Taking inspiration from Angela of Paper Love Story, I’m going to start a regular blog post of my weekly layouts. (If you haven’t already checked this beautiful lady’s blog, please do! She’s chockful of planner eye candy, invaluable blogging insight, and all of this while studying to become a doctor! I take my hat off to you! Amazing!)
Anyhoo, I thought what better way to start off the series than my birthday week? It was a super busy week. I felt the pressure of work, Etsy and blog deadlines, printable design dramas, quibbles with the house, and the mania of Christmas this week. Needless to say, I had a massive cry last night after holding my shit together all week. This is my crazy week in my custom-made Decade Thirty Creations planner:
How my current planning system works: each day is divided into 3 boxes across 2 columns. The left column is divided into two boxes: the top for appointments and events, the bottom for 2-3 important tasks I can realistically accomplish for the day. The right column is a space for other tasks I may be able to accomplish, have thought about to complete, and random notes from the day. I use this in conjunction with my runsheet (see previous blog post). The bullets in I’m using are a mixture of old and new of the bullet journalling system by Ryder Carroll.
This is currently how the week of 21 December is looking like:
It’s currently pretty bare, but I’m sure I have a bit to do this week leading to to Christmas. I’m about to enjoy some quiet planning time with a nice cuppa before getting stuck into some stationery organisation in the spare room. I’m thinking of selling a few mixed goodie bags of stationery I’ve hoarded over the years, if anyone is interested?
AN IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT THESE PLANNER PAGES: I’ve been asked about this planner a number of times. To answer the majority of them: this is a custom-made planner designed specifically to my needs – that is, I designed and made the pages (handwriting and all) and came up with the system. If you would like to incorporate these layouts/designs and planning system for your personal use, please ensure that you provide credit back to my blog, Pinterest or Instagram account. Please do not reproduce these layouts and planning systems and/or sell for profit. The blogging/planning community is a big one and they’re loyal to the integrity of design/system property, so please be wary and if you don’t know where you got it from, then consider not posting it at all, or at least post a comment that it’s not your work – someone out there will know who to credit. I say this on behalf of the blogging and planning community. We love to share ideas because innately we love to help people, so please return the kind gesture. Sorry to end it on a serious note, but I’m hoping the message comes across before the close of 2015, and there are more positive vibes for 2016 :)
Until the next weekly pages, how was your week of 21 December?
dq
Your blog and Instagram are pretty inspirational to me too by the way! (The feeling is mutual :-) ) xx
Thanks, Angela xx
I had a similar four square division time to times in my planner as well. I use the method call “Eisenhower”. The matrix that I draw contain 4 boxes where I organize my daily task in order of importance and urgency. I integrate the matrix in the right site on my daydex. I learn the matrix during one Workshop organized by the faculty of Biology in my university. perhaps what are your thoughts about the new Carrol’s symbols?
Hi Diana – that Eisenhower method sounds interesting. Have you talked about it on your blog? I’m not sure about Ryder Carroll’s symbols yet – still need to give me a few more weeks hehe I’ll post something up about it then :)
One thought, though… Since the types of things we’re journaling are often similar to what someone else does, I have many times found that things I’ve been doing for weeks or months suddenly appear in one of the popular bloggers’ ideas and layouts. As I rarely publish pictures of my own ideas, it might then appear that I stole someone else’s idea when I was doing it long in advance. And one time, when I *did* put out a picture for how I handle something, one of those premiere bloggers commented “what a great idea” and three weeks later it showed up in one of her blog posts. No attribution, but I didn’t feel slighted because very likely it just went into her mental database as an idea (as I read cookbooks but then don’t pull them out when I go into the kitchen to make something. It’s now in my brain but when I use the idea I”m not even remembering that I read it somewhere.) The constant tweaking I do isn’t in a form that I would ever remember if I saw it in someone else’s pictures (there are countless thousands of them out there, after all) or if I’m just tweaking it to be more useful to me. If I were to copy someone’s entire layout, I would notice it of course. If it’s an element? Not necessarily. And when my ideas are picked up elsewhere, I’d never expect people to mention me every time they showed one of their own pictures.
Then again, I’m not a blogger. I journal for me, not for viewership. I understand your concerns, but sometimes ideas aren’t stolen, merely contemporaneous.