Plan (029)

The past few years, I have been hoarding planning supplies. Planners with vertical box layouts both coiled and softbound, lined notebooks, stickers, highlighters, horizontal layout planners, brush pens, fancy rulers, sticker albums, gel pens, hourly planners, metallic ink pens, dot grid notebooks, a planner caddy, ballpoint pens, planners where each day takes up one entire page, fountain pens, washi tape—you name it, I have it. I do use it. Okay, some of it. I even have a machine that makes stickers. Yes, I have also used that several times, though not as many as I had envisioned when purchasing it. 

Nearly every Sunday, I set up my coming week with stickers and highlighters, and the mindset of, this is the week I stick it out for the duration! Lately, I have been making it further into the week before losing steam: five days. On the weekend, I tend to forget about filling it out. At the end of February, I bought a coiled dot grid notebook from my favorite planner company in order to start bullet journaling again. They use thick, toothy, delicious smelling paper, and I haven't been able to stray without disappointment since discovering them. I have stuck with it for the past three weeks using this new setup. Admittedly, the weekends aren't as full, and today I hurriedly wrote in black ink for the weekend, where as the rest of the week was more colorful. 

This afternoon, I spent several hours figuring out a layout that I'm hoping works as a goal/habit tracker and planner. It's a colorful layout, most daily tasks having their own colored box to fill in as I complete them. If I can be this excited about the layout, certainly I can stick to it. At least, that's the plan.