Hi all, great to see so many new recruits. I am still using my bujo with great effect. I can't begin to describe how much life seems to have come together since I started using it.
While everything is as busy as it was prior to starting, it is way less overwhelming now. I'm using a book for home and have been using pages in my work diary for work. I decided today that I need to start an official work one tho. Just too many to-dos and if using one will give me the same sense of being under control at work, then it's a cheap investment.
To date, I have loads of work on the house done and planned for more in the future. I am keeping on top of the day to day housework, and have made good inroads into kondoing the whole house. I haven't made any embarrassing mistakes (like forget someone important's birthday) which I regularly used to do before.
I have two very organised friends and they used to prompt me all the time about things. Eg world book day, booking tickets for a school concert, someone's party etc. I was known as the scatty one. Well drum roll please....it has been me doing the prompting, me booking the tickets, me reminding them about something or offering to help in plenty of time rather than last minute. In fact one of them asked me the details about something the other day and I had the answer. Once we both got over the shock, we laughed about the role reversal.
In the last week or so, because so many other things aren't stressing me out, I have been able to start focusing on improving my health, which has been a long time coming, but put off with the usual mummy martyr "don't have time". People always said " you just need to make time" but no one ever showed me how to make time. The bujo shows me how I can make time.
I am still trying to help my kids develop their own skills to get the same sense of increased time and control over their lives. We sat and planned homework, music practise, sports, chores, and self care together, and while instill need to remind them, it has started to work. They are the perfect age for it really, old enough to be developing independence and young enough to develop the skill without the sense of failure I had prior to starting it.
That's it really, I always felt I was winging it, often just clinging on with my fingernails, and had a sense of failure about so many aspects of life most of the time. That sense of failure is mostly gone and I actually believe I can achieve over and above "just getting through the day".
I wish I had discovered it years ago.