A new year is here, but we must also bid farewell to another month.
The good thing is we still have 11 more months—but don’t take time for granted.
If you ignore time, you might end up wasting another year without even realising it.
As I mentioned on my socials, my 21 habits remain the same as in the past few months just a few changes to checking off criteria for this month.
Let’s review the goals of each habit below
1) Reading → for 10-33 minutes a day.
2) Planning → for 2-4 hours a day.
3) The Stillness Finder Learning Project → (Meditating for 30-46 minutes / Studying Meditation materials for 10-30 minutes)
4) The Yoga Explorer Learning Project → (Doing yoga for 10 minutes or more depending on the workout / Studying Yoga Materials for 10-30 minutes)
5) Journaling → Writing about my day using free form of journaling or answering from 11 to 12 questions.
6) Time tracking → logging in at least 6 hours/day
7) Cold showers → from 15- 30 seconds
8) Drinking water → from 1-1.3 litters/day
9) Making bed → the first habit of the day
10) Brushing teeth → 1-3 times per day
11) Sweeping the floor → to maintain a clean room.
12) Habits statements → reading the physical flash cards for each habit statement
13) Upgraded Memory Learning project → studying for 25 minutes to -2.5 hours a day.
14) Money Tracking → Using an android Application to log in the expenses and income
15) Sleep Schedule → Sleeping for 7 hours
16) Food Tracking → Documenting the things I eat during the day
17) Productivity System → using 3-5 tools
18) Content creation → for 20-30 minutes
19) Habit documenting → using 1-3 tools
20) Dark Mode → closing my eyes before 5-15 minutes of sleep
21) Walking → for 2000 – 3000 steps every day
Let’s jump straight to the results of each habit.
The perfect Habits
Starting off with the perfect habits.
2 Habits I got the perfect score: Making Bed and Brushing teeth.
Making bed is something of course so easy that I do it without paying any attention to my mind, it’s easy and effortless but it’s very important in terms of checking more things off, because having one goal met can boost your mind to do more and more.
Same thing goes for brushing teeth, I am aware as soon as I finish a meal that it’s time to brush the teeth.
Nearly Perfect Habits
Here are the habits in which I only missed one day:
The Stillness Finder LP (Meditation)
Meditation felt effortless this month, despite missing one day due to overconfidence—I thought I could do it in the evening, but a meeting ended up taking three times longer than expected.
One thing that was a bit disappointing is that all my meditation sessions were 30 minutes, except for three days when I did 46-minute sessions.
The reason I emphasise the duration of meditation is that the longer the session, the more training my mind gets. I intended the 30-minute sessions as a baseline for extremely busy days, but my mind seemed to take it as a green light to settle for less. This is something to work on next month.
Journaling
Journaling is one of my strongest habits, yet this month I let a day slip—just like with meditation—thinking I could summarise the day in the evening. However, this can be tricky since other habits compete with journaling. As a result, I missed one day, which is okay.
What I noticed this month is that I engaged in free journaling every day for 30 days.
That wasn’t my original intention because free journaling can be so easy—you just write until you feel done. As a result, I neglected answering or reflecting on the daily prompts, which made me miss out on potential insights I could have documented.
Time Tracking
Time tracking is another effortless habit of mine—I track most of my tasks. However, I missed one day because I didn’t track my working hours or sleep, which resulted in documenting only three hours of tracked activities. My criteria for checking off this habit include tracking at least six hours per day.
Sleep was the most tracked activity, followed by work, then browsing.
Browsing was certainly in the wrong place, I need to diagnose that area for better future investment of time.
The other habits from the best to the worst results
Reading → I spent 24 hours reading books and executed this habit for 29 days.
Sweeping the floor → 29 times—this could have been a perfect habit. Yet like I said before, leaving things for the last moment, gives me less time to execute many habits at once.
Money tracking → Did the habit for 29 days, sometimes I just forget to track things because I procrastinate on that, thinking it would be easy to add them later on, yet I end up forgetting—this is why I missed two days.
Food tracking → similar to money tracking in both results and why I missed Two days. It’s having the tendency to not document the food I eat on real time , but rather write everything I ate during the day right after doing the journaling session.
Productivity system →Since I need to use at least three specific productivity tools, I sometimes forget one—especially the task management tool. Not checking off tasks on my list caused me to miss two days.
Habit documenting → I improved my habit documentation this month compared to last month. Last month, I met the checking-off criteria for only eight days. That doesn’t mean I didn’t document my habits throughout the month, but I had set a higher bar for marking them as completed. Since I lowered the criteria this month, I ended up successfully documenting habits for 29 days.
The Yoga explorer LP → 27 days of doing Yoga—definitely an improvement from last month’s disappointing five days.
Walking → Meeting the criteria of walking 2000 steps or more for 27 days.
Habits statements → I completed this habit for 25 days. Ever since I switched to physical cards with a minimalistic , visually appealing design, that improved my results. This was better than doing the dull flash cards, which I removed as a checking-off criteria this month.
Drinking water → Despite lowering the baseline to 1 liter of water per day, I sometimes forgot to drink enough water before 10 pm which resulted in only 24 days of hitting my target.
Planning → Successfully planned and executed at least two hours of tasks on 24 days.
Content creation →21 days of at least 20 minutes of content creation per day. The good news is that I bounced back from last month’s terrible results, where I spent only 1 hour and 38 minutes on content creation over three days. This month, I managed to improve that performance sevenfold.
Cold shower → 14 times of taking cold shower.
The Upgraded Memory Learning project → Completed 11 sessions times this month, but not making much progress through the materials—this needs a solution.
Dark mode and Sleep → These two habits go hand in hand—if you mess up dark mode, your sleep suffers. I managed to follow a test sleep schedule for only three days.
while dark mode was followed five times. On two occasions, I followed dark mode rules but still woke up in the middle of the night, which ruined my sleep habit.
Final Score
If we combine the results of all 21 habits, I executed my habits 505 times out of 651, which gives me a 77.57% success rate—10.43% below my target.
I was aiming for a minimum of 88%, but I fell short.
To make up for this shortfall, I need to address the weaker habits of the month and work on them more to achieve at least 88%—only then will I consider adding my 22nd habit.
See you in the next post!
