Worry Knot

Some of the most fulfilling experiences for me, and when I felt most at ease and content, were those where I have volunteered my time to help others. There is a lot of scientific evidence to suggest that by doing the same, by thinking of and helping others before yourself, you can significantly improve your mental health and it can even be the secret to overcoming addictions too. You can also watch this cool video now :) I consider myself a humanitarian at heart, I have often toyed with the idea of spending my life working in refugee camps, working with those less fortunate who have had everything taken away from them. It’s almost as if I can feel their pain and suffering. At the age of 18 I travelled to Ghana to volunteer for 6 weeks, helping to build schools. When I arrived, things were not actually what they seemed. This was clearly a “voluntourism” scheme making a lot of money by sending paying western folk over to developing countries to make a profit. It became more of a holid...

I’m a sucker for a to do list. I write a list, then another, then one on my hand. Until everything is done, then I bin my lists and start again. I think it may be related in a way to my anxiety disorder, when sometimes the easiest thing to remember gets lost in the abyss of ever ruminating thoughts. But that's OK, lists never hurt anyone. It would be good to keep everything in one book, right? In the same place? Including future, monthly plans, projects, EVERYTHING. I think a lot of people are the same. Since starting Worry Knot this is even more obvious to me, I think I have filled one notebook already with to do lists, designs, quotes and ideas. But I need a simple easier way to work so lots of notebooks don’t go missing. About a year ago, I heard about bullet journaling and how good it is. So I thought I would give it a go. Bullet Journal or BuJo for short, was started by a chap called Ryder Carrol, who suffers from ADD and needed something to declutter his mind. You ...