Speaker 1: Hey, game Plan listeners, it's me Rebecca Greenfield and me
Speaker 1: Francesco Leavie. We're back. We wanted to tell you about
Speaker 1: our new show Works for Me. If you loved Game Plan,
Speaker 1: you'll love this show. This is game Plan on steroids.
Speaker 1: Instead of talking about work culture, we live it. We're
Speaker 1: human guinea pigs trying out productivity experiments on ourselves. And
Speaker 1: we're going to play the first episode right here, right now.
Speaker 1: But if you want to get the full experience, subscribe
Speaker 1: to Works for Me on Apple Podcasts or wherever you
Speaker 1: listen to podcasts. Yeah, that way you won't miss a
Speaker 1: single episode. We hope you'll love it. Bye. I'm Rebecca
Speaker 1: Greenfield and this is how good I would be at
Speaker 1: my job if I had my life in order. Becca,
Speaker 1: this article you wrote is the best ever. Wow. Thank you.
Speaker 1: It was all thanks to my to do list. Hey Becca,
Speaker 1: congrats on your promotion ahead of the writers. It's easy
Speaker 1: to be productive when you're this organized. Tweeter and the
Speaker 1: pulitzer goes to Rebecca Greenfield for her groundbreaking series on
Speaker 1: a very important topic. I'd like to thank being organized.
Speaker 1: It has changed everything. M tweeter. Of course, this is
Speaker 1: a ridiculous idea, but that kind of wish fulfillment drives
Speaker 1: a ten billion dollar self help industry. We're told that
Speaker 1: one productivity hack will not just clean up your inbox
Speaker 1: but change your life. But what tools actually work and
Speaker 1: what hacks are worth it? That's what we're here to
Speaker 1: find out. Welcome to Works for Me, the show where
Speaker 1: we try to fix our workplace problems to find out
Speaker 1: what strategies will work for you. I am Franchise Believe,
Speaker 1: and I'm Rebecca green Gale. We all wish we could
Speaker 1: be the best versions of ourselves, and lucky for us,
Speaker 1: there are countless articles, apps, videos, and books that promised
Speaker 1: to make us better coworkers, or spouses or human beings.
Speaker 1: Here's the key to do this. Anyone that has a
Speaker 1: goal and they're moving towards it, they're successful in this phase.
Speaker 1: I wish someone would have grabbed me and said, I
Speaker 1: showed you already how you do it. Number one, you
Speaker 1: gotta believe in me, and number two, you gotta believe
Speaker 1: in the possibility. And so I'm here to say I've
Speaker 1: actually made a lot using these technique. I know how
Speaker 1: they really work. But does any of this stuff actually work?
Speaker 1: On this show, we're going to try out tools and
Speaker 1: methods that promise results. Yeah, we're going to be human
Speaker 1: guinea pigs. This is how we're going to do it.
Speaker 1: Each week, one of us, either Becca or Me, will
Speaker 1: present a real work life issue that she's having. Then
Speaker 1: we'll try out a self help method to solve it
Speaker 1: and report back. This week, it's Becca's turn. Becca, what
Speaker 1: is the problem you were trying to solve? So? I
Speaker 1: have trouble keeping track of all of the things that
Speaker 1: I have to do. For a long time, I didn't
Speaker 1: have a calendar app on my phone, I didn't have
Speaker 1: a dedicated notebook for taking notes, and I like sporadically
Speaker 1: made to do lists. And I have this idea that
Speaker 1: if I were better about writing things down, then I
Speaker 1: would be more on top of my stuff and my
Speaker 1: work would be better. Okay, so you want to write
Speaker 1: things down more? There are a million ways to do that, right.
Speaker 1: People have apps, people have books, They've written about it.
Speaker 1: What what is your chosen method of getting there? Bullet journaling.
Speaker 1: Bullet journaling sounds violent, what is it? It's not violent.
Speaker 1: A bullet journal is a journal, a calendar, and a
Speaker 1: to do list all in one. It kind of reminds
Speaker 1: me of one of those planners that you get at
Speaker 1: the beginning of the school year in high school, but
Speaker 1: you get to decide what goes in it for your
Speaker 1: own purposes, so it's customized. Weble the pages have these
Speaker 1: dots on them instead of lines, are a blank page.
Speaker 1: That's why it's called a bullet journal, and the doctrid
Speaker 1: makes it easy to create different types of calendars or spreads,
Speaker 1: so it's like a planner that you could buy in
Speaker 1: a store, only you kind of have to draw it yourself.
