#routine tracker

[pretendcottagelady]

Routine Trackers

This system has worked so well for me that I can't be bothered to change it at all. Though admittedly one large grid tracker would allow for more routine points, but I don't think that's necessary.

I can't quite remember what I have removed from my routines because I do them anyways, but the evening meds are new, because I apparently have started forgetting to take my evening meds despite having done so since I was a child.

[love-in-my-twenties]

made a new page in notion and i honestly love how it turned out

[pretendcottagelady]

Routine Trackers

I know the brown and brown looks horribly unreadable, but I swear I can actually read those.

Also, there are less trackers this time around, and that's because I realized, I haven't slept past 9:00 a.m. in over six months unless I really planned for it, and even then I am generally out of bed by 9:30 a.m.

If I am not, I am still up, but probably reading something. So, it became pointless to have the wake up routine trackers, since I... it's not that I like waking up in the morning, I like the time it gives me to do other stuff.

[pretendcottagelady]

June Routine Tracker

This is based off the idea of a high bar/low bar, and I probably wasn't as generous with it as I should be. I'm trying to make a better routine for myself, but it's hard to make a tracker that is more forgiving. Even though there were times I didn't keep strictly to my routines during May, the fact that it forced me to do things earlier than I would have normally is still a success.

You can also use this for other things not related to time, like if you want to drink more water, maybe a few sips for a low bar and a few cups for a high bar for example.

In a lot of ways, the exercising trackers I use are a more elaborate low bar/high bar system.

[pretendcottagelady]

December Routine Trackers

This is another weird tracker page that doesn't do what most people assume that a tracker like this does. Most people when they do high bar/low bar trackers, are doing so with the intention of at least doing the thing, and in hopes of doing the thing at its intended goal.

And let me be frank, with the exception of the routines where it is a binary have you done this thing or not, most of these routines will not be done on time, half of the time.

But that's okay, because that wasn't the point of me doing this.

The routine trackers exist to try and keep me on time as much as possible so I'm not doing required tasks at 11 p.m. at night. Having these remind me what my promised routine was to myself, and the fact that I can now spend my evenings before bed just chilling is a testament to that.

Would I like to be more on time? Yes, but I will take my wins where I can.

[pretendcottagelady]

Routine Tracker

The thing I've learned from the June routine tracker is that 90% of the time I will do the thing, but I won't necessarily do it at the time I had promised myself, not even in the ballpark of what I thought I would do.

A part of it, is... I was being very strict with myself. My timelines were much tighter, especially for writing and dinner time. I still don't want to be doing any of this super late, but I need to learn to give myself more leeway. So my high bar is to get things done after a particular time, but my low bar is just damn well doing it.

Also putting on sunscreen is a new routine task, because normally I do not put on sunscreen... because I forget. Now that I have trackers, lets see if I can remember.

[pretendcottagelady]

May Routine Tracker

This is technically my habit tracker, but I have renamed it into a routine tracker because of a comment about habits and routine. The reality is, despite doing this for over six months I haven't really developed the 'habits' I had been tracking since the beginning into habits.

What I have been really accidentally doing is a routine. The reason why I remember a lot of these older habits I've been tracking is because I have built it into my routine. It's not necessarily that I remember them. In fact when I was travelling I actually forgot at the near end of my trip to floss because my routine was so out of whack.

I've also called it a routine tracker because I am trying to build a better routine for myself.