Track Your Routines and Build Effective Habits

Track Your Routines and Build Effective Habits | My Notion Habit Tracker x2!

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Feeling stuck? Lacking a routine or motivation? I am: so I've built my Notion habit tracker for 2021 to help... well a few actually! This video is about how to track your routines and build effective habits using Notion. Plus: how to overcome 'the resistance'! Tour the new integrated goals and practices Notion dashboard 2021. DOWNLOADABLE TEMPLATES: www.bettercreating.com/downloads
Part of my wider GTD Productivity System for getting things done. Includes a Notion workspace tour of my Notion habit tracker templates and how to build effective habits and stick to them.
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VIDEO CHAPTERS:
00:00 Finding Motivation & Getting Unstuck
00:48 Overview of Building Effective Habits, Goals & Practices
02:00 1. The Challenge of Building Habits: Overcoming 'The Resistance'
03:30 Day-to-day solutions for getting unstuck
04:53 Anxiety & Habitual Responses
05:50 2. Notion System Principles: Recipe for Effective Habits
07:13 3. Notion System Tour: Linking Goals and Practices
08:54 Notion System Tour: Habit Tracker 1
11:56 Notion System Tour: Habit Tracker 2... and 3.
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BETTER CREATING
My name is Simon, and I'm finding ways to simplify productivity & creative life.
Exploring productivity, simple living and creative life, the Better Creating KZfaq Channel is my project to build a toolkit to help creative people (including me) create more meaningful work, create better content, and live more intentional stress-free lives in the process. Other than doing this, I work as a freelance creative in theatre and film, creating productions.
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@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Hi all: ways to stay motivated and habit tracker builds this week: I've been playing with a few: which of these do you like best? How do you overcome 'the resistance'? Answers on a postcard!... or in the comments... like usual. You don't have my address. Thanks!

@Evanescence4ever100 3 жыл бұрын

you definitely deserve more subscribers!!

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Spread the word! 🤗

@Evanescence4ever100 3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating i will!

@benjenkins2415 3 жыл бұрын

Well worth the cost of the platform. I hope you get more subscribers. This is a great tool and I really enjoy your videos. Thanks.

@TheMoyamo 3 жыл бұрын

Apart from great templates, I like it that your design is based on theoretical concepts from literature and your speaking is very clear and coherent. I feel like I’m learning about digital tools and getting some decent literature input at the same time. Very refreshing! Thank you for what you are doing!

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

So pleased to hear that: couldn’t agree more: all this productivity stuff and Notion tom-foolery is only useful if you own the thinking behind it, and approach it with a perspective that actually serve you: it can be an addictive trap otherwise! Thanks so much for the comment and for supporting the channel! Let’s keep this train rolling :)

@aakashchrispin3749 3 жыл бұрын

A very well made video. Keep up the great work 👍🏻

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Nice one. Thanks!

@Starryphillic Жыл бұрын

Searching for lots of habit tracker videos, this is one of the videos I love and relate to most. I can actually put it into practice! Still pondering on creating it in the notion or excel, either way, your tips and theoretical thinking behind it help a lot! Thanks for sharing, I'm totally liking and subscribing!

@BetterCreating Жыл бұрын

Much appreciated! I’m releasing a new build video for a habit tracker using new Notion features end of this month - so watch out for that too ! :)

@mohisy5029 3 жыл бұрын

I really like your home template. It is on another level of creativity and it looks so beautiful

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Ah, thanks very much! Make sure you check out my full life OS system tour if you haven’t too on the main channel page. 🙌

@MCO-jj1rr 3 жыл бұрын

Great stuff! So happy to find that!

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Glad you are enjoying the vids.

@peternolan6648 2 жыл бұрын

Great video! Thanks for all your hard work.

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure! thanks for watching!

@ian_griffiths 2 жыл бұрын

Am new to your world Simon - but loving the quality work you're putting out there 😃

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Ah thanks very much! Welcome!

