I was inspired by [Atomic Habits](https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits) where James Clear discusses ways to reward yourself for habit forming. One such way was to have a \"bean jar\" where you could add beans for completing something unrewarding, like flossing. I tried it. In short, it didn't work. The problem? It's not intuitive to walk over to a jar of beans and put a bean in. Where are the beans that go in the jar? Do you have to remember the number of beans you've earned? Do you need bean jars scattered throughout the house to make sure you don't forget? So I tried to make stickers - simple, just using emojis and colors - but when I saw that printing custom stickers was expensive, I needed to find another way. So I got some index cards and found simple stickers (red, yellow, green, blue) and tried that for a while. The index cards were scattered throughout my house and had labels for what they were for (meditation, practice guitar). However, I wasn't sure if I was always going to use green? Or did the colors have meaning? It was also not visually appealing to have index cards on tacky tape stuck to my walls with some stickers. I felt like I was in School of Rock. So, I've decided to retire any concept of \"bean counting\" for the time being since at the end of the day what's much more powerful is building actual rewards into your daily routine, rather than relying on something that at the end of the day, isn't actually rewarding at all. Now... maybe if there was a way to redeem points, it could be interesting.