Hey how's it going, my name is Cory
Miller and on today's One-Off episode
I'm gonna show you my minimalist...ish...
bullet journal for 2018, why I got
started and some of the ways that I
have it set up. I also want to give a big
shout out to my friends Charli and
Femke, I'll make sure I put links to all
of their stuff down in the description.
Charli actually just came out with her
own video for her 2018 bullet journal.
They were the two that kind of
pushed me over the edge to getting
started with one of these things. I'd
also had conversations with my friends
Jordan and Liz (hey :) ) and what's
interesting is I'd always kind of
hesitated about doing something like
this for three reasons: the first reason
is that I didn't understand why anybody
would put something in a physical format,
like in a book, when there were so
many apps that you could use to
accomplish the same thing. You could
have an app your calendar, an app for
your to-do list, an app for your
scheduling, whatever. It can all be synced
and in the cloud and, you know, doing all
the stuff. You wouldn't have to worry
about, "Oh did I leave it behind?"
"I don't know what's going on," so that was
kind of the first thing that set me back.
The second was I looked into bullet
journaling and I listened to podcasts and
I read articles, and it just seemed
wildly confusing and over-the-top.
There were all of these rules and
there were these terms that I didn't
understand and they were using
the terms as if I SHOULD understand.
It was very daunting. I didn't
know where to get started, I didn't know
how to get started, and so that kind of
turned me off. Then the third reason
was I had done something like this in
the past with with a journal that's kind
of...do I still have that? ... I had this book
before. This is the SELF Journal, and it's
really nice, I'm sure it's helped a lot
of people. It's got like this thirteen
week roadmap and there's all these pre-
assigned things that you're supposed to
use. It's all written down and
ready to go, but it's not very
flexible. It was always very rigid
and that didn't really work for me,
because I didn't feel like I
had the freedom to kind of do what I
needed to do in the way that I needed to
do it. So those were the main reasons
that kind of held me back. Then I
watched a video by Charli and read an
article by Femke I decided to get
started. So I was
at the bookstore and I saw this really
massive journal. This is a
7.5" x 10" I think or
7.5" x 9.75". It's really
really big and... I forgot to put the...
So this is my bullet journal. This is what
I've been using for the past couple of
weeks and I just wanted to kind of show
how I've been using it and what my setup is.
I wanted to test this out
s a tool that would help
me get the things done that I needed to
do and help me stay focused on what
was coming up. I could do some planning
and then just try out this new method of
doing things. I've tried apps and all
sorts of things before and I just wanted
to try it out, and so far I've been
really enjoying it. I know what you're
here for: you want to actually look at
this thing, so let's dive in and take a
look at my bullet journal.
So here's my bullet journal. This is a
larger version of the dotted journal by
Moleskin. this is like 7.5" by
9.75" I think. I really
like the bigger size. My wife's
weekly planner is obviously much smaller,
and a lot of people like this form
factor but I like this bigger version
because it's just more space for stuff to
happen. So first things first, there are a
few things with bullet journaling that
I kind of took principles of as
I was going through and...I admittedly
took a lot from Charli (Charli if
you're watching this sorry and thank you)
go check out her video. But anyways, so I
took a lot from her but I also kind of
looked and took pieces of what the
the official bullet journal situation is
supposed to be. So one of those is an
index. Now, I don't...
I started this, but I'm not really sure if
I'm gonna keep doing this in the future.
It's just kind of there, I know where
everything is and my bullet journal is
split up into three sections and so I
already know where everything is going
to be anyways, but the reason why they
have an index is like, if you're going
through and you've got, "Hey on page 142 I
have an idea for, you know, a website
redesign or something like that. Then you
would go here to the index and say, "Hey,
142 is where I have the website
redesign." I'm not doing that, so whatever.
