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Vent: I just realized I've been using my bullet journal wrong for 6 months because of a comment my sister made
I was showing her my weekly spread and feeling proud of how neat it was. She looked at it and said, 'It's pretty, but when was the last time you actually checked your tasks from last Tuesday?' I froze. I hadn't. I'd been so focused on making it look perfect with my Tombow brush pens that I was basically just making art and ignoring the actual planning part. The whole point is to track what you need to do, not just make a nice page. Has anyone else gotten so caught up in the decorating that they forgot the function?
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the_logan24d ago
My first bullet journal looked like a museum piece. Color coded keys, hand drawn banners, the works. I realized the problem when I spent twenty minutes shading a header for 'buy milk' while my actual to do list was on a scrap of paper in my pocket. The fancy stuff became a way to avoid the hard tasks. Now I use a basic ballpoint and cross things out messily. The uglier it gets, the more useful it is for me.
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hannah_davis24d ago
Yeah that hit way too close to home. I had the same exact crisis last year. My spreads were so pretty I was scared to actually write in them, like I'd ruin the art. What finally worked for me was buying the cheapest, ugliest notebook I could find at the dollar store. No more pressure for it to be perfect. Now I scribble tasks in pencil and it's a mess, but I actually get things done. The fancy journal is for doodling when I'm bored.
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