The bullet journal is an idea that has fascinated me since I first started reading about it. I have this deep seeded want within me to be very organised and neat - unfortunately, I don't think it will ever happen but it doesn't mean I can't hope. I still watch people like Anna and hope that I can get my shizz together enough to be as organsied as her.
I thought a good place to start would be with a bullet journal, give myself somewhere to record what i've been upto like a memory dump but also allow me to organise my thoughts. I have to say I have been in and out of love with this. I think I am too hard on myself to be creative - something that may be touched on in a later post.
My mum is always telling me that I am creative in my own way, with my computer or in how I style my blog pictures but sometimes I wish I could sit down and doodle nice headings for my bullet journal without them looking a mess. I guess I can draw but I think it all oils down to the fact I am extremely hard on myself for no real reason whatsoever.
Back to the bullet journal, I can get off topic sometimes. When I knew I wanted to start one I also knew that I didn't want to spend lots of money on fancy notebooks and pens, I wanted to use what I had. Most people have been going for the dotted journals but I decided to use the book that I already had that is just a standard lined notebook - nothing wrong with being different, eh!
When I first set my journal up I added pages for future events, books I want to read/finish, movies & tv shows I want to watch/finish and then I jumped into my daily logs and monthly overviews. After a couple of months of using the journal the same way, I just fell out of love. It wasn't what I wanted it to be anymore but I was scared of changing the pattern up in the middle of the journal but after advice from a few lovely bloggers, I finally decided to let go!
I tried to mix things up in August but as you can probably tell from the blog this just wasn't a good month for me in terms of motivation and creativity, I was in a pretty bad slump. September has now rolled around and I decided to give this new journal set up a proper go.
So what have I done? I added a water tracker to my monthly log page, where I jot down memorable things for the days that are coming up in that month. This is a little harder as I don't have an exact amount to consume but at least a litre and then I will colour in one of the swuares. I also really wanted to add a workout chart. I have recently started the gym as I have mentioned in one of my Friday Favourites, so I want to track the days that I go and what I do, so that I can look back and see how I have been getting on with it all.
I also decided to change how I style my daily logs for this month. I normally did the date at the top of each box and underlined it - a habit I have been trying to get out of since I have left formal education but yano it's a hard one. I decided to write it neatly but free hand at the side of each box and take a colouring pencil and shade behind the text. I like this new simplistic approach. I have also decided to jot things down in coloured pens rather than black. The one thing I don't do is rule out every box for each day of the month - I still haven't gotten to that point of being able to do it all at once. Don't wanna waste the pages in case the magical motivation leaves me again.
So far I am feeling good about my new apparoach to my bullet journal. It is helping to make me feel a little bit freer with my thoughts and lifting the weight of expectations I put on my own shoulders. Hopefully I can keep up with it all as I am excited to look back on my journal at the end of the year and see where I have come with it all.
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