Two failed attempts (January and February habits) to reach the habit number 22.
but the battle didn’t end yet.
It’s still pretty much here.
My efforts exists as long there is a breath in my body.
Now when it come to the habits goals of March there are minor changes, the habits that are changed in terms of goals, are highlighted in the black color.
The target goal is 88-90% of the success rate across the 21 habits.
Here is the list of the habits with their goals.
The Habits goals For March 2025
1) Reading → for 10-35 minutes a day.
2) Planning → for 2-4 hours a day.
3) The Stillness Finder Learning Project → (Meditating for 30-50minutes / 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 5 or 7 randomly picked questions from the 13 available questions
6) Time tracking → must login at least 6 hours to 12.5 hours per day
7) Cold showers → Warm water for 15-30 seconds followed by cold shower for 15-30 seconds
8) Drinking water → from 1-1.3 litters/day
9) Making my 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 to connect with them emotionally
13) Upgraded Memory Learning project → studying for 25 minutes to -2.5 hours a day.
14) Money Tracking → Tracking my expenses using the android application
15) Sleep Schedule → Sleeping for 7 hours
16) Food Tracking → writing down the things I eat during the day
17) Productivity System → using 2-5 apps/tools
18) Content creation → for 20-32 minutes
19) Habit documenting → using 1-3 tools
20) Dark Mode → closing my eyes before 5-15 minutes of sleep
21) Walking → for 2500 – 3500 steps every day
The results of my habits execution
Since we have 21 habits, the results can be different from one habit to another.
The most optimal habits are those executed for a perfect 31 days.
Luckily for me, I have 4 perfect habits for this month. That’s a 100% improvement compared to last month, in which I only had 2 perfect habits.
The perfect habits
.Now, what is the first perfect habit for March 2025?
It’s journaling, one of the most enjoyable habits of mine.
Here are some stats for this month:
- 19,873 characters
- 3,378 words
- 303 sentences
Now, which words had the most appearances during this month?
We have “March” with 39 appearances.
Next, “love” with 29 appearances. You can consider this to be the real number one, because the first is merely the name of the month I’m writing about.
Then comes the egoistic word “am” with 28 appearances. I mean, who else am I going to write about if not myself? Journaling is, for the most part, a self-centered approach to life documentation, right?
The fourth term is “life,” with 28 appearances.
Well, at least it’s not “death” that I’m mentioning this much, I guess.
And lastly, the word “moment,” which appeared 21 times. This word mainly comes from the question, “What’s the moment of joy?” which I think is a very nice way to scan your day looking for moments of appreciation, rather than moments of negativity.
Now that we are done with journaling, what’s next?
TIME TRACKING!!
I logged 492 hours and 26 minutes.
Here is the ranking of the top 7 activities:
Sleep tops the list with 165 hours, followed by work, where I recorded 83 hours and 44 minutes.
Again, these are just the logged hours. There were more work and sleep hours than what my time tracker recorded, but I have to stay loyal to the data.
In third place, we have naps with 44 hours and 23 minutes.
If we group both sleep and naps, we find that I was averaging 6 hours and 44 minutes of sleep a day.
In fourth place, we have the “Stillness Finder” learning project (meditation theory and practice), with 37 hours.
Browse occupied a huge chunk of my time with 33 hours and 25 minutes. This number is twice the time spent compared to last month.
Another task, also at 33 hours, is “PlannedRoutine,” which is any time I spend creating content.
As for audiobooks, they took 7th place with 11 hours and 29 minutes, mostly spent listening to the audiobook Introduction to Cognitive Science by Professor Thad A. Polk, which is one of the books I meant to read for the first trimester of 2025.
As for the other two habits that I completed for 31 days, they are: making my bed and sweeping the floor.
The less than perfect habits
I have 4 habits that I completed 30 times each:
- Meditation (the “Stillness Finder” learning project)
- Food Tracking
- Money Tracking
- Brushing Teeth
All of these habits could have been perfect if it weren’t for completing them at the last moment, just before 10 p.m. (I have a rule that I’m not allowed to do habits past 10 p.m.).
Do we have habits that I completed for just 29 days? Nope, we don’t have any.
Then 28? Yes, we have one, which is planning. For this habit: on 8 days, I planned and executed for less than 3 hours, and on the remaining 20 days, I planned and executed for 3 hours or more.
We’ve covered 9 habits so far; 12 habits left to complete the list.
When it comes to scoring 27 of a habit completion, we have the productivity system and drinking water. As I stated above, we have 5 apps to use in this habit system, and this is how I used them over those 27 days:
- 8 days of using 2 apps
- 4 days of using 4 apps
- 15 days of using 5 apps
The more apps one uses, the better one notices the pros and cons of such a system. At some point in the future, I will turn this habit system into a guide that you can test for yourself.
Speaking of drinking water, here is the performance over those 27 days:
- On 10 days, I drank 1.0 L each.
- On 15 days, I drank 1.2 L each.
- Finally, on 2 days, I drank 1.3 L each.
I completed the “habit documenting” habit for 26 days.
For the content creation habit, I spent 20 minutes or more per day for 25 days.
Also, I did the walking habit for 25 days, missing 6 days where I didn’t achieve the minimum of 2,500 steps.
I successfully read books for 24 days, reading at least 10 minutes per day.
As for listening to audiobooks, the total was 11 hours and 29 minutes.
The total amount of time spent reading books was 10 hours and 42 minutes..
Together they make 22 hours and 11 minutes of reading.
Habits in which I did less than 20 days
I have one habit between 10 and 20 days, it’s the yoga explorer in which I did it for 15 days.
We’ve finally arrived at the habits that I completed in less than 10 days (pretty disappointing, if you ask me!).
Starting off with “Habit Statements,” I only did it 7 times. It could have been 21, but it was less. You wonder why?
Because after doing this habit for 14 days, I realized that the habit statements on the flashcards were for fewer than 21 habits. Hence, I had to apply the “habit nullification” on those days. I corrected the deck by adding the missing cards and managed to complete the habit 7 times in the remaining days of the month.
I completed my learning project and took cold showers 6 times each.
Now, let’s go below a score of 5. “Wow, I didn’t expect you to go that low,” you might say.
Well, I have two interconnected habits, which are dark mode and sleep. If I don’t sleep, dark mode is pretty much skipped alongside it.
Each of them got a score of 2.
The final result of March 2025
Now that you know the results of each habit, can you guess the global result of doing them?
Well, we have to do the math to figure out the final result, which is an easy formula:
The total number of habit executions / The total possible amount of habit executions for March.
That is: 464/651=0.7127
So the final result is 71.27%.
That’s below the target goal, which is 88-90%.
Compared to last month, I did worse. February = 76.5% > 71.27%
What’s going on here?
The results keep decreasing. It’s as if I am experiencing a decline in the habit process. I think I am experiencing the byproduct of the “fresh start effect.” In a new year, everything looks shiny and achievable until it’s not.
Well, I still think that achieving better results is within my reach. I have more reasons to do my habits than to give them up just because my commitment is less pronounced.
Let’s see what April has in store for us!
Now my dear reader, have you experienced any drop in your performance when it comes to your habits? If yes, tell me what caused that for you.
