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\"bookworm<\/p>\n

In the last quarter of last year, I started getting into bullet journaling<\/a>. A little late to the party, if you go by the multitude of blog posts and instagram photos already circulating the web, but still.<\/p>\n

At first, I was intimidated. The photos of the the spreads were organised and artistic and completely out of my ability to produce. Then I realised that the beauty of the bullet journal is that I get to choose how I want it to look. What I want to go into it. I have started and stopped planners so many times because it just never has what I need or want, but finally, here was something I could control.<\/p>\n

So I told myself I would blog about it once I got into the swing of things. But what, I asked myself. What do I blog about that hasn’t already been covered? ElgeeWrites<\/a> suggested writing about balancing between the practical and the ‘interesting’ bullet journal, and that gave me the beginnings of an idea.<\/p>\n

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I didn’t choose the bullet journal life, the bullet journal life chose me.<\/h4>\n

That is to say – I did not expect to fall into it at all. Yes, I have spent a long time admiring the spreads I would see on instagram. The colourful pages, the organisation of it all, the artistic letterings. It was all gorgeous and useful and so utterly unattainable to me.<\/p>\n

It just seemed out of reach. I am not the artistic one in my family. Not in the drawing, painting sense of it all. Words, I can do. Art? Not so much.<\/p>\n

But there was this urge there. Here was a planner that I could design to suit me. To tailor to fit my needs. I could have a to-read list, a to-watch list. I could keep track of my blogging, of my business set up, of my writing.<\/p>\n

I could do whatever I wanted.<\/p>\n

It exhilarated me and terrified me in equal measure.<\/p>\n

What if it did not look good?<\/p>\n

What if it was not for me?<\/p>\n

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The trick is to find a balance. A balance between (moderately) aesthetically pleasing so you want to flip open your planner and actually use it, and practical for your own abilities.<\/p>\n

I have pages where I have told myself I will come back and doodle on, because I do not trust my current level of skills. I have pages where the I drew out things in pencil before going over them in coloured pens.<\/p>\n

And then I have pages where I have approached things in a simple manner, filled with words and colour-coded in a way I sometimes need to flip back to the key to remember.<\/p>\n

Hey, I never claimed to have found a perfect method. Just one that is working for me.<\/p>\n

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And I am constantly adapting. Pintrest has been a lot of help in this regard. Ideas for spreads and titles and pages I want to add to my little notebook of everything are added almost daily to my BuJo Inspo board<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A few must haves that I swear by?<\/p>\n