Keep a scanner journal...

turned the scanner journal into a regular journal with some Scanner-ish properties… i.e., permission to use as a “dreaming space” for potential careers, hobbies, etc…

in a way, it’s become like a version of my own private, handwritten 43things page, where anything goes… (well, maybe slightly less organized?) :)

(or, rather, is my 43things just a public, computerized version of my own, private journal?)

hmm…

but can’t get into the exact way that Sher describes it

I want to make more scanner entries. I realized, rather accidentally, yesterday that I was only making entries for things I thought were possible, even likely, for me to do. Which isn’t really the point. This is the one place where I can explore every idea—even the impossible ones. So I want to capture them all. I don’t care if the project would require a band of friendly fairies to complete; I still want to write about it.

:)

I keep a journal in a black sketchbook like this one. I usually pick them up at Borders stores. I’ve kept journals like this for years.

What has changed since I read Refuse to Choose is that I now keep green and purple pens with my journal. When I have an idea to explore, I change from my normal blue pen to one of the colored ones so that I can find it again.

I surprise myself sometimes—sit down to write something else in my journal, or with no specific agenda, and suddenly come up with a reason to use one of the colored pens and Barbara Sher’s instructions to explore my ideas in writing for as long as I want.

And I already brought one into fruition: take up knitting as a hobby. I’m not doing it everyday, or even close. But it’s fun when I do pick it up. And eventually I’ll get to check off knit a scarf from my list and add knit something other than a scarf.