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Around a year ago I've picked up the Seinfeld method.
If you haven't heard of it yet, it's basically just a way to motivate yourself to do various things. You mark off days in the calendar when you've done the thing, and try to never skip a day.
a better explaination of the idea
I've made myself a small Ruby tool to count the streak, and set it up to track some things that I wanted to do.
To my suprise, it has been amazing at getting me to do all those things, even a year on!
Except, the goals I've set at the beginning have long stopped being my top priorities in life. I have other goals that I'd much rather work towards, yet I still work on the ones I've set originally just to see the streak go up.
Today, I've had enough. I've started writing a new tool, one which was meant to be more flexible at letting me switch between tasks. But just as I've made it work, I've realized that the tool itself was never the issue. The method is. Seinfeld came up with it to track a single task related to his career. I was trying to organize my entire life using it. I shouldn't expect it to work.
To be honest, I don't know what to do next. I definitely won't just drop it, I need something else to keep me motivated.
I've heard good things about bullet journals, but those seem complicated and tough to maintain. What I'll do for now is keeping a notebook with a page for every week. Each page will contain the things I want to do daily during that week. This seems both flexible enough to let me work on what I truly want, and simple enough to go through with it. I'll see how it goes, and maybe write an update in a few weeks.
Until then, cya ^^