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Spent $300 on a course that taught me to make a planner I used for 4 days
Honestly I feel dumb even typing this but here goes. Back in March I paid $297 for an online course about building a personal planner system, and the guy promised it would fix my whole life. What I actually got was 14 videos of him flipping through his own notebook and a printable template pack I could have made in Canva for free. I printed the pages at a Staples in Sacramento for another $23, bought a $40 discbound cover, and filled in exactly 4 days before it went in a drawer. It has been sitting there since April and every time I open that drawer I feel like a sucker. My real problem is I have 3 other half finished projects (a shop stool, a budget spreadsheet, and a blog I set up in February) and I keep buying stuff to start new ones instead of finishing anything. So now I am trying to figure out what to do with the course, do I finish the planner just to prove I got my money's worth, or do I cut my losses and put that energy into the blog that actually has 7 drafts sitting unpublished? Ngl I want someone to tell me the honest move here because my gut says the planner is dead but I hate wasting $360 total.
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reese_patel14d ago
Four days of filling in a planner out of 365 is not a money problem, it is a signal problem. The $360 is gone the second you paid it, and finishing the planner will not bring it back, it will just cost you more hours on top of the cash. You already know the blog is the live one because it has 7 drafts, which is way more pull than a planner you dropped in April. Same thing happened to me with a bread machine I used twice and then a website I actually stuck with, so I am not just guessing here. Do the blog, and next time you feel the urge to buy a new start, go finish one draft first and see if the itch passes.
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