Appreciation post: Found a coffee shop in Denver that finally got me to ditch my monthly planner

I was in Denver last month and this tiny place had a bulletin board full of scrappy, hand-drawn logs that made me realize my pretty pre-printed planner was just hiding all the chaos instead of helping me sort it out, so has anyone else had a random spot totally flip how you use your journal?

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taylor_young20d ago

Man, thats exactly it. @lindab49 put it better than I could - we get sold on these pretty systems but they just make us feel bad for being human. So what was it about those scrappy hand-drawn logs that finally clicked for you, was it the lack of fancy grids or just seeing someone else's actual mess laid out honest?

grant_hart20d ago

Right there with you. Perfect systems just make you feel broken.

lindab4920d ago

Funny how a grubby bulletin board can do more than a store-bought system ever could. I've always found that perfect looking planners make you feel like a failure when you can't keep them neat, so you just stop using them altogether. Maybe the real trick is embracing the mess and treating your journal like a crime scene board instead of a museum exhibit. Sounds like that coffee shop accidentally taught you what Marie Kondo never could - let your chaos breathe a little and it might actually make sense.