Make Good Habits Stick Easily With Productive—the Habit Tracker

Building good habits like establishing an exercise routine, reading every day, or drinking enough water take a lot of focus and motivation. At times, it can be easy to forget to continue your good habit once you started. Some days you might lack the motivation to even try. You might have found that once you’ve gone a few days without your good habit, you lose enthusiasm to continue. 80% of New Year’s resolutions fail but the second week of February.^[1] It is a widespread, and common problem.

What we need, then, is a way to easily keep track of our good habits. For example, if someone wanted to run for twenty minutes a day, it could be useful to have something to help them plan their day around it or keep track of the days they have succeeded in running for twenty minutes.

The app Productive has been designed with this is in mind. Effective use of the app could make maintaining good habits easier, and fun, thanks to the numerous ways the app helps you. Let’s take a look at how Productive helps you build the habit you’ve always wanted.

1. Plan your day

What makes the app so useful is that it encourages you to break down when exactly you want to engage in your good habit. It gives you the chance to decide and separate your positive habits into morning and afternoon habits, which gives you the needed push to ensure you do them.

When I started meditation I noticed that when I chose a specific time in advance to meditate, I was far more likely to follow through with my plans and actually meditate when compared to times I didn’t have a particular time in mind. This app ensures you won’t make the same mistake I did.

2. Focus on your habits

The app is very clearly organized by habit, unlike other ways of scheduling, where your habit might be easily lost or drowned out by other options. Displaying things in a simple, and clear manner makes your habit a clear goal to be achieved.

3. Establish a routine

In many ways, we all live by routine. The things you do every day are done almost without thought. Everything from brushing your teeth, to the drive to work is done the same way because it is routine to you. Once something has been established as part of your routine, you don’t need to worry about remembering to do something, or finding the enthusiasm to do something, in the end, you just do it. If you want to set up a good habit, making it part of your daily routine can be hugely important.

Productive helps you do that by helping you keep track of the days you have performed your positive habit and the days you have not.

4. Sustain motivation.

Productive keeps a record of all of your statistics and successes, available for you to check on at any time. This means that progress will feel all the more real and concrete. It is easy to not do something if you don’t think you are making any improvements in it. As you are able to see for yourself how well you are doing in maintaining your good habit, you will naturally feel more motivated to continue.

The app can log your progress over weeks. After a month or two, you’ll be able to see how far you’ve come since you’ve started. This might even give you the extra enthusiasm to start establishing many other great habits.

Currently, Productivity is only available on iOS devices. You can install it for free and start to build habits with its basic functions. Install Productivity here.

Or you can consider the premium version which is reasonably priced and you can subscribe to it from anything from one month to one year or more. With the premium version comes with all features and is fully customizable and so can you can tailor it to suit your preferences exactly.

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Source: Lifehack