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Unpopular opinion: I think the pressure to make a bullet journal look perfect is missing the point
Last month, I was setting up my weekly spread at a coffee shop in Boise and spilled my entire iced coffee across the page, ruining a tracker I'd spent an hour on. Instead of starting over, I just blotted it dry, wrote 'coffee incident' in the margin, and kept using the messy page. Has anyone else had a big mistake that actually made their journal more useful to them?
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seanfisher2mo ago
That "coffee incident" note is the real spirit of it. I tried watercolor in mine once, warped the whole page into a weird potato chip shape. Now it's my "bad idea log" section, which honestly gets more use than my fancy monthly goals. The mess reminds me it's a tool, not a showpiece. If it's too pretty, I stop wanting to touch it.
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dixon.daniel2mo ago
Man, that hits hard. I used to treat my notebook like a museum piece, scared to mess it up. Reading what @seanfisher said about the "bad idea log" totally flipped my view. My own notebook got a lot more useful once I let a coffee stain just live there. It stopped being this perfect thing I was afraid of. Now the messed up pages are where the real work happens.
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tarak171mo ago
My friend glued a leaf into her journal and it rotted, leaving a weird brown ghost. She was so mad, but now that page marks where she stopped trying to be perfect and just started writing. It reminds me of what @dixon.daniel said about the messed up pages being where the real work happens.
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