The U L T I M A T E Guide for the new year || Part 1

       𝐍𝐨𝐭 𝐥𝐨𝐧𝐠, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐰𝐞 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐡𝐢𝐭 2020.

        𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐰𝐞 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐛𝐚𝐛𝐥𝐲

        𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐬𝐭 𝐨𝐫𝐠𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐜𝐡 𝐨𝐟

       𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐨

        𝐮𝐧𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐞, 𝐰𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞-

       𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐧𝐨𝐰.

𝔻𝕆 𝕐𝕆𝕌 ℕ𝔼𝔼𝔻 𝔸 ℕ𝔼𝕎 𝕁𝕆𝕌ℝℕ𝔸𝕃 𝔽𝕆ℝ 2020

                                         I am probably the wrong person

                                           to write this post, because my

                                                  answer will always be "no".

                                       As this has been a big discussion

                                       at the end of every year, I learned

                                     a lot from others and here I will go

                                       with a pro/contra argumentation,

                                          and then you can decided what

                                                              speaks more to you

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬,

𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥

                                                      ˘˛៹ :thought_balloon: — #ℙℝ𝕆

                                                           ￣￣￣￣ ￣￣￣

The common journaler, you can spot in

the wild, is a regular notebook addict.

Visiting their home will reveal a wide

variety of empty notebooks lying around

in their shelves. For the common journaler,

it is a life task to fill as many notebooks

as possible through the course of their

life. The Journaler is constantly torn be-

tween the wish to start a new gorgeous

journal they have lately acquired and the

guilt of leaving their old Journal behind.

This dilemma leads to a variety of mental

health and financial problems because

they try to compensate their bad con-

science by buying new journals.

If you are anything like that, a new year gives

you the opportunity to get out of this dilemma.

Giving yourself the permission to beginn a new

Journal, will allow you to have a new start. We

all have spreads in our Journals that we do not

like, that make us unhappy. Normally it would

be wasteful to start a new Journal, but if you are

truly unhappy with your current Journal and the

set up does not work for you, then yes, starting a

new notebook can be a solution. I am sure you

learned a lot about Bullet Journaling and about

yourself in the previous year, a fresh start is your

chance to get it right, and create a more efficient

system of spreads for yourself.

For some people it is very important to have a

fresh start. Sometimes you have bad memories.

Things happened, you would rather like to forget.

Looking at your Journal triggers pain and past

experiences. You don't have to be remineded.

In this case it is important to change to a new

Journal.

Lastly, some of us are super orderly and organized

people. We think in categories, shelves, structures

and systems. It is helpful to depend on such things,

because they make life easier, more productive and

efficient. These people need everything of one year

in one Journal. Why? Because it's more orderly. It

has a structure and it has sense. It would feel like

clutter being dragged along. They could not find

anything in their Journal anymore, important info

they needed. It basically would lead to a total fall

out and certain death. To prevent this, it's better

to break a new notebook.

𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐬,

𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝𝐧'𝐭 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐚 𝐧𝐞𝐰 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥

                                                      ˘˛៹ :thought_balloon: — #ℂ𝕆ℕ𝕋ℝ𝔸

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In times of climate change, it is important to

take care of the resources we use. Most of

our resources are not endless, and the production

always costs energy. If there is no need to start

a new journal, keep your old one. It is perfectly

fine to continue to use the one you already have.

Ryder Carrol invented the Bullet Journal system

to be flexible. The index and future log are your

conpanions even in the new year and will help

you to orientate yourself. Why waste perfectly

good paper, just so you can indulge in a new

Journal? It is wasteful and hurtful to our

environment.

All the previous memories from the past year

still are part of what makes the current you, you.

Not everyone wants to give that up. All the

achievements from the previous year that keep

you going, when everything else sucks. You will

not have that with you in a blank and empty Journal.

Some people started projects that are still running.

In that case you probably need your current notes

from the previous months. They might have also

started their Journal together with the current school

year. Everything is already set up and the time

it would need to transfer all the notes is longer than

just setting up the spreads in your current Journal.

If you are a long time journaler chances are high,

that you have a lot of gorgeous spreads. A new

Journal would mean, you need to come up with

new fancy layouts, new spread ideas and it would

mean leaving your favorite spreads behind. Just

imagining all the time you need to create all those

new spreads should be painful. So, better not.

Turn the last page after December, create a new

cover for 2020, update your yearly spreads in the

same layout and just continue like before. Breaking

a new notebook means work, time and effort, not

everyone wants to spend that. And it's fine, if you

don't want to. IT IS PERFECTLY FINE TO CONTINUE

IN THE CURRENT JOURNAL YOU LOVE LIKE

NOTHING ELSE.

After all, it is normally a sad occasion to leave

your old Journal behind.

𝐖𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐝𝐨?

                                                      ˘˛៹ :thought_balloon: — #𝔻𝕀𝕊ℂ𝕌𝕊𝕊

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What will you do? Let's talk about it in the

comments and see which side wins

(Spoiler alert: it will be the pro side)

Actually the bigger question is, what

will Sunnie do?

                                                            who knows...

                 I am not sure, she knows even herself...

#2k20guide

Source: merejournal, geofstudy