Planners, Journals, Pens. I feel your pain. Meanwhile, I'm staring at a shoebox FULL of the little 3"x4" notebooks that Mom and Dad kept for YEARS noting events of the day, weather, worries. I guess the habit skips a generation 🤷
I started using a planner during Covid-19. I didn’t use it to plan. After all, what was there to plan during the lockdown? I used it to record. I listed every store that I did venture into. I started to record household tasks I’d completed. I looked back rather than forward.
I still record those things and, along with those, I add the occasional doctor or dentist’s appointment and plans which aren’t spur of the moment.
I wrote the word “Helene” on the block marked September 27, 2024 — the day a hurricane slammed into my city. The words “sheets,” “trash,” and “recycling” are scattered throughout. Truthfully, my planner is and probably will continue to be a record rather than a plan.
Consider the truth that your planner doesn’t have to be one or the other (record or plan). It can be either or both. Then consider that the planner might prefer to not be in a drawer. After all, it knows its purpose. Open the drawer.
Hilarious as usual. But also, how terrible of you to illuminate the absurdities we try to tuck away in mental drawers.
I like to make sure it’s not just me lol
Planners, Journals, Pens. I feel your pain. Meanwhile, I'm staring at a shoebox FULL of the little 3"x4" notebooks that Mom and Dad kept for YEARS noting events of the day, weather, worries. I guess the habit skips a generation 🤷
I guess it does lol
I started using a planner during Covid-19. I didn’t use it to plan. After all, what was there to plan during the lockdown? I used it to record. I listed every store that I did venture into. I started to record household tasks I’d completed. I looked back rather than forward.
I still record those things and, along with those, I add the occasional doctor or dentist’s appointment and plans which aren’t spur of the moment.
I wrote the word “Helene” on the block marked September 27, 2024 — the day a hurricane slammed into my city. The words “sheets,” “trash,” and “recycling” are scattered throughout. Truthfully, my planner is and probably will continue to be a record rather than a plan.
Consider the truth that your planner doesn’t have to be one or the other (record or plan). It can be either or both. Then consider that the planner might prefer to not be in a drawer. After all, it knows its purpose. Open the drawer.
Sounds like you turned your planner into something very useful that you can look back on
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