Bullet Journals and Questioning Goals
Two links, to start with. First, Lifehacker has a really interesting post about finding your real goals by asking why you want/do certain things, which is one of those things I urge writers to do an awful lot in You Don’t Want To Be Published. It’s also a remarkably useful skill in other aspects of your life–I’ve used it to solve problems in day-job gigs, supervisor’s meetings, and personal relationships, and it proved to be a remarkably big part of the conversation I kept having with my psychologist last year. Second, the bullet journal is my productivity system of choice because it’s hackable and adapts to my schedule, getting complex on the months I need complexity and streamlined on the months when my workload is relatively focused. I picked up the BuJo habit from Kate Cuthbert, and it’s slowly spread through a whole bunch of friends and family, to the point where a large chunk of our family Christmas is
