Welcome to a brand new (and fun) way to track your behavior. The Habit Star can track or count anything, offering unparalleled versatility. Here are just a few of the ways you can use it.
1. Track a behavior for the month.
Numbered tabs can represent days of the month. If you make it all the way through day 31 without missing a day, your star will become a cool-looking circle!
2. Track a streak (good or bad habit), starting whenever.
You don’t have to use the start of a month to start a streak with the #1 tab. Make any day your “day one” of a new behavior pattern.
3. Track on/off days for a behavior, starting whenever or monthly.
For a bad behavior that you want to limit or a good behavior you want to track, put the tab down on days you succeed, and leave them up on ones you don’t. At the end of the 31 days, you’ll see exactly how many times you did (not) do that behavior.
4. Count reps and “laps” (day).
Next to my pull-up bar, I have a Habit Star on the wall. I like to do pull-ups throughout the day sometimes, and instead of keeping track in my head how many reps I’ve done, I can use the Habit Star to keep count.
Here’s how it works: if I start off with a set of eight pull-ups, I put down the #8 tab. Later, if I do four more, I’ll pull the #8 tab back up and flip down the #12 tab. Once I make it around the star, I’ll keep the #1 tab down to remind myself that I’ve completed “one lap” around the star. It’s really fun and encourages me to do more than I would otherwise. Sometimes I go for 100 reps, which would be the first 3 tabs (3 laps of 31 = 93) and the #7 tab (93+7 = 100).
5. Counting reps (week or month).
Maybe you want to eat more carrots, but you don’t necessarily want to demand that you do it every day. You can count how many (full size) carrots you eat in a month (or week or any amount of time you desire).
