Track bad habits differently from good ones.

Tracking bad habits and good habits with the same method will skew your psychological response — you need to adjust the framing.

Here’s the issue: when you track a “bad” habit like screen time, the number goes up the more you engage in the thing you want to reduce. Every data point is a reminder of failure. Even small improvements (e.g., 50 minutes vs. 60) feel like you’re still losing. For a good habit like exercise, more data means more wins. The same chart, same metric, opposite emotional feedback.

So how do you compare the two fairly? You can’t, not with raw numbers alone. The comparison has to happen at the level of trends and perception. For Q1, I’d recommend using two separate but parallel tracking methods