Minimalist Journaling

Minimalist Journaling: A Fun and Effective Tool for Tremendous Habit Change

"The key to pursuing excellence is to embrace an organic, long-term learning process, and not to live in a shell of static, safe mediocrity." - Josh Waitzkin.
A common trait of successful people: consistency.
Having motivation and time is not enough.
- motivation weakening.
Working on consistency is unpleasant and seem impossible.
UI and OS Approach to habit tracking / journaling.
- intentionally repurpose your psychology to work like a dashboard.
- OS: your mind. complex and overwhelming.
- UI: Like an app. a view into the mind specific to certain thing you want to acheive.
Engaging in the things you want to improve / make habit of feels great, but the catch is you feel great after the habit sticks to you.
- Fin a way to run those apps(habit tracking) whenever your OS(mind) goes into crisis.
achieveing lasting changes:
- Awareness of the changes one desires to make.
- Identifying problems and solutions.
- Commitment to making the change.

Method

Every morning draw a square. Each square is a day. At the end of the day you fill in the square with info.
Remind yourself that every day is unique and will never happen again.
Reassure yourself that even if I fail you will have another square for tomorrow.
On the center of the square, record what you want to remember from that day. (wins. gratitude.)
Mark on parts of the square what you want to track. This could be anything. Make it visual and appealing.
Go over the squares periodically and retrospect.