I went through a big phase of reading about bullet journals in autumn 2024, and really liked the idea of making “quilts” using the dotted pages as reference. I made one for my energy levels, and one for my training status. Here are the final quilts:
The energy was a pain to track. I’m not one to get out the markers very often, so I was often coloring in a month-plus at a time. And at some point, I started questioning what “average” even meant. If my sleep got better near the end of the year (it did) and that was my new average, what even was “best ever”?
And filling out the training quilt became difficult because, well, training became difficult near the end of the year. (Ironically at the same time my sleep got better.) Eagle eyes will note that I didn’t finish December. At least that information is kept on my Garmin app, making it easier to access when I finally sit down to “quilt.”
I’m bringing these back next year. Energy will have categories that are: getting things done, maintaining, resting, under the weather, not tracked, and I have a system built now to track those and update the calendars more frequently.
One mistake I made for 2026 was assigning the same colors to both quilts. I like the visual difference of the 2025 quilts using different colors.
