Free Printable Habit Tracker

What is a Monthly Habit Tracker?

A monthly habit tracker is a simple grid chart to record the frequency of your daily/weekly habits for the entire month. This allows you to view your entire month of routines at a glance to see which monthly habits you want to pay more attention to and which behaviors you might wish to change.

Using a habit tracker encourages mindfulness and self-accountability and can lead to more consistent behaviors and routines.

How to Use a Habit Tracker:

Using our free habit tracker printables is as easy as selecting the specific habits and behaviors you’d like to track and focus on, and then checking off the grid box for each day that you accomplish/participate in that habit. They’re a great way to keep a visual reminder of your daily progress and stay on track of your goal setting. Easy peasy!

Types of Habit Tracking Recording:

You can opt to fill out the habit tracking matrix in any way that you choose, but here are a few of the most popular recording methods (as illustrated above):

• Track with Color-by-Day: Assign each day in the tracker wheel a color, and color in the habits for each day with the designated different colors. Pretty soon you’ll have a pretty, colorful habit tracker!
• Track with Dots or Checks: A check mark, Xs, or / marks, or teeny little hearts ♥ – whatever you like!
• Track with Color-by-Habit: Assign each circular habit ring its own color, and use that same color for the designated task every day as you move throughout the monthly circle.
• Track in Black and White: Keep things simple by filling in the habit tracking boxes in bold black and white.

There’s really no right or wrong style of habit track recording, so long as the tracked information is accurate and easily readable. Pretty soon – you’ll be crushing your new year’s resolutions and making that positive change you’ve always been trying to make, into a reality!

What Habits Should I Track?

There are a multitude of different habits that you may wish to track in your circle habit tracker, but we recommend focusing on tasks and habits that you are aiming to complete on a daily basis, or at least weekly.

Some popular examples of habit tracker ideas are:

• Exercise/Go to the Gym
• Meditate/Pray
• Read
• Journal/Gratitude Journaling
• Drink X Amount of Water (Water Tracker)
• Walk/Run X Steps or Miles
• No Alcohol
• Cook Dinner at Home
• Make Bed
• Go to Bed before 10:00
• Floss Your Teeth
• Take Vitamins/Medications
• Healthy Eating
• No Soda/Sugar
• Business Goals (such as contacting one potential lead each day)
• Call or Check-In with a Friend or Family Member

In the habit tracker examples above, I demonstrated tracking these healthy habits:

• Water Intake (water, and more water!)
• Get Up & Move Your Body
• Set Intentions for the Day
• Read at Least One Chapter
• Meditate & Quiet Reflection
• No Phone Before Bedtime (an hour before bed)
• Walk 10k Steps

Really, the habits that you choose to track are entirely up to you! Focus on positive habits that you would like to develop to enrich your life and new habits that will add more enjoyment to your daily routine.

How to Use This Tracker in a Bullet Journal:

To use our free monthly habit tracker in a bullet journal, download and print the A5 sized tracker (available below). We highly recommend printing the tracker on to printable matte vinyl sticker paper! I use PaperMate Flair pens with my sticker paper trackers, and the ink colors apply smoothly and are bold and vivid with no smearing.

Trim the tracker to size using scissors or a paper trimmer.

Peel the backing from the sticker paper (or use a glue stick to apply adhesive to the back if you printed on standard paper), and place the daily habit tracker into the bullet journal.