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Habit tracking! - Veggie - 17-10-2022
The Student Planner I picked up recently has one section that spoke to me - Habit tracking record pages. Its just a page to list the habits you'd like to have and 31 squares for every day of the month to tick off if you achieve them.
I've read elsewhere that, if you can adopt a habit for 30 days, it will stick and become part of your normal way of life. Does anyone want to join me in tracking a new habit?
Ideas also sought for good new habits. All I can think of at the moment are:-
Sow seeds every day
Take cuttings every day.
Eat something from the garden daily.
Hoover somewhere
Go for a walk whatever the weather.
Suggestions welcome.
RE: Habit tracking! - Farendwoman - 17-10-2022
Replace the secateurs where I know where to find them.
RE: Habit tracking! - Veggie - 18-10-2022
That's a good one, FEW. A designated place for your secateurs.
RE: Habit tracking! - Proserpina - 18-10-2022
I'm doing this with Duolingo (the language learning app). It has you build up a "streak" of days when you do at least one lesson. Even though you don't really get anything for it, it's amazing how much it motivates me to actually open the app and get a lesson done, even when I don't really want to. My current streak is 176 days. You can "freeze" your streak for a couple of days if you forget/are unwell so I may have missed a day here and there, but my commonest reason for "missing" a lesson is that I complete it after midnight when it still feels like the day before to me.
RE: Habit tracking! - Vinny - 18-10-2022
I don't know whehter this is relevant to the thread title but a couple of habits I have at the allotment are to set the gate latch in a certain position when I leave to see if anyone has been on the plot. (50 % of my visits it shows me someone has been mooching around the plot, but nothing seem sto ahve been taken.)
Because I could never find my dibber or trowel plus bulb planter I now have a designated corner of a bed I return them to, sticking them in the soil (trowel is stainless steel) so I always know where they are.
RE: Habit tracking! - Veggie - 18-10-2022
(17-10-2022, 11:44 PM)Farendwoman Wrote: Replace the secateurs where I know where to find them.I'm going to borrow this habit and a bit of Vinny's and make my new habit - Putting the big garden tools back in the shed & handtools & gloves in the bucket in the GH when I finish.
Thank you both,
RE: Habit tracking! - Veggie - 18-10-2022
I'm starting tomorrow because I've just remembered there's a garden fork under a goat willow!!
RE: Habit tracking! - Veggie - 19-10-2022
Garden fork, rake and spade returned to shed and secateurs, gloves and trowel in bucket in GH.
Don't worry, I won't repost this every day for 30 days. Don't want to bore you.
RE: Habit tracking! - JJB - 20-10-2022
P has nagged me for as long as can remember to wash the tools and put them away in the shed at the end of each gardening day. It has become so ingrained that I wouldn't dream of intentionally leaving them outside or grubby, unless they get forgotten of course, which happens occasionally. The forgotten tools usually end up rusty so P cleans off the rust ready for me to forget them in the damp all over again. So that particular habit is there if a little haphazard at times
Now encouraging the habit of tidiness is just not going to work.
RE: Habit tracking! - Veggie - 20-10-2022
Wash the tools!!! No way. Its a protective coating of mud here.