So, last month I kinda spaced on keeping in my journal. This month I plan on getting back into the habit. I love how I’ve stuck to it so far though. When I look back on my pages when I need to find some bit of information it makes me smile. I’m still in disbelief that I’ve stuck to any one book.
I’ve changed some things back to the previous month like the time and sleep tracker. I think I like the whole spread with 2 square time slots better. I split them for January but I realized that I didn’t like it. So I put them back together and decided that instead of crowding it with letters and symbols I’ll just block out with colors and add symbols if I was doing two things at once. I still need to study how I spend my time and how I feel because I need that information to form better habits that work. Since I botch Jan… I could have used that info to figure out why I lost so much time.
Anywho, I’m back on it this month. I’ve decided to use this time to focus on myself more. That’s something I haven’t really done my life anyways and now is a great time to start. I’ve already started saying no to a lot of things. That was my main problem, trying to please too many people, ultimately never really being reliable, especially not to the one person to whom it mattered most… ME! My life has been a lot better since though. It can be improved because I still carry a lot of bad habits that are detrimental. This month I’ll be looking at myself and breaking some of those habits along with analyzing who I am caring for first when I make daily decisions.
Some people might think of this as selfish but I think not… I say this. What if I had taken better care of me before trying to be everyone else’s saving grace? Perhaps I would have been better cared for and therefore better able to help only those that mattered to me rather than anyone… Oh I’ve learned a great lesson.
I’ve changed my weekly to be shorter and then there’s room at the bottom for lists. I like this layout a little better than the other one because there is more organized room to see what I’ve got left to do for the week.
I was thinking that I still want to do dailies just to log what I did for the day. I don’t need to journal on the dailies but some reminders so that when I do come journal I’ll have a reference. Plus I wan to do more doodling and such for practice and to make the journal more interesting. I already love how it all comes together and I think this will just wrap the trick up.
I’ve gotta get caught up on doodles too because I flopped out last month!! But I might go in and finish up those if I feel so inclined. I’ll probably start back posting them here too if I have something to say about them. I think I’ll use them in the blank frames that I draw in the weeks also. I need more practice so I can get better at drawing mandalas.
Which also reminds me that I might want to try doing the mood mandala that I always see Kara do. She’s got an awesome bullet journal such inspiration. I don’t know, Maybe I might think about filling in the last page between the next section with one.