For the final post in this series, you are going to learn some additional tips, tricks, and hacks for bullet journaling. This includes everything from setting it up, to choosing details that will make it more efficient for you.
Bullet journaling is completely customizable, so at the end of the day, you should create it exactly how YOU want it.
However, here are some tips to get you going.
After you have purchased your journal or chosen a notebook to use, and gotten some of the writing utensils and other accessories, it is time to actually set up your bullet journal.
This is of course up to you, but planning ahead will save you a lot of time and headache later.
By now, you understand more about what a bullet journal is and are ready to get started.
It is important that you put in the right amount of planning. Instead of just using the first journal you can find and making an index, it helps to start with a little more insight.
There are a lot of reasons to create and use a bullet journal, from wanting to become more organized, to looking for a more interactive planner.
Bullet journaling, created by a New York-based designer named Ryder Carroll, is a new twist on journal writing.
The intended goal was to plan future events, keep track of things that happened in the past and organize things in the present.
This type of journal combines the best of planning, journal writing, creating to-do lists, and tracking important events in your calendar.
It is a fully customizable type of planner that provides benefits like:
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If you’re hanging out here on Journal For You, you’re probably already keeping a journal and know that journaling is therapeutic and beneficial to your health, as well as a lot of fun!
The downside to regular – perhaps even daily – journaling, is that sometimes you sit down with your journal and…
Nothing. Happens.
Your mind is wiped. You stare at the blank page and absolutely nothing comes. It seems as if your well of inspiration has run dry.
Fortunately, a great book by Judy Shafarman can help you get back into your journaling practice.
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Okay, so you carry your i-thingy and your android-whats-its, so why do you also need a primitive 20th century pen and simple notebook or legal pad?
There’s still nothing that activates the brain like that old pen and paper behavior from childhood.
Some reasons why it’s great to be able to write at any time of the day and wherever we find ourselves.
Writing allows you to:
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The holiday season is a time of great celebration, but if you have recently lost someone who was very close to you, the holidays can be painful and hard to endure. You are grieving, yet everyone expects you to join in the good times.
Similarly, if you lost a loved one at a holiday time in a previous year, the season can be a difficult challenge for you ever thereafter.
If this describes you, remember first that it is perfectly okay for you to have conflicting feelings and ups and downs. Trying to suppress or mask your grief doesn’t help, as it will surface eventually. Fully experiencing your feelings is the best way to work through them.
A safe and effective way to work through your grief and find a way to enjoy the celebrations again is by using your journal.
Journaling, by nature, is a solitary exercise. And since we are often concerned with our deepest secret selves in our journals, we rarely share these writings with others. So it’s a special treat when we’re allowed a peek inside someone else’s journal. The cinema is one place where we can occasionally enjoy the journaling lives of others.
Here are a few examples of journal-based films.
Why I Keep a Journal
I am a journaler. I have kept a journal for over 25 years. You can give me any date in the past 25 years and I can tell you what I was doing on that date.
Some people have questioned why I do this. Why bother? What good reasons do I have to keep a journal? That’s what I would like to talk about today.
Let me introduce my topic by sharing this little story with you:
Besides your daily feelings, thoughts, and experiences journal, there are many ideas for journals or diaries that you can keep, some are suggested below.
Buy a blank book or a notebook with a particular journal topic in mind and keep this book for only that topic. You may decide to keep several kinds of journals at the same time, so remember that you do not have to journal every day.
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