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Question about the stranger at the coffee shop who called my bullet journal a "to-do list with extra steps"
I was sitting at Filter Coffee in Chicago last Tuesday with my dot grid journal open, laying out my weekly spread with three washi tape strips and a habit tracker, when the guy at the next table leaned over and said, "that's just a to-do list with extra steps, right?" I laughed it off, but on the walk home I kept thinking about it because my spread literally has a to-do list, a mood tracker, and a doodle of my cat in the corner. How do you explain the whole system to somebody who thinks it's just fancy list making without sounding like you're defending a hobby? Curious what short answer you all give when someone asks why you do this.
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christopherw3411d ago
Calling it a "to-do list with extra steps" kind of misses the point of why we track anything at all. A to-do list tells you what to do, but a mood tracker or a doodle of your cat is about noticing how your week actually felt, not just what got checked off. The short answer I give people is that it's less about being productive and more about slowing down enough to pay attention to my own life.
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