I dream of being my best shade

And discern the transitions I have made

It’s tiny now, but it does matter

It’s okay my goals no more shatter

In the end today what I see

I never knew the best thing I can be

Hello You, as you have clicked on this article, this means you are somehow interested in “Bullet Journal” and want to know what it is and how to adapt it.

After reading this article, you would get to know all about bullet journaling.

Do you ever write a to-do list? If yes, how tedious is it to maintain one?

Isn’t it bland and colourless and also, we lose interest to follow the To-Do plan as it doesn’t have a fun fact?

Is there any solution for this problem? Yes, there is!

The answer is a bullet journal.

Whether your desire is to get a better grip on your to-do list or wish a medium to help you become a better person, a bullet journal should be your friend.

This technique is one of the most promising ways to schedule, evaluate, and meditate and restructure your vitality as you want.

Many people would use lots of confusing symbols and shorthand in their journal.

it’s a fun and mind refreshing method concealed as a productivity system.

What is Bullet Journal (in short BuJo):

Speaking of a bullet journal, it’s kind of a next-level diary for not only writing down things but also illustrating them with shapes and colours to make it more lively.

Instead of empty, striped pages, a bullet journal includes categories to log everyday to-do list, maintain a monthly or weekly schedule, shortly write down notes, maintain both physiological and mental health, also schedule both short- and long-term objectives.

Concretely, Bullet Journal is a planning strategy that enables anyone overseeing and composing the present and scheduling and restructuring the future. 

The most fun fact about Bullet Journaling is that it isn’t something you purchase with a template or design already given to you.

You are buying a blank or maybe a grid journal and develop something personal and unique or fun fact in the journal for yourself and your objectives.

Owing to which even, starting a bullet journal does require a tremendous amount of time investment in the inception or the very first day of it the but as days pass it becomes like a habit.

The procedure should be a pleasure and imaginative also.

Why is Bullet Journal important?

We all have heard a sentence which says, “Don’t only think it, also ink it.”

When we write down our ideas in a pen and paper and then try to execute them one by one by crossing the, done job, it gives us an indescribable satisfaction.

We have also come to know that people like this have adequate self-control and even better self-esteem, then others.

The benefits a journal gives us differ for each person but if we put them in words they will be__

• You will be able to spend some time with yourself and make a space for you where you can be “YOU” without anyone’s judgement.
• Bullet journal will make us remember things and make us less forgetful. We All forget about deadlines and can’t complete the jobs appointed to us.
• This journal makes our scattered life comes into a structure or a routine and makes it more organised and easier to live.
• This method will reduce the chances of ignorance. If we use bullet journals, we won’t forget any anniversary or birthday ever.
• You can set you aim and goals and then prioritise them one by one. Each big goal will have sub-goals that will make a big dream come true.
• Knowing your comfort zone and do what you love to do.

Which kind of people mainly needs to follow a journal :

• You find regular to-do list boring and can’t follow it; then bullet journal may help you out
• Your life has become a mess and you want to get it organised
• You want to implement a planning system in your life.
• You need to lead a worry-free and a well-balanced life.
• You are fond of art and paint a good picture of your life

What supplies will you need to start Bullet Journal:

1. A blank journal (Blank or grid or plain)
2. Colour pens or pencils (To make it livelier)
3. Shapes and ink (If you want to copy shapes in your journal
4. Watercolour ( If you are an artist or want to colour it to make it more vibrant)
5. Stickers ( To illuminate actions or make it fun)
6. Calligraphy pen (If want to use it)
7. Rewards ( For keeping yourself motivated and energetic)

How do I start Bullet Journaling:

If I am asked to say the beginning of anything in one sentence, then I’ll say, “Learn from doing it yourself with continuous trial and error.”

Don’t get ahead of your capability and don’t overdo anything you can’t handle The best way to start a bullet journal is to figure out what your goals and big plan are. Imagine what you want to be and where you want to see yourself after some years.

Firstly ask yourself, what do you want the bullet journal to do for you? Once you have the basic idea about how you want it to be, then build a system that suits your needs and makes you feel good.

