Creating your own bullet journal to reflect exactly what you’re trying to accomplish can keep you focused but also in touch with your goals and targets while documenting your progress.
So, start growing that savings account, get organised in all areas of your life, or launch the side hustle you have ad in the pipeline for years. Your bullet journal is going to hold you accountable and make you successful and the way your bullet journal is going to help is by using habit trackers. What is a habit tracker I hear you say? It is exactly what it sounds like, a tracker for your daily or weekly habits. Trackers can come in all sorts of forms however, it is unique to you and what suits you best.
Do you want to break bad habits and practise good ones? A habit tracker will allow you to track actions you wish to start or want to hold yourself accountable to continue and because you will have habits that you want to track daily, weekly or either monthly, a bullet journal is the best place to do that.
What are the benefits of using a habit tracker?
As long as you have the list of habits it doesn’t matter what design or layout you choose to display your habit tracker. Generally the key point is your habit tracker provides you with immediate clarification that you have completed your habit. It is evidence that you are making progress.
Moreover habit tracking is super effective for these reasons:
- It creates a visual cue that can remind you to act.
- It induces motivation to see the progress you are making. You don’t want to break your consistency.
- It feels satisfying to record your success in the moment.
Read more: All About Habit Trackers!
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Daily habits make up your routine. A daily habit tracker will help you if you are introducing new habits that you want to become second nature because they ensure you are help accountable. These habits are actions you practise every day to live a more mindful, happy and successful life. I have compiled a list of 60 daily habits that you can track in your bujo:
- Medication
- Vitamins
- Making your bed
- Water consumption
- Step count
- Symptoms for physical/mental health
- Journaling
- Reading
- Hours on your phone
- Use of social media
- Spending
- Eating healthy
- Skincare routine
- Self-care activities
- Publishing a blog post – don’t have a blog? Start one today!
- Your period
- Sex – this can be helpful for couples to have an active sex life and sometimes medication or circumstances get in the way… you can track it to look for patterns!
- Paying bills
- Work on a hobby
- No accidents – if you are tracking your child’s progress with potty training
- Dog walks
- Pet medication – track when you administer flea or worming treatment
- Exercise
- Calorie intake is below target
- No fizzy drinks (or swap it for junk food, coffee or alcohol)
- Completed chores
- Empty sink
- Affirmations (writing them or saying them out loud)
- Fill out gratitude journal
- Go to bed at your set time
- Wake up to your alarms
- Time spent in nature
- Bowel movements – can be helpful for certain health conditions
- Less than x hours on time wasting websites like Facebook, Instagram or Reddit, for example
- Meditation
- Flossing
- Ate 3 meals a day
- Completed morning routine
- No extra snacks
- Completed evening routine
- Planned outfit the night before
- Washed make-up brushes
- Studied for x amount of time
- Washed hair
- Dyed hair/root touch up
- Clean bed sheets
- 15 minute clean – daily clean that is the most productive way to clean
- Dressed for success at school/work
- Used planner
- Learned something new
- Tried something new
- Date night
- Called family
- Family outing
- Posted to Instagram
- Limit time on social media
- Went outside
- Write x amount of words
- Random act of kindness
- No meat day
- Used bullet journal
- Put money into savings account
- Shared pins on Pinterest
- Recorded your blog statistics
- Inbox zero
- Completed your gratitude log
- Empty sink!
- Complete homework/assignments
- Cook at home
- Tried something new
As shown above there is a large number of daily habits however, you may have other habits or activities that need to only be tracked weekly or monthly. These maybe habits that do not need to be practised daily but actions you still need to be held accountable for or would like to record for future reflection. Lastly, I have compiled a list for your inspiration:
- Goals
- Weather
- Grocery shopping
- Home cleaning
- Household tasks
- Cooking meals
- Mental health check
- Meal planning
- Hobbies
- Quality time with family
- Weight
- Bills
- Laundry
- Car maintenance
- Period/menstrual cycle
- Stress levels
Where Do I Start?
If you are new to habit trackers and bullet journaling I would recommend tracking a maximum of 8 habits to start with. When you become more confident using habit trackers you can then start adding more habits, but start small – you don’t want to burn out before you really get started! To start with you should have completing your daily habit tracker as one of your habits, this will help solidify this practice.
Overall, habit trackers will improve your success in all areas of your life!
I have shared a huge amount of habits that you can track – but of course you do not need to track all of them! In fact, trying to track too many habits is a sure way to ensure you do not stick with using your habit tracker.
How do you stick to good habits? Do use habit trackers? I’d love to hear in the comments.
Absolutely keeping notes of these, very helpful. Am still thinking of making a bullet journal, but this ideas are awesome. Saving for later.
Definitely give it a go! They are really useful. I have a post sharing how to set one up, if you need help. Thank you for reading and commenting.
