How to Bullet Journal Like a Pro
In this episode, I’m teaching you how to bullet journal like a boss with my bullet journal strategy. My bullet journaling strategy is easily customizable to fit whatever you need to focus on. If you’ve been meaning to start journaling, now’s definitely the time. I’ll be sharing the steps you want to follow in order to turn any notebook into a bullet journal, and how to optimize your life using bullet journal strategies like daily and weekly logs.
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What’s a Bullet Journal?
A bullet journal, in essence, is a notebook with bulleted on-page dots and an accompanying system of organizing your world. Your bullet journal index, weekly spread, and daily logs are the foundations of a successful bullet journaling strategy.
Your bullet journal weekly spread is where you map out your week ahead, and supplement with categories you want to