I’m bad at keeping up with my daily tasks. I have about 18 things I want to track and it’s a mess. Goes alright for a few weeks, then inevitably it all comes crumbling down.
I can imagine loads of people have the same feeling. It can be overwhelming. That’s where mini habits come to the rescue!
Mini habits are easy. They’re so ridiculously small it’s almost impossible not to do them. They typically take less than 2 minutes to complete.
Here are my personal favorites:
The “How are you so energetic, it’s only 8AM!” habit
Every morning, straight after rolling out of bed, do 3 pushups, or however many you need to get your heart rate slightly raised.
This is much more effective than your morning coffee. You’ll have a small win to kick-start your day, and on top of that you feel more energetic.
Whenever I do sports in the morning, I know that day is going to be a big WIN. I don’t know whether I have cause and effect mixed up, but still 🙂
The “Wow, you’re such a social butterfly” habit
You remember all those friends from high school? The ones you’ve been meaning to contact for the last 7 years? Friends come and go, but if you never take initiative, more will go.
An easy solution for the more introverted among us (including yours truly): send a message (text, Facebook, whatsapp, whatever) to one person you’ve been meaning to talk to for a while. This sounds like it’s complete bullshit, but it makes a huge difference in the long run.
The “Are you a rocket scientist?” habit
I want to read more. I say I want to read more. But I never actually do it. The act of actually picking up that book and starting to read just seems so… daunting. There’s always more important things to do.
The trick is to make the goal so absurdly small that it becomes easy. Pick up a book and read 2 pages per day. If you do just that, you win.
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For most of us, these are starting points. They naturally make you want to do more. If you just start now and do these three habits for one full year, I can guarantee you’re going to be a full-blown fitness addict with a huge social circle reading one book a week!
Oh and by the way, HabitBull is perfect for tracking these kinds of habits 😉
Great tipps! I just added a couple of habits in my HabitBull inspired in those ones.
HabitBull Creators,
I wanted to drop you a note to let you know what a powerful app for changing lives you have created. I need a donation address to send you at least something for your amazing contribution to steadily improving my life through keeping me on target with my habits.
Only with habit bull have I been able to keep up 10 new habits like meditating, working 2 hours daily on a new but distant deadline project, and similar life altering actions. You guys deserve to make money with HabitBull.
Sincerely grateful,
Mark
An alternative for the first one is to sit-up and immediately drink .5-1 cup of water when you wake up. This may be useful for those that can’t manage any push-ups, but still want something to help them get up.
Thank you for that little, but big – helpful hint!! There’s no way I could ever do any amount of exercises as soon as I woke up…
I have 8 running habits now out of which some are just ‘Yes / No’.
There are few which are numbers based like Exercise (10 rounds of a particular method) and Meditation (20 minutes of Particular kind of Meditation).
When I fail to do any exercise or to meditate, how do I fill up the data in Habitbull App?
Generally, I enter 1 round or 1 minute but when the file is exported to CSV, it shows wrong information.
Even for Number based Habits, an option can be given that “I did not follow up with this habit today”.
Is this option already available?
Hi guys, wasn’t sure where to put these suggestions, sorry if this isn’t the right place. I’ve really enjoyed Habitbull. Very effective, good UI. Suggestions: 1) celebratory push notification _when goal is reached_ 2) if a task is complete for the day, make it invisible on the widget (I believe this reduction of visual clutter would allow for more habits to be worked on simultaneously. Also having one’s whole widget be empty would be a nice goal to chase as well.) Thanks