The Joy of Life Photography: Blog https://www.thejoyoflifephoto.com/blog en-us (C) The Joy of Life Photography [email protected] (The Joy of Life Photography) Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:22:00 GMT Mon, 16 Mar 2020 07:22:00 GMT https://www.thejoyoflifephoto.com/img/s/v-12/u1023669222-o905998293-50.jpg The Joy of Life Photography: Blog https://www.thejoyoflifephoto.com/blog 120 80 The Joy of Organization https://www.thejoyoflifephoto.com/blog/2018/11/the-joy-of-organization photo of the book by Ryder Carrollblog 1-7010The Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll As a kid, and I should be honest, most of my early adult years, my mom called me the Absent-Minded Professor. As you might guess, I was not known for my organizational skills. But, somehow, I have become a functioning adult in spite of myself. Through a variety of paper lists, calendars and digital methods, I have managed to keep most of my life's to-do's in order.

And yet. I always feel like I'm forgetting something or I'm behind. I have a nagging feeling that there is more I should be doing. I have a hard time relaxing most days because of my "should-be-doing's." I stumbled upon the Bullet Journal somewhere online and became intrigued. I looked at several websites about this kind of journal to see what I could learn on my own. I felt like what I was reading made sense, but I wanted to the real story, so I just bought the Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll

So far I am loving this book. It kind of starts as your standard "self-help" approach, but then stuff gets real. I appreciate the practical approach to this journal and am in love with the idea of "indexing" my journals. This means my journal no longer needs to be chronological - I just add page numbers and reference them in the index. Brilliant!

Reading further, and I'm just past the halfway point, I am enjoying the advice about how journaling and organizing tasks can help me be more present, rather than worrying about the future or dwelling on the past.

I will post more about this as I get through the book but I have high hopes for this!

 

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