u/IndependentMangos

Michela Allocca posted a video on discipline (148. How to enter your discipline era) that I found very interesting and thought it might benefit some of us in the sub that struggle with impulsively shopping for comfort and dopamine.

First she reframed the notion of discipline away from a rigidness of being perfect all the time and made it more of a self care and self respect tool to make our lives better and respect our time.

Particularly she mentioned how we need to have rules and discipline to stick to those rules or else we are going to be draining ourselves by negotiating and justifying purchases. Which I totally feel because I will be in my head all day about a purchase or obsessing over an item and it absolutely drains my mental energy.

My take away is moving away from shopping as a comfort activity being more disciplined with my budget and focusing on the long term goals instead of the short term satisfaction of a purchase. Tons of other good tips that I recommend checking out!

I got a Sterling Ink Complete planner as an experiment with the B6 size. This is very much a creative planner where I test out daily / weekly spreads so I'm not too precious with it.

Thus, I ripped off the hard cover and made my own cover out of cardstock and fabric scraps so it could fit in my Moterm B6.

Conclusion: I love it! The size is great, small enough to fit in my bag without being too heavy but big enough for all my plans. The cover is perfect and I'm very excited to customize it more.