I used to think planning was just for ultra-organized moms with binders and planners.
You know, the organized-to-the-teeth but crafty types – pretty handwriting, scads of highlighters, washi tape, and the works.
But that’s not me – on sooo many levels.
- Handwriting? Mine stinks.
- Highlighters? Nah, don’t bother.
- Washi tape? Never used it in my life.
- Binders galore? I don’t want to cart all that around everywhere I go!
You see, I’m not an arts-and-crafts type. Does that mean I can’t be organized like the planner crowd?
No, journaling is NOT the only way to be productive.
No, I’m just going to do it in a different way.
So, I own one pen for scribbling nearly illegible notes to myself, keep almost everything digital (done with that chore? delete!), and skip the artistic planning sessions in favor of whenever-I-feel-like-it sessions of putting a bunch of goals on the calendar.
And it works. For me.
Because I’m not you.
What do *you* need in your planning process?
What lies have you been believing about what it means to be a good planner, or how journaling is the only way to make you productive, or that bullet journaling is what everyone who’s *truly* efficient uses?
Get rid of them, right now.
We’re only going to bullet journal if *you* like doing it.
We’re only going to journal, period, if *you* find it helpful.
If not? It’s out the window. Like, yesterday.
How about you? What can you change about your planning process so that you like it better? (Whether that means bringing in more art, or deleting it entirely?)
You’re not me – so washi tape goes. You have my permission.