I need to start a bullet journal!
I love the idea of a sex tracker, that’s a super interesting one. Right now I’m tracking habits and water intake, but I’m going to add a few from this list. Great post!
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I’ll defiantly be keeping this post in mind. I’m still trying to learn about bullet journaling but it’s defiantly something I want to get into properly. I’ve heard it’s amazing for motivation and inspiration. You’ve shared some great ideas lovely, thank you so much xo
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These are good ideas & a habit tracker sounds so helpful! I know I could use the habit tracker to make sure I do my morning & evening skincare routine & to read more!
Thank you for reading and commenting. Habit trackers are great!
Tracking your snacks is such a great idea, I need that for when I’m in the house working haha 🙂
It can be a good one to track. Thank you for reading and commenting.
These are all fantastic ideas! I think if I started a bullet journal now I’d be so overwhelmed with what to track because I’d want to track absolutely everything!
Yeah that is the risk, you don’t want to become overwhelmed. Thank you for reading and commenting.
Some amazing ideas. I need to start back up again with my bullet journal. I may have to add some of these ideas. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you for reading and commenting. Good luck if you start up your bullet journal again.
Love this! I also find I need a visual to track progress and this is a super helpful way to do it. thanks for sharing!
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Great post, Lauren!
I keep track of my walking, stretches and energy routine exercises. It helps me stay focused.
Many Blessings
Lisa
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I love that there are so many things you can track! I’m terrible about keeping any kind of journal, but using one for tracking things like this could be seriously beneficial. Thanks for sharing these ideas!
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This is a wonderful habit to get into! I bullet list in my gratitude journal. And I’m starting to track a few habits here and there, but I have no formal system, so this is helpful and timely. Great post!
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These are so useful! I’m quite bad when it comes to getting in the habit of doing things, a bullet journal would probably work really well. I feel like the drinking water point really got me. Haha.
Claire.X
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These are such fab suggestions! I still haven’t gotten around to starting a bullet journal but I definitely want to now, there are so many habits I think would be helpful for me to track. I feel like tracking how much water I drink, how much I’m reading daily and the amount of time I spend on social media would all really help me in particular. Thanks for sharing x
You could just huge a bullet journal for tracking, you don’t necessarily need to use a bullet journal for anything else if that works better for you. Thank you for reading and commenting.
Habit trackers are such a brilliant way to keep track on certain aspects of your life, I like to keep track of my workouts and my medication! x
Lucy | http://www.lucymary.co.uk
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I love these ideas! Sometimes I want to create more pages so I’ll refer back to this 🙂 x
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What an awesome, complete list! I do not think one bullet journal is enough room to encompass the range of your suggestions, so picking the ones most relevant to me is the way to go. 🙂
Definitely! 86 are far too many. There are so many things to track but not everything will be relevant. Thank you for reading and commenting.
I really need to start journalling, are used to do an allotment and loved it!!
These are such great ideas! The “ate 3 meals a day” one is definitely something I could benefit from tracking as I’m awful for skipping meals x
mia // https://miasdiyprojects.com
I do the same sometimes. I am glad you found this post helpful. Thank you for reading and commenting.
You are so inspiring. I have my daily, where I keep my to do, I keep track of what I eat every day, my daily joy and my daily tarot card but I haven’t started on habit tracking and I really need one or a few LOL. Love your ideas Lauren xo
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Habit tracking is a really good idea, especially when you’re starting a new medication. I’ve also noticed that when I was tracking my water consumption, I drank at least 2L a day, but when I’m not tracking it I’m not even sure I manage a litre. Thus, the act of tracking can help you keep to your desired targets
Great and feeds my obsession with wanting to make a bullet journal, but too overwhelming, so I live vicariously through you!
Bless you. This is a lot I don’t do a lot of these. But they versatile to fit everyone’s needs. Thank you for reading and commenting.
I add number of steps to my journal and it makes such a difference!
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Keeping a habit tracker is a wonderful way to see progress. Thanks for the idea!
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What a VERY in depth blog post, such a good job! I haven’t ever tried a bullet journal for this exact reason LOL I never knew how to use it but maybe I’ll give in to trying it out now!
These are amazing ideas – a lot I hadn’t even thought of! I love the idea of blog stats, time spent in nature and date night – I’ll give these a try for April! 🙂
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This is such a great list of suggestions! I currently use a bullet journal to track my reading and blog stats, but after seeing this post, I definitely want to expand it a little. Thanks for sharing!
You keep inspiring me to get back to bullet journaling, but I always get hung up on the “pretty” stuff—the font and doodles. I also sometimes don’t know what to include, but I love a lot of the habit tracking ideas here. I have a new notebook…should I? Ugh, it’s scary!