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Hi everyone! Welcome to a new week here on my blog! Today\u2019s Topical Tuesday, I\u2019m going to return to a recent topic I covered. I\u2019m returning to the concept of journaling, because I ended up caving in to the pressure I gave myself watching all those videos about bullet journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u2019s right, everyone. I now have a bullet journal. I walked to the dollar store on Friday of last week and ended up buying a tiny, cute journal to work with. \u201cWhy did you write about this now and not on Saturday?\u201d I hear you asking. Well, to be honest\u2026 I did start on Friday, but I like to write my blog posts a day early, and I wrote Saturday\u2019s post before my walk that afternoon. Thus, I hadn\u2019t started it until I already had a post written- one that\u2019s very important to me, no less.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve noticed that my blog has been less and less related to my writing, and that made Saturday\u2019s post extra important to me to write about: because my life is writing, yet all I\u2019ve been writing is my life. And I write way more than that! That\u2019s why, that day, I wanted a change of pace. A return to my roots, so to speak.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And that may also explain why I decided to try bullet journaling. It works as a reminder that I\u2019m a creative spirit, one that needs a lot of help keeping track of things. I\u2019m very unorganized as a person- the fact that someone showed admiration for the fact I can keep a general schedule on two blogs made me remember why I decided to take on the challenge: because I was amazed at how organized those people were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So far, I\u2019m still learning the ropes. I haven\u2019t done a \u2018daily\u2019 page as of writing this post- but I found a lot of interesting pages to work on, and it\u2019s also been a great help in trying to make my handwriting better (though it\u2019s still pretty bad, if I\u2019m being honest!). I even found inspiration to make pages listing my coping skills for my mental health, a page with ideas for future topics with you guys in mind, and plenty more. I don\u2019t have much artistic flair in it yet- my gel pens refuse to work efficiently, so I could only draw on one or two pages with color\u2026 But I did doodle on a spread that\u2019s meant to remind you who you are and what makes you you!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here, have a couple pictures of my journal so far:<\/p>\n\n\n\n