You need to focus on the flexible format of your Bullet journal as well. Like you can start with a weekly blog where you will prioritise the jobs to meet weekly goals. By activating a weekly Bullet journal and you can lead to a daily journal as well.

Start it with an aim and end up making the most comfortable start you can make. Make it to make yourself happy and your life easier.

Can I start it in the middle of a year:

Undoubtedly, we can start the Journal in the middle of the year, and even it won’t make us less effective.

You will design it as you want it to be, which means you can start it anytime like today, tomorrow, middle of the year or even on the last day of the year.

Don’t let the time of the current year waste and procrastinate daily.

So, what we need to do is take a pen and journal book and get started with the process automatically.

There’s no need to postpone our work until next January rather you can create a bullet journal at the beginning, middle, or end of the year or any time in between the year. There aren’t several hard rules and regulations to bullet journaling.

Every bullet journal should include these things:

Rapid Logging is a famous method used for doing a bullet journal.

Rapid Logging is the language in which the Bullet Journal is composed mainly. It’s primarily a language or shorthand language to compose the daily work in a comfortable and editable way. It’s mainly categorised and simplified the way white the everyday work of ours. So the elaborate discussion is mentioned below.

Bullets: When we are using rapid logging as our Bullet Journal language, we will need to use some syntax that is called Bullets. Bullets are the short-form to record the sentences starting with symbols that visually arrange our works into Tasks, Events, or even Notes.

Let’s explain it more clearly

Tasks

To illustrate tasks, we use the dot “•” bullet. A dot is used instead of any other checkbox format because it symbolises that the task is fast and can quickly be done to reflect the easiness and characteristics of the functions.

This bullet is mainly for the to-do list of our daily works.

Events

To illustrate events, we use the open circle “O” Bullet. Date-related things that should be added that can either be scheduled or noted as a deadline.

Like birthdays, anniversaries, party, or any event of your office. We need to write them down so that they are followed by and done in time.

Notes

To illustrate Notes, we can use a dash “–”. Notes are mostly facts, ideas, impressions, and statements.

They’re mainly used to store and use information or data that is important for you to remember.

This Bullet works well for conferences, lectures, meeting minutes.

Mix and match

When we use a mix and match jungle form of Tasks, Events, and Notes will enable us to capture our plans and make them prioritised also organised by these syntaxes.

We will get a short note for our whole day work. What we all need is jungle them all on one page to illustrate the activities of a particular day.

Signifiers

Signifiers are symbols that make us understand the significance briefly. They’re positioned to the left of Bullets so that we can understand them by going through the margin part only.

By using them, it becomes easier for us to understand the importance or significance or inspiration of the work.

“ * ” = Priority: 

This Mark illustrates the most important jobs or tasks are needed to be done in the emergence, and it points out that this job should be the priority of the day.

But you do need to choose your preferences because If everything is a priority to you now, nothing is actually

“ ! “= Inspiration: 

I was hoping you could write down the things that inspire you to do the things of the day smoothly like some Great indications, some quotes, songs, movies and genius insights will never be missed anyway, my friend.

Finally

Once the other things are done, we will make sure to number the page. Page numbers will assure us about the progress we are making.

What is the framework of a bullet journal?

We don’t have many things in the framework. The important ones are mentioned below

The starting page

The starting page should be your inspiration. This page should symbolise you as a person. Dig onto your personality and qualities, and they make them come to life with your illustrated work or colours or words or quotes. Whatever you feel like using, keep this in mind that it’s all about you.

The Index

The Index is the front page of our notebook journal and helps to locate content in our Bullet Journal. In the index page, we add the topics of our Collections and their page numbers to the Index, so you can quickly find them later on.

The Future Log

A future log is mainly about where you want to see yourself in a few years and how you want to reach that phrase. As an example, you want to see yourself as a healthy and millionaire person. That’s your vision and future log. It’s your big aim.

So you identify the big aim and slot them mainly. The significant objective of yours will not be achieved without efforts. What you will need to have the patience for that. But if you need inspiration, you may take a look at your monthly logs and identify your progress.

The Monthly Log

The Monthly Log is a spreadsheet of confronting pages that contains a Calendar and a Task page. In which our monthly aim is written in a hieratical way. Our future log will be mainly divided into a yearly basis and then monthly basis.

