I share this story with you, not to gain sympathy for my busy time of the year. In fact, I still need some extra rest and it’ll take me about another week to get back to normal again. So that weeklong brain dump page became more like a week-and-a-half. And yes, after it was done, it took me almost a week to rest and find enough energy to get back into my journal. The big project went off beautifully and I’m able to pack it away for another year. I gave myself permission to neglect the bullet journal for my normal routine. It’s not a big jumbled list of stuff I’ll need to sort and deal with, but it’s good that all those things are down on paper so I can see them, rather than causing more stress by staying inside my brain. I just jotted things down as they came to mind. I had no intention of actually completing any of these tasks while I was working on the big project, but I knew I needed to get these thoughts out of my head. Then I just slapped the week’s date along the top of the page and used it as an organized version of a brain dump page. If you look closely, you’ll notice I wrote “beef broth” on my grocery list twice – clearly not paying attention to the list, just writing stuff down as I thought of it. I used a two-page spread to jot down anything that came to mind during the busy week at work. ![]() So my solution came in the form of a two-page spread split into five sections: But then it simply didn’t make sense to devote that much space when I was really only working on one thing and it just so happened that the thing I was working on wasn’t even a thing I tracked in my personal bullet journal anyway (I keep a whole separate journal for day-job tasks).īut there was all this stuff in my head that needed to be put somewhere so I could have a clear brain for creativity on this project. And I kept that up for the first couple weeks of the crazy season. ![]() ![]() Normally I create a full page for each day and split it into four parts: personal, design business, Stationery Nerd, notes and then I add a small daily tracker. How I use my bullet journal when I’m too busy to use my bullet journal And that’s actually the whole point of this article – I want to share with you what worked for me and how it might help you too. It was interesting to see how things evolved with my bullet journal, though. And those little fun projects I start (like Stationery Nerd) tend to get put on the back burner. The cats get angry at me because I’m not around to give them belly rubs. All my clients know that I’ll be out of touch but in the weeks leading up to this time, I make sure they have everything they need until I come back online. In the past, I would simply neglect all forms of organization during this hyper-busy time and just focus on the one project in front of me. Sleep, eating healthy, the side business, social life… everything gets put on hold. From about mid-January to mid-February, everything else takes a back seat. It’s during this time of the year when my day job pretty much takes over my life with the biggest, most public, most important project of the year. I’m a graphic designer for my day job and also do design and brand management for my side business. Somebody needs to earn enough to pay for my stationery obsession and buy cat food. I have a day job (and a side business too). Let me tell you about my January and February.Īs much as I’d love for Stationery Nerd to be my full-time gig, that’s just not reality. ![]() Have you ever been too busy to use your bullet journal? But you know you still need your journal so you try to make it work even when you simply don’t have the time to figure out what that even means.
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