Finally realized I was rewriting my weekly logs every Sunday for no reason

I don't know what clicked but two weeks ago I noticed my bullet journal had 8 identical weekly spreads in a row. I was copying my habit tracker, meal plan, and task list from the previous week every Sunday without stopping to think. Turns out I could just use a rolling weekly layout or a simple shortcut for recurring tasks. I wasted maybe 20 minutes each Sunday doing this for like 4 months straight. Now I'm experimenting with a master task list I just reference instead. Does anyone else have a weekly setup that reduces repetitive writing?

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emmasingh29d ago

Is that not just how EVERYTHING goes though? I got a new coffee maker last year and for TWO MONTHS I kept unplugging it every night because my old one had a safety issue. My brain was just on autopilot copy-pasting the same routine. It's like our minds hate to admit when something is actually SOLVED and we can just let it run. The sad part is that 20 minutes a week adds up - that's over 13 hours of your life just rewriting the same stuff. That's like a whole work shift you could have used for anything else. Glad you caught it though, most people never stop to ask why they're doing the thing they're doing.

drew_west28d ago

You really think 13 hours of your life over a whole year is that big of a deal @emmasingh?