I started bullet journaling a couple of years ago. Mostly because planners always lose my interest after the first month or two. Doesn’t matter how cute they are or what stickers they come with, I lose motivation to keep track of things I needed done with regular planners. Then, my best friend started talking about trying bullet journaling. Then a fellow colleague told me they were going to start trying it. So of course I got interested. I started research.
Side note: I research things to death. I’ll babble about that another time.
Anyways, I realized that bullet journaling was a pretty useful tool for me to be more creative whenever my creative muscle needs to flex. I could change things up each month, make my own themes and colors, get real simple and quick during my busiest times and still interact with my bullet journal as much or as little as I want to. It’s perfect for my Type-B brain that needs to perform in Type-A mode to keep my anxiety in check.
I failed a lot along the way with bullet journaling. I hate habit tracking and almost never do it because if I can’t be perfect and fill in all the little stupid squares in the month, then the overachiever in me feels like I accomplished nothing. Sometimes I would make an entire month of weeklies and not touch my bullet journal for three weeks after because I was just surviving, and the overachiever in me felt like I failed at organizing.
However, the fact that I put effort into my own planner even if I didn’t touch it those weeks or use my annoying habit trackers made me feel like I interacted with the process of organizing. It works for me even when I don’t work on it because creative outlets are necessary for my survival.
This is all to say that I bullet journal. I do it my way. Sometimes it’s intricate, sometimes it’s just stickers and washi tape, but it’s my whole life of teaching and schooling and living in one little book. If I don’t take the thing with me everywhere I feel naked and lost. This month already has felt strange because I forgot to even set up my first week of March so I’m already feeling behind and rushed. Here’s some pictures of what I have right now that are also on my new bullet journal insta @babblesandbrainsbujo. I’ll probably be better next week because I’m trying really hard to be the writer I want to be and time management is key for my success here. I’m not planning to create the perfect curated bullet journal insta that has everyone swooning with the perfect pictures with the cute pens and stationery accessories scattered around it. My aesthetic is hot mess. It’s going to be just me doing what I do, showing that it is possible to be all over the place but still getting it together with a little bit of creative planning.
Until next time,
Babbles&brains
babbles&brains 