Keep Things Messy and Simple

As someone who loves journals, tracking, and checking boxes it's beyond easy to create systems that get overwhelming and complicated.

And, when things get too complex, we tend to stop engaging with them.

We end up having a CRM that hasn't been updated in 5 years, email filters that have made us miss countless important messages, and a to-do list that's still nagging us to pack for a flight in 2018.

Simpler, messy systems are often better than complicated precise ones.

After all, it's the system that we stick to that counts.