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Building Resilience with Nancy Smith
Nancy Smith – Show Notes
Currently living in Bolivia as she runs her online business and stationery supply website.
Was previously a journalist for a large New Zealand news site – she found it mentally a struggle to keep up and to keep on top of everything as well as keep on top of her own life. Bullet journaling puts everything together to look at your life as a whole.
We talked about the excitement of starting a new journal. But remember it for you so you can do what you like. Some days are busy and messy and because no one is perfect your journal shouldn't be perfect either.
You need to start your journal with a place for your future log or your future spread. You can have a space for every month of the year for recording big events that are coming up. Beyond that it becomes very personal to you. You might want a day per page or a week per page. You need to understand how you like to plan and how your life is structured.
Leave some clean space to allow an area where you can write down your thoughts, note or ideas. Allow space for crafting – drawing, stickers etc.
Important to also allow pages for "brain dumps" when you feel that life is getting hectic and crazy.
You can have blank pages, squares, lines or dots. Dots are popular because they allow a great deal of creativity but also can help you write in a straight line if that is important to you.
An ideal size is A5 which allows enough space but is small enough to carry around with you. Again the size of your journal depends on your personal preference and your lifestyle.
We talk about pens, stickers and patterned tapes.
Recommend a minimum of 80 gsm weight paper. Use 100 gsm paper to avoid ink bleeding through to the next page or when you can see the writing through the other side of the page. This allows you to use water based inks. An art journal has even thicker paper which will allow you to use any sort of ink that you like.
Experiment with different pens. Staedtler Fine Liners are popular. Brush pens are now quite popular – a form of calligraphy. Popular in this range is the Tombow Dual Tip. You can blend the inks to make other colours but they come in about 92 different colours. You can also use Crayola Super Tips.
Washi tape can become addictive. Patterned tape that originated in Japan. That and stickers are a great way decorate your pages particularly if you are not particularly artistically inclined.
Personal resilience tools – journaling (of course!), meditatation, exercise, yoga, hydration. Because these activities are prioritised in her journal she is more likely to do them.
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By Lyn HendersonNancy Smith – Show Notes
Currently living in Bolivia as she runs her online business and stationery supply website.
Was previously a journalist for a large New Zealand news site – she found it mentally a struggle to keep up and to keep on top of everything as well as keep on top of her own life. Bullet journaling puts everything together to look at your life as a whole.
We talked about the excitement of starting a new journal. But remember it for you so you can do what you like. Some days are busy and messy and because no one is perfect your journal shouldn't be perfect either.
You need to start your journal with a place for your future log or your future spread. You can have a space for every month of the year for recording big events that are coming up. Beyond that it becomes very personal to you. You might want a day per page or a week per page. You need to understand how you like to plan and how your life is structured.
Leave some clean space to allow an area where you can write down your thoughts, note or ideas. Allow space for crafting – drawing, stickers etc.
Important to also allow pages for "brain dumps" when you feel that life is getting hectic and crazy.
You can have blank pages, squares, lines or dots. Dots are popular because they allow a great deal of creativity but also can help you write in a straight line if that is important to you.
An ideal size is A5 which allows enough space but is small enough to carry around with you. Again the size of your journal depends on your personal preference and your lifestyle.
We talk about pens, stickers and patterned tapes.
Recommend a minimum of 80 gsm weight paper. Use 100 gsm paper to avoid ink bleeding through to the next page or when you can see the writing through the other side of the page. This allows you to use water based inks. An art journal has even thicker paper which will allow you to use any sort of ink that you like.
Experiment with different pens. Staedtler Fine Liners are popular. Brush pens are now quite popular – a form of calligraphy. Popular in this range is the Tombow Dual Tip. You can blend the inks to make other colours but they come in about 92 different colours. You can also use Crayola Super Tips.
Washi tape can become addictive. Patterned tape that originated in Japan. That and stickers are a great way decorate your pages particularly if you are not particularly artistically inclined.
Personal resilience tools – journaling (of course!), meditatation, exercise, yoga, hydration. Because these activities are prioritised in her journal she is more likely to do them.