What Lessons Have You Learned?

[inkstone]

I don't know about you, but I'm prone to bouts of perfectionism. "Oh no! I misspelled a word in the page header! I have to rip out the page!" Things like that. In my defense, I've gotten over this, but it was bad in the beginning.

Or even better, I come up for this awesome spread that I intend to use for this Important Collection^tm...that I completely forget about. This possibly has happened to me more than once.

So I was wondering if any of you have had similar experiences? Did you create a tracker or collection that you never use? If you suffer from perfectionism, how do you combat those impulses? Let's chat.

Comments

[inkstone]

I'm not sure if it's that I beat back those moments of perfectionism, or I just learned to use washi tape to cover my mistakes and pretend they never happened, LOL.

[elfin]

I've stopped trying to make my spreads more complicated than they need to be. ^_^

I started out using a 2 page weekly spread that had tons of boxes for notes, and spaces for a lot of different lists. I was ending up with pages that were more than half empty space. I looked at what I was really using the space for, and then redesigned my weekly spread to only take one page, and I like it much better.

[type_wild]

I learned to stop trying to make cute headers and illustrations; it takes more time than I'm willing to offer, and I end up rushing and it looks ugly etc etc etc

I think I tried maybe four or five different weekly spreads before I found one I was happy with. My first bujo doesn't look very pretty, but it's fun to look over it just to see the improvements happening over time *g*

[kiki_miserychic]

I like messier pages and I put washi tape over mistakes. Plus I use a binder system so if I really needed, I could take a page out. I do have a favorite useless spread/collection. I wanted to track how many uses I got out of a solid shampoo bar and I thought it would be a big number I couldn't keep track of in my head, so I made a page. Supposedly it was supposed to last 90 hair shampoos, but it only lasted, like, 14, so I ended up with a super empty page. I don't care what it looks like so there's splatters from another page on it, lol.

[clare_dragonfly]

Well, you just reminded me of a collection I made that I hardly use! XD I've never ripped out a page, and I certainly don't bother with anything other than crossing out misspellings, but I did once tape two pages together because I'd made my monthly spread wrong--I wildly messed up the dates+days of the week.

[spindle_ella]

I have a book I test layouts in, but if I've stuffed it my main trick it to print a colouring book page onto sticker paper, cut to size, and BOOM! Covers up most boo-boos.

I have a zentangling lay-out that I just didn't use at all; I prefer '100 ways to see'.

[fay_e]

On spreads I never use, I started an expense tracker that I kept updating late or wrongly, until it was easier to just count the cash in my wallet than rely on the spread. I still want a better way to track my money though.