
and her bullet journal
One of the things that kept giving me trouble in the last couple of months was the daily habit tracker. With everything that is going at home lately, I keep on forgetting to use it. And this was something that was helping me stay on top of the things that are important to me, for a better quality of life. I loved the weekly style I used to have and that one seemed to have been more effective. But I needed to simplify. It was taking me too much time to set the layout up. And even with my monthly version in opposite to weekly/daily, I'm still spending too much time and tracking basically twice. I need to turn to something more minimalist... now. After so much thinking, I think I found a potential solution, at least for my water, fruits and vegetables, diary, and oil intakes. Instead of just painting the square for the day if I would have consumed the desired amount of servings like I was doing until now (this was forcing me to keep track of the intake twice, on two different logs: As I was going and then at the end of the day for goal accomplished,) I'll just use the monthly tracker and go painting the square as I go. I aim for 6 8-oz servings of water each day. After I have had my first serving of the day, I can draw the first line of a square. Then I will draw the second line for the second serving. By the fourth serving, the all sides of the square would be completed. For the fifth serving, then I would draw a diagonal line connecting two opposite corners of the square. And, if I were to reach the sixth serving of the day and, therefore, accomplishing my goal for the day, then I would paint or fill in the square.
In this way, I'm hoping to keep my habit tracker a minimalist one and actually stick to using it more. One last change. I'm going to forego my monthly Fitbit sleep log and I'm going to use this monthly daily habit tracker, instead. Before I was just painting the square for the day when I would sleep 7 hours or more. Now I'm going to tick it off when this goal is met and write down the number of hours slept when the goal is not met. Same for my goal of 250 steps/hour between 8:00 AM and 5:00 PM when I'm usually at the office.. I'm hoping this approach will work starting January 2017. And with this, I may be ready to complete the first part of my bullet journal for 2017.
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AuthorMother, daughter, wife, full-time project manager, semi-pro photographer, certified Spanish translator, and even self-taught plumber and electrician when needed. Yes, you will see me more frequently at Lowe's than at any other store. Archives
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