I don’t have much of anything to tell you.
In late March, my planning, and logging became inconsistent, at best. I did some backlogging in my logging journal, but I know it’s all bare bones at best.
Come April, I barely touched my planners. I set up April in everything, but…that was about all I did. May was not that much better.
In my tracking and gratitude planner, my A6 Aura Estelle weekly catch all, I managed to keep up with my gratitude every day…until the twenty-sixth, when I simply gave up. Throughout that month, there were haphazard guesses about when I went to bed, when I got up. There are many empty days when I didn’t even try to guess. As for tracking temperature and weather, I started to miss days early in the month. One day here, two days there. Until…I just gave up.
May is completely empty. I didn’t even bother trying. Until this week, the very last week of the month, when I began to see the light of … being not as sick as before.
For now, I keep up with my daily gratitude practice, but I haven’t even tried to set up sleep or weather trackers. I may not start tracking either again.
I do have the June monthly set up in this planner. I also have the first two weeks marked out for my gratitude practice.
Checking in with my Makselife weekly, by week two of April, I gave up trying to plan. I would go back and back plan a few days here and there, but mostly, empty pages.
I wrote up something for May’s monthly goals and monthly spread. Week one of May is filled out…minus the weekly reflection and the weekly actions pages.
Empty pages. Empty pages. Until this, the final week of May. Even here, I only jotted down to-dos for a couple of the days.
I have yet to set up June in this planner, yet.
In my Moleskine notebook, my tracker/logging journal, I typically use one page per day, plus a one page weekly. Looking back, I used to do a one page monthly page as well, using a calendar sticker and listing out goals. In April, I began to skip the monthly, the weeklies. The dailies I began to fit at least two days, if not more, per page. By the time I reached May, I had started to back plan some days with ‘I have no clue what happened this day’…even if that day were only the day before.
I don’t set up anything but the next day’s page (or space) the night before…or the morning of, depending upon how I feel.
My Papertess Manager’s Notebook, my favorite planner thus far, I tried harder. In April, most of the weeklies have simple notes, maybe one or two. Just this past weekend, I went back to fill in the empty two-page spreads between each week.
I continued this in May. A few words here and there on a weekly. I filled in the May two-page blank spreads between weeks, between months, this past weekend. I added stickers, more than usual. Typically, I only use a couple here and there, to add a bit of color. On the most recent blank spreads, all there are are stickers… no words.
The June monthly and all the weeklies are set up and ready to go. I even filled out the Quarter Three goal planning pages in the front of the book. I only did this because for some bizarre reason I thought that Q3 started June 1…at least I am a bit more prepared for the coming quarter than I usually am.
And that is it.
I have not been using any other planner or planning method. I have not been journaling. I have been too sick, too tired. I have made various notes on my phone and left it at that if I needed to make notes on anything.
How has your planning gone this quarter? These past few months? What has changed? What do you need to change? What is working for you? Let me know in the comments.
Tabitha Low 