Skip to main content

Using Your Tools


I don’t know about you all, but I LOVE my stickers and other tools that I have for my planner and things that make my life better! I find it hard to use them though.  I worry that I won’t find it again, that I will use it up and it will be gone and this thing that brings me happiness I won’t have anymore. I am trying to think of it with a different thought process, if it brings me joy in the packaging, it will bring me joy when I use it!

I have this trouble with workbooks that I get to help me think through my mindfulness or discovery. My mom bought me A BookThat Takes Time for Christmas.  I have it sitting in my workspace at home, but I am scared to use it. I know that she bought this for me knowing it would be something that I would love and really take away from, to get that pen to paper; I am having a hard time. I know I need to use the same philosophy as my stickers and planner tools.  This book isn’t too far off from my planner either, so I should be able to use it.  The good thing is, I feel that if I commit here to use it. I have some accountability.

There is nothing wrong with collecting all these beautiful things.  The important thing is that we use them.  If you think about it, the purpose of these things is to be used; if you were at work all day and no one asked you to do anything, wouldn’t you feel useless? Not to mention that sometimes these things will go bad and no one gets to enjoy it!

It makes me laugh, as I sit here and think about this, I feel like it must be a common thing and that someone would have said something about it before; I cannot find anything on “not wanting to use supplies”.  It is a little more common when you search for art supplies.  It seems like the big tip is not to buy too much, let’s be honest, who’s going to stop buying stickers. I am trying to limit myself on the amount, and I am going to commit to using them. I don’t want my markers or anything else to dry up! I have too many pretty colors to let them go to waste! I am also going to commit to using my journals and workbooks; they will never do me any good being blank.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Gratitude

I am practicing writing things I am grateful for in my Happynichi (ok, I don’t doodle enough in it to be a real one… as I have said before I need to work on it). In doing this, it makes me look for more things that make me grateful. This has given me a different perspective on my life.   I feel like I am getting less frustrated and enjoying life a little more.   I sit at my planner at night and take the time to jot down my thoughts. This is where the keeping a mood tracker or gratitude list fits in.   Looking back on things that make you thankful gives you that feeling again.   I know we don’t all write just our plans in our planners, but we write things that happened and make us feel a certain way.   We like to make our planners pretty and filled with color because they make us happy, more than likely we already are jotting down those grateful moments. I also think that sometimes we might not be able to fully express our gratitude to the person we w...
Post a Comment
Read more

💜 Pens 🖊🖋✒️✏️🖍

I love pens! I mean, like I look at a pen and want to write with it right away, if I like it I NEED it! I get excited when they are on sale and want every color in a style I love. Paper-Mate Flair comes out with new colors all the time and I get it stuck in my head that where I am just thinking about how much I want it. It’s a bad addiction. If someone picks up my pen to use I get a little sweaty, like are they going to press too hard, what if they take off with it? Ugh, I look like a NUT. I do get excited though when people ask me for my thoughts on a pen, then I have to go into great detail, do you want a ball point, gel ink or a fine line pen.   Are you left or right handed (lefty here!)? It depends on my mood with what I like in the moment. Usually I use my Paper-Mate Flair, then I might switch to my Stabilo 88’s.   It depends on what I am doing; writing, coloring, drawing… and sometimes I use a mix of them. I think that mixing the types can really give ...
Post a Comment
Read more

How I Planned During COVID

I LOVE planners, and use them for work, life and journaling Like many of you, I have been cooped up in my house since March 13 th (unlucky Friday the 13 th ) I have gone out for groceries, and I think we have picked up food once, at the beginning.  Otherwise, we have stayed in the house with little contact.  It was just this last weekend where we adventured to a “drive in movie” in the mall parking lot with my sister-in-law and her kids.   This was the first time my son finally got to play with his cousins and see someone other than his parents for over 3 months. He was delighted.  It doesn’t hurt that the movie was Sonic the Hedgehog which he has wanted to see for the whole quarantine as well!  I know that I have looked at Instagram and know that there are MANY of us that are just lost because there is nothing to plan! It hurts because we have these great planners all looking like they did “before the pen” still.  I admit it, I have many decorate...
Post a Comment
Read more