Speaker 1: Correct So what made you want to be a bullet journal?
Speaker 1: Or I first saw bullet journals all over Instagram. There
Speaker 1: are tons of people who post pictures of these hand
Speaker 1: drawn journal pages with the hashtag bou joe, which is
Speaker 1: short for bullet journal Joe. I get it. And the
Speaker 1: drawings are super high quality or nate. They look incredible
Speaker 1: and like a lot of things on Instagram, it feels
Speaker 1: totally inaccessible for normal people like me who have zero
Speaker 1: artistic ability, but that is also the allure. If thousands
Speaker 1: of people can do this, why can't I. It's aspirational,
Speaker 1: so it's easier to understand if I show you so
Speaker 1: I'm going to pull up a video from a popular
Speaker 1: bullet journaler named Amanda rachel Lee. Everyone, it's Amanda, Welcome
Speaker 1: back to my channel. October is coming. Every month, Amanda
Speaker 1: puts up a YouTube video of her setting up her
Speaker 1: bullet journal with that month's calendars, to do lists, trackers,
Speaker 1: and all the spreads. And so here's one from October.
Speaker 1: To the voice over. Now, okay, so for this month's theme,
Speaker 1: we are doing something that you guys have been asking
Speaker 1: me to do basically since I started bullet journaling. We
Speaker 1: are doing magic and wizardry. I actually also so she
Speaker 1: has very skillfully drawing witch and wizardry themed things on
Speaker 1: her journal. There's a scroll, there's a cauldron, there's a hat.
Speaker 1: It looks like something I could never ever do. This
Speaker 1: does not This doesn't seem like something I would spend
Speaker 1: time on, and it looks like it takes a lot
Speaker 1: of skill. And I'm also struggling to see how this
Speaker 1: makes anyone more efficient since she seems to be spending
Speaker 1: a lot of time making drawings. Yeah, this is just
Speaker 1: the aesthetic part of the bullet journal. On the other page,
Speaker 1: I decided to do a quote, and of course I
Speaker 1: had to do a quote that was said by the
Speaker 1: legend herself, JK. Rowling. It says we all have magic
Speaker 1: inside us, which I thought was obviously very fitting for
Speaker 1: this theme. Inspirational quotes from Harry Potter are also a
Speaker 1: part of this organizational system. It's not a requirement, but
Speaker 1: that is definitely part of the vibe. It's like, you
Speaker 1: have to have beautiful handwriting, be really good at trying,
Speaker 1: and also be into inspirational quotes like you want your
Speaker 1: life to be better. It's part of the culture like
Speaker 1: geist of the bullet Journal. Yeah, it definitely. It seems
Speaker 1: like a lot. Yeah, So the decorating part which we're
Speaker 1: watching is just the beginning of setting up the journal,
Speaker 1: and she goes on to hand drop calendars. She makes
Speaker 1: something called a mood tracker to keep track of her
Speaker 1: mood throughout the month, and it's all hand drawn and
Speaker 1: decorated on theme to Harry Potter. And this happens every month,
Speaker 1: right every single month. So it's a lot. I can't
Speaker 1: imagine trying to get organized by committing to this level
Speaker 1: of like artistry and perfection. I could never do that.
Speaker 1: That's my worst nightmare. You see that and you think
Speaker 1: I want to say anything, Oh my I'm I'm not
Speaker 1: good at this kind of thing at all. But I
Speaker 1: think that these people are probably so on top of
Speaker 1: their okay, right, Like, don't you just want to be
Speaker 1: the type of person that keeps a beautiful hand drawn
Speaker 1: weekly calendar and does it every week and fills it
Speaker 1: out every week, and then you've achieved all of your goals? Okay?
Speaker 1: So what we do on this show is experiment on
Speaker 1: ourselves to see if these methods really work. So you
Speaker 1: want to be better at writing things down. You've decided
Speaker 1: to try bullet journaling. So what is your experiment? What
Speaker 1: are you gonna do for my experiment? I have decided
Speaker 1: to use a bullet journal for two full months. I'm
Speaker 1: going to see if using this journal makes me any
Speaker 1: better at writing stories are doing my job. And at
Speaker 1: the end of your experiment, how will you know if
Speaker 1: bullet journaling has in fact made you more organized? I
Speaker 1: think if I can stick to it and use it
Speaker 1: every day, then it's proven to be worthwhile. I immediately
Speaker 1: discovered that there is a high barrier to entry for
Speaker 1: bullet journaling. The setup is a lot There are YouTube
Speaker 1: videos explaining how to do it. But the possibilities for
Speaker 1: what a bullet journal can be or look like our endless.
