Crawling Out of the Slump (ft. The Accomplishments List)

An image of my two bullet journal pages from Friday through most of today. My bullet journal is a repurposed gardening journal from around the 1970s, and the pages are a dark cream color. The pre-printed headers read "Things to do in July" and "Things to do in August", and I have decorated them with carousel horse stickers. For Friday and today, I have a long list of accomplishments, marked by smiley faces. My ticket to Friday's basketball game and my wristband from Sunsplash are taped into the notebook.

Hello!

I am still crawling slowly out of the slump. In doing so, I have defaulted to using The Accomplishments List. The Accomplishments List is my term for the lists I make of things I have done, using a smiley face in place of my usual bullet points. Usually, these lists include what are essentially signs of life beyond social media scrolling and YouTube. So, I will include items like "watched an episode of Queer Eye" and "took a shower" in addition to more predictable tasks.

The Accomplishments List is not my typical mode of planning by any means. Instead, it is what I use when every other system seems to have gone awry. When I am making long to-do lists and not completing any of the items on them, I know that it's time to list accomplishments instead. Usually, The Accomplishments List gives me the motivation to get just a little bit more work done than I would've otherwise.

With that being said, I think it's time for me to shift to my more proactive productivity methods. Tomorrow, I'm going to try tracking my media consumption alongside my to-do list, which worked well for me in June. I hope to see you then!

Best wishes,

Lydia

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