Sometimes the only push you need when you're losing interest in a task or goal is seeing how much progress you've made. When you're working on large or long-term projects, progress isn't immediately visible and past effort becomes a blur.

With these free downloads, you'll see how far you've come while making daily progress second nature.

Sometimes the only push you need when you're losing interest is seeing how much progress you've made

Don't Break the Chain

Made famous by Jerry Seinfeld, Don't Break the Chain is a super simple motivational device to track daily progress of a particular task, activity or goal.

For each activity, print one copy of the month you'll be working on it. Then, cross off each day you've done the activity. The idea to not 'break the chain' (by crossing off each day of activity) motivates you to continue a long streak of action!

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1 Hour 1 Square

1 Hour 1 Square is a popular study tracking practice frequently used by Japanese students, as can be seen on Instagram (#1hour1square).

For each hour you work on an activity, check, cross off, stamp, color and/or write the date you did the hour(s). Seeing how quickly you clock up hours on your most important tasks will motivate you to continue adding them, bringing you closer to the finish line.

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N.B. Printables included twice for ease in printing A5 or two-to-a-page. More details below.

100 Hours/Days Challenge

Sign up or join a community challenge on Facebook, Instagram or Tumblr and mark each day you participate. Alternatively, create your own challenge and aim to do something towards the challenge for 100 consecutive days.

Many experts believe it takes 10,000 hours to master a complex skill, so start counting the hours beginning with the first 100.

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Printing 2-to-a-page

As we have already inserted a duplicate of each printable in the 100/1 Hour 1 Square document, simply choose multiple and landscape settings before printing to produce A5 or duplicate copies. An example on a Mac is provided below.