Speaker 1: A given journal can have multiple to do lists, calendars,
Speaker 1: and trackers, so it's hard to know where to start
Speaker 1: or what to put in it. Also, there is a
Speaker 1: lot of jargon and bullet journal specific rules. This is
Speaker 1: what's called the future log. Is what we're getting into.
Speaker 1: A future log, you just kind of like at a glance,
Speaker 1: you know, you've got your dates down the left side
Speaker 1: of it. You could also add a second column that's
Speaker 1: kind of just like, okay, if you do a less
Speaker 1: than symbol that is for things that you schedule. UM,
Speaker 1: an open circle is kind of like the core idea.
Speaker 1: But I do a swear to do when you finish
Speaker 1: the thing, you put an X through the dot. It's
Speaker 1: complicated to explain. It's not that complicated to do. And
Speaker 1: I think that's after I did it and I was
Speaker 1: trying to explain it to other people, they just their
Speaker 1: eyes sort of glaze over, and but as soon as
Speaker 1: you've got it, you're just like, oh, this is not
Speaker 1: complicated at all. That's Rachel will Kerson Miller. She's one
Speaker 1: of the celebrities of the bullet journal world. She wrote
Speaker 1: a book called dot Journaling, a practical Guide. I asked
Speaker 1: her to help me set mine up, which I know
Speaker 1: is kind of cheating, but it was super helpful. All Right,
Speaker 1: we got a term November. Wait, my, I miss, I
Speaker 1: think I forgot about that. I forgared to lie. Yeah.
Speaker 1: She decoded the language and helped me decide what spreads
Speaker 1: I might find useful. And after an hour and a
Speaker 1: half with her, I had a basic layout. I had
Speaker 1: a monthly calendar, an activity tracker for documenting how often
Speaker 1: I do certain habits like cleaning my apartment and making dinner.
Speaker 1: And then she showed me how to make daily to
Speaker 1: do lists and daily journal entries. The journal it's the
Speaker 1: brand called Lois term cost me twenty dollars, and then
Speaker 1: I spent another fifteen dollars on pens. I bought the
Speaker 1: Pilot Precise V five retractable pens in black, and then
Speaker 1: another pack of Pilot pens in an assortment of colors. Okay,
Speaker 1: so you spent a lot of time on the set up.
Speaker 1: How did it go from there? At first I was
Speaker 1: very into it. About a weekend I got into the
Speaker 1: studio to talk about it. That's how excited I was,
Speaker 1: I've used up eighteen pages in one week, which I
Speaker 1: don't know what the measurement is, but that seems like
Speaker 1: a lot. And I just kind of like look forward
Speaker 1: to opening it in the morning and making my to
Speaker 1: do list, um, and then I really look forward to
Speaker 1: at night when you needed to write your little night
Speaker 1: notes or I call them nine notes. It's like your journal.
Speaker 1: You look forward to writing and you wake up thinking
Speaker 1: about writing in your journal. That's yeah, that sounds into it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was. I think, you know, when you started a
Speaker 1: new project, you get really into it, like predictably I do.
Speaker 1: I don't know about you, you know. I was like,
Speaker 1: I'm going to commit, and I did, and one weekend
Speaker 1: I was all about it, high end life. But pretty
Speaker 1: soon I developed a love hate relationship with it. A
Speaker 1: few weeks in, I still liked it, but it quickly
Speaker 1: started to feel more like a rewarding chore, like going
Speaker 1: to the gym. I know it'll feel good once I
Speaker 1: do it, but most of the time I'd rather just
Speaker 1: sit on the couch. And then it only devolved from there.
Speaker 1: In a matter of weeks, I started having trouble fitting
Speaker 1: it into my life. Here's me less than a month
Speaker 1: into it. I have a confession to make. I haven't
Speaker 1: done the journal part of the bullet journal. And let's see.
