It’s a few days into the new year and I feel compelled to ask- How are your New Year’s Resolutions going? I personally am not a fan of resolutions. The way most resolutions are worded set you up for failure, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Ignore the Big Picture Focus on the […]
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Buying endless stationery. Spending more time planning than doing. Jealously looking through other’s bullet journal blogs. This is the dilemma I, and other, journal perfectionists face. We spend so much time worried about what our finished project will be that we are too tentative to actually do it. The fact is that progress hates perfectionists. […]
Planning for Yourself When you start a bullet journal you start to plan everyday to the hour. By analyzing how we spend our time we can become more efficient human beings. You realize wasted time on social media or extra long breaks before studying or working. As you record these things you start to […]
Some call their need to travel wanderlust. Personally, I find that it’s a more of a hunger. A hunger for good seafood to be more specific. I live in a tragically landlocked area and the fish selection is frankly depressing. So much so, I added going to New Orleans, Louisiana to my bucket list. When […]
I didn’t jump on the dream journal bandwagon for a while. I have frequent nightmares so why would I want to write them down. I thought the only benefit to recording dreams was remembering your wacky sleep adventures, but as usual, I was wrong. Journaling helped me learn about myself and identify features of dreams […]
When I was first staring down the barrel of my pens and stationery I hesitated. Are my day-to-day thoughts important enough to write down? Should I write about being angry and risk my future grand-kids thinking I’m petty? I couldn’t find the balance between important and frivolous, eventually giving up the endeavor completely. Until I […]