If you’re anything like me, you need someone (or something) to keep you on track. For me, that’s my husband, daughters, phone apps, and my bullet journal. My husband and daughters remind me of my goals or routines, my phone apps give me something concrete to check everyday, and my bullet journal allows me to be creative in my routine. It works great! Until… it doesn’t.
They put the emphasis on doing the routine or habit every day. Here’s the thing: habit trackers, especially phone apps, like to put the focus on doing your routine every single day. My mind doesn’t work like that, though. I like doing new stuff or switching things up. Beyond that, though, life gets in the way. This past weekend for example I was on my period so I took a break from exercise for a few days, I was also hormonal because again I was on my period so I really didn’t feel like doing anything productive. And so instead I spent quite a bit of the weekend playing games on my phone while I rested, and worrying about my streak for my morning routine which was up to over a month and would now be at zero days because of one bad weekend which happens every single month.
I understand that a habit is something you do all the time and that’s why it has become a habit. But I’m also the kind of person that will fall off once and not get back on because I’ll think “what’s the point? I lost all those days!” But I didn’t lose those days. I still did my routine all those days and not doing my routine a few days a month because I’m not feeling well isn’t going to change that.
Besides that, I actually really love habit trackers. I just don’t love that my streak starts over when I take a break and I have to remind myself that I didn’t lose those days. I was just using a few days to get back to a good mental health and physical health space, and that’s a good thing. It’s not a waste.
Remember, if a tracker isn’t working for you, it’s working against you and you should try something new.
And now I’ll heed that advice and decide if I really need that phone app that I use for my morning routine and places an emphasis on keeping my streak going.
The Neurodivergent Homemaker 
Check out the “HabitNow” app. You can see your streak, but it also tells you that you did your habit x days out of the last y days (I’ve taken my meds 13 out of the last 14 days, but only scooped the litter box 2 out of the last 5, and I keep resetting that one because if it drops below half the days I get discouraged.)
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That’s great! Thank you! I’ll definitely check it out! ^_^
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