Speaker 1: It's opening it up. Let's see. Okay, I did it
Speaker 1: one week ago. I wrote some notes so kind of
Speaker 1: a failure, also called behind on my activity tracker, and
Speaker 1: was unable to remember all the things I did. But
Speaker 1: it's really hard because I come home at night and
Speaker 1: it's so late, I just don't do it. But tonight
Speaker 1: I'm home at like a reasonable hour, it's eight, so
Speaker 1: I'm gonna do the journal part. So I started developing
Speaker 1: these two conflicting feelings. On the one hand, I get
Speaker 1: really mad at myself for not using it, But then
Speaker 1: I started getting mad at the journal for when I
Speaker 1: did end up using it, because I felt like it
Speaker 1: was getting in the way of my life. Okay, so
Speaker 1: there's been a major bullet journal development. Um, I'm at
Speaker 1: dinner at an Italian restaurant. It's my birthday, and I
Speaker 1: thought of something I had to write now my bullet
Speaker 1: journal to put it on my to do list, but
Speaker 1: just talk to the lawyers at work about something important,
Speaker 1: and I put it in my bullet journal, and then
Speaker 1: I got olive oil all over, But like tassels, it's
Speaker 1: just a mess anyway, just like a just a bad
Speaker 1: thing that happened. It's like I don't use my bullet
Speaker 1: journal when it's convenient, Like I should be doing this
Speaker 1: like every night and like checking in, but like I'm
Speaker 1: not going to check in tonight. It's Friday night, so
Speaker 1: instead I got breaking olive oil all over anyway, Happy
Speaker 1: birthday to me. Wow, that was a low point. That's
Speaker 1: a little it was a little self pitying. But okay,
Speaker 1: you went from being excited to get up in the
Speaker 1: morning so that you could write in your bullet journal
Speaker 1: to it sounds like being angry at your bullet journal
Speaker 1: for existing and demanding that you write in it at
Speaker 1: dinner when you it's your birthday and you'd rather just
Speaker 1: be having fun. Yeah. I really went downhill so quickly. Yeah,
Speaker 1: at this point, I'm a little demoralized, and I'm wondering
Speaker 1: why am I doing all of this? Doesn't take any time.
Speaker 1: To have a good idea, or to be creative or
Speaker 1: innovative or strategic does don't take time? What those do
Speaker 1: requires space. That is David Allen. He's arguably the creator
Speaker 1: of the entire life hack industry. He wrote a book
Speaker 1: called Getting Things Done in two thousand one and it
Speaker 1: sold over a million copies since I called him up
Speaker 1: at his home in Amsterdam to ask about the benefits
Speaker 1: of writing things down in my bullet journal. If your
Speaker 1: head is still wrapped around food you should have bought
Speaker 1: this morning or the last meeting you were in, and
Speaker 1: you didn't write down all the stuff that you promised
Speaker 1: somebody that you would do, or if you've got stuff
Speaker 1: that you've committed to do, then you haven't tracked that
Speaker 1: and you're still trying to use your head is your office.
Speaker 1: Your head is an absolutely crappy office, and most people
Speaker 1: are trying to use their head as their office, and
Speaker 1: it didn't evolve or is not designed to remember, remind, prioritize,
Speaker 1: or any of that. So in David Allen's theory, the
Speaker 1: bullet journal would be the thing that is supposed to
Speaker 1: hold all of the things that are cluttering up your
Speaker 1: head right now and keeping you from doing your best
Speaker 1: work exactly, And in some ways my bullet journal was
Speaker 1: doing that. Like I was really good at the daily
Speaker 1: to do lists. We were working on this big project
Speaker 1: at the time, the paycheck and any series podcast about
Speaker 1: the gender pay gap that I hosted and you also
Speaker 1: worked on plug Go Listen, and keeping the lists helped
Speaker 1: me stay on top of what could have been a
Speaker 1: very stressful and overwhelming project. In other ways, it wasn't
Speaker 1: working for me because I wasn't using it. And the
Speaker 1: thing that was particularly difficult for me to get into
Speaker 1: was the tracker. Like I said, the bullet Journal can
Speaker 1: do a million things, but I'm going to talk about
Speaker 1: the tracker for a little while because I really struggle
Speaker 1: with it. More on my struggles after the break, I
Speaker 1: had made a very basic habit tracker where every day
Speaker 1: I was supposed to track if I made dinner, or
Speaker 1: clean my apartment or did a series of other good habits,
Speaker 1: and I wasn't using it. I was really beating myself
Speaker 1: up about not using this tracker. But as Rachel, my
Speaker 1: personal bullet journal sherpa told me, the whole point of
Speaker 1: the bullet Journal is that it's customizable and that you
Speaker 1: can and should create something that works for you. So
Speaker 1: it's kind of like you need to customize it for
Speaker 1: yourself and just sort of be realistic about your own
Speaker 1: limitations and figuring out if something's not working for you,
Speaker 1: like really narrowing in on like what the problem is,
Speaker 1: you can fix it without scrapping the whole thing. I
Speaker 1: think to like the whole point is that like you
Speaker 1: kind of set it up one page at a time,
Speaker 1: and like you can embrace the flexibility where it's like
Speaker 1: if a weekly spread isn't working for you, you just
Speaker 1: start something new the next page and you move on.
