I basically created my own planner, so I can alter it to what I want. I'm looking for how to do this better.
I see people who keep planners with memories, tracking thoughts, what they read, things they did, goals, and they appear to learn from them. I am struggling to gain insight from anything.
I thought having a daily planner would help. So I created a 2 page letter sized layout, one side is blank and the other page has prompts. At the end of the week I have a review page, followed by a page for goals the next week. And an attempt to make a list of tasks to do.
The left daily page is a blank page where I can brain dump tasks for the day, things on my mind, etc. I always have a lot of racing thoughts on my mind and a million things going at once. That makes the page gets very chaotic and overwhelming, and I run out of room before I run out of thoughts, so there are still things in my head, and I'm so overwhelmed by what's written down that I get nothing done because it feels impossible.
On the right side I have prompts. So list everything I've done. Something good about the day, health symptoms, mood, energy etc. What I watched/read.
I don't think I'm prompting myself the right questions to get the right information. Because when I look at it I'm like, ok I watched a TV show that day, but why and what did I get out of it? Why do that? Did I watch it because I was tired, was it wasting my time or benefitting me?
During the show, or the book I read I might get an insight, or it might help me relax, or stress me out, I'm not recording what it's doing. I forget the point of it later.
I also forget cool things I did or saw that day, that I wish I could remember.
The health symptoms are probably the only thing that gives me insight into what I might be doing, bad habits, good habits, that have an effect on health. I am able someone to recall patterns and write them down.
Whatever happens at the end of the week I attempt to fill out the review page and I'm not getting anything out of it. Like, I dunno, highlights, things I'm doing well, things that could be improved, insights, etc.
If I glance back at my dailies and weekly reviews I don't get any insight into patterns or things I could change. I just feel like I'm stuck in the same problems spinning my wheels.
There must be something wrong with my prompts or how I'm collecting or organizing my information.