#planwithmechallenge, day 8

Today's prompt was "work vs. personal, combined or separate?".

Fact is, I'm so new to this whole Bullet Journal thing that I'm still hammering out what goes where.  I need for things to be convenient, easy, and in my face, or I'll forget things.  (I've been known to forget whole lists if they're out of my direct line of sight.  It's like a superpower, but not a positive one.)

Right now, everything's in one.  I expect it will be for some time.  Repeatable stuff lives on Habitica (which is insanely addictive for the rewards-motivated, though it does feel a little like a rat pulling a lever for a treat sometimes), and collaborative stuff with timelines still lives on Trello, but for art stuff, life stuff, and longer-term planning stuff, I'm getting pretty religious about the BuJo.

In fact, as I figure out how to incorporate more stuff, I fully anticipate moving to this method for more and more of my lists, since I like having a record, and the doodly bits and making it pretty parts kind of appeal to the art journaler in me.  Really, this is more of an art journal with a planning component for me, and I really, really like that. :)

#planwithme day two

Some of you know that I'm a recent convert to this whole bullet journal thing. 

 I've been carrying a Midori for about a year, with watercolor paper inserts I make myself, but the thought of having one notebook for everything made me get a little squealy and excited.

There are roughly a billion resources for the basic Bullet Journal "official" system, which is about as simple as it gets:  make a list every month of stuff you have to do, list your goals, then every day, list what actions you actually want to take.  If you do them, you put an x by them.  If you don't, you push them to the next day.

People are creative, however.  

Which means there's now about as many different things you can do with a bullet journal as there are people who keep them.  Some of them are artsy, some are plain.  Some have a bazillion extra lists and pages and trackers, some just have a ballpoint-pen-written list of stuff.  And every single method is perfectly okay.  You can just do you, all in its glorious openness and rule-freeness.

This month, I'm playing along with the #planwithme challenge.  

It's an instagram thing, and this month, it's all about how you bullet journal (or whatever you do).  Today's day two, and it's about your January set-up.

Since I am nothing if not a slightly crazy overachiever, here's mine for the day.

I warned you about the slight craziness, didn't I?  Bullet Journal on speed, here.

I think I might have a little page problem at this point.  I've only been keeping this particular style of planner since December 18th, though -- I'm sure it'll simplify and evolve as time goes by, if everyone else's experiences with it hold true for me.

(Also, fair warning: I kind of in love with this thing.  There may be more pictures.  And probably video.  Possibly as many of my BuJo as there will likely be of my dogs, if that says anything.  Paper and puppies, the two most awesome bits of the world, IMHO.)