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My coworker Janet made me rethink my whole bujo system
So last week during lunch, my coworker Janet saw me setting up my weekly spread and asked why I spend so much time on the decorations. I told her it helps me stay motivated, but she pointed out that I was drawing little weather icons for days that hadn't happened yet. She said I was basically doing arts and crafts instead of actually tracking anything useful. At first I got defensive, but then I looked back at my journal from March and realized I never once checked my habit tracker or used those fancy collections I made. She uses a super simple system with just a monthly log and daily rapid logging, and she's been consistent for 3 years. It kind of hit me that maybe I've been more focused on making it look good than making it work. Has anyone else had to totally strip down their system after realizing you were just decorating instead of journaling?
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the_jason1mo ago
Ditched the washi tape and sticker collection about six months back for the same reason. Started keeping just a single notebook page per month for appointments and a running list of tasks I actually did, not the ones I planned. One thing that helped was using a $0.50 composition notebook instead of a fancy one, made it feel less precious and more like a tool. The weather icons thing got me too, used to draw little clouds and suns for days I hadn't lived through yet, total waste of time looking back.
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paulw871d ago
Feel you on this one. I went through the same thing last year when I realized my "bullet journal" was basically a scrapbook with dates. It's wild how easy it is to get caught up in making things look perfect when the whole point is just getting stuff done.
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