24
The day I stopped making my monthly spreads too pretty
Honestly, I spent like 3 years doing these gorgeous monthly calendars with washi tape and doodles, but I never actually used them after the first week. It hit me last Tuesday when I flipped back through my journal and saw half the pages were blank decorations. I realized I was so focused on making it look good that I forgot the whole point is to track tasks and habits. Who else has had to strip back their layout and start simple?
3 comments
Log in to join the discussion
Log In3 Comments
max_torres441d ago
Right there with you, man. I had this whole aesthetic thing going and then realized I was just making art projects instead of actually tracking my life.
9
miles_burns1d ago
Did I used to spend way too long drawing washi tape borders that I'd only see for a week before flipping the page? Yeah, that was me. My old layouts had like 4 different highlighters, hand lettered month titles, and stickers for every holiday, but I never tracked more than "buy milk" in the actual boxes. Now my spreads look like a 5 year old made them but I actually use the dang thing every day.
1
joel_jones1d ago
Whoa hold on, you had stickers for every single holiday? Like even National Pickle Day or something? That level of dedication is wild, man. I can barely remember to move a sticky note from one week to the next. So you seriously had a whole sticker for Arbor Day in there?
1