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21 Habit Tracker Ideas to Start in January
A habit tracker works best when the habits are small enough to tick on a bad day. Choose three from this list for January, not twenty-one.
Morning ideas
- Make the bed
- Drink a glass of water before coffee
- Five minutes of stretching
- Write tomorrow's top three tasks
Daytime ideas
- A 15-minute walk
- Lunch away from the screen
- One tidy-up of the desk
- No-spend day
Evening ideas
- Read ten pages
- Phone off the bedside table
- Lay out clothes for tomorrow
- Early night (a time you choose)
- Gratitude line in the journal
Weekly ideas
- Meal plan done by Sunday
- Laundry folded the same day
- Call or message a friend
- Review the budget
- Clean out the fridge
- Plan next week's calendar
- One new recipe
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How to keep going
Colour the done days, leave the missed days blank and never "fix" the past. At the end of January, keep the habits that stuck and swap one.