@Global_Epicurean 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! Just in time )) now struggling with resistance as well. I like v.2 tracker and will try to build something like that

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Great! Here’s how to build it. :) kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fr9zobyF0arTn2g.html

@Global_Epicurean 3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating I don't know why but the formula does not work in my table. The first part of it also does not return "1" if a day is checked. Update. Solved )) The case matters - "true" works, "True" doesn't ))

@natwillsmom 3 жыл бұрын

I like Habit tracker #2 and I am about to build it. I have recently discovered Notion and I am excited to start building my "second brain" for lac of a better term. I am a teacher and this (and last) year have been HARD. I am trying to be more productive and intentional with my time. I have realized if I don't start taking care of me, I won't be able to be my best self for my family and my students. This habit tracker will help me visualize my "taking care of me" time. Your videos have helped so much because they are relevant, creative and calming. Thank you so much!

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Ah this is so great to read Rebecca: makes the hours of side hustling worth it to hear the vids are having a positive impact for people! Thanks for posting. Yeah, kelp playing with things: I’ve found you have to try different things until the right approach for you appears :)

@natwillsmom 3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating Absolutely I will. My ultimate goal is to start setting up my "teacher life" on Notion so that I can search for lesson plans by standard (so I don't forget that amazing lesson or awesome resource) and also so I don't forget to take attendance :). Thank you for what you do! Keep it up.

@dawnrisk4849 3 жыл бұрын

I recently discovered your channel and love it! This is my favorite video so far. Really helpful in more ways than one. Am definitely looking forward to the template and/or how-to's for these trackers. They're great, though not yet sure which is my favorite. Will watch a few more times then decide:-). Thank you!

@dawnrisk4849 3 жыл бұрын

Tough call, but I think I'd start with #2 first!

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Hey Dawn, such a lovely comment to read thank you. Yes, I’ve been using both this week and leaning towards using the simpler #2 tracker for daily habits, and then making weekly / monthly stuff happen through recurring tasks in the calendar. Build tutorial coming soon 👍

@dawnrisk4849 3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating Great, looking forward to it!

@boujeedagoat8397 Жыл бұрын

Number 2 for sure

@cometier 3 жыл бұрын

Unexpectedly excellent video.

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Thanks @Green Tea.

@Claire.SageGreenCreative Жыл бұрын

This is a beautifully edited video very nice. I’m getting into Notion just this week and already obsessed 🤩

@BetterCreating Жыл бұрын

Great stuff Claire - once you are bitten - it can be a problem! Haha. Check out my playlists for lots of build videos if you wanna really learn to create various elements. :)

@Claire.SageGreenCreative Жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating Thanks Simon! I'm excited to create my own Pillars Pipelines Vault system but less on the business focus. I'm a solo blogger and youtube procrastinator, creative author and trying to get my weight to a healthy level while job hunting for dayjob so it's been a struggle of keeping track of daily tasks and feeling satisfied in the work. But Notion seems the answer :) More work upfront setting it up but I love all the customization!

@__PLUMFAIRY 3 жыл бұрын

You're so charismatic!! Good video :)

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Oh thank you!

@superbhatnagars 3 жыл бұрын

You are the best. Buddy. The work you are doing here is absolutely Phenomenal, You deserve More Likes and subscribers. Well it won't make any difference because you are changing lives. Mine at least, By finding your. tutorials was a gift from god. Thank you so much Man...

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Wow, thanks Abby! It's people taking the time to feedback the value like this that keeps it all moving forward and me motivated! Al the best and thanks for watching. Spread the word! :)

@BrunoAffonseca 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Simon! Thank you so much for one more brilliant video! I love the way you express yourself. So didactic. Just a quick question: do you set the moment that you are actually practicing a habit to your daily/ weekly review/calendar widget? So you can plan within your tasks and meetings what time you will do it?

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Bruno! I don’t personally but you could. Feels like a step to many for me. I just have my practices table available and look at it each morning. A good trick if you have an iPhone is to set the double or triple tap backtap feature in accessibility to the practices page in your Notion for quick access ! 👍👏

@Prisqua 3 жыл бұрын

I like them both. I’d probably find a way to use them both as I’m sure they could both their own purpose or benefit.

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Good to hear 🙌

@simminglymel 3 жыл бұрын

Hey! I love your videos, I've been a Notion nerd for awhile now and your video on your "daily practices" sparked an idea for me to kickstart my habit tracker. I just want to add a small note regarding your audio, there's obvious level/volume differences and just thought maybe you should know. The biggest one for me is around the 5:50-5:45 mark.

