My latest obsession

My current obsession is my bullet journal (BuJo).  The Bullet Journal is, essentially, a highly customizable time management/planning organization system.  I fell in love with the fact that I can create whatever format of a monthly, weekly and/or daily planner and change it around until I figure out what is going to work for me … or when I get bored with it.  I can incorporate both my work and personal meetings and appointments into one place and stand a better chance of remembering those appointments because I am physically writing them down.  I can also dedicate pages for doodling so I am not scribbling all over my planner pages.  I can even dedicate pages to sketching to try to improve my free-hand skills (or not).  OH, and I don’t have to give up sticky notes either!!  (((My work laptop is covered in sticky notes that I should probably go through and make sure I addressed whatever I wrote down … not the best system in the world.)))

As I was trying to find the stencils and colored pencils I knew I had stashed somewhere I started to question my decision to take on another form of artistic expression.  I went through 3 large storage boxes, filled with rubber stamps from when I was into making my own greeting cards, to find the colored pencils.  I went through a storage closet, filled with photographs and scrapbooking materials, to find the stencils.  During this treasure hunt I took mental inventory of the number of random projects (honestly too many to count) that I was utterly obsessed with, spent lots of money on and then lost interest in, so they are at various stages of completion.  Card making, scrapbooking, calligraphy, paper making, beading, sewing, guitar playing, embroidery, cross-stitch, crocheting, knitting (need I continue?)  … will my BuJo eventually go by the wayside as well?  Only time will tell.

I have tried using a multitude of planners and, except for the Franklin Covey daily planner, only used them for a of months before losing interest or deciding that it was just too complicated to use long term.  I’m excited about the bullet journal because I can make changes on the fly, have everything in one book and because I can make it pretty.  AND, it provides the satisfaction of looking back and seeing a bunch of completed tasks.  It also makes me happy to that I can jot down writing prompts when they come to me on a dedicated page and not have to try to remember which stick note or what notebook it is in!  Creativity and happiness between two covers!