1. It takes a hella long time to figure out your style..

    Don’t be hard on yourself if you can't find inspo or if you've had a series of spreads you don’t like 

2. You may not always be upto date 

    I've gone through phases of religiously keeping up to date but there's also been months that I haven't done it and I lost all motivation 

3. Don't compare yourself to other people

    As I said before, it took me ages to figure out what worked fro me. I’m not particularly good at drawing so I spent years thinking my spreads weren’t good enough. you're doing it for yourself not anyone else 

4. You don't need state of the art supplies

    Yeah it’s nice sometimes to splurge on noice things but some of my favourite things are the spreads I've created with a plan pen or a pencil! 

5. Don't define it

    Generally I'm a very organised person and I like it when things are all categorised. This also went for my bujo. when I started out I tried to do lots of different spread but I tried to keep them uniform enough and maintain as much of a daily/weekly journal style as I could. Over the years it has just morphed into one big scrapbook/bullet journal/art journal which took me far too long to realise 

6. Enjoy it.