Hot take: My habit tracker broke me out of a rut

Was sitting at my kitchen table last Tuesday staring at a row of empty squares for 'exercise' and 'read' and just snapped. Drew one big fat line through the whole week and started fresh with just one thing to track instead of five, and somehow it actually worked better. Anybody else ever ditch their whole tracker mid-month?

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kelly.dylan17d ago

When you drew that line through everything and started with just one thing" that's what got me. I used to think more tracking = more control but you're right, starting small actually works way better.

gray_roberts17d ago

Takes a ton of discipline to keep it that simple though. I tried the one habit thing and fell off after a week. Kept adding more stuff back in. Then I got overwhelmed and quit everything cold. Now I'm back to square one trying to pick one thing again. It's really hard to fight the urge to do everything at once.