I likes :) — 3 months ago
I have a big A4 spiral bound notebook, with purple cover, that I bought ages ago and – as ever! – never quite wanted to use. Well, am very happy to be using it now!
I’ve set the book up with 2 full pages for every goal (see below), and a stray ‘future’ page at the end. There’s still more than three quarters of the book left, which is oddly reassuring.
Each page tends to just be a list. Ideas, tips I’ve read elsewhere, random noodlings. I didn’t think it’d ‘work’ as well as it does, but even just in the month I’ve been using it so far it’s amazing looking back at the first scribblings and going “Oh, yeah!” – memory really can be that bad, and these fleeting thoughts really do just… fleet!!
I’m not using the journal every day, but after my initial brain dump, I make a note as and when something occurs to me. It means I can capture the thought/idea/inspiration, without getting distracted from what I’m doing, or losing it.
New ideas also start to take some shape in there. And here, too, but the scanner journal is less… fully-formed. Putting ‘buy skirts’ on my health/weight page (ah yes, in non-43T world, I can admit more readily that a lot of G4 is about weight!) brought home the fact that clothes really are entangled in all those sorts of ideas.
I also like that it has everything in one place. Well – I still have a separate art journal, but that’s okay. Otherwise, it just gives me a sense that all these random, disparate threads in my life are sitting together somewhat!
