Habit Tracker

How to choose a habit tracker template?

Firstly, you can choose any background or border for your daily habit tracker. To change the template select “Planner Inserts” and then “Habit Tracker”. You then need to select the goal tracker template. To add a habit list click on “Add Text”. You can track individual habits, or you can include a printable habit tracker list with up to 10 new habits. To select, click on any of the available options.

You can add a habit list with habits to track for each habit tracker printable. You can customize the text so that the tracker list includes customized productive habits and daily goals tracker. Examples of habits can be to sleep more, drink more water, eat healthy food, apply moisturizer every day. There are thousands of habit tracker ideas, but you have to decide on the habits that you want to focus on.

You can create a habit calendar with our free calendar maker. Print a weekly, monthly or yearly calendar and mark each day on the calendar. This method is more effective when you are only tracking one habit at a time.

Bullet journal habit tracker

We also offer a bullet journal tracker. If you are making a bullet journal habit tracker printable, then you can also change the doodles and embellishments.

Here are some bullet journal habit tracker ideas that you can make with our bullet journal app. You can either make one page per habit, or you can make an entire habit tracker bullet journal with all of the new habits that you want to track. The possibilities are endless!

How to use our habit tracker printables?

Our free habit tracker printables track habits for either one month or 66 days. If a habit is not formed within this time frame, then continue for another month. Please note that you do not have to do it in 66 consecutive days. If you forget to perform the behavior a few times during the period, then carry on until you do it without even thinking about it. It is a process, and it takes time. It probably took you a while to form a bad habit, so don’t expect to create a new habit overnight.

How long does it take to form a new habit?

A long time ago, I saw an ad for a popular weight loss group claiming to help form a new habit in 21 days. I joined the group and started developing new habits. On the 23^rd day, I broke my diet. I tried a few more diets over the years and realized that I usually break the diet just after 21 days. It clearly doesn’t take 21 days to build a habit. Nevertheless, it is a popular claim that you can form a new habit in 21 days. It turns out that the 21 day claim was taken out of context. In the 1950s, a plastic surgeon by the name of Maxwell Maltz noticed that it would take about 21 days for his patients to get used to the surgery that he performed. He then came to a conclusion that “it required a minimum of about 21 days for an old mental image to dissolve and a new one to jell”. This quote was published in a book that sold 30 million copies. Many people quoted him and in time “forgot” that it takes a minimum of 21 days to form a habit and not 21 days.

Phillippa Lally, a psychology researcher, published a study, that determined that on average, it takes 66 days for a new behavior to become a habit. This is only an average, but from my experience, it makes more sense than 21 days.

Tips to help you form a new habit

• Print a habit tracker and write down the habits that you want to establish. Trying to change too many new habits at once can be a bit overwhelming. There is enough space to include up to 10 new habits. If they are too complicated then it might be too much to cope with at once.
• When trying to form a habit to do something, then the best way to succeed is by doing that as many times as required until it becomes automatic — for example, drinking ten glasses of water each day. Eventually, you will find yourself drinking the water without thinking about it or counting glasses.
• When trying to stop doing something, it often helps to substitute your old bad habit with a new healthy habit. For example, if you want to stop eating dessert after a meal, start eating fruit after each meal. If you want to stop eating anything sweet after a meal you can start a new unrelated habit like brushing your teeth or rinsing your mouth after a meal. I personally recently stopped eating fruit after lunch, which had become a habit, and I started putting hand cream on my hands after lunch. It is unrelated, but my hands feel soft, and it helped me substitute a bad habit with a new habit. It made my hands softer and eventually stopped me from automatically thinking about fruit or something sweet after a meal.

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Habit Tracking Ideas

Here are some ideas for habits to track.

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