listing slightly

sometimes i find it hard to put my ideas or goals in motion

i need to motivate myself

over the years i've tried all sorts of ways

i made those foldy paper answer questions things (google searching tells me they're called chatterboxes or cootie catchers - yuck. i call them foldy paper answer questions things)

i like that the one pictured has "hedonism" as a choice. mine's nicer because it's made of pictures. however, it has no intrinsic use or purpose. it just is. it's an object i enjoyed making.
i also had a reward system going, using laminex colour swatches.

it didn't achieve anything, although i had lots of fun putting it together. deciding on rewards, finding images that matched the rewards

now i'm trying to put a 5 year plan in place. i'm trying not to be too soviet about it, naturally. no gulags or anything. although constructivist design is rather attractive.

and i am trying to introduce colour and various items of stationery as i try and conceptualise my goals and milestones.

i'm going more for thumb-tacks and coloured string, date stamps as well as some posh things, like a 5 year diary from moma
i'm sure good graphics and good design can help! suzy tuxen's lettering

lists can be pretty,

moon garden by mikala dwyer

a crazy world of words and pictures and actions and pictures
a crazy world of words and pictures and actions and pictures

and then there is the crazy world of infografics

showing you the answers to the important questions

like

which is the fastest growing economy?

and

WHO

is

the

biggest
movie
monster?

there are also self-made graphs as part of the mycrocosm project,

of course i'm supposed to do exactly these kinds of graphs to track my blood sugar levels ... things get tricky for me when pretty becomes purposeful
other good infographics i've seen,
an animated red riding hood (oh i forgot how good this was!)

there's a whole world of diversionary, i mean motivational, tactics out there!

and let's not forget Christoph Niemann's wonderful monthly blog, abstract city - this one's about sleep