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_refugee_  ·  2662 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: What are your goals for 2017?

I actually haven't settled on my 2017 goals as of yet. I want to take a little more time and look back at 2016 and actually acknowledge my actual accomplishments. I feel like I spent a lot of the year making monthly goals and trying to stick to them and often feeling unsuccessful - like I spent a lot of time looking at the days I didn't do things or the things I didn't do.

When I think about it, though, in 2016 I actually accomplished quite a lot and made progress towards my goals and made lots of Very Real Things that were/are Worthwhile. I want to make sure I absorb that, and give myself some time to say, "Yes, I made progress, yes, I succeeded," before I then take a look at what all categories I Did Stuff and Succeeded In for 2016 and think about how I want to build 2017 off of them (or not).

I did make this tonight though which I am pretty proud of and is for tracking my 2017 goals. (In 2016 I started writing a list of monthly goals each - well, duh, month - and then printing out a calendar for the month and tracking them. I realized if I did this in a book then I could actually keep my records all year instead of throwing them out each month. So this is my 2017 Plans and Goals book.)

cc'ing rd95 for collage and also because he said I was making cool things the other day and he made me/the things I've been making feel validated, which was unexpected and is nice. similarly to how I felt with OftenBen said someone offered him $100 for my painting! Thanks for spreading the cheer guys :)



user-inactivated  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Your shit is awesome. The back side of your calendar kind of reminds me of a Ying-Yang. With the whole equilibrium thing, I'm sure that's on purpose.

I was at a craft store the other day and discovered they sell all sorts of cool patterned paper for decoupaging. It's got my wheels turning.

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_refugee_  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Thanks!

Yeah I think I am going to make some "books" that are planners and have inspiration covers. I really like the covers, it was fun and positive getting to choose exactly which positive messages to send, and also then I can have a planner that does everything exactly how I want it to.

I am discovering that properly printing double-sided pages in signatures is a right bitch in the process, tho.

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user-inactivated  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I am discovering that properly printing double-sided pages in signatures is a right bitch in the process, tho.

What makes it hard? The thickness of the folded pages?

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_refugee_  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

No, it's making it print right. Imagine you are creating every template you'd want to use for a planner yourself. In word. You plan to bind your book using signatures aka smaller booklets of six pages or so each, folded in half.

Now have fun figuring out how you have to input what on each page in order to make your signature booklet actually have the pages appear in order when you stack them and fold them to make real pages. You're printing double sided pages with a single side printer btw so you also get to figure out how to turn the pages to print correctly, and you're printing one single page at a time. Because you can't print the whole doc in one go, at most you can only print all the odd side pages, take them, reinsert them into the printer facing correctly so you don't print over your good pages, and then print your even pages one by one (to make sure they're in the correct order on the correct page) just to get everything printed on the right side of the paper it's supposed to be.

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user-inactivated  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

If you want my advice, here's what I think you should do.

Save the document as a PDF, individual pages. Make sure your margins are wide enough so none of your text/images get lost in the gutter. Take it to a local retail printer and explain to them you need it booklet printed, in sections, 32 pages at a time (or however many pages you bind together, 32 pages should be 8 sheets of paper). They should have a program like that will arrange everything in a booklet format for you and they can print it out unbound, in order, the way you need it.

Your headache is gone. You'll save on ink. They might even use paper that's better than what you have at home. Win. Win.

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_refugee_  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah, but then what do I learn?

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user-inactivated  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

That the man who came up with the concept of sub-contracting was on to something. ;)

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_refugee_  ·  2661 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I have printed like 5 copies of my template for January and they keep getting closer to right but none of them has actually. Even right yet. And now I'm mad about printer ink.

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ButterflyEffect  ·  2662 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Those calendars are so much more creative than the stupid fucking lifeless excel spreadsheets I use to track everything because muh data analysis.

Love the positive vibes on those covers, especially. And you've given me an idea for the next Ask Hubski question.

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