Can we talk about how my habit tracker backfired hard this month?

I set up this big fancy tracker for drinking water and flossing, but I got so stressed trying to fill in every box that I just stopped doing both by week two. Has anyone else had a tracker actually make their habits worse instead of better?

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sethmartinez4d ago

Always thought habit trackers were the gold standard for getting stuff done. Started one for morning stretches and found myself skipping whole days just to avoid the stress of a blank box. Learned the hard way that sometimes the system gets in the way of what you're actually trying to do.

kim_hart74d ago

My friend Jenna tried one of those habit trackers to do 10 minutes of journaling each night. By day four she was so paranoid about missing a day that she started scribbling gibberish just to fill the box, then quit entirely. She said she had better luck just doing stuff when she felt like it.