Planning
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So I fell

Today is officially the first day of my holiday, although I always consider the weekends to be as much as part of the holiday as the actual days off work. I have been set an interesting challenge for my week off: to sample tea and cakes somewhere different every day. I am not the world’s Continue reading
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Whole pile of planners

Oh, what a week. I had to give myself a stern talking-to on Friday night because the whole planner situation has spiralled way out of control. I took a different planner with me to work each day. On Friday, I took two! It just has to stop. I decided, first of all, to forgive myself Continue reading
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I thought it was the pens

I’ve had a touch of post-Christmas ennui and, as you do, I started to blame it on the pens. I wasn’t using them as much as usual so perhaps I wasn’t loving the pens I had inked, or the inks themselves. I’d been using the same few pens for almost two months and maybe I Continue reading
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Make it easy on yourself

Or, goal-setting for the timid. I have been wittering away for weeks about goal-setting. I’ve mentioned it out loud a few times, but there’s been a much deeper internal monologue and I can’t count the number of times it has appeared on my list of actions for the day. I thought that I was shying Continue reading
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Intentions

I’ve been considering a change or two in my planning system in preparation for next year, and one of these has been to rethink how I’m going to use the week to a page diary inserts. My original intention was to interleave a blank lined page between each, thus carrying on with the system that’s Continue reading
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Old ideas for a new month

We’re less than a week into the new month and I’ve been in the mood to change things up. I finished the journal that I had started back in April, the one in which I’d chosen to use only shades of brown ink. I enjoyed that discipline, and I do like the cohesive look of Continue reading
