Before the pen in my Happy Planner
Continuing were I left of in my last post, my package from http://www.hobbywerken.nl came only on Thursday.
It is easy to get addicted to these stickers and pages, and every excuse to buy more is good. I really need to work on my eating and fitness habits, so I placed a new order with the same shop the next day. This included the fitness kit and digital detox stickers.
That Friday I worked from home, as they would let us know if we could stay or were let go from our jobs, I wanted to first process this news on my own. For those curious to know, I still have my job.
On Saturday I went to my parents house and stayed there until Wednesday. Just going on the weather, still very hot, and on their invitation I could have stayed the rest of the week as well. However my second order would be delivered Thursday, hence I came home.
Working was hard with outside temperatures of 37°C and in the kitchen (which is the coolest place in the house) it was 27°C.
My order of new stickers and goodies indeed came on Thursday. I immediately added the “feeling tropical” sticker from the “pastel tropics” Happy Planner sticker book to the top left corner of the dashboard layout of my Rongrong 18 month planner. My idea was to purchase a vertical layout planner, but apparently I ordered the “wrong” one. Planning on this dashboard layout takes some getting used to. If you want to see how I’m doing so far keep reading along.
Each month starts with a goals and important dates page, before there is a monthly overview and then a weekly dashboard. The 18 month calendars start in July. I only got my on July 29th . So I took out everything from July except for the goals page and the weekly page for those last days of the month. I tried to transform the July goals page in a weekly dashboard layout I would use. Didn’t find the right stickers so in my opinion it looks a bit amateurish. Last week was a bit better. But there is still room for improvement. The steps stickers I like very much, just afraid I will run out of them very quickly. Water tracking stickers are still not 100 percent ok either. I’m happy with how the monthly goals page turned out.
The photos depict how an original page looks like and my transformation before the pen.
The stress and warm weather made that my habits/goals for the morning routine still need some work, especially on the exercise and self-improvement reading part.
I don’t decorate the right page (except for the one sticker this week) as I really keep that for daily journaling. An extra half sheet for my food log was already added so I have about 1 to 2 extra lines to journal on. Up till yesterday I entered something every day. This kind of surprised me, because when I was keeping a bullet journal there could be days or entire weeks without logging something. Maybe it is the novelty of it all, but I think it will certainly help my mental health in the long run.
In the next coming weeks I want to focus more on healthy eating and an actual fitness routine. So stay tuned on how I will incorporate this into my planner.