But anyway so here's index and then I
also have the legend here. This is where
I have all of the
icons that I'm gonna be using throughout
the book. So there's only a few right now
but you can already see that I've, you
know, I've been in this a couple of weeks
and I've already crossed out this. That's
because as I'm going through this I'm
changing things, I'm kind of
evaluating how it's working for me and
how it's making me feel and how it's
making me work and so there are a few
things in here that I may change. I may
add this just a section here so I can
know in the future why I marked it the
way I did. And then I actually have the
more important section here for myself:
colors. So "they" tell you that when
you're starting off in a bullet journal
that you're not supposed to go on
Pinterest or Instagram and look up
how other people are doing theirs
because there's people who are
doing these extravagant drawings and
using different pens and it's all really
cool. That's not what I wanted for mine,
it's just really simple. It looks kind of
gross but the main thing that I respond
to is color, so I want it to be able to,
with this book, be able to flip to a page
and know exactly what's going on at a
glance and I can do that best by using
these using these colors. So I use these
pens, this is just a really cheap pen from
Tesco it came with a bunch of other
colors so I was like I might as well use
it. So green is Sabbatical,
orange is event, light blue is I'm on the
worship team, yellow is nothing because I
couldn't really see it, purple/blue
I guess it is a dark blue is a
reminder, pink is travel, and then red is
important. So that's kind of working out
for me right now, I may add in the future
but yeah. Then the next part is the
future log. I'm probably
gonna rename it in the future because
I hate that name
it'll probably be something like a year
overview or something like that and this
is just kind of a bird's eye view of
what's happening throughout the month.
Again I took some inspiration from
Charli (and when I say inspiration I
totally ripped it off) and I've got
here on the right I've got kind of a
calendar date view, and then also some
primary events that are happening
in that month. I started going a
little more granular and I kind of
regret that, so the first half of the
year I've already got it kind of sorted
out kind of at a high level and then
I'll be able to
as I go through that the last half
of the year. So this is the future log
this is just really quick kind of
looking at what's going on. I've got a
theme and a focus, which I'll talk about
a little bit later. For every month I've
got a theme and a focus. After the
future log I've got a section here, a
page for goals for 2018. Again, really
simple. It's just a list: fully launch
Vlogology, get an Irish driver's license,
and make 20k from side projects. These
are just goals, these are things that I
can think of at a high level that's
going to be there. I might add notes
later on. So then I've got a section
for milestones, these are going to be
events or things that happen, you know if
I earn an amount or if Melody
says something, or there's a big
milestone in my career and my work, I'm
gonna write that down here. This is more
of like a memory bank, like this is
something that happened that was really
important this year. So that's that, and
then a real quick section for statistics.
I don't really care about subscriber
counts but it's kind of just something
to just to actively track just to have
something to look at I guess, and then
I'm also going to track books read this
year, so I'll put them all here. Then I've
got some blank pages, I don't know why.
Now we get into the month view. So this
is January, I've got my theme up here
with gratefulness. I tried to make it kind
of look cool and it totally doesn't. But
what I do is, again taking from Charli,
what I do is I put all the days here on
the left including the days of the
week. I have a little marker underneath
Sunday to indicate this is a
segment of week, here's a week, here's a
week. And you can see it's very very
messy, and this is because I started
bullet journaling here on the 7th and as
I've gone I've kind of added and I've
kind of played around with stuff and
I've tried to figure out how to make it
work,
but and it'll look a little clearer as
we get into as we go to February.
I've got a section for notes, I've got
the colors, I've got things that are
happening throughout the month. This is
kind of the high-level planning, and then
on this page I've got a monthly focus
This month was email and I totally did
terrible at that but you know it's just
kind of a something that I wanted to
focus on, and then each week I've got
something written down usually on the
left I have
work stuff and on the right I
have personal things. So this is just
like here's some things that need to
happen at some point during the week.
Again very high level, very sloppy, really
quick just going through. And then there
is the day level so you can see that
January 8th I started off by having
everything. It was very granular it was
like, do this, do this, do this, do this but
as I went I realized as I started
doing that, I was getting...there
was too much. And then on January 10th
there were all of these things that I
didn't do, and that was actually really
demoralizing for me because I was like
why didn't I do all this stuff you can
see on January 11th it just says chill
out that was my only thing to do that
day so as it's gone on I've decided that
you know with using a little bit of you
know changing some of the iconography
and just focusing on less of what I'm
supposed to do that day and having less
I'm supposed to do that day actually
makes me feel like I can I've got a
little bit more freedom during my day of
things that I need to do so like if I
look at this and I go I didn't call the
DMV today I'm gonna move it to
tomorrow,
I took out the bins, did not write Vlogology
email, you know so I'm looking all
this stuff I need to do, you know,
I created this, that was good, check that
off. So I could just really quickly look
back and start at the beginning of my
day and then at the end of my day, this
is all really really quick I don't want
it to take a lot of time. Then
February you can see a little bit better
kind of what's going on with the colors.
