{"id":8308,"date":"2017-04-19T16:13:53","date_gmt":"2017-04-19T23:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alannarisse.com\/blog\/?p=8308"},"modified":"2017-04-20T20:31:54","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T03:31:54","slug":"journal-tweak-experiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/journal-tweak-experiment\/","title":{"rendered":"The Journal Tweak Experiment"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/b>I was served an ad for the self journal on Instagram (bestself.co<\/a>). Have you seen them? They are pretty great. I was incredibly curious about the company and I appreciated their openness to share what the journals offer and how they developed the idea. I loved that it\u2019s a mash up of a day planner and a journal. I loved that it could help me set clear, concise, 3 month goals for myself.<\/span><\/p>\n

However, I didn\u2019t run out and buy one because: <\/b><\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. We are flat broke right now and they are $30 a pop. <\/span><\/li>\n
  2. I have a ridiculous journal collecting hobby. I will probably never in my lifetime fill the journals I already own. <\/span><\/li>\n
  3. I knew that although their page layouts seemed great, I wanted to tweak the journal to my own tastes. \u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    And so, I set out on my own to improve upon their design for my own needs. I grabbed my return address labels and filled out an Adobe Illustrator template with section headers from the self journal pages. I applied labels\u00a0to about two weeks worth of journal pages and began using them. Each day I would add a note about what I liked and didn\u2019t like about the sections, and noted what sections I was repeatedly adding in the free-form sections of the pages. I went back to the illustrator template and adjusted the stickers for the next set of pages. The other part about the journals I didn\u2019t jive with was that you are supposed to start with a 3 month plan. I have been using my daily pages to come up with the skeleton for my three month plan so that I can be more confident that my goals will be successful.I am almost done with my first pass of the journal and am ready to set out on a three month journey towards my goals.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The 5,000 foot view of those goals are:<\/span><\/p>\n

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    1. Continue on my journey to be a\u00a0kick-ass, generous, and creative developer.<\/span><\/li>\n
    2. Becoming a speaker, mentor, and\/or teacher for other developers, especially women and kids.<\/span><\/li>\n
    3. Find positive people to work with who inspire me to do better than my best.<\/span><\/li>\n
    4. Bike 700 miles over the course of 14 weeks.
      \n<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      My one problem is, I feel guilty about not buying one of their journals. I have benefitted so much from the efforts of it\u2019s creator., To tamp my guilt, I\u2019m recommending them to my friends\u2026 sort of like when I used to make mixed tapes for friends in hopes of turning them on to new bands. Maybe everyone I know gets a self journal for their birthday this year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      I was served an ad for the self journal on Instagram (bestself.co). Have you seen them? They are pretty great. I was incredibly curious about the company and I appreciated their openness to share what the journals offer and how they developed the idea. I loved that it\u2019s a mash up of a day planner […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8308"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8325,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8308\/revisions\/8325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alannarisse.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}