HABIT TRACKER FOR THE CREATIVE TYPE
How colorful can you make your week or month?
Tracking habits that you are trying to build or maintain increases your chances of making that habit stick. Yeah, yeah,🙄 we’ve been told this a thousand times.
But if you are anything like me, the stress of a to-do list looking tracker might slow your progress and make you feel down-right guilty when you see all the unchecked boxes representing when you weren’t “on top of your game”.
Somehow it can feel like you are tracking your failures and not your successes. So taking that tracker out of sight [and putting it into the trash] feels like you just escaped a micromanaging boss. [Can you tell that I also don’t like to be told what to do?🤣]
But along with throwing out your tracker, you also throw out your dedication to the good habits you want to integrate into part of who you are.
Which leads you right back to where you started.
This has happened to me countless times. I finally figured out that I needed something different: a tracker that came to life as I did well and made me feel good to look at it.
So I designed a tracker a bit different than most. It’s designed like a coloring book!
🌸The first version uses flowers in place of checkmark boxes. 🌸
If you can relate to my experience, the solution for you might also be as simple as changing the tool you are using. Instead of checklist boxes, maybe you’d do better with color. Maybe your strength lies in making something more beautiful. Try this tool and see if it helps you get the job done🔨
How to use The Habit Tracker for Creative Types:
There is a weekly tracker sheet and a monthly tracker sheet. Just pick the time frame that works best for you.
Choose which habits you are focusing on for that time frame and assign each habit to an item on the big picture. You can get more specific by adding a specific color to each item if you want.
Place your picture on your fridge or somewhere else that you’ll see it everyday to remind you of your goals.
Each day, as you would with a checkbox, color in one item that corresponds to the habit you accomplished that day.
Your goal for that week or month is to color in as much of your big picture as you can.
At the end, and all throughout, you’ll be able to visually see your progress by how much color you’ve given to the big picture by all of the little things you’ve accomplished each day. If you’ve been using a consistent color for each habit, you’ll also be able to quickly see which habits you’re strongest in by how much of that color you see. You’ll also know which habits to put more effort into when you notice which colors you want to get more of into your big picture.
Again, the goal of using this tracker is to help you develop and maintain good habits in a way that keeps your focus on the big picture and your successes rather than dwelling on the tiny details and feeling guilty if you slip on some of them.
Persistence is more powerful than perfection.
Where to get the Habit Tracker for Creative Types:👇
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If you try this out, please comment with your experience and even share your picture with us!
💌P.S. I did have and idea to make other versions, including some that are children friendly, so the entire family can track habits together and encourage each other….what do you think? Any suggestions on themes that you’d be happy to see on your fridge?
