I'm All About New Experiences
I just love to go to places I've never been to before. I get so excited to see what's around the next corner. I like to try new things. Adventure is my freakin' middle name!
But don't mess with my notebooks and journals, man!
Best Self Journals
This post just goes to show you: A happy customer will tell one friend...a dissatisfied customer will tell 20.
The Happy Customer Speaks
Revolutionary! Game-Changing!
Back on July 13, 2017, I received my first 'Best Self Journal.' It's a goal-setting, habit tracking, spirit-lifting, calendar keeping beauty of a day planner, and I freaking LOVE IT!
I've tried so many iterations of calendars, notebooks, planners, and electronic gadgets trying to keep track of everything in my life from my plans and dreams, ideas and motivation, to vet and dental appointments. At last, I found it, and I use it every day.
It's just perfect. The size is great: small enough to fit in my purse...big enough not to lose it in there. The paper feels nice, and the ink doesn't bleed through the pages.
It's got a place for everything, and I've learned to tailor it to my exact needs.
I'm so addicted to it that I now make sure I always have one as a backup. I'm no longer sure how to run my life without it.
The Wigged-Out-By-Change Customer Speaks
I received a new one and didn't pay much attention until I got the 2-week warning that I'm about to finish my current one. (The planners last for a quarter). I reached for the new one to begin the setup process.
Gasp! Something was DIFFERENT!
It was instantly apparent that they'd sent me the WRONG THING!
But then, I looked online at my order, and it said exactly what the last one said.
They must have just changed the look!!
But why mess with perfection???!!!
The old archive box that it comes in had a neat magnetic flap closure.
The new one was...just a box.
I try to quell my rising sense of panic.
(Okay, I'm sort of being facetious here...and well, kind of mean it.)
The new one (on the right) is a darker color.
Okay, well...that can be good, I thought, it might resist spots better.
Plus...the ribbons are all grosgrain. (Old ones were satin and tended to unravel, which is why the ends are all tied.)
Okay, change can be useful. Maybe it'll work out even better.
Then I opened the new one (on the right), and the format of each page is
ENTIRELY DIFFERENT.
I have a precise way I use each and every line...I have sticky notes even, that I put in particular places on the page. (My day's plan on the sticky...what actually happens on the page.)
I have all sorts of habit trackers, and I've gotten really fast at setting them all up because I know exactly where they go...
Okay. I'm breathing. This isn't a big deal. Fine. Fine. Everything's fine...
I have two weeks to figure out how to work with the new planner.
I have two weeks to figure out how to work with the new planner.
I can do this.
I can do this.
I can do this.
lol
Again...I'm kind of kidding...and, yet, serious as a heart attack.
Daily Hits of Happy
-I have completely changed from our old bank (that loves to charge ATM fees and doesn't pay interest on their checking accounts, and we recently read that they are one of the worst banks to do business with) to a new bank. I THINK I've got all of my auto-pay things updated.
-Finally went and closed my checking and savings accounts with them.
-Goodbye fees! (The new bank doesn't even charge you for international ATM withdrawals.)
-There was a crazy man at the bank complaining on and on and on to the security guard, then the teller, then a bank officer....loudly and angrily. (Kind of felt good not to be the one on the end of that tirade. Time off from dealing with the public isn't all bad.)
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"Things change.
Routines change.
Things have to change
But change doesn't mean less.
It just means different."
-Clayton Kershaw
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"I do better with routines and predictability.
I don't react well when there's a sudden change in the schedule."
-Gretchen Rubin
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"I write with a Uni-Ball Onyx Micropoint
on nine-by-seven bound notebooks
made by a Canadian company called Blueline."
-Billy Collins
(What a nut-job!!
Hello?!
A fine-line Sharpie...
in a top-spiral 8.5" x 11" notebook...
with a Best Self Journal for a daily planner...
It's the ONLY way to go!
LOL.
I guess certain routines do
give a sense of comfort and familiarity.)
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