Book Design In a previous post I talked about personal projects and why they are important. I just started a new personal project that I have found extremely relaxing and fun. I am a book junkie, I love reading. I love books of all different genres and topics, when I find a good book I can't put it down. When I was brainstorming different personal project ideas it seemed obvious that books should fall on the list somewhere. While trying to evolve this idea to design something including books the first thought was of course the cover and the layout on the inside, but I quickly felt skeptical about this idea because of the amount of time it would take to read the book and the amount of time that it would take for me to design the entire thing. After coming up with ideas and quickly dismissing them for about an hour I finally landed on my final project objective. Objective To relax and have fun while designing and developing book cover designs, while improving my illustration
Monthly trackers A monthly tracker is set up so that you can track habits throughout the month, in my bullet journal I am tracking healthy habits and I have an activity log. Benefits The trackers can be extremely helpful, you can track what you've done, when you did it, and what you didn't do. You can use the information you gather with the tracker to balance your time. For example, if you find that you are watching Netflix everyday in the month, but you have only written a blog post twice you can strive to cut back on Netflix time and increase your writing time. You can track a number of different things, here are some ideas to get you started: Activity Log Healthy Habits Log Personal Projects Log