 This is my habit tracking piece of paper. Raw, black, concise, organic. Sure, you can use apps and trackers for data gathering and transhumanism purposes, which I often do, but I sometimes find those distracting as I'm always one click away from falling into the deep rabbit hole of the internet. And having an analog system is the way to go for me. Whenever I want to either get rid of a habit entirely or take a break for a specific amount of time. So here's how I do it. So say I want to get rid of a habit that I subjectively label as bad for me. Well, my past experience thought me that the best way to ditch a bad habit is to quit cold turkey. Rather than gradually removing that specific habit from my daily routine, I stop immediately. I found out that, again, this works best for me. And by the way, the term cold turkey comes from the goosebumps or turkey bumps people sometimes get. In the days after they quit something like tobacco or alcohol, which look like the skin of cold turkey in the fridge. Now, again, sometimes I don't enjoy how complicated habit tracking can get, which is why I wanted to create a simple system that I can see and touch every day. And this again is my habit ditching slash habit tracking piece of paper. I always track one habit at a time. And remember that I use this whenever I want to take a break from a habit as well, so not necessarily ditch the habit entirely. Because sadly, I'm only a human. So things like no sugar week or no alcohol week or no PCP week, you can try out this thing for anything really. So what I would do is take an A4 black piece of paper and cut it in four. The reason why the paper is black is that I find it aesthetic and pleasing and I like it. It is going to be much more likely for me to notice and touch the paper. The reason why I design four quadrants is that I want to make the paper as small as possible so that my brain doesn't think that there's something complicated in terms of what I need to do. So my mind would kind of process this as something tiny and easy to achieve. The reason why I use a white ink pen is, again, the aesthetics of it. I like how the white ink flows on the paper. So once I have my small piece of black paper ready, I start drawing numbers representing the days of the month. I'm building a calendar. I then create a simple structure by adding borders and that's it. Now the most important thing I would do is circle and cross out the first day even if the day has just begun. And while it might seem like cheating, I found that this gives me a psychological and motivational boost as I have already done it, right? So weirdly, my mind thinks that I have already gone through a day where I haven't performed that specific habit I'm trying to remove. And if somehow I break my promise during the day, I will create another black piece of paper from scratch. Weirdly enough, I'm doing this because I don't want to see my failure history, especially if I just started. And after a few days you have a chain. And this is the chain I don't want to break. And I believe that you will also enjoy seeing that chain grow. But this is obviously different for everyone. If you have something like a one month chain, maybe you want to take a break at some point and say break the chain by designing something like a cheat day. But I believe that you wouldn't want to break the chain, especially when you have a few weeks under your belt. I will then take this nicely designed black piece of paper and put it on my desk. I can even carry this in my wallet or slide it into a notebook, but nowadays I've found that the best way to do this is to keep it on my desk because I'm not leaving home that much. And honestly, this is pretty easy to design. You can create your own card, maybe you want it to be on a white piece of paper or on a sticker. Maybe you're not that nerdy. And you might also want to use this if you want to develop a new habit, as I found that the system works both ways. And I do not spend time on this. There's only this initial setup cost of building your paper calendar, which takes you what? One or two minutes. And then it's just about going there at the end of the day, adding one more cross or circle and moving on to the next day. And if you're too lazy and want to have a template you can print out, I have provided one in the description down below, so feel free to check it out. Other than that, thank you for watching. Happy habit ditching and I will see you soon.