First Attempt At Habit Tracking

This month I decided to make my own habit tracker in an effort to get my ass doing the things I say I want to do.

I listed out 7 habits. Then I was advised not to add too many so as to not set myself up for failure. It was a good idea. Then I was advised to add an entirely different section called “Boundaries”. This was an interesting category and I listed out two things that I DONT want to do. yes you guessed it – use my phone less damnit. Easier said than done I tell ya.

Then I added a 3rd second called weekly goals. This turned out to be a very fun addition because all 3 of them are new to my life, but they all will help me reach my goals.

Here, check it out:

THE GOOD

1. Ok lets be nice to myself for just one tiny moment: I’m really proud of myself for getting 10k steps almost every day this month. its truly been a dream of mine to be consistent and im getting better at it every month (Ive wanted this for years).
2. I posted to insta once a week as one of my weekly goals, which is less about playing games with an algorithm and more about testing my own capacity to be disciplined and consistent and prove to myself that I have shit worth posting. its been fun and ive been liking video filming and editing. its all new to me.
3. Also in my weekly goals was to go for a run and make one piece of art. Running is the one thing that intimidates me in fitness and I avoid it. Always have. Well, a month and a half ago I had this incredible day, and on my daily walk I just felt the desire to run and i started running. It felt exhilarating. A few days later, I did it again, and ran further. So I set it as a weekly goal to keep myself at it. Im off this week so I need to do it asap. Oops. And making art has been eye opening because I dont consider myself an artist, more of a doodler. So its been very fun to just doodle.
4. 50 push ups a day- this one has been super powerful. Don’t tell anyone but im going for a bigger goal to do 100k push ups. yep thats right. it will take years. However, ever since i set the goal in dec 2025 I have slacked. so when i made the habit tracker, in an effort to make up for lost time i set the high goal of doing 50 a day. This has been really fun and actually i think i did more than is marked but didnt fill in the boxes. (unfortunately im bad at tracking lol) but after a few days of consistency i started to feel really sore so i let myself skip some days.

THE BAD

1. Writing every day just doesnt happen. Recently though I decided to make this the priority of my morning practice. So I will keep this for June and see what unfolds.
2. Editing too – I’ve not been dedicated to the youtube channel! I need to be.
3. Phone usage has been high ever since driving cross country and living back home. boo. circadian rhythm is off here. I used to sleep and wake with the sun and now im watching tv at night. Welp.

THE LESSONS

1. Will maybe need to use a “brick” to stop phone usage late at night. Willpower doesnt work.
2. 100g of protein is so much food ew
3. I dont actually need to lift every single day but I want to keep it as a daily habit so that I can track how often im working out when I look back on these.
4. Be on top of weekly goals and dont put them off until 2 days before.
5. I’m getting jacked – on my upper body lol. Ya 50 push ups is kinda a lot for a lil girl. im not gonna remove that for next month but I will add “100 squats” daily so that we’ve got a dumpity dump dump in the making.
6. Writing is very important to me and I want to be better about it in June. I learned this from how much I craved to write and then didnt, and how good it felt to sit down everytime i forced myself to this month. so I feel confident that I will love it and be better about it next month.

Thats it, Team!

-Ariela