So every time there is something
happening like you know K's parents
leave or she's doing the Treehouse or
she's traveling to Cologne whatever,
I have these blocks that are colored
in so I can really really quickly flip
to the page and see what's going on on
that day, during that month actually. I've
got this little habit tracker right here
"read at least one chapter" I'm gonna make
a little X making sure that I'm reading
throughout. This month my theme is
curiosity and my monthly focus is
reading. So you know that's kind of
how it looks, how it's going about.
Sometimes I sit down for you know a
night at a time and I add some more I've
been manually numbering all of the pages
which is kind of a pain in the butt.
The other thing that I'm doing
is I have the whole book split up into
three segments, so the first segment is
kind of these preparatory pages with the
index and the future log and the
milestones and everything like that.
That's segment number one, and then
segment number two are the months, so
I've actually got a pre-planned amount
of pages that's going to be dedicated to
months. So I'll do January and then after
a certain amount of pages I've put
February and then March, and the way
that I'm doing that is I'll do March
one page, I'll do the weeks one page, and
then I'll give pages for, you know,
imagine I have five days on each, so five
10, 15, 20, 25, 30, give or take. And then
there's the next month. So really really
quick this way I can go immediately to
June when Kristiana says, "hey we've got
a thing on the 11th," I can say cool I'll
go ahead and write that in on June 11th.
Some people work through
from front to back and they add stuff
that wasn't gonna work for me. I
wanted to do it that way. Then on
page 105 this is the page for everything
else, well not the page this is the
segment for everything else. So after
this you know if I have a website
redesign idea, or I'll put
all that there or if I'm like here's a
poem I want to write, I can
put all that there this is just for
everything else, this is for notes this
is for drawings this is for whatever
it's gonna take apart from the planning
side of things. That's this final segment
here. I even have a little quick notes
section here at the back, hey
this notebook has 38 columns and 50 rows
and just so that I know how many dots
there are. So that is a really really
quick bird's-eye view of how I've got my
bullet journal set up. It's not, it
doesn't take a lot of time every day
there is some setup but that's part of
the charm of it you know I can have each
month set up the way that I want it. I
can have each segment set up the way
that I want it, and make it look the way
that I want it to. Within all of that
it is really minimal, you know
like you don't need all the
colors if that's not going to be helpful
for you but for me it's all about
speed it's all about you know being able
to just glance.
So yeah that's my that's my bullet
journal, that's kind of how I have it set
up and you know it's been
really fun so far.
Once I get to the part where I'm just
kind of doing it daily it's really fast,
it allows me to to manage my time really
well. I'm using it in tandem with Google
Calendar because sometimes it's just
faster to just type it in and then add
it into my journal later. But it's been
good it's I've really enjoyed kind of
the analog side of things and I'm going
to do this probably for this year see
how it looks see how it feels see how it
helps. And...yeah. So there you go!
So that is a quick overview of how I'm
using my burt...burlet journal? So that's
a quick overview of how I'm using my
bullet journal for 2018. I'm probably
going to create a recap video later on
in the year, maybe halfway through, and
then at the end. Kind of figuring out
different aspects of it how I've been
using it, if it's helped, how it's not
been helpful, things that changed. I'm
really looking forward to it though. This
has been really fun I've really enjoyed
this. Hope this has been helpful for
you if you are thinking about getting
started with something like this,
and thinking about going analog. My biggest
recommendation is to find a framework
that works for you and and figure out
how to make it work to your strengths
and to how your mind works instead of
trying to fit it into what everyone else
is doing. Pick and choose different
aspects of how people do theirs and just
get started. It's been really enjoyable
I'm really looking forward to more of
this. That's gonna do it for this
video so thanks so much for watching, I
appreciate you, and I'll see you in the
next one!
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