Alright my loves welcome back, or if this is your first time on my channel welcome,
and happy new year!
Today I thought I'd take you on a quick flip through my new bullet journal setup situation
and how I plan on staying organised through 2017 and into the future.
So let's just get right into it.
The notebook I'm using is this random one I found on amazon, I'll leave a link to
it below and anything else I use or mention as always will be listed in the description
as well.
But yeah I don't love the cover of it, I'll probably do something about that when I get
the chance, but otherwise, I chose it because it fit all the other criteria I was looking
for.
I wanted something ring bound, bigger than a5 but not as big as a4 and with thick dot-grid
pages.
If you've seen my last planner video you'll remember I had a leuchtturn and that worked
really well but I wanted brighter, clearer pages and thicker pages that wouldn't show
through any ink.
On this first page I'm planning on putting some kind of checklist, like a daily, weekly,
monthly planner routine.
Since the years just started, and I'm still getting into my stride with this new planner,
I don't quite have a routine set in place yet.
So first page is the index or contents which is just really basically colour coded.
I took inspiration from David Allen's 'Getting Things Done' method, I'll try and leave
some info on that in the video description if you're not familiar with it.
But yeah I've basically got my pages grouped into the categories, Reference, Someday/Maybe,
Current/Action and Miscellaneous.
So Reference is for things that I just want to remember, they might not serve a real purpose
and they don't need any action taken on them but just things that I want written down
so for example, you'll see in a bit I have a page of all the places around the world
that my online shop has seen orders from.
Stuff like that.
Then Someday/Maybe is things that I might take actions on just not right now, things
like books I want to read and goals for the year.
Current is obviously anything I'm dealing with at the moment so my monthly and weekly
spreads and then misc is just anything I can't find a place for.
The main thing, and I've said this before, but my main thing is having every little thing
written down and then organising it into the right folders so nothing gets lost or forgotten
in my brain.
Right so going through the first few pages, one thing you'll know if you've seen my
videos, I take a very minimal approach to things like this.
I like things to be neat and tidy and I love seeing gorgeously decorated planner pages
but for me I just want to get the information down and keep it nice and simple.
Also since I've just started using this book, the pages are a little bit bare but
you get the gist of where its going.
So this is just lists of tv shows and films I want to watch, books I want to read,
a sort of shopping wishlist for whenever I have a bit of money.
So not like an everyday shopping list, more like a new camera lens and stuff like that.
This page which is colour coded green so in the reference category is a list of companies
I've worked with since being on youtube.
This is the page of places around the world I've delivered to.
Again, I could've set it out in a way that was a bit snazzier but I like just being able
to have a look back and also have a tally of where I've had the most orders from.
I did add this little map that I just printed off of google and I might start colouring
in all the places that Ive received orders from.
And as always, little plug here, but if you wanna check out my shop I'll have it linked
below, I have a few art prints going on there at the moment and I'm looking to get back
to adding new artwork as soon at possible.
Next is another basic page, just little moments that I want to remember.
This page is where I plan on listing any projects or ideas that come to mind this year, when
it comes to making more detailed project notes and things I just flip to the back of the
book where I don't mind being a bit messier and just braindstorming and things.
Alright and then we get to just a basic list of my little goals and big goals.
Always great to refer to when I'm feeling a bit lost, wondering what my next step is.
One of them I've already achieved, in fact two of them now, as I've just reached 50k
subscribers here on youtube so I'll just cross that off and date it.
But yeah my bigger goals are a bit more you know.. 'see the world' they're more
like hopes and dreams but I really believe in the power of just writing things down.
And then we get to the blue colour coded pages so current actionable things.
Here's my year at a glance, so far mainly birthdays on here but yeah I just write the
date and the thing with a little symbol depending on what it is.
Then theres my never-ending to do where I write any tasks that don't have a specific
deadline, things that I can refer to when I have a spare moment and when I wanna get
stuff done.
I'll also refer to it when I'm writing up my monthly spread to see if theres anything
I can transfer to my things to get done that month.
So like this.
This is my spread for december.
I've gone back to the traditional bullet journal layout for this one, more or less.
With the list view of the dates and then anything that's happening that day beside it.
Then on the next page I have a little list of goals and tasks I want to prioritise for
the month and a quick run down of my ingoing and outgoing finances, just for my shop, not
personal spending, I transfer it all onto a spreadsheet at the end of the month so a
lot of the information isn't there cos I'll have just recorded it digitally already.
And then just a little bit of decoration; what I do is, I'll search tumblr or pinterest
for words like 'pastel' or 'blue' or 'pink' and pick random pictures here and there.
A lot of them are made to be phone backgrounds or stuff like that and the creators just say
things like 'like this photo if you're gonna use it' so I do that.
Unfortunately on sites like tumblr it can be hard to find the actual source of things
so I try not to sort of take the mick with the amount of things I print off.
So getting to the weekly pages now, this was my first try so I didn't really like this
one.
Getting the hang of it here.
I basically write a list of the things I need to get done that week, circles are for events
and if it's day specific I'll write the day next to it, I'll also have a little
area to write anything thats coming up next week and then day by day I'll have a running
to-do list in the typical bullet journal style.
I put an x through something I've completed, or just one diagonal line through if it's
half done, a line through if it's no longer relevant, an arrow if I've moved it somewhere
else, an exclamation mark next to it if it's a priority and here I just had so much going
on that I wrote a new really specific list in order of what needed doing.
And then carried on as normal.
Oh and at the end of the week I write a little summary and highlight the key words.
So this is the most recent week I did, the last week of december, and now I'm gonna
set up the new month and this current week.
So lets speed things up.
After listing the days, I flip back to my yearly view to see whats coming up in January,
not much, and then I have a look at my never-ending to-do to see if theres anything I can add
to my goals and tasks for the month.
This is where I'll write my finances and then I have this cute little picture off tumblr
that says '2017 please be good to me' which I think is a great wish to start the year
with, and this one does have a source, it's from a blog called 'pinklilies' so I'll
leave that linked below.
Now I know I'm using blue as the colour for current events but I decided to change
the colour of weekly spreads each month so I'm going with a pink/purple theme today.
And since there's not much going on this week, this is pretty much it!
So I hope you enjoyed this video, thanks so much for joining me, if you're following
my 30 ways to fill a sketchbook series, we'll back to business as usual this week and if
you're not subscribed already, I'd love to have you here as part of the fam, alright,
I'll see you all in the next one, bye!
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