Update whiteboard with progress stats of goals every week

HABIT #12

Starting Sunday, 25 December 2022 | Day 5

Details & Clarification

I have a whiteboard where I track the lead indicators of my most important goals and execution of planned tasks. There are 6 graphs that I’d like to update weekly with the data of the past week:

– Mighty Habits deep work: the number of hours I’ve spend working on planned tasks for Mighty Habits without distractions like checking my phone
– Weight: my average weight in kg of the past week
– Ballet: average number of practice minutes per weekday for the past week of active (practicing with full focus) + passive (while doing something else) + meta (time spend on progress reports, learning, coaching calls etc.)
– Determination: My average habit success rate for my determination habits
– MIT execution: percentage of Most Important Tasks that I got done (I usally have 3 per day)
– Overall execution: the percentage of all planned tasks that I got done
– Daily habits: average success rate of daily habits from #100habitsin100days challenge
– Weekly habits: average success rate of weekly habits from #100habitsin100days challenge
– Mighty Habits core tasks: percentage of core tasks done as defined in weekly planning

Starting point & Lessons from the past

I’ve been doing this for two weeks. I haven’t run into many issues yet, but I do know with these type of habits, that after the initial excitement wears off, it’s easy to quit. The most tricky part is tracking all the stuff during the week, so I have the data to update the whiteboard.

Why this habit is important to me:

Three months ago I started a personal accelerator as part of Mindform to become more determined. It’s one of my favorite emotions. Yet, I was rarely feeling really determined for more than a few days, and then maybe a month would go by without feeling much determination at all. I would still get to work and do stuff, but not with the same conviction, excitement, and motivation. One of the things I found in my research to become more determined is the importance of tracking and reflecting on progress. This whiteboard will help me track the progress that’s more quantative.
Tracking progress also helps to become more motivated (which of course is part of feeling determined). It makes it easier to change course if you get below your target, especially with tracking lead indicators, you can almost immediately get back on track, instead of finding out after a few months that you’re not where you want to be. It also helps to see the stats regularly to keep your goals top of mind and wanting to stay on the ‘good side’ of your target.
Being able to set and realize goals is a skill I very much like to develop. It’s not just about being able to achieve my goals, but being assertive when it comes to my desires. Knowing what’s important and then actively working towards it. Quantifying the things that will most likely lead to success and then tracking and adjusting course, seems like a good way to improve this skill.

Identities I want to build with this habit:

Determined

Trigger:

I will do this Sunday at the end of the afternoon or beginning of evening, after updating the visual progress whiteboard. I’ve added a weekly recurring task in Akiflow to remind me.

Tracking:

I will track this habit in my Akiflow app. I will use tags to make it easier to calculate total number of time spend on specific areas.

Habit boosters (things that will help me follow through):

Public accountability: Having it part of this public challenge will boost my motivation to follow through.
Music tempation bundle: I will put on some nice music while creating my whiteboard, making the whole thing more fun. Usually, I can’t work well with music on, but this type of activity seems like a good fit for a music tempation bundle.

Obstacle battleplans (how I’ll deal with potential obstacles):

Missing data: If I don’t have the proper data, I can’t update the whiteboard accordingly. If there is any data missing, I will try and see if I can gather it anyway (for example I track the programs I use on my laptop, so I might be able to go back and make an estimation of deep work hours even if I didn’t track this during the day). Otherwise I’ll just do the best I can with the data I have.
Busy weekend: Especially with the holidays, it can be a bit more tricky to make time for this. I will try to do it in the early afternoon, if I have stuff planned for the evening.

Habit update 15th of January 2023

I’ve changed some of the stats I’ll track. I’ve removed/ updated some because they were hard to measure and added others that seemed to reflect my most important progress better.

Habit update 22th of January 2023

I’ve changed some of the stats I’ll track. I’ve removed/ updated some because they were hard to measure and added others that seemed to reflect my most important progress better.