Speaker 1: So Rachel said, I really had to figure out what
Speaker 1: my specific problem was and then I could change it.
Speaker 1: So I decided that my tracker was the problem because
Speaker 1: I was putting in all this work to collect this
Speaker 1: data of how many times I did X, Y and
Speaker 1: Z things, and then I wasn't really doing anything with it.
Speaker 1: So I decided that I needed a new tracker that
Speaker 1: collected more interesting data. Here's me explaining the tracker I
Speaker 1: chose to my boyfriend Danny. So basically, I'm going to
Speaker 1: track how much I drink every day and ounces but
Speaker 1: ounces are cups? How many cups I drink every day?
Speaker 1: And then how much I spend on it? Why did
Speaker 1: you choose to track your alcohol intake? Um? I just
Speaker 1: felt like the tracker as it was was not specific enough.
Speaker 1: Like I tracked my activities back in April, way back when,
Speaker 1: and I was just like, well, I don't really care
Speaker 1: how often I drink. I'm moren't care about how much
Speaker 1: I drink and how much I spend on it. Are
Speaker 1: you trying to reduce the amount of alcohol you consume?
Speaker 1: Why are you asking me so skeptically? This just seems
Speaker 1: like a tracker for people who want to reduce or
Speaker 1: want to drink less. No, I just want to know.
Speaker 1: I feel like you really just did this so you
Speaker 1: could draw that picture of a cocktail. I didn't even
Speaker 1: know I was going to do that until the end. Rude,
Speaker 1: Well what would you track? I would track my sleep? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't care about that. You should track the amount
Speaker 1: of time as you nag me. Oh man. I got
Speaker 1: a lot of pushback on the drink tracker from Danny.
Speaker 1: Yeah you did. He I mean, I can sort of
Speaker 1: get what he's saying, which is like, why even pay
Speaker 1: attention to a habit if you're not if there's nothing
Speaker 1: about the habit that you want to change. But I
Speaker 1: could also see you said you were going to track
Speaker 1: how much money you were spending, right, So, like, if
Speaker 1: you can see how much money you're spending, you might
Speaker 1: shock yourself into spending less, right, Like the expectation is
Speaker 1: that the number is going to be Like, oh, I
Speaker 1: didn't realize. I thought the original tracker was dumb and
Speaker 1: I was gonna do Yeah, So I wanted better data,
Speaker 1: better data, And despite the guff I got, I ended
Speaker 1: up liking that a lot better than my other tracker.
Speaker 1: I did it every day, and I actually was into
Speaker 1: the data I was collecting, which turned out to be
Speaker 1: incredibly revealing. At the end of the month, I tallied
Speaker 1: up how much I drank and how much I had spent,
Speaker 1: and it added up to a d do Here's me
Speaker 1: talking to our producer tofor about it. Do you think
Speaker 1: you're going to do anything with that information? What am
Speaker 1: I going to do with that information? I think it
Speaker 1: kind of makes me feel okay about how much I'm
Speaker 1: spending on this recreational habit and how much I'm doing
Speaker 1: it to say to myself, like I wasn't really checking myself.
Speaker 1: I wasn't like you can only spend ten dollars a day,
Speaker 1: or like you can only drink this much a week,
Speaker 1: But left to my own devices, that I'm like spending
Speaker 1: a reasonable amount of money on drinking. You began this
Speaker 1: thing as a way to clear space in your mind
Speaker 1: so that you can focus on other things. And I'm wondering,
Speaker 1: you know, does having that tracker, having this information help
Speaker 1: accomplish that goal of freeing your mind up for other things.
Speaker 1: Or maybe it's giving you a piece of mind so
Speaker 1: you're not spending as much time thinking about it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think so, as I have anxiety around money, like
Speaker 1: I have anxiety around spending money and when even when
Speaker 1: I buy a round of drinks and I do it
Speaker 1: willingly and happily because it's like nice to buy people things,
Speaker 1: and um, in the back of my mind, I'm like,
Speaker 1: like a fifty dollar bill for drinks stresses me out.
