Daily Journaling

NNU recently started stocking daily planning pads from Bloom Planners.  I've got the pad on my desk at work, and I've been trying to fill it out every morning, as a way of jump starting my brain.

I'm using the "other to-do's" section to build a daily bullet journal.  It's a task management technique I read about on lifehacker.  I tried it about a year ago, and couldn't keep up with it, because it has a lot of indexing requirements that I couldn't track very well.  I'm currently just using the daily journaling piece, where you list out tasks, and either complete them, discard them, or move them to the next day.  I mark each task with it's ticket number in SherpaDesk, so the ticketing system handle all the indexing for me.

The left side of the pad has two sections, that I've repurposed.  To use some ideas from Donald Miller's daily productivity schedule. I tried using the Donald Miller daily schedule for a couple of months several years ago, but my work is more task based than project based, and it didn't work for me.  I really liked the daily reflection in Donald Miller's method, so "To Buy" becomes "Things I would do if I could live this day over again".  "Things I'm grateful for" becomes "Things I get to look forward to".

Anyway, that's what I'm doing now, and it's been working for a week.  Typically, I get tired of these things after a month or two.  We'll see what happens, I guess.