Author: Lew

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The reason I love Bullet Journaling

and the reason i stopped.

The Official LEUCHTTURM1917® Bullet Journal is the reason I love bullet journaling. It has amazing and thoughtful features in it, like measuring templates, multiple bookmarks, numbered pages, excellent quality. I loved bullet journaling my days and nights, making spreads in this. But my only problem….it spoiled me forever against most other bullet journal notebooks, or from using any other notebooks for that matter. The features are just so great, I would rather not bullet journal at all rather than not be able to use the A5 sized notebook.

My big problem is that I didn’t want to carry it everywhere with me. It isn’t overly large, but it’s still the size of an ipad mini. I also found, that while the flexibility of bullet journaling gives you an unmatched freedom to record your life, it’s that very unstructuredness that makes me frustrated using it as a daily or weekly planner. I don’t want to redraw my weekly spreads every week.

Maybe it’s just me being a brat. I tried to also love the Passport Sized Pocket Bullet journal, but while it has nice features like numbered pages, slightly larger a6 size from fieldnotes. It’s non-standardness makes you unable to use products designed for fieldnotes notebooks like covers and other accessories. This has the benefits of portability and numbered pages, but is missing the things i love about the regular sized bullet journal like ribbon bookmarks.

I’ve personally switched to the Hobonichi Techo Mega, which is a thin weekly journal with additional pages in the back. Life is limited, I don’t want to waste it redrawing calendar spreads every week. Call me strange, call me eccentric, but these are my thoughts on the Bullet journal.

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I dont want to lose!

I’ve seen my share of death among family, some much older than me, some much younger. I’ve seen the passing of friends, some just around my age. Many are avoidable things, some are unavoidable, some seem absolutely ridiculous in retrospect.

Up to now, I’ve had a pretty good life, but I must admit I’ve been coasting through. Financialy and Physically adding to my credit and biological debt. I have been doing things with short term gain in mind, while expecting to pay it back in the future with interest. Examples are not watching my weight, not exercising, not taking care of finance as well as i should.

My wife’s dad squandered every nickle and dime towards gambling, and while I don’t gamble myself. In effect, by living beyond my paycheck, and not doing things to increase my paycheck, I am really no better than her deadbeat dad.

I’m fifty one now. There are things I still need to do in this life. A lot of it is laziness I will admit. But this blog is a statement of my desire to go forward and to stop being lazy. I need to work and love so that I’m not a disappointment to my family.

I don’t need to wait for any milestone. I just have to get on this and work toward my goals. I need to close the loops in life that I’ve left open. I need to develop habits that bring me to these goals. I need to exercise willpower where willpower in needed. This blog is. a repository of the strategy and projects i’m doing to this end.

One of the things with me is that I am competitive, but I hide in my mistakes…maybe everyone does. But I’ve realized, there’s no hiding from the ultimate failing…death. And some forms of death and sufferering are avoidable with just a little due dilligence. Just like it’s impossible to move a 200 pound flywheel at first, if you start small, you can slowly budge this thing so that the momentum drives it forward without effort beyond your means.

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Hello world!

Welcome to the site. This is a place where I meditate on making the most of my midlife. Just turned 50 and age is just a number right?! But in spite of that, I do feel the abuses I’ve imposed on my mind, body, and soul catching up with me.

This is a blog where I will think on aspects I can improve to make the most of this season of life. There’s a lot of bad things going on in the world, but there’s also a lot to live for. I plan to tackle lifehacks, tactics, gear, and philosophies in achieving all that I can in the second half of life. Hopefully some of it resonates with you and you can come along on my journey.