We’re now starting week four of July and I haven’t really written much about it. There are weekly updates on my YouTube Channel but I’ve just let myself be absorbed by the process.
I have said somewhere that I feel that this year has been the first year I have felt truly able to focus on this time. Not being in work, and avoiding all of the end of term chaos from working in a primary school has meant that I can really focus on me. In turn, this has helped focus on planning.
My initial intention was to adopt the previous challenge of one book one project. I had intended to use the Happy Planner Wellness Planner for my project which was me! I have kept this up and I have really enjoyed this. I have a weekly set up which I suppose is more of a detailed habit tracker where I record a variety of different things related to my wellbeing. Meals, hydration, sleep, screen time on my phone, self-care activity, gratitude, a quick one line journal and then space to record the wins of the day. I finish it off with a quick note on how I’m feeling for the day.
This has been great to help build a picture of things, and to help make positive steps and improvements to help work on my mental health. I’ve been making little changes each week and been recording them to see how things go. Its a really helpful process.
The other thing I had decided to do, was to re-read the bullet journal method over the month. I finished it within a week! I have also watched the different videos that the team have been producing and I have included bullet journal pages within the planner I have been using. These have made me so happy! I stopped being so concerned with everything to do with my bullet journal and got it working for me again. I have been using dot grid paper and any paper I have within the Happy Planner to record my dailies. I have a ‘traditional’ monthly log and task list as stated in the bullet journal method. I have then adopted this same approach for my weekly logs. I like to be able to see whats going on in a whole week and record the priorities/focus for the week. So I have a calendar page for the week and space for notes/tasks from the weekly reflection.
Then the dailies are just dailies. I record lots of things on my dailies! This week just finished, I used 10 full sides of Classic Happy Planner paper to record my week. This is why I get through notebooks so quickly, and I’m finally OK with this!
The joy with the Happy Planner system, is that I can have multiple sections on one set of discs and move things around as and when I want to. This makes it easy to move out pages for reference, and add things in which has made this system work really well.
That being said, I do miss having bound books! I’m already thinking about August and my set up even though there is a week of July left. As much as I love having everything in one place, I think I am likely to separate things out again for August. We’ll have to see!
My Life Planned Out 