Journal For Life

Wednesday August 27th

journals through the years.

“𝘐 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘫𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘨𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘦𝘢𝘤𝘩: 𝘴𝘪𝘮𝘱𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘵𝘺, 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦, 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯. 𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘴𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘳𝘦𝘦 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘺𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘨𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘦𝘴𝘵 𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘶𝘳𝘦𝘴.” 𝘓𝘢𝘰 𝘛𝘻𝘶

@ceesjournal

I finally have some days off, so I spent an hour updating my travel journal, took out ALL of my stickers and realized I've created just a little bit of chaos 💀

This is my first year of doing a daily log journal and I've learned a few things from doing this.

It was useful to have this, but I rarely remembered to write things in it at the moment unless it was something I had to do. This is not a bad thing, I did at least managed to use it for its intended purpose. When I remembered to take it with me, and that is more of a habit I need to build I think than anything else.

I liked making mini schedules in my journal. Writing out when I woke up and when I started things and the general order in which things would get done I found useful to me. Doing this the night before using my Everyday Journal to inform me what I could, should or want to do the next day is useful.

There is a need to better build a habit in how to use these two journals in conjunction with each other and I probably need to think about that a bit more for next year.

It took a long while for me to use this journal because I wasn't using a page a day since the way I use it now and the way I used it in the beginning was very different.

But I think so far I'll upkeep a daily log journal, but that does beg the question of what to do with the last two months and this is my answer:

So I had finished my last work journal, and needed to get a new one. In which, I just raided my shelf. Up until the end of the last quarter of 2025, I had been subscribed to a stationery box. It was fun, but two notebooks every single quarter is too many notebooks, and I didn't always like the notebooks I got.

Even though this journal is a subbox exclusive, the reality is, it would be cheaper for me to buy a bunch of high quality notebooks that I like.

I don't really like this notebook, it is very pretty but it isn't my vibe. But pretty notebooks that aren't my vibe, tend to make for very good work journals, because I don't care as much about what journal I'm working out of.

It was like that with the last work journal as well.