A coworker told me my monthly spreads were way too cluttered back in March

I used to cram every single task and habit tracker into one page, and it looked like a mess. She suggested I leave more white space and only track 3 key goals per month. Has anyone else had to scale back their layouts after feedback from someone else?

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gray3146d ago

Oh man, I feel this so hard... I was doing the same thing with my bullet journal last year, trying to fit everything on one page like a weekly dumpster fire. My sister finally told me to just pick three things I actually wanted to get done, and it was like a weight lifted off my shoulders. Now I leave big empty spaces around the edges and it actually helps me focus on what matters instead of feeling guilty about all the stuff I didn't track. It took me a few months to really get comfortable with that much white space though... felt like I was wasting paper at first.

henry_anderson545d ago

And now @gray314 is out here giving better life advice than my therapist.

the_rose5d ago

My therapist charges me $150 an hour and she's never once told me to leave empty space around my priorities. Tbh that's the real issue with therapy sometimes, they focus so much on digging into your past that they forget to give you practical stuff you can actually use today. Gray's sister gave better advice in one sentence than most professionals give in weeks. Ngl I think we overcomplicate mental health when sometimes the answer is just "do less and accept that doing less is okay." The white space thing is actually genius because it forces you to stop pretending you're a machine that can handle everything.