What Have I Been Doing Lately?

Yep, that’s me! Life is better outdoors! I've not been "planning" much lately, more just waking up and dealing with what the day brings. I've been skiing several times this winter and have had a wonderful time. I hadn't been on skis at all for at least 30 years and have been amazed that I …

Bullet Journal Write-Up – with pictures

Overview I posted a link to a video I made about my return to using a bullet journal. I thought it would be good for a longer write up to explain some of the parts of the bullet journal I am using. This is the notebook cover I made for my bullet journal. Veg Tan …

What My 2 Book Modified Bullet Journal Looks Like

Here is what my 2 Field Notes system looks and hopefully functions like. I'm using a simple cover and 2 Field Notes Sized books.  It is very thin and fits well in my hip pocket. The left side book is for calendars and planning out in the future.   I do rely more on Google Calendar, …

What If I’m Wrong?

I know that I’m probably the only person who has ever made a decision about planning materials/supplies/systems that turns out to be wrong. Since I am, please indulge me and read along so that you can avoid the same sort of mistake. One of the real keys for any planning system for me is that …

Note taking

Today is day 2 of the great restart. I thought I would share a couple of pages from my notebook. I'm adapting the bullet journal concept to fit my needs. First off, I hope to use time every morning to plan out my actions during my discretionary time. Today is pretty wide open, so I …

ReStart!

I've not blogged for a while. Sometimes real life gets in the way. But, here is a short update. I've made a decision to commit more to planning and organizing my stuff. To that end, I'm changing my notebook use from Field Notes for bullet journaling to a Clairefontaine My Essentials dot grid A5 notebook. …

Where does the time go?

Yesterday the time just got away from me. I used much of my morning working on the family budget and then spent some time running errands. I picked up contact lenses from the eye doctor, dropped off a donation box at the ARC store and stopped in at the bank to open a new savings …

Focusing On What’s Most Important

The New Year brings about a desire to be better. Rather than focus on such a monumental task, I choose to focus on only 1 value in my life for the first month of the new year - Solitude. Solitude for me is a focused time of contemplation and faith in attaining my worthy goals. …

Values based planning

I first became aware of values based planning around 1982 when I sat in on my first time management workshop as a Colorado FFA Association officer. The presenter led a group of student leaders through an abbreviated version of the DayTimer Time Power seminar created by Charles R. Hobbs. One of the things that really …

Daily Planning in my bullet journal

I approach daily planning from a pretty pragmatic point of view.  I try to evaluate how much discretionary time I will have and then plan a few high priorities to get done during that time.  I also take on things that are urgent or that come up at the spur of the moment.   I've tried …