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

That’s great to hear! Yeah, I noticed that too: editing error in this video i think from duplicating settings between some clips. 🤦‍♂️🕶 Should be fine in the rest of the vids! Thanks 😊

@TheArtisticBiker 3 жыл бұрын

I use one similar to the last one. I have a REVIEW page with a table of Todays, a table of Weeks, a table of Months, Quarters, and Years. The numbers from the Todays roll up into the Weeks, which roll up into the Months, Quarters, Years...I can break it down by individual habit or by overall "Happiness" score. They are all figured to be 100% success if there are five marks in seven days and if the two missed are not together. I still have to figure out how to carry it over though so it gigs me if I miss Saturday of one week and Sunday of the next.

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

This sounds amazing! I'm just working on that - how to roll up daily tracking into an ongoing report for the year.

@TheArtisticBiker 3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating since you can't roll up a roll-up, you have to roll it up, then put it in a formula. Then you can roll the formula up to the next tier. On my weekly review where the happiness score "hs" is a roll-up average property from the level of completed daily routines, "Happiness" is formula where 'round(prop("hs") * 1000) / 1000.' That formula can be rolled up to the next tier where it is given the same treatment to track trends.

@SandraCERISE 2 жыл бұрын

I have both but I prefer the simpler version. By cons I do not regret my purchase because the rest is just beautiful !!

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the simpler version is definitely a lovely way to keep on top of things. Glad you are enjoying the template! :) it’s there to be adapted by you! :)

@ianandersongray 2 жыл бұрын

Great video, as always! I have a love/hate relationship with Steven Pressfield's War of Art book. I read it quite a few years ago, and got a lot from it, despite not being a fan of his writing style. The concept of resistance was REALLY helpful. He goes a bit weird in the third part of the book, but my main issue is the times he says some pretty outrageous and unhelpful things. Such as "Attention Deficit Disorder, Seasonable Affect Disorder, Social Anxiety Disorder. These aren’t diseases, they’re marketing ploys. Doctors didn’t discover them, copywriters did." - I got diagnosed with ADHD last year at the grand old age of 46 and as you can imagine, I take issue with that. But like with most books, you have to take the helpful bits, and discard the rest!

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Interesting perspective thanks - yes - ‘neurodivergance’ etc etc is an interesting world - I don’t like the use of the word ‘disorder’ as it suggests a norm - we are all on a spectrum and many of my friends whom have a later in life diagnosis of ADHD wouldn’t change their mind at all: they just wish for systems to make the things they need more tools for, and love to keep the ‘superpower’ they see in how they think ! Big love! Thanks for the comment.

@ianandersongray 2 жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating thanks for replying. I couldn't agree more. I really dislike the word "disorder" too. In fact, pretty much all the words in ADHD are wrong. It's not "attention deficit" it's more "attention dysregulation". Sometimes I find it hard to focus and sometimes I hyperfocus. I'm going to take your ideas and template and tweak them slightly, but I love the way you've put everything together. And the way you've set up the Stream Deck. It's pretty glorious. And I do smile at the joy on your face as you go through all these things. I share a similar joy! 🙂

@CaraMoulds1 3 жыл бұрын

I purchased the Complete Notion template and am loving it. I do like the Practices, except I don't like that there isn't a checkbox to just click on when I complete the habit. I don't want to open it and type a number in there every time. Is there a way to make a checkbox on that one like the other simple one? I'm going to try to figure out how to put that one on my Dashboard. (Notion newbie) PS. I love the images you've chosen for the cards. Makes me want to use it.

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Cara: yeah, the challenge of using a tick box system AND getting the flexible long term tracking that integrated with goals is really tricky to solve. This was my favourite solution so far: you might want to use a simpler one such as the tracker I show how to create in this video: but it doesn’t integrate and track as completely... kzfaq.info/get/bejne/fr9zobyF0arTn2g.html

@stefanoritteriofficial 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Simon,I bought and really loving your template! I have a question: I'm trying to add a habit that has a different frequency - EG: Piano practice twice a week. I'm not sure how to proceed? Should I create a new Frequency ? or how can input as a goal - 2 times x week or 8 times x month? Thank you! :)

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Hi - yeah I couldn’t work out how to program that functionality. I think the simplest approach in my current system is to have Piano Practice 1 and Piano Practice 2. Or you could set one for every 3 days…? I’m sure there is a solution! Anyone?! Thanks for watching :)

@saulvera5469 Жыл бұрын

love it so far but, what if i want to track let say, im a drummer and want to track specific patterns and exercises and how am i advancing , same with my max reps with bench press,squat, deadlift for 3 months withing the "workout tab"?

