I had all of my books out yesterday morning, and now the stack has 10 blue books in it. It's much taller, and it still tilts in one direction - I often decorate a page with a strip of washi tape - usually at the bottom of the page. So the stack tilts.
One of the potential advantages of bullet journaling is that you design your planner. It all starts with a blank page. That's great for what I use it for - for journaling at home. I tried a bullet journal at work once - it didn't last even a full month. I need the structure of a pre-printed planner for work.
As I think about my journals, I'm still working out the best structure - or more accurately, I'm continually evaluating what will work for me right now. These are my current questions:
- Tracking - I currently track 12 habits. Is it work it? Is there a better way to do it? I'm still exploring.
- Reflections - Each month I write a page of reflections - what happened in the world and in our lives that month. Is this helpful to me? I procrastinate doing it (currently, I still need to write pages for August and September, and I just wrote July's page yesterday). Every time I think I'll stop, I don't.
- Doodling - I doodle sometimes in my journal. Other times I use stickers to decorate. I like the doodles, but after doing it a month or so, I fall behind, and have to doodle the whole month at once. Stickers are definitely easier. My answer to this conundrum is to do what I want. ;-)
- Gratitude - I keep a page for each month where I write a line for each day expressing gratitude. I like it - I think it is a good practice. My question - do I invest enough thought in what I write? Probably not.
- Tracking church work - I volunteer at my church to handle communications. I keep - or I have kept - that information in a separate planner. I wonder if I keep use the bullet journal to track this work. I may give that a go.
