My schedule makes me free.
If I keep repeating that, I’ll come to believe it, right? >_>
Well, here we are. It’s time once again for KD Sarge’s not-quite-yearly attempt to get organized. Falling, as usual, right after KD Sarge’s nearly-annual freakout about how little got done last year.
Whee?
Eventually, I believe, I’m going to get my carp together. It’s going to happen. I have faith.
I’m back on the BuJo train again, but this time I’m staying away from Pinterest layouts and such. My bullet journal will never look like those, because that’s not what I want to spend my time on. If it reminds me of the things I need to remember when I need to remember them? That’s all I need from it.
I’ll just save my pretty gel pens for my adult coloring books with pretty mandalas and swear words. And also Postcards to Voters. And my washi tape for…random craft projects because I totally do those. Yeah.
I’ll figure something out, I’m sure.
But the thing with my BuJo, which probably had something to do with my dropping it the last two times I tried, is that it can’t help me if I never open it. So I’ve got a schedule too. I wrote it on a chalkboard on my wall (large, because I am amazing at ignoring with singular attention anything I’m supposed to be doing, but obviously, the bigger it is the harder to ignore, so…)
That’s for my after-work evenings, when I tend to fall into news sites and follow links to science, and…I don’t even freaking know what I do. It’s even harder to not waste a ton of time on the weekends, but I haven’t figured out how to schedule anything there yet. Not without a rebellion of my inner “but I want to GO OUT AND PLAY” 5yo, anyway. I’ll continue to ponder that.
I’ve been using Wunderlist for years, but mostly to remind me of recurring stuff like watering the plants every three days, turning my mattress every two weeks, or checking my credit report every four months. Other stuff gets stuck on the list and SITS FOREVER. It’s just really easy to ignore!
I’ll probably rope the stuff I do understand onto my BuJo and see if I can’t take care of things better. I’ll only use Wunderlist for what I’ve found it to be good for–making a noise at an appropriate time to remind me of something. So far (started this week) I’ve used it to remind me to go to a not-my-usual grocery store to nab a great deal on ground beef, and to remind me to stop for gas on the way home so I don’t get stuck trying to do it on the way to work some morning.
Will I, KD Sarge, finally, permanently, get my carp together and keep them that way? Experience says probably not. But! Every time I do this, I get a little better at it. So maybe this time it will stick? And even if all of it doesn’t stick, hopefully a little more will than last time?
Keep swimming, a wise fish once said. Just keep swimming.