@BetterCreating Жыл бұрын

Thanks. Check out my more recent videos in NFS too if you liked this. In my templates I have also built a linked fitness tracker that does similar. It’s a bit of work and requires some good formulas, relations and roll ups across databases. But doable. :)

@hungminh9015 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much, I really like you

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@little.dragon1246 3 жыл бұрын

@Simon I love to you to track my finances in excel with Notion. I embed Excel in Notion.

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Nice idea: definitely some finances stuff in the pipeline this year :) Thanks

@christinad7038 2 жыл бұрын

hello! with the 2nd habit tracker, is it possible to include tasks that only need to be done every 2nd day? like a workout or so. if so how do i include it without the tracker thinking my score is just average because i skip every other day? :D

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Hi, Hum, tricky one. You could do it with a more complex formula that sets target for a period and then you log a number against that. Otherwise not sure. My super complex template does it I think, but I prefer using a simple tick box system. Not that helpful of me perhaps! Good luck. :)

@vertusmatjaz 2 жыл бұрын

I have a question. Namely, I want to keep track of what I do during the day. I have photo and video production and I work on several projects at once. I have written in Notion what I can do. But how much time I actually spend on what project I don’t know. If there was any button I would press when I go from project 1 to project 2. At the end of the day, I would like to see how much time I spent on Project 1 and Project 2.

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Hi Matjaz, I use my wider productivity system to manage my content production and manage time. Have you seen my complete Life OS videos and Template? This could give you some ideas: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qeCEjcd2ttnNqac.html and a day in my life on Notion: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oNOEdtqektjXdo0.html Tracking time on projects may be more tricky but I’m sure there is a formula somewhere that would calculate duration from calendar events with times included. Hope that helps! Thanks for watching

@faraazfarooqi5270 2 жыл бұрын

How do i plan for year 2022 in your notion template ?

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Cool: 1. Go to the goal setting page - generate a new year by clinking the + Start New Yearly Review and naming it 2022. 2. Do the review process: check out my ‘how to plan your year’ video for my guide. 3. Create 3 new goals labelled for 2022 in the goals database under ‘action into the system tab’ and you should be on your way! Hope that helps! I’ll be doing a video on this late December / Early Jan. :)

@austinjonesvelo6091 2 жыл бұрын

One thing about Simon? He’s going to have some toast and peanut butter!

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Haha, it’s so good.

@Evanescence4ever100 3 жыл бұрын

could you please share the habit tracker 1 template?

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

I will soon as part of a whole system template thing: I need to clean a few things up first!

@Evanescence4ever100 3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating okay that's great thanks! will it be paid?

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Interesting question: I’m working that out at the moment: it’s hours of work, so might ask for a small ‘thank you’ for the full system, helps me keep this channel ticking on too, but also want to keep lots of this free :) depends on which I make a ‘how to build it’ video for: so far all have been broken down as how to build videos.

@Evanescence4ever100 3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating okay haha. I hope it’s available soon 😊

@jdengelkirk 2 жыл бұрын

How do I just get the 2nd habit tracker you described?

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Hi there, yeah: it’s included in my life OS templates at www.bettercreating.com/downloads. The productive Life OS includes it along with a linked Goal setting / yearly review template and task manager etc. As do the complete and creative life OS. 👍

@BetterCreating 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@labulabuland 11 ай бұрын

8:00 how to plan my year vid

@pontimo789 3 жыл бұрын

Exiting that find you 🤩

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

@realsteelhammer3180 Жыл бұрын

How can I get the habbit tracker #1?

@BetterCreating Жыл бұрын

Hi Friend - you can either download it as one of my life OS templates, or I have a new build video on my Notion From Scratch KZfaq Playlist where you can build a slightly simpler version of it. :)

@realsteelhammer3180 Жыл бұрын

@@BetterCreating so if I buy your life OS -> the habbit tracker #1 is included?

@labulabuland 11 ай бұрын

✅w

@nexx410 3 жыл бұрын

Ugh…looks super elaborate but it’s not for me. I feel like it takes me too much time to create this.

@BetterCreating 3 жыл бұрын

You can download a free template of the simpler tick box tracker on my website if it feels like too much to build for you. :) and the more complex one is available in my complete system template: agree: that one is more of a project in itself to share with others!