Evolution of a Lister

I have kept lists of things to do, things to remember, just lists and more lists for a very long time. I would keep my first lists just on scraps of paper. Then when I started college it was on note pads. Then when I started teaching that notepad got clipped onto a clipboard. I did that for years probably at least 15 years.

 

I bought a padded folding clipboard portfolio  And then would carry that around on occasion but mainly kept it at work or at home. I found it kind of big and cumbersome to haul around with me all the time.

I would keep my sheets of lists for a while but then after sometime I would have the pile of tattered pages, what a mess.

So I would just throw them away. I also during this time had a journal. I started keeping one when I was a teenager and continue this.

I would do really well on keeping up with entries in my journal but of course there would be times I wouldn't have anything written. And that would be normal.

But when I started blogging I come to realize I was very seldom writing in my journal anymore. I really miss that.

  I have been using composition book to keep my lists in and then one day I decided to start writing in that notebook, reflections of my day. 

That was like a Eureka moment. Here I have a daily task list showing the things I did in a day and then I had reflections of thoughts, events etc. written also.

I really like that. So now that composition book is what I use for to do lists and journal in. It's nothing pretty, just practical actually. I give no thought whatsoever to what it looks like and then when I went to my daughters I noticed her planner and how she would do a little journaling in her and keep her things to do and many other lists in her planner.

Well I fell in love with it and sometimes when I fall in love with something I can get very impulsive without thinking.

That is what I did. I told myself it was an early Christmas present to myself. Need to be for the cost I was spending. That is what impulse buying does.

Got a Filofax and 

the insert like my daughter had, which came from Inkwell Press. Wonderful planner and would recommend it to others who like printed planners. 
I didn't stop there I purchase stamps and the ink pads, again like my daughter. No stickers thou, not into stickers. A couple rolls of whasi tape which I love. Some more color pens. I was set to go.
Then after I came down from this impulsive 
buying, reality set in and I need to figure out how I could get this to work for me.
Do what I've been doing and putting it into a planner. So I started to check out what others were doing with their planners and see what I could use. 
That is when I started to think that maybe this isn't the way I should be going. I want to continue having  planner and personal journal together. Can do it with what I bought but I wanted it to be something I can keep like my past journals. Being in a binder and not wanting to buy a new binder each year, I'm starting to think I made a mistake for me. That is when I came across this system called Bullet Journal. 
It had ME all written over it.

So I am re-gifting my Filofax and planner to my youngest daughter for Christmas.

My next post will show you what and how I'm doing my Bullet Journal.