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Honestly, I hit 365 days straight in my bullet journal and it's not what I thought it would be.
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sethtorres5mo ago
Yeah, congrats on the streak. My bullet journal looks like a sad grocery list I forgot to bring to the store. What were you hoping it would be like?
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seth_martinez213mo ago
...and that receipt analogy hit me hard because same. @sethtorres I was dreaming of this super organized, creative thing that would like, unlock my brain's full potential or whatever. Instead I have a notebook with three pages of half-finished tasks and a bunch of doodles of angry little stick figures. The map I ended up with just leads to a dead end called "feeling kind of guilty." If my brain's map was a receipt, it'd be for stuff I bought online at 2am and regretted the next morning.
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zara_coleman5mo ago
I read a blog post once where the writer said a bullet journal should feel like a map of your own brain. I pictured mine being full of cool drawings and color coded notes. The reality is a few scribbled to do items that I never look at again. It feels less like a map and more like a receipt for stuff I already bought and forgot. I guess I hoped it would make me feel in control, but it just reminds me of what I didn't do.
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