Disclaimer: this is not a how to journal bullet post. The intention of this post is to spark some inspiration for you to try out and gain some personal benefits in the process.
Background
Bullet journaling was created by Ryder Caroll; designed to be a customizable and forgiving organisation system. It can be your to-do-list, sketchbook, notebook, and diary, but most likely, it will be all of the above.
Benefits
1. It’s
customizable to your own needs and desires:
Being the Frugal
type, I couldn’t forge myself into spending at least $60 on a planner with custom-designed
pages. I found this bullet journal at Daiso selling for $2.80! I instantly fell
in love with its design, and I just added $5.60 for brush pens to my shopping
basket and with coloured pens, highlighters and ruler at home I can draw in and
decorate my own pages.
Pro tip: You
could use washi tape to decorate or help you colour code things in your bullet
journal.
2. It’s easy to
set up:
If you suck at
lettering, drawing and design in general, It can seem intimidating to look at a
blank notebook and realise its up to you to fill in the design and content,
especially when you have come across other people’s bullet journal online, but this
should not stop you from designing your own, take them as an inspiration. You
can always go basic and keep it as simple as mine.
3. It keeps your
life organised
Since everything is in one book, it’s easy to keep
track of everything in your life, so you won’t lose your to-do list between
days. It’s easy to see at a glance
what you need to do that day, and you can create monthly pages so you can see
more long-term what you need to be doing.
It also allows
you to turn to an empty page and start making a list:
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To do list
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Books to read list
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Grocery list
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Bucket list
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Movies to watch list
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You get the gist, anything that comes into mind has a
place in the planner, so it wont be forgotten or lost.
4. It sparks productivity + a great for tracking
long-term goals.
If you’d like to keep track of your productivity across time. Bullet
journaling is the best way to do it. Since everything is kept inside one
notebook, you can see what you struggle with and what patterns you’ve fallen
into.
For example:
Every month, create a
habit and emotion tracker. Each day when you have accomplished your goal, you
mark off for that day and try to keep the chain going each day until you reach
December 31. This way you will know for sure how well you’ve kept that
resolution as you wont have to guess because it’s plainly written out in your
journal.
