How to make your journals more authentic with Courtney Diaz (LittleRavenInk)

I've gone off on a tangent.

This is what I was talking to you about before.

I talk way too much.

No,

no, that's fine because I was just thinking, like, with the whole dating stuff, like it's – It's that pressure of feeling like you have to, like, do what everyone else is doing.

But also you need to just, like, find what works for you, don't you? And your journals are going to be different from literally everything else.

But you would

think that if I, because I do this as a job, you'd think I'd be on top of the date.

You'd think I'd be, like, dated is the spice of life.

It's not.

It's my enemy.

Because the guilt of not finishing it.

was getting way too much.

And they're not cheap.

These beautiful journals are not cheap.

And for me not to use even half of them felt like I was wasting finances.

And then you go and buy a new one for the next year thinking new journal, new me.

And we all know, I know, in my case, it's not.

It's new journal, more guilt.

So I just decided enough's enough.

I felt sad during journal, like planner and journal season where everyone's buying all new notebooks.

And I had so much FOMO, so much FOMO.

But you have all these journals in your studio that aren't finished.

why would we add to the pile? So technically I have like probably enough journals to set up my own stationery store at the moment if I wanted to.

I could host a pop-up shop with the amount of stationery I own in my household.