😠thank you!!! im so glad to help!!!
and yesss!!!! YESSS!!! i live to just try to open people's preconcieved notions for journaling/planners! im still not perfect myself and get caught up in stuff but i am really thankful that i started my own way of journaling without having any real reference of journal spreads other people do— i only began getting inspiration from other people's journaling posts/videos about a year into journaling when i had a pretty solid spread template i was using. of course i still experiment and its been changing and evolving but thats whats great about it! because you get to modify to make it work for you— sometimes im a little sad when i see a spread i really like that someone made because I realize i cant use it haha but the most important for me is the ability to actually use a spread so yeah
(also about just putting a sticker, tbf so far i still have been writing sentences but it can really help to have stickers that can correspond to something— like i got a sticker sheet of some cute cats doing chores like dishes and laundry and its nice to put down a laundry sticker on a day i did laundry :P ....i have been thinking about carving a stamp or two to symbolize like a bad day or some other specific thing just for when i dont have a sticker for it mm)
i think something that helped me was seeing some videos (mainly one from jetpens) about using old planners that are out of date— much of it is like a sketchbook so drawing your meals, or doing pen swatches, or doing washi tape swatches, etc and that sort of opened my eyes more on that you really dont have to use things convensionally.. i was reading hobonichi techo articles and some people just use their dated hobonichi planners as basically notebooks not caring about the dates! seems bonkers to me but also im almost jealous haha i wish i could do that xD
also thank you!!! 🥺 i get a lot of satisfaction out of making my journal spreads and trying to make them look nice that im always glad when others like them too! (,,,to tell the truth, i still dont have my next week's spread done so im going to have to do it tomorrow... i try to do it on thursday or friday but yeah sometimes im very tired.. so as you can see even im still struggling with journaling some days, but i kno i will enjoy making the spread once i do sit down and finally do it 😤💕)
anyway 💪💪💪💪💪 cheering you on!!!! hell yeah, go have fun doing some journaling, whatever that will look for you!!! 🥰