Ellipses, May 12… Track more habits, free your ideas, and your ideal day

Ellipses… a small, special character. Used by writers to slow down, create a pause, and indicate thinking.

⚫️ 1 tip: Track small rocks to tackle big rocks 📌

Backstory: I used to track a lot of habits. But then I started tracking less of them since my new habits were firmly cemented in place. But then when I introduced new habits? I couldn’t get them to stick.

The question: If you track more habits, will it keep you more accountable?

Seems counterintuitive. Especially for a digital simplicity expert. But it’s the snowball effect.

If I track 3 daily habits that are new to me and hard for me to complete (i.e. meditation, journaling, reviewing finances)… I tend to fail.

But if I track all the things I wish to do daily? I get more done.

This is probably because I’m opening my digital art/bullet journal more often to the habit page to tick things off, and therefore I see what I still have left for the day.

Thoughts on tracking more to achieve more? Give it a try. Let me know.

And on a side note… yes… I did go back to a digital art journal slash bullet journal. I imported the ~10 pages from my Leuchtturm art journal into my favorite digital bullet journaling app and ran with it. It feels so much better for the minimalist in me.

⚫️ 1 link: A brief thought on the habit of creating 🔗

You owe it to your thoughts and ideas to write them down.

⚫️ 1 journal prompt: Your ideal day 📔

What does your ideal look like?

From hour to hour, or as a broad and sweeping plan… how would you spend your days if you didn’t have any obligations?

And secondly—what is stopping you from living your ideal days now?

Or, if you’re close to spending your time in the best way you can imagine—what do you have to thank that got you there?

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Thanks for reading!

Comment below to chat further on any of the above. I’m an open book and I love to hear from you. See you next week.

Be safe and well,

🖤 Jenny

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