I'm slowly making my way back into keeping a regular journal, working at it from different directions. The gluebooky way above in which I slap on some gesso and glue down things that seem to want to go there. I'm also keeping a journal of my year of change, trying to figure out if synchronicity is working in my life, if what seems to be chance is really a harbinger or messenger of change. I'm thinking about what happens in my life every day to see if I can find instances of change at work or if I'm taking steps myself to prepare for change in this transitional phase of my life. The other journal I'm keeping is the one-sentence-a-day diary proposed by Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project. I'm writing that one in the little 5 Year Diary by Tamara Shopsin. Oops and I forgot...Fridaville is being redesigned with some fun things planned like weekly "Postcards from Fridaville" sent out to people who sign up for them, so I'm keeping a journal of ideas on that. All in addition to my day job, for which I have a Skirt! Magazine notebook to keep me focused on coming issues. Just writing all of that down makes me feel unfocused and crazy -- should I just have one notebook that all of this goes into? The separate ones seem to help me keep my different roles and goals separate, but I don't know...maybe I'm just spinning my wheels. And I don't want one of those 5-subject spiral notebooks from school because they make me think of warm cafeteria milk and math assignments I never finished. Big shiver down my spine just imagining it. How do you keep track of all your projects?
2.17.2010
Doing my Homework
I'm slowly making my way back into keeping a regular journal, working at it from different directions. The gluebooky way above in which I slap on some gesso and glue down things that seem to want to go there. I'm also keeping a journal of my year of change, trying to figure out if synchronicity is working in my life, if what seems to be chance is really a harbinger or messenger of change. I'm thinking about what happens in my life every day to see if I can find instances of change at work or if I'm taking steps myself to prepare for change in this transitional phase of my life. The other journal I'm keeping is the one-sentence-a-day diary proposed by Gretchen Rubin in The Happiness Project. I'm writing that one in the little 5 Year Diary by Tamara Shopsin. Oops and I forgot...Fridaville is being redesigned with some fun things planned like weekly "Postcards from Fridaville" sent out to people who sign up for them, so I'm keeping a journal of ideas on that. All in addition to my day job, for which I have a Skirt! Magazine notebook to keep me focused on coming issues. Just writing all of that down makes me feel unfocused and crazy -- should I just have one notebook that all of this goes into? The separate ones seem to help me keep my different roles and goals separate, but I don't know...maybe I'm just spinning my wheels. And I don't want one of those 5-subject spiral notebooks from school because they make me think of warm cafeteria milk and math assignments I never finished. Big shiver down my spine just imagining it. How do you keep track of all your projects?
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Your blog is my favorite. Your writing makes me want to journal but somehow what I would write is not that interesting.
Try the one-sentence-a-day journal...it takes all the pressure off. Sometimes I just note that my camellia bush is back or how happy I am to be home in my pjs.
You have really great taste on catch article titles, even when you are not interested in this topic you push to read it
organizing projects. I use my smart phone (it has a "sicky note application that I can stick on a virtual board!) I have a paper month at a glance calendar (perfect to write a sentence a day and be able to see them connect, and blogging (because you suggested I do it) for a journal to develop my thoughts and writing. The phone is always with me so I decided to utilize it as needed. It captures those random thoughts without loosing them on a slip of paper or a cocktail napkin. The paper calendar with specifically a month at a glance came about because when I was planning a day or even a week at a time I was not considering the month as a whole and I was over-scheduled and worn OUT. This allows me to view the month, write down quick notes (I have a calendar with a special column on the edge that allows for random thoughts and notes) and see my life at a glance for the month I feel a little more organized. Oh, and I can map out my "lazy days" as I count down to the days I can do what ever I want on my own schedule to re-charge.
Still... I am never really on "track" but at least I am covering all the bases! :)
I'm lost. I organize my life and not my thoughts. *Sigh* I feel I need more structure but I resist structure, probably because I'm still recovering from my Catholic childhood and parochial school education.
Too many "good books" and I start seeing a nun wielding a ruler, chasing me down the hallways.
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