Speaker 1: But now, seeing like how it balances out in a month,
Speaker 1: I think I can feel a little better. So that,
Speaker 1: I think that is the beauty of the bullet journal.
Speaker 1: The things cluttering up my mind aren't just tasks, but
Speaker 1: anxieties and guilt about my work, and the trackers and
Speaker 1: calendars and journals and to do lists help me manage
Speaker 1: those feelings. Oh wow, that's pretty deep all that. I'm
Speaker 1: a drink tracker. M Okay, So it sounds like you
Speaker 1: had a lot of ups and downs, but at the
Speaker 1: end you kind of came around to feeling like maybe
Speaker 1: this was even more useful than you thought it was
Speaker 1: going to be. But at the beginning you did say
Speaker 1: that you would think it was a success if you
Speaker 1: wrote in your bullet journal every day for two months.
Speaker 1: So did you do that? Yes, if that is the
Speaker 1: measurement of success, then yes I did that. I used
Speaker 1: the to do list every day. But did I become
Speaker 1: the aspirational bullet journal user? No, let me show you
Speaker 1: my journal. This is a real reveal. Yeah, so wow,
Speaker 1: this is how it started. This was the first bread
Speaker 1: I made with Rachel. That's the calendar, that's the habit tracker,
Speaker 1: you know, mm hmmm, some of are things to do list.
Speaker 1: It looks okay, yeah, we're looking at something that's very
Speaker 1: well used. It definitely shows that you used it a lot.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna say your handwriting is not like that great.
Speaker 1: So yeah, here's a March recap. I tried to channel
Speaker 1: my inner creative person. This is the artistic part. You've
Speaker 1: drawn three stars, like not even fancy stars, they're just
Speaker 1: they're just a little five pointed stars that you colored in.
Speaker 1: And you've kind of squiggly underlined some of the cursive
Speaker 1: writing that you did. But like, this doesn't look like
Speaker 1: the professional calligraphy that you see in the Instagram pictures.
Speaker 1: Let me show you that the infamous drink tracker. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that looks cool. Kind of this looks neat and tidy.
Speaker 1: Look like this looks like a journal that you used
Speaker 1: a lot, that you've got a lot of use out of.
Speaker 1: It's I mean, I don't want to insult you, but
Speaker 1: it's not that pretty. To be fair, I was really
Speaker 1: bad at making it montage. The thing is, it really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter if it's not perfect, because you're the one
Speaker 1: who wants to look at it every day. I'm just
Speaker 1: like so nervous to mess up that it comes out
Speaker 1: looking kind of dumb. Oh my god, this is ugly.
Speaker 1: I'm really messing up basically, like I'm getting black pen
Speaker 1: in places it shouldn't be. What the hell did that
Speaker 1: happen that I don't love this pen? Oh god, it's ugly.
Speaker 1: Oh be gay. You're you found a new thing to
Speaker 1: be hard on yourself about. You know what? That is? Correct?
Speaker 1: You see, this is exactly my problem with these kinds
Speaker 1: of like d I y crafty solutions to things. It's
Speaker 1: like the bar is pretty high, and you could be
Speaker 1: like perfectly organized and actually using your bullet journal really well.
Speaker 1: But if you're not coloring perfectly within the margins or
Speaker 1: drawing beautiful pictures of flowers, you end up feeling bad
Speaker 1: about yourself. Yeah, I didn't feel that bad about it,
Speaker 1: which is maybe even part of the problem, like I
Speaker 1: just didn't really care enough. But in the moment, I
Speaker 1: have a lot of banks you can hear, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I don't think I will ever be like Rachel or
Speaker 1: the bullet journal experts on Instagram, but I do keep
Speaker 1: to do list now, and I don't think the value
Speaker 1: of writing things down can be understated. It's not just
Speaker 1: about getting tasks out of your head so you can
Speaker 1: concentrate on other things. Although that's nice for me, it's
Speaker 1: about managing stress and anxiety, and maybe for others it
Speaker 1: can be too. Next time on works for Me, it's
Speaker 1: Francesco's turn to fix the part of her life that
Speaker 1: isn't working for her. She's going to fix her mornings
Speaker 1: for good. No, we really need to get up with
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