A late update/summary of One Book July Challenge 2020

 I had meant to update the challenge i took upon myself for July, and had mentioned that I would do a summary end of July. Well, better late than never!

So, for those not familiar with the challenge, basically, it is designed to free oneself from the many webs that we ourselves have spun in our everyday lives to make ourselves think that we are being productive, staying busy or being a superwoman or man. Basically, the rule is just like the title of the challenge : One book.

I had picked as in my previous blog:

 To go digital for planning and journaling.

To read one book/novel 

To draw/color/watercolor 

Results:

I did rather well in the beginning doing the digital journaling. I actually enjoyed playing with the different fonts, colors, GIF, adding photos from the library. You get my drift. 

Like a bad addict, I caved and gotten out a notebook (which I had stashed away in my bag in anticipation of this future behavior) and started to scribble away my day’s thoughts. It was like taking a long hot shower after being out 9 days of camping in the wilderness. The curfew was done. I kept up with the digital journaling and found the activity less stressful. I also am now very convinced that I prefer day free kind of journaling. I ended up doing bullet style journaling for my digital journal, and that was fine. 

Now, what about digital planning? Will I continue with the ECalendar. Yes. Not a big deal. I will keep that up. Will I still do the paper version? Yes. I like both and I am fine to do both. 

Reading one book - yes, I finished it. All god knows how many pages of it. Now the task is to keep that stamina going and increase to two books per month. That is a challenge at the moment.

Art - It was a good downtime activity. I am glad I did it and I will need to make an effort to include that going forward. 

Summary:

I enjoyed the challenge. It is in my nature to always finish what I started. I might not like it and usually will try to find ways to make it tolerable to the finish line. I do not do challenges, but this year is all about challenges. 2020 is a challenge. I had the time, and nothing to lose, lots to gain. Why not?