I had a scathingly brilliant idea.
My daily list of things To Do included nine things that I do every day. It seems silly to write them and rewrite them. Especially when my planner features an entire section of habit trackers with a lot of lines. It includes the ability to track weekly or daily.
Hmm, I thought. Maybe I could list these daily items on the habit trackers and just check them off. That would be so much easier. I'd be writing things once a month instead of 28-31 times a month.
Never mind that I never use habit trackers because I forget they exist. This time it's going to work. I'm sure of it.
I got one of my small magnetic clips out to mark the page and I filled in the habit tracker with the things I need to remember to do every day. When I filled out my daily pages for the week, I left those items off the list. This was so much easier!
Until I forgot the habit trackers existed...just like I always do.
I made it about three days before I moved my daily items back to the daily pages.
There was more than my forgetting about the habit trackers at play here. The ones in my planner were big, allowing me to list a lot of items. It became hard to see what I was tracking because there were so many. And because there were so many, my ADHD brain became overwhelmed. I rarely remembered I was using them, and then when I did remember and flipped over, I was spinning. Not great.
Then I had another scathingly brilliant idea. What if I used a four-habits habit tracker? I could paste it on my weekly page. I always turn to my weekly section--it's where I record the weather. :-) This would get four things I do every day off my daily pages.
It's really amazing how a sticker can disappear on a planner page, isn't it?
After two habit tracker failures, I gave up. I'm back to writing my daily items on every daily page. It might be tedious, but at least this way I know I won't forget to do something that needs to be done. And no, I can't remember to meditate even though I do it every day. Yeah. Sigh.
