Habit tracking is a noble cause. Pick the things that you would like to come naturally to you, remind yourself of them at regular intervals, gameify the process through achievements or scoring, and hopefully, one day you will not have to think about them. You will just do them.
A healthy, productive and content human being.
But I think the reality is very different for most people. Yes, a small number may completely click with certain apps or processes to help them form habits, but I am sure they are vastly outnumbered by those who didn’t make it past a couple of weeks.
But for me, there is something I do that most of you probably don’t, and below I will explain how it has worked for me.
What is the problem with habit trackers?
The problem is customised rigidity, as I clumsily call it.
By that, I mean that these pre-packaged solutions in the form of apps are designed to make it as easy as possible for you to start the process and maintain the process, but don’t necessarily make the process any more understandable as to why some habits remain and some don’t.
