Member-only story
Featured
How Bad Bullet Journaling Helps Me Manage my ADHD
A journal of my progress and my failures — that I can’t put down
ADHDers have a problem with being very optimistic about new tips and tricks for solving the issues we have with our brains.
Or maybe that’s just me…
In other words, I (and the research says it’s other people, too) suffer from a very unrealistic idea of reality.
It doesn’t matter how many times I’ve started a bullet journal in a crisp new Leuchterm 1917 notebook; after a few months, I’m tired of it.
The pages are covered in my unfinished tasks, half-completed habit trackers, and scribbles that don’t look anything like the Pinterest images I’ve been aspiring to.
Where did I go wrong?
But I’m learning to embrace the imperfection.
After maintaining my last bullet journal for eight months, I gave myself permission to start again. I rewrote my annual goals in the front, redid my monthly log, and vowed not to put anything other than my monthly and daily logs in the front of the journal.
Logs, trackers, plans, notes, etc. would go in the back of the journal — available, but not in the way of the things that I really need to do.
