Ever since I started this year I had great hope that I would smash that 90% target goal every single month for the rest of the year so that by the end of the year I end up doing 30 habits a day minimum.
Surprisingly, that wasn’t the case. from January to March 2025, I never managed to get 90% of Success rate or not even 88% (a voucher I can use three times per year, and it has never been used for this year so far).
The decline of performance is clearly visible from January to March. Here is the score for each each month:
January = 77.52%
February = 76.5%
March = 71.43%
If you want to learn about the results of these months then you can check the blogposts or podcasts below:
Results are out for Jan’s 21 habits, year 2025 or the podcast episode 12
February 2025 Habits Results: The Romance Month Got a New Name – Nullification or Episode 16 from the podcast.
Goals, results and lessons from March habits 2025 or you can listen to episode 17
But for now let’s focus on my habits results for April, May, June and July
April 2025 habits results
The goal is to get 88-90% of habits execution success rate.
April was the beginning of the second trimester of 2025, in which things should be executed differently, right? let’s check if that was the case.
Let’s see my habits performance from the best to worst with their checking-off criteria:
1) Making bed : making my bed mindfully → I completed this habit for a perfect 30 days and it was the only perfect habit of the month.
2) Brushing teeth : 1-3 times per day → I completed this habit for 29 days.
3) Time tracking: Time-tracking everything I work on (6–13 h/day) → 28 days, 523 hours logged.
4) Food tracking: documenting at least one meal to multiple meals a day → I executed this habit for 28 times.
5) Journaling: free journaling to answering 5/7 questions → I managed to do this habit for 27 times.
6) Money tracking: tracking any expenses or sources of income → I managed to do this habit for 26 times.
7) Reading: from 10 to 35 minutes → I read for 24 days, reading for 7 hours 33 minutes, and listening to audiobooks for a total of 13 hours and 23 minutes.
8) Planning: 2-4 hours planned hours per day → I planned for 23 days.
9) Stillness Finder LP (Learning project): meditating from 30-52 minutes and reading theory from 10-20 minutes → The meditation was done for 21 days.
10) Sweeping the floor → I did this habit for 20 days.
11) Productivity System: using 2-5 productivity tools → I’ve nailed this habit for 20 days.
12) Content creation: from 20 – 32 minutes → I spend 17 hours and 36 minutes creating content, that’s 20 days of habit completion.
13) Habit documenting: using 1- 3 tools → 19 days of habit completion.
14) Drinking water: from 1- 1.3 L → I achieved the minimum of drinking one litter for 18 days
15) Walking : 2500 – 3500 steps → 18 days of doing at least 2500 steps a day.
16) Habits statements: reading physical flash cards of the 21 habits from once to three times → 14 days in which at least I read the habits statements once.
17) The Yoga explorer LP: Yoga exercise less than one hour and reading yoga theory for less than 30 minutes → 9 days.
18) Cold shower: from 15 seconds warm water followed by 15 seconds of cold water to 30 seconds of warm water then 30 seconds of cold water → 8 days of habit execution.
19) Learning project: Doing upgraded memory for the first 12 days then I switched to Designing real products with InDesign yet unfortutantely I only executed this habit for 5 times only.
20) Dark Mode: closing my eyes 5-15 minutes before sleep → I did this habit for 4 times
21) Sleep schedule: following the zest mode 4 months 7 hours per night challenge by sleeping from 9 pm to 4 am → When it comes to this habit I only followed the exact schedule for 2 days.
The results of this month was another disappointment I fall from March = 71.43% to APRIL = 62.5% , that’ almost a 9% drop of habit performance.
Let’s jump to May 2025 habits
May 2025 habits
Same as April’s goals, the goal is to get 88-90% of habits execution success rate.
Let’s see my habits performance from the best to worst with their checking-off criteria:
1) Making bed : making my bed mindfully → did this habit for 31 days. A perfect one just like last month.
2) Time tracking: logging in the activities I do from 6 to 13.5 hours per day (a new target which is 13.5 hours compared to 13 hours last month) → I completed this habit for 30 days, 476 hours has been logged in.
3) Food tracking: documenting at least one meal to multiple meals a day → I executed this habit for 28 times.
