Planner Burnout

 I didn't ever think that could be a thing but for me it is at the moment. I have been doing planners for a few years. The very first one I had came from Blue Sky and it was the family planner which I loved and added embellishments, stickers, sticky notes and everything else. It was a Chunky Monkey and I loved it. Then Blue Sky quit making it. 😭

Since then I have tried several different things and none fit me. But today I watched a You Tube of Sam Plans and she made me think and really take a look at my system. I have tried to make every type of notebook and planner fit my system instead of making my system fit the planner. That got me to thinking about my system, it has changed just like everything else over the years but I found myself still trying to fit into that old mold because it was comfortable. 

Even if BS did still make the family planner it wouldn't work for me now like it did in the beginning. Why? Because my life has changed drastically. The only person's schedule I need to keep track of or beware of is my hubby's. Thankfully his pretty much stays the same.  I don't have kids schedules to keep track of. So what I need to keep track of is small compared to what it use to be. 

I have always wanted one planner to fit every aspect of my life. But after that 1st one it's never worked like that again for me. I've come to realize also that some of the things I like to track just aren't necessary so somethings are going to have to go like my movie list, books read, pages colored. It's nice to have but not necessary. And keeping track of things I enjoy is ok but I'm also trying to simplify my life. No one really cares what I read, what I watch or how many pages I've colored in a year. And I don't need to track them to feel like I've accomplished something major in my life. 

Those things are meant to bring me joy, help me de-stress not make me have anxiety over it. Change isn't a bad thing. Change is an extremely normal thing in life. It helps us to cultivate different seasons in our lives.