Hello, and this is Sarah Hart Unger. Welcome to Best Laid Plans, a podcast all about planners,

planning techniques, and anything related to that genre. Today, we're going to talk all about

habits, both how I like to track

habits and how I've seen others do it, as well as a deep dive into the current habit that I'm

working on, and I know a lot of others are as well. We did record recently. The other podcast that I'm

on is called Best of Both Worlds, for those of you who are not crossover listeners, and I'm sure

there are a few. And we did do a Habits episode on that recently where I talked about some of my

foundation habits. Those habits in life that I feel like when I do them every day, or most days,

or at least pay attention to how often I'm doing them, the rest of my life seems to just go better.

So this episode, I will take a little bit of a deeper dive into those, as well as talk about

how I track those using my planner.

Now, the first thing I have to say is that I've seen many different ways of tracking habits.

There are some really involved spreads.

For example, the annual planner in the Hobonichi can be used to track habits.

It's a little cramped, but there are tiny

little boxes that you could use to track literally up to 10 habits every single month for every day.

You would just have to use some kind of color coding, and you could make quite a beautiful

rainbow if you filled that with your habits. And I'll share a picture of what I'm talking about

in the show notes, of course.

I also mentioned on a prior episode there's something called a Gant chart, and a Gant chart is basically a monthly grid with columns for each day of the month and then the rows for each

habit so that you could check off and kind of fill a page with boxes that way.

I tend to like the monthly or even a weekly habit checklist more

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