4) Brushing teeth : 1-3 times per day → I completed this habit for 27 days
5) Money tracking: tracking any expenses or sources of income → I completed this habit for 27 days
6) Reading: from 10 to 35 minutes → I read for 27 days, this month I had 29 hours and 42 minutes dedicated for reading. 26 hours and 6 minutes spend on audiobooks, and 3 hours and 36 minutes spend on reading.
7) Journaling: free journaling + answering one question to answering 5/7 questions → I Journaled for 24 days
8) Walking : 2500 – 3500 steps → I walked at least 2500 steps a day for 24 days.
9) Planning: 2-4.5 hours planned hours per day → I planned for 23 days.
10) Productivity System: using 2 or 4 or 5 productivity tools → I’ve nailed this habit for 23 days.
11) Sweeping the floor → I did this habit for 19 days.
12) Stillness Finder LP (Learning project): meditating from 30-52 minutes and reading theory from 10-20 minutes → The meditation was done for 15 days.
13) Drinking water: from 1- 1.3 L → I achieved the minimum of drinking one litter for 14 days
14) Habit documenting: using 1- 3 tools → I documented my habits for 14 days according to the checking off criteria.
15) B1 Lingua Portuguesa LP: 25 minutes to 2 hours → Switched to Portuguese learning project and I invested 8 hours and 11 minutes during which I completed this habit for 12 days.
16) Content creation: from 20 – 32 minutes → I spend 14 hours and 53 minutes creating content, in terms of habits completion, I did the habit for 11 days.
17) Cold shower: from 15 seconds warm water followed by 15 seconds of cold water to 30 seconds of warm water then 30 seconds of cold water → 7 days of habit
18) The Yoga explorer LP: Yoga exercise less than one hour and reading yoga theory for less than 30 minutes → 6 completed days of execution.
19) Habits statements: reading physical flash cards of the 21 habits from once to three times → 14 days in which at least I read the habits statements once.
20) Dark Mode: closing my eyes 5-15 minutes before sleep → I did this habit for 1 time.
21) Sleep schedule: following the zest mode 4 months 7 hours per night challenge by sleeping from 9 pm to 4 am → In this month I had the score of zero.
Jumping to the results, may wasn’t a great month either.
The habit execution was 58.2% for this month.
The descending is still going from 71.43% to 58.2% let’s jump into June month.
June 2025 habits
As always, the goal is to get 88-90% of habits execution success rate, that’s about doing my habits 555 times out of 630.
Let’s see my habits performance from the best to worst with their checking-off criteria:
For this month I had 3 perfect habits in which I did each one of them 30 days.
1) Making bed : making my bed mindfully → did this habit for 30 days. A perfect one just like last month.
2) Time tracking: logging in the activities I do from 6 to 14 hours per day (a new target which is 14 hours compared to 13.5 hours last month) → I did this habit for the 30 days.
3) Brushing teeth : 1-3 times per day → I completed this habit for 30 days.
Now let’s move to non-perfect habits.
4) Reading: from 10 to 35 minutes → I read for 28 days, the total amount spend reading was 26 hours and 10 minutes.
Audiobooks → 17 hours and 37 minutes
Books → 8 hours and 33 minutes
5) Food tracking: documenting at least one meal to multiple meals a day → I executed this habit for 28 times.
6) Walking : 2500 – 3500 steps → I walked at least 2500 steps a day for 27 days.
7) Money tracking: tracking any expenses or sources of income → I completed this habit for 26 days
8) Productivity System: using 2 or 4 or 5 productivity tools → I’ve nailed this habit for 26 days.
9) Planning: 2-4 hours planned hours per day → I planned for 23 days.
10) Sweeping the floor → I did this habit for 23 days.
11) Journaling: free journaling + answering one question to answering 5/7 questions → I Journaled for 22 days
12) B1 Lingua Portuguesa LP: 30 minutes to 1.5 hours → decreasing the needed time to do the learning helped me execute this habit for 19 days.
13) Drinking water: from 1- 1.3 L → I achieved the minimum of drinking one litter for 18 days
14) Content creation: from 20 – 32 minutes → I spend 24 hours and 54 minutes creating content. This habit was executed for 18 days.
15) Stillness Finder LP (Learning project): meditating from 30-52 minutes and reading theory from 10-20 minutes → I completed this habit for 10 days.
16) The Yoga explorer LP (Learning project): Yoga exercise less than one hour and reading yoga theory for less than 30 minutes → I did yoga both the theory and practice for 9 days.
17) Habit documenting: using 1- 3 tools → the habit was completed for 8 days.
18) Cold shower: from 15 seconds warm water followed by 15 seconds of cold water to 30 seconds of warm water then 30 seconds of cold water → 7 days.
19) Habits statements: reading physical flash cards of the 21 habits from once to three times → 5 days.
20) Dark Mode: closing my eyes 5-15 minutes before sleep → I did this habit 4 times
21) Sleep schedule: following the zest mode 4 months 7 hours per night challenge by sleeping from 9 pm to 4 am → In this month I slept on time two times.
When it comes to the results of this month, Another bad month, the only positive thing about it is I had a better results compared to last month.
The habit execution was 62.4% for this month.
July 2025 habits
The goal is aim for 88-90% success rate, which means doing my habits for at least 573 times out of 651.
For this month I had one perfect habit which is making bed
1) Making bed : making my bed mindfully → did this habit for 31 days. A perfect one just like last month.
Let’s switch to the other 20 habits:
2) Time tracking: logging in the activities I do from 6 to 14.5 hours per day (a new target which is 14.5 hours compared to 14 hours last month) → I did this habit for the 28 days. I had logged in 426 hours 37 minutes during this month.
3) Money tracking: tracking any expenses or sources of income → I completed this habit for 28 days
4) Brushing teeth : 1-3 times per day → I completed this habit for 26 days.
5) Food tracking: documenting at least one meal to multiple meals a day → I executed this habit for 26 days.
6) Reading: from 10 to 37 minutes → I read for 22 days, the total amount spend reading was 31 hours and 51 minutes.
Audiobooks → 27 hours and 32 minutes
Books → 4 hours and 18 minutes
7) Sweeping the floor → I did this habit for 22 days.
8) Productivity System: using 2 or 4 or 5 productivity tools → I’ve completed this habit for 22 days.
9) Walking : 2500 – 4000 steps → I walked at least 2500 steps a day for 22days.
10) Planning: 2-4.5 hours planned hours per day → I planned for 19 days.
11) Journaling: free journaling to answering 5/7 questions → I Journaled for 19 days
12) Habit documenting: using 1- 3 tools → the habit was completed for 15 days.
13) Drinking water: from 1- 1.3 L → I achieved the minimum of drinking one litter for 14 days
14) Stillness Finder LP (Learning project): meditating from 30-52 minutes and reading theory from 10-20 minutes → I completed this habit for 9 days.
15) Content creation: from 20 – 32 minutes → I spend 24 hours and 54 minutes creating content. This habit was executed for 5 days.
16) The Yoga explorer LP (Learning project): Yoga exercise less than one hour and reading yoga theory for less than 30 minutes → I did yoga both the theory and practice for 4 days.
17) B1 Lingua Portuguesa LP: 30 minutes to 1.5 hours → I’ve completed this habit for 4 days.
18) Cold shower: from 15 seconds warm water followed by 15 seconds of cold water to 30 seconds of warm water then 30 seconds of cold water → 2 days.
19) Habits statements: reading physical flash cards of the 21 habits from once to three times → 2 days.
20) Dark Mode: closing my eyes 5-15 minutes before sleep → Not even a single day
21) Sleep schedule: following the zest mode 4 months 7 hours per night challenge by sleeping from 9 pm to 4 am → same as dark mode.
The final result for July 2025 is 51%, 11.4% drop of performance.
What to make of these results?
The results shows that my approach to habits is not efficient.
As you can see in the graph the results are having a downtrend that started from January till July.
And that my interest into completing them keeps weakening over and over.
The solution is I thought is to go for a reboot for the next months, to diagnose the exact problems I am having with habits and turn my progress upward.
What about you? are you doing great with your habits? or you are experiencing a decline in your performance too? drop your story below.
If you are interested to see more updates about my habit journey then wait for the next post, because it’s shipping soon.
Stay healthy and productive.
