As part of trying to organise myself more, I’ve started a new bullet journal. This is something I’ve tried a couple of times before, with varying degrees of long-term success.
I actually originally just looked for some kind of planner/organiser on Amazon out of desperation over frequently losing to-do lists and shopping lists, but in a review of one someone mentioned using bullet journal templates available on Etsy. Well, my biggest hindrance to keeping up my previous attempts was having to design the pages before I could fill them in, so I immediately hurried over to Etsy in a very excited state.
I will freely admit that I might have been slightly too enthusiastic. I have a tendency sometimes to, in the middle of discovering something, push ahead with it without pausing to sleep on it first. One of the problems I ran into was, in the same way that planners aren’t set out in ways that are particularly suited to me, not all the templates (I got a couple of value bundles) were suited to me either. And when it came to mixing and matching, I got into some technical issues by not being able to edit them together before printing–but that’s a whole other story.
One thing I took from this is I need to stop doing something and sleep on it a bit more often. But while I think I will be making some modifications to my new journal over time, I am still glad I started it. It will be a while before I get the hang of it enough to be certain I have everything I need in my assorted task lists and shopping list and monthly planner, but it’s already proved useful.
I will be posting more over time on how this works out, as well as tips (probably mostly learned the hard way) and resources for anyone else wanting to start their own.