Journals of broken dreams... and calendars, planners, notebooks

There's nothing I love more than opening up a new, crisp book in pristine condition with its bright white pages, straight, unblemished lines, and most of all its untapped potential. What will I fill the pages with? Dreams to come? Goals? The possibilities truly are endless.

It's just the follow through that sucks.

I have journals. Journals with linen pages. Hello Kitty journals, small journals, big journals, covered velvet journals, bound ones, those on rings, ones with colored pages, travel journals.

Then there's planners and calendars. Currently, I have 3 Muji ones that I use, the monthly, weekly and daily. - Monthy and daily I got in NYC Muji, the weekly which America doesn't carry - in Hong Kong. Other than that, I have a goal planner, then three other planners where I can record my sleep habits, my exercise habits, and then my goals. Every so often, I go online to Google Calendar, update it, then sync it with all my friends who haphazardly update theirs as well. It makes me feel nice to know what people are doing.

The problem with journals and notebooks for me is this: ideally, I would like to classify each notebook for a specific purpose. So I have tons of small books, one for forming plans to travel, one for traveling - recording my accounts of traveling, one for notations on specific places to go while traveling... You can buy these at a book store and they give you smart sections and illustrations and pictures of traveling to make you feel clever, and I have. I have all these books and inevitably I bring 2 notebooks, neither of them have much of anything but some contact phone numbers in it. Those hardcover linen books are too heavy to carry around and too beautiful to use casually.

I have journals spanning 10 years, where I've started something, outlining my hopes and dreams, only to come back to it a decade later and realize that most of it is unrealized.... and that the people that I hung out with are now married.

So then I have these travel notes, combined with plans and phone numbers all combined into one, that when looking back on them, serve no real purpose. What do I do with these book though? Despite the fact that it's already served its purposed, it still has over 60 pages remaining. I keep it. This, then feeds into my packratting quality and what I'm left with is a ton of random notebooks that are pulled out at most, twice a year.

With the addition of the internet, I'm deeming these books a lost cause!

PS I'm attaching some pages of my journals, in case you want to try and get organized!

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From Drop Box

Click here for the pdf. Sorry it's upside down. This will help you manage your costs.

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All right, I admit it, I'm tired of posting these, I'll do it at a later time. Enjoy!