What to do?!?

At the beginning of the year I started with a new set up in my Happy Planner.

However during the anxiety time I used it a lot less.  Then I got back into it and then it fell off again.   In fact I stopped using it altogether.

Despite this, at the end of August I bought a new planner for 2025.

Then I read Valerie's blogpost: Changing the way I journal.  It made me think about how I might use my new planner.  It occurred to me that I could put the 2024 months of October, November and December into the new planner and make my year be 15 months.

I certainly put the pages into the planner but nothing happened.  Then I thought I would start again with November and that hasn't happened.

Since then Valerie has written more posts: A New Journaling Idea for 2025 and Set Up for my 2025 Journals.

I use the calendar on my phone to keep a track of what I'm doing so I don't need to duplicate this in the planner as I have done before.

I used to have to-do lists in the planner and I think I will go back to doing that, rather than the haphazard method of recent times which has been scraps of paper!

 

 

This was the penultimate time I decorated the page and actually filled it in.

If you look closely you can see that I used it to record what I had done.  I think this is the way to go with the new planner.  Use the weekly pages to journal rather than plan. And to record what I am thankful for each day.

Of course, whether this new plan starts in December or January really depends on the level of procrastination that comes into play!

And it still doesn't address the idea of a commonplace book.  I have wanted to do one for ages.  Looking back, it's over 10 years since I've wanted to do one motivated by Mary Brack's post: Commonplace.

I have to wonder whether if it's that long then the idea probably isn't for me.  Something to think about!

And lastly, do I want to pick a Word of the Year for 2025?  My word for this year was [Discover].  Here was my thinking in 2023: New Year, New Word.

You might be thinking 'so what has she discovered?'  Well that's another post!

Thanks for being here today
Bernice