Organise your life with a Bullet Journal

Whilst browsing through my Pinterest to feed my creativity, I came across this journaling method known as the bullet journal system.

Since exams has started for us, I decided to give this ago to help me stay organised and create headspace so I can focus. And honestly, I never felt so relieved and productive in my life.

To help you feel the same feeling (it is a fairly nice feeling), I'm going to show how you can organise your life with this awesome system.

One of the obvious things you need to do is get a notebook and pen (you can have coloured pens if you prefer). It doesn't have to be an expensive Moleskin real leather notebook, it can be any that suit your taste. I would recommend getting a notebook with dots or squares as it will help you keep you bullets and lists in line and more organised.

For your first page, make a list of the bullets that you're going to use with the fill-ins and marks.

It doesn't have to be exactly like mine - make it yours since it's gonna be your bullet journal!

You will need to use these bullets when you're note-taking to make it easier for you to understand and complete.

To make your life easier, create an index. Doing this will help you find the right page.

From what I saw on Pinterest, the bullet journals were colourful, neat and had lots of illustrations. If that's the style you prefer, then go for it. But, frankly, you don't have to do that. It is your journal so you can make it into whatever would fit your needs. It is not a journal for display so you don't have to illustrate fancy drawings or banner or write in a really fancy font.

For my bullet journal, I simply put the date at the top with a list of Reminders, To dos, inspiring quotes that I find, events/appointments and my thoughts. Occasionally, I would draw a little illustration to make it visually stimulating for me.

And once I completed a task, event or attended an appointment, I simply cross it out.

To help you refer back to something, I placed these sticky notes on the pages that I wanted to mark with tiny icons to show what it is:

To make your life much more productive, you can add a 'Goals' page where you write down what goals you want to achieve whether it's to lose a few pounds, wash more often or make more friends.

I also found on Pinterest that some people keep track of their habits which I think is a good idea because you can see what kind of perpetual things you do on a daily basis and what habits to change (as what Mike Murdock once said: "You will never change your life until you change something you do daily")

I think it would also be quite important to keep a record of your contacts of family and friends as your backup in case something happened to your cell phone or you account was hacked and whatnot.

What I like to do is write all my thoughts down. I write down whatever's on my mind. I just feel like it lifts the weights that's holding me down and refreshes my mind.

Sometimes, I like to write a 'personal overview' where I write down what went well today, how productive that day was and what else to improve. This introspective constructive criticism helps a lot because then you get a birds eye view of your life and you can see what's standing in your way and how to jump over it.

I hope you find this helpful and inspired you to create your own!

Remember: it doesn't have to be perfect. No one and nothing is perfect :)

If you want further help or guidance to create your own bullet journal, you can inbox me or go here!

Nicole ᵔᴥᵔ

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