Journal Jam Fall 2022 Day 3

[annofowlshire]

Day 3 Question:

What prompted you to get into using a planner or journaling?

(If you answer elsewhere, drop us a link in the comments.)

Comments

[olivermoss]

I started using a planner after I had a health crisis. While recovering I felt like weeks were passing and I was doing literally nothing. I started using a planner to show myself that wasn't true and also to mark stumbling blocks in my recovery like being stuck indoors due to forest fires or death in the family.

I now use a stripped down activity tracker and a more aesthetic decorative planner. Doing the older type of planner where I wrote down everything I did might be more helpful to me, I don't know.

[lunabee34]

That's such a smart reason to use a planner; I am chronically ill, and sometimes I get stuck in this defeatist mode of thinking of all the things I can't do anymore instead of realizing all the things I am still doing despite my illness. Thank you. I really like this framing and this way of looking at this tool.

[olivermoss]

Yeah, early on it was key to helping me recover. Sometimes it's easy to forget how much you have done or what got in the way, at least for me.