February is the shortest month of the year, and since it has ended, we need to discuss my habit results for the month.
To check the habits I worked on and their objectives you can read My 21 Habit Goals for February 2025
Do we have any perfect habits?
The most fun thing about building habits is aiming to complete a habit every day of the month.
Let’s see how many habits reached this criterion.
We have two perfect habits.
Brushing my teeth and making my bed.
Brushing Teeth:
I brushed my teeth 52 times across the 28 days.
Making Bed:
Two easy effortless habits.
No NEED to make any effort to execute them.
The other 19 habits ranking
I managed to do content creation and time tracking for 27 days.
Only one day missing.
Content creation:
I have 50 hours hours I spend research and writing content.
That’s 1.78 hours per day.
Time tracking:
29 days where I logged in at least 6 hours per day.
Here are the top 5 recorded activities:
Just a quick note: sleep has been logged in more than 152 hours, because I track sleeping and napping in separate tasks.
Also, the fifth place is supposed to be taken by reading, but because I have reading split into books and audiobooks tasks, both of them together equal to 16.5 hours which is above the browsing time (15 hours and 20 minutes).
Next, I have 4 habits which I executed for 26 times each:
Reading:
sweeping the floor:
habits documenting:
Walking:
Then we have 5 habits I did for 25 times each:
Money tracking, Planning, The stillness Finder, habits statements, food tracking.
money tracking:
Planning:
The stillness Finder:
Food Tracking:
Habits statements:
Now let’s jump into the habits in which I did 24 times. we have two:
YOGA EXPLORER:
Productivity system:
With the score of 23:
Journaling:
Drinking water:
Drinking water I did it for 21 days.
we have covered 17 habits, so far.
only 4 habits left:
one got a score below 20 which is learning Project.
And lastly we have 3 habits, each one of them got 3, except for cold shower.
Sleep schedule, dark mode and cold shower.
Sleep Schedule:
Dark Mode
Cold Shower
The final results?
The highest score possible is doing the habits 21x 28 days = 588 times.
In February 2025, I managed to finish my habits 454 times.
That is 454/588= 76.5% of success rate
The goal was to get at least 88-90% yet I failed to realize such goal.
But the surprising thing is both of January and February got almost the same percentage.
January = 77.52%
February = 76.5%
Yes there was a minor difference of 1 % yet I would have liked it if the results were reversed at least I WOULD feel I have made a tiny PROGRESS.
But you know what? the results were supposed to be higher than last month if I didn’t make a tiny mistake which you will know in the next section.
Nullification is the art of unchecking habits off.
Wait a second, you are telling me now the goal is to uncheck habits off? is that a trend or what?
Nope it’s not a trend and it can never be called building habit if we are actually destroying them.
Then what it is about?
It’s about doing a habit, then realizing you didn’t do it as intended, and once you realize that, you nullify it.
Let me show you an example from the February month.
By the 16th day of February, I have noticed something weird regarding the cold shower.
According to the checking off criteria for cold showers for February 2025, it’s considered done in 3 cases:
1 → 15 seconds of warm water followed by 15 seconds of cold water
2 → 25 seconds of warm water followed by 25 seconds of cold water
3 → 30 seconds of warm water followed by 30 seconds of cold water
The problem with these 3 conditions of making the habit successful is that they are the goal of January 2025, and I wanted to change them into:
1 → 15 seconds of cold shower
2 → 25 seconds of cold shower
3 → 30 seconds of cold shower
As you can see, we don’t have the warm shower part. I intended to remove that part, and I already thought I did, that’s why for the first 16 days of February I was executing habit from the perspective that, I only need to do cold showers to check off the habit (no need for warm showers anymore). However, when I reviewed the list of my goals habits, specifically for the cold shower habit. I realized it still has the warm showers part as requirement before switching to the cold water. That realization, made me forced to do the nullification of all the completed sessions of cold shower from 1 to 16 February. They were 8 times. and so they have been altered from done to undone.
This nullification process had cost me to undone 8 habits of cold shower which dropped my final score by 1.3%, which could have helped me to get 77.8% of success rate, 0.3% of improvement compared to January’s 2025 habits.
The takeaway from this post?
If you’re serious about building your habits and documenting them you should be aware of not doing them the wrong way by forgetting the check-off criteria. For example, say your goal for water drinking is 1.6 liters, but you forget and drink 1.5 liters instead, and you go ahead and check off the habit, only to realize that it must be nullified. In other words, nullification must be applied.
So one should constantly review the habit check-off criteria to avoid performing them incorrectly.
And what will you earn from this? Honest results.
You don’t want to build false data that misrepresents your effort.
Your efforts deserve to be presented the right way.
That way, you honor your habits and yourself.
Now, did it ever occur to you that you end up nullifying your habits because of something you noticed later on? Then let me know in the comments.
Stay healthy and productive!