We will mainly list down our monthly targets and tasks in this so that we can have the track of the weekly and daily logs.

The Calendar Page

This calendar is mainly planned to provide a close and exact look of the month. You can use it to organise Events, Aims, Revolutions, Targets and Tasks, record them done after they occur. These should be explained as simple as possible, as this page is formulated for direction.

So it’s all about a brief about the month it’s done at the last of the month and followed from the very first day of the month like a blueprint of our whole month.

The Task Page

This page is formulated to enable you to take a monthly overview and make it some shape with ink and paper. What are the priorities for the upcoming month? What is more important and you should prioritise.

Even this will include the things that remained undone in the previous month and if you are going to cover it up this month or not.

Daily Log

The Daily Log is formulated for day-to-day use. You should write the date at the top or side of the article and then start writing about it. What you need to do is just merely Rapid Log your Tasks, Events, and Notes as they happen to come.

If you don’t fill a page, add the next date wherever you left off without giving the space a skip, and you’re ready to continue. Just make the day count and make it the best you can in a timely and organised way

Custom Log

The Bullet Journal is mainly scheduled to make it whatever you need it to be, be it a fitness book, track keeper, biography, a source of inspiration, diary, sketchbook etc. You’re encouraged to develop your own Custom Collections.

You can make the log as per yourself as you want. You can skip any phrase, but this will undoubtedly impact the output and aim. To determine what you want to be and work or organise according to that.

Migration

We lead busy lives; however, being busy doesn’t essentially mean we’re producing all the time. Productive means we’re victimisation our time is showing wisdom by specialising in what matters. Monthly Migration helps us to accomplish this by hunting down distractions.

Migration is mainly about distributing our works and prioritising our pieces more appropriately and use our time to do a critical job more appropriately. By doing so, we will primarily focus on the crucial part of the whole scenario.

How to continue the Bullet journal without losing interest in it:

We all do have some ups and downs in our life, and that affects our daily routine or daily endeavours that we set up for ourselves. So to cover this up and to stay tuned with our journal for a long time, we need to bribe our minds with something exciting.

What is the aspect that always grabs our mind, and we always find it interesting? It’s mainly something we love to do. So just only what you are doing. Make it your fun activity or habit. Also if it’s getting worse, then you need to try other ways.

• Stop journaling for one week: You are the controller of your life and activities. If something is bothering you then skip it for some time to bring the peace of your mind and then again start with it.
• Find inspiration: Sometimes, what we all need is that one push that will make us 1 step closer to our dream and aim. Just find the inspiration for flourishing and fulfilling your vision and then become an achiever.
• Don’t be harsh on yourself: If you think that something is bothering you and making you feel lethargic make sure to stay away from it anyhow
• Start small and do wonders: The inception of anything is the hardest thing ever. So start with a simple task in hand and motivate yourself.
• Reward yourself: When you see the fact that you are only giving your world everything and isn’t doing anything for yourself, then it gets more challenging for you to continue. So do reward yourself with some good time and prices.

How to check the self-development

Your main aim to follow the bullet journal system is to use your time more appropriately and making the best out of your opportunities and work. But one of its most important things is that you will become a better person mentally and physically and make yourself a developed individual.

To evaluate the improvement through this process, you need to use some key point indicators or some facts. These facts will make you identify if you are getting better or not. The facts or indicators are :

• You are mostly adding and completing more task with each day passing.
• You are using your time in more productive things rather than other useless ones that used to waste our time.
• If you have reached your monthly aim and is leading towards the big dream, then you can say you are developing.
• You have become more punctual and effective than before and are doing your work more appropriately nowadays.
• You are mentally more stable and love to do your job now after following this.
• You are confident about your big aim and feel like you’ll be able to achieve it.

If you are already having these feelings within yourself and feel like admit to these things then “CONGRATULATIONS” you are developing day by day and moving slowly towards your aim. Just keep going and motivate yourself to make your journal and life more colourful and easy-going ever.

A bullet journal is all about making your life easier and happier than before. So enjoy life, reward yourself on your small successes and make everyday count as a good and effective day.