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14 August 2018
Free For All Tuesday - No. 393
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Tracking leads me to a feeling of abject planner fail!! Inevitably there are a few days within a month of tracking where I do not meet the target of x,y,z and thus feel deflated. Anyone else with me on this one??? Do you track and if so, if it's not too personal a question, what do you track?? Thanks in advance for sharing your thoughts on this one. xx
ReplyDeleteHi Butanben,
DeleteI've never done any tracking before, but have just started to give it a try. I'm currently tracking two things - getting to bed earlier & daily meditation. I figure it's more about the overall consistency, rather than feeling like I've failed for a couple of days here & there. For example, I've got a 100% score for meditation, but not doing so well on sleep. However, when I look at those days I can see the reasons why & either am happy with that, or gives me something to learn from. Something I'm also going to do is add in a treat for when I do something so many days in a row, cake helps with my motivation :)
Had to look this one up. Sounds like measuring or monitoring selected key activities in your life with the intention of developing better habits. Is that about right?
DeleteSleep and meditation have been mentioned. What other things would be on a typical tracking list?
I know some people track their water consumption in their planner/organiser, with glass icons, they can simply colour them in for each glass they drink. It's definitely quicker to do than using an app to record your daily water consumption.
DeleteOk, that makes sense. Thanks Steve
ReplyDeleteHi Butanben, my tracking pages, yes pages, run the gamut from daily to annual tasks or chores. I use them for tracking the now, planning the future, and even remembering. Of course, given the nature of 'tasks', nothing exciting there. Samples of my daily tracking would be washing my hair, sounds silly but... A weekly item would be checking or changing humidifiers. Tracker pages and the monthly calendar are the most used pages in my planner. Hope I've helped in some way.
ReplyDeleteI see. Having read your reply I realise I track a number of things too - when I last changed my toothbrush or razor, descaling the kettle, shower head and coffee machine and dyeing my roots. If I know when I last did them, I will know whether it needs re-doing/ replacing.
DeleteAbout the hair washing. If this is daily grooming thing anyway, why would it need tracking? Or do you not do the same thing every day?
Hi Maxine, re: the hair thing, If I wash everyday, my hair gets too dry and brittle. Since my hair is in a ponytail, I can go up to 3 days til I can't stand it anymore. My eczema thanks me.
DeleteI also have automobile service and maintenance on the annual tracker.
Anita, I'm with you on the cake reward front!! I have made the momentous decision to track stuff on my daily pages, more like a day to day to do really, than tracking per se, as tracking implies measuring something over a longer period of time to build good habits and change or reform old ones. Maxine, you've got it spot on. My focus at the moment is sleep and beginning a daily bible study reading, yet I can only succeed in tracking on a day by day basis still, otherwise I feel a sense of such awful angst and failure if I miss a day's targets in a bigger chart. A little unorthodox I know. Carla, washing your hair is not a silly tracker!! I often forget which days I've used conditioner, as of course it's not supposed to be every single day they say. Thanks for the replies folks. Grateful.
ReplyDeleteButanben, thank you for your understanding. My scalp and eczema are grateful.
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