MEGATRACKER - a great habit tracker

One tracker to rule them all… :)

MEGATRACKER is one of my favourite spreads! 

It is an all in one habit + health + mood tracker. You can track and check everything in one place with this. It’s really fabulous! And also fancy... 

When I started bullet journaling, I knew that tracking my habits could be a helpful and also joyful solution to manage my life. And habit trackers look good too...

So in my first monthly setup I made a lot of tracker, more than 6 pages! It was terrible. I use a different colour for every line, so it took a lot of time to fill it every day, so I hated it. And I made another big mistake: I try to start too many new good habits in the same time, so most of them failed and I was really upset and depressed. I hated the empty spaces in the trackers, because they told me: I was a disaster.

So in the next month I tried a totally different way. And megatracker was born! I choose that habits I really did and pick only a few new one. Then I sorted my habits about HOW OFTEN I should do them, so I have DAILY, WEEKLY and ANYTIME I CAN tasks. Then I selected them about WHY I should do them? I had ‘for my body’, ‘for my soul’, ‘for an almost clean house’, ‘for have fun’ sections. Then I put everything in the same place, but in different charts on a double page, and I used only two pens to fill it. It was quick, and included a lot of information, so I fall in love with it. The empty spaces on those pages I filled with a mood- and energy tracker and some positive routines and quotes. It inspired me a lot! I use it every day, and finally it looks good too.

Later I started to track my health- and eating habits too, and put my sleep tracker and mood tracker in my ‘megatracker’ too.

I improve it every month, and of course I actualize it too. And if I’d like to have a new good habit or lose a bad one, I choose some for every month.

So how to have your own super-giga-mega tracker?

1) Choose your good and bad habits which you’d like to track and check.

2) Sort them about HOW OFTEN you should do them.

3) Sort them about WHY you should do them.

4) Choose only a few new habits you’d like to have or loose.

5) Count them, now you know how many columns you need by category.

6) Make a big chart for daily things, tasks and habits. Mine called DAILIES.

7)  Make another for weekly things, tasks and habits. Mine called WEEKLIES.

8) Make a place for priority thing which ones you cannot do regularly, but you’d like to do as often you can. These are my ANYTIME things. (in the middle on the top this time)

* You should work with pencil first, to find the right place for everything. Remember: everything should be fit in a double page, because it is more effective to see everything in one place, in this way you won’t forget anything.

9) Simplify the usage as much as you can.

Mine need only a half minute to fill every day. If it is too complicate, you’ll never have enough time to fill it and you will not use it at all!

10) You can decorate it, if you want, but it really cool with minimal style too.

+1) I have an extra trick: I usually mark the page, to find it easily.

+2) and other trick:  I use the same colour for the same days of the week (for example red for all the Mondays, green for all the Tuesdays, blue for all the Sundays etc.) In this way I need only one pen to fill a day, and I always know in WEEKLIES or in ANYTIMES on which day I did them. And of course it looks great too.

So that’s all.

And why I do that? Cause I can learn a lot about myself, my habits and my life via this. I could see, e.g. why I’m so depressed  at that time, I see how often I do a housework and how man time I spend for myself or my hobbies. It is inspire me a lot and motivate to keep a new good habit or lose a bad one. It makes me proud, to see how many things I can approve every day and every week. And also these things and tasks I don’t have to put anywhere else, so in my daily/weekly logs I don’t  have to keep them again, so I spare a lot of time for myself and a lot of free space for my journal too.

I really, really love it, so please let me know, if you try it. Or dare to ask, if you have a problem to make your own! I’ll try to help.

But for while, here is my actual MEGATRACKER. Maybe it gives you some inspiration.

My first section is ‘BODY’. Weekly tasks are on the top and dailies are on the bottom side. I check here everything belongs to my body&beauty care. Can I approve my good morning routine? Have enough time to go through carefully to my oral-totalcare routine with special brushes and flush (called Lacalut)? Do any sport? And here is a new habit for this month: my eyelashes are terrible weak, so I get a special serum for them; just I always forget to use it...until now!

Second part is ‘HOUSEWORKS’. I have three little son, so my home is always a war-scene. I do housework all day (and in the morning and evening too) but nothing is visible from it! That is why I follow them here! After a tiring day, I can see why I am a zombie and I realize which things I miss too. In weeklies I always forget when I water the plants and change kid’s bedding, so it’s really helpful to see I already should.

*I always have some free lines, ‘cause during the month I often figure out new tasks.

Next part is for my ‘SOUL’. Everything is here to fill me up with sunshine. It is maybe insane, but home alone with three kids, to watch a (part of a) movie or a whole series episode and have some real free time are very big deals!

Last section is for ‘SOCIAL’. Any interaction with an ADULT human being is a miracle for me nowadays! So that’s why I track, how many times I can go out or contact with my friends. And of course spend some time with my husband WITHOUT KIDS also very important, but hard to organize.

All these are marked with a dot, if I can do or not - on that day or on that week.

But next page includes my ‘HEALTH TRACKERS’ with special marks. 

In the first part I follow my eating habits. Can I have breakfast? Can I eat enough vegetables and fruits?  How many cups of coffees I need to stay alive and how many really healthy meals can I even eat?

I have also a problem to drink enough water, that is why I check my WATER INTAKE and this is motivate me to reach my ‘drinking goals’.

Next part actually I called ‘FRAME OF MIND’. Here are my mood&activity trackers. I mark here my average daily activity-, energy- and mood-level and I put here my dominant feelings (with alphabet codes). Am I feeling sick, maybe depressed or just tired? Am I have a super happy time or feel myself super creative that day? Mostly it is explain why my mood- and energy level is so high or low.

The last part is my ‘SLEEPING TRACKER’. I mark here only the full amount of my sleeping hours per a day. It’s not much. But hope it will better...

ANYTIME goals (in the middle) are my priority tasks for the actual month. I put a mark, if I can reach any of them, anytime.

I also have two mini-trackers: one for the WEATHER, because the average weather is really affect my mood and kids’ mood too. And a CREATE tracker. Here I put signs for each day, what kind of creative activity did I that day. It’s not much again, but repeats: I HAVE THREE LITTLE LITTLE SON. So I hope better times will come...

And do you think, it’s nice but you’ll never have time for it? It’s not true! Figure out your system on the first time maybe longer, but then you just have to improve it! It takes max. an hour to settle up every month, but lots of information with only a few time benefits (for me just a half minute) every day!

And here is how I made these things:

Yes, I play with trains (with my three years old son), draw with my little one (on the left), and telling stories for my 5 years old (on the right side). SO if I can do it, you can do it too. :) 

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*these photos above are all from my bullet journal books, these pages I made myself, if you share please ask me before: createmysunhine@gmail.com.

** you can find more pics from my journals here: https://www.instagram.com/createmysunshine/