Using a Google Sheets Habit Tracker will change your life and the way you view growth and accountability. If you want to make this your best year ever then this is for you. Tracking your daily positive habits is one of the easiest ways to create more growth in your life.
In this episode of Best Year Ever, I share how using a Google Sheets Habit Tracker can help you create an easy to follow blueprint, hit your goals, and make this your best year yet. Included are three secrets that will supercharge your growth, plus how to overcome the biggest challenges that stop most people from hitting their goals.
Why Most People Fail At Building Positive Habits
So many people set out with the best of intentions every year. New year, new me. On the surface, this is super good. I'm all about encouragement. I'm all about helping people who want to grow. But here's what we know to be true. The majority of people put a goal out once a year on New Year's, and unfortunately, a few days, a few weeks, or maybe a few months later, they've fallen back into their old habits and did not create the growth they set out to achieve on January 1st.
So what's actually lacking for most people who aren't able to implement positive habits in their life? They're lacking commitment, follow through, accountability, action, love, ease of execution, consistency, and simplicity.
What I would like to do is help you throw all of your limiting beliefs, judgments, and excuses in the trash because they're not serving you. This is all about helping you step into the most powerful version of yourself where you are doing more of what you love. Easily. Consistently. Day by day, you are creating your best year ever by living moment to moment and designing the way that you make that happen.
Three Secrets To Creating Your Best Year Ever
There are three secrets to creating your best year ever that I want to share with you, specifically as it relates to using a habit tracker.
Secret 1: Come From A Place Of Love
Ask yourself this simple question: What would you love to do? What would you love more of in your life? Then write it down.
One of the areas where people fall into a limiting belief is thinking they should or have to do something. The goal of tracking your habits is to do more positive things in your life that contribute to your growth and your goals that you love. These are all positive things. Why in the world would you not want to do more things in your life that you love?
Write down 10 things you want more of. Congratulations. Those are 10 positive habits that you get to track or do every single day. This is holistic and applies to all areas of your life. I want you to hear this from a non-business lens. Of course there's business application because when you're better at life, you're better at business. But this is about filling up all of the buckets of your life.
Some examples: I love to play basketball, so one of the habits that I track is play basketball. I've got a son, and one of the habits I track is read to my son five minutes a day. Another one is meditate. These are all very simple, positive habits that I love to do.
If something is important enough, I will inspect what I expect. I am so committed to being with my son and learning and developing with him that I get to track every single day. It is that important. What this does is get you looking forward to doing it. It's the power of intention and the power of awareness.
Secret 2: Make It Easy
So many people see a spreadsheet and they're like, "Oh my God, Rob, I'm just so overwhelmed." And I look at them and say, "You realize this takes me about one minute a day, right? And it's filled with all things that I love."
Here's how I make it easy and simple in my life. On my Apple Watch every single day (you can also use your phone or a calendar), I set an alarm for 7:45 PM. When that alarm goes off, that is the start of my evening routine where I open up my habit tracker and log all of the various things that I have done so far today.
If I look and there's a few that I haven't done yet, I have a choice to make. Do I want to take the one minute, three minutes, five minutes, maybe 10, to do a few of those? Oftentimes, just simply opening that thing up actually triggers me to do the positive habits that create growth and love and freedom and joy in my life.
How long does the actual tracking take? One minute. Everybody has one minute. Open up the document, fill in your 10 positive habits. Maybe give yourself the gift of 10 minutes to write a few down. You can even start with one if you want. But I would hope you have such a fervor for life that there's more than one thing you would love more of.
Secret 3: The Power Of Consistency
This is the simplest concept in the world. By using this habit tracker, you win in the micro. Your day. That moment. Here's 1, 2, 3, 7, 9, 10, 15 things that I would love to do every single day. When I do them, I win in that moment because I just lived in action. I am the person who did the things that I said I wanted to do to be my best self.
But now we're going to go macro. Do it for one day and then one week, and then one month, and then one year, and in my case, 10 years. Imagine what your life would be like next month or a decade from now if you just use this very simple habit tracker to create more positive habits in your life.
Here is one super important key. With this habit tracker, if you do not do something, one of your positive habits, it is not a negative. I repeat, it is not a negative. This habit tracker is only meant to be a positive in your life. If you get one of 12, congratulations, you just did one positive thing that contributed to your day. If you do three of 12, congratulations, you did three.
The goal is more of what you love, not judging yourself for what you do not do. Because for the majority of people, we are starting at zero. So by design, if you do even one thing, you are already better today than you were yesterday.
How To Get Started With The Habit Tracker
Here are your next steps to create your best year ever:
- Commit to yourself. Say it out loud: "This will be my best year ever." Write it down on a piece of paper. You're using the power of language. You are speaking things into existence.
- Design your habits. Open the habit tracker and create your 10 positive habits. These should be things you want in your life that bring you joy, happiness, and harmony.
- Set your alarm. Create a daily alarm on your watch or phone. This becomes the consistency trigger that turns one day into one week, into one month, into one year, into your best year ever.
- Fill it out daily. One minute a day. That's it. Track what you did, celebrate your wins, and keep moving forward.
See this as a tool for growth. Imagine yourself as a superhero with a tool belt of things you get to use to create your best year ever and show up as your ideal self. This Habit Tracker is one of those tools. It helps you see where you're doing the things you love, and where there are opportunities for improvement.
Really, it's about optimizing your time, energy, and wellbeing. This is how you get more done in less time. This is how you show up happy every single day because you've designed your happiness.
