This will be quite a long post so please bear with me.
While reading the millionaire fastlane i started thinking about problems in my own life i either needed a solution for or a problem i already solved. I am a 19 year old man who started focussing on improving myself, going to the gym, reading etc. Luckily for me there are a lot of other boys like me (look at all the fast growing self improvement channels targeted at young men on youtube). For me personally it was very hard to stick to good habits, eliminate bad habits, go to the gym etc until I made a tracker in excel. From then on I got a little bit better every week, I adjusted and improved this tracker for more than a year. It was exactly the type of accountability I needed, the tracker also gave me a very cool overview of my progress over the weeks and it became a challenge for me to improve from week to week. I will attach some screenshots of my tracker.
Now you may think what is so special about your tracker since there are already a lot of habit trackers in the app store.
Well, I will tell you exactly why I think mine is just a lot better. First of all i used a lot of the habit trackers myself but just lost interest and stopped using them after a week or so. What I think my tracker does so well is that it gives me scores of my performance every day, week and month. Secondly it not only includes habits but also bad habits, hours worked, sleep, gym etc. So the weekly score is based around all aspects I was focused on improving. This made it so that some weeks I was really bad at focussing on habits but for instance my productivity was really high and so I would still get a decent score. I also made it so that every habit had a difference in importance. For me for example I would score "make my bed" a 1/5 in importance and "deep work session 1" a 4/5. For instance maybe watching netflix is a bad habit but it is by far not as bad as taking drugs, so the score reflects this. I think the pictures explain this a lot better.
Thirdly, the comparison with previous weeks also made me feel a lot better in weeks where I didn't do as well, when I could look back and see that in general I was improving over the months. A bad day or week felt not so bad anymore. Also seeing improvement for example in less screen time really showed me that I was actually doing a lot better than I used to be even when I didn't feel like it at the moment. Like this chart shows below (i have the same type of charts for the habits, bad habits, amount of times i went to the gym etc.
And finally I can also make it so that at the end of the year you get stats like you went to the gym 100 times. You did 200 days of meditation your average time on your phone was 2 hours and your average score improved by 2.0. I think this would be really cool. Also something like "This month you struggled with X but Y went very well, good job"
okay i could talk for hours about my tracker but i think you get the main picture. My idea was to put my tracker in a website where people can sign up for free and adjust their own variables, so one person might really value the habit of meditation and for other people they might value this at only a 1/5 in terms of importance or not at all. Everybody would be able to make their own personalized tracker.
The idea for this tracker came about after listening to David Goggins audiobook where he talks about the accountability mirror. Jocko Willink, another very influential person on young boys also talks about taking ownership a lot.
But of course this tracker would not be enough on its own, i want to take all the good parts of self improvements and make it into 1 website
I am looking forward to your thoughts, criticism and insights.
Koen
While reading the millionaire fastlane i started thinking about problems in my own life i either needed a solution for or a problem i already solved. I am a 19 year old man who started focussing on improving myself, going to the gym, reading etc. Luckily for me there are a lot of other boys like me (look at all the fast growing self improvement channels targeted at young men on youtube). For me personally it was very hard to stick to good habits, eliminate bad habits, go to the gym etc until I made a tracker in excel. From then on I got a little bit better every week, I adjusted and improved this tracker for more than a year. It was exactly the type of accountability I needed, the tracker also gave me a very cool overview of my progress over the weeks and it became a challenge for me to improve from week to week. I will attach some screenshots of my tracker.
Now you may think what is so special about your tracker since there are already a lot of habit trackers in the app store.
Well, I will tell you exactly why I think mine is just a lot better. First of all i used a lot of the habit trackers myself but just lost interest and stopped using them after a week or so. What I think my tracker does so well is that it gives me scores of my performance every day, week and month. Secondly it not only includes habits but also bad habits, hours worked, sleep, gym etc. So the weekly score is based around all aspects I was focused on improving. This made it so that some weeks I was really bad at focussing on habits but for instance my productivity was really high and so I would still get a decent score. I also made it so that every habit had a difference in importance. For me for example I would score "make my bed" a 1/5 in importance and "deep work session 1" a 4/5. For instance maybe watching netflix is a bad habit but it is by far not as bad as taking drugs, so the score reflects this. I think the pictures explain this a lot better.
Thirdly, the comparison with previous weeks also made me feel a lot better in weeks where I didn't do as well, when I could look back and see that in general I was improving over the months. A bad day or week felt not so bad anymore. Also seeing improvement for example in less screen time really showed me that I was actually doing a lot better than I used to be even when I didn't feel like it at the moment. Like this chart shows below (i have the same type of charts for the habits, bad habits, amount of times i went to the gym etc.
And finally I can also make it so that at the end of the year you get stats like you went to the gym 100 times. You did 200 days of meditation your average time on your phone was 2 hours and your average score improved by 2.0. I think this would be really cool. Also something like "This month you struggled with X but Y went very well, good job"
okay i could talk for hours about my tracker but i think you get the main picture. My idea was to put my tracker in a website where people can sign up for free and adjust their own variables, so one person might really value the habit of meditation and for other people they might value this at only a 1/5 in terms of importance or not at all. Everybody would be able to make their own personalized tracker.
The idea for this tracker came about after listening to David Goggins audiobook where he talks about the accountability mirror. Jocko Willink, another very influential person on young boys also talks about taking ownership a lot.
But of course this tracker would not be enough on its own, i want to take all the good parts of self improvements and make it into 1 website
- a forum, some kind of goal page where people can write and track their progress to their goals (similar to notion). People would be able to choose whether other members can view their progress and or goals or not.
- make it possible to link your smart watches to the website so things like exercise are automatically connected to the tracker.
- a page where community members can recommend books like the millionaire fastlane and write a quick review. So people can filter on things like social skills, entrepreneurship, habit forming etc and they would be able to see which books are recommended by the community.
- A journal page where you can write either for yourself or for other members of the community, also linked with the tracker.
- A competition/tournament page where members can opt into challenges to see who can get the highest score on the tracker, workout the most in a month/read the most books etcetera.
- A section for courses, this would be something where either community members can post their courses/insights or collaborations with big creators who can post their courses there.
- A section where members can vote for their favorite self improvement videos, which will then be recommended to other users.
- And tons more
- Very big target group
- Tons off potential for monetization
- It would really improve people's lives (like the tracker did for me)
- It solves a big problem (lack of accountability, lack of measure of progress, people who want to improve but just don't stick to habits)
- People who can't stick to habits are not likely to fill in a habit tracker. (however i was this person and this really changed things for me)
I am looking forward to your thoughts, criticism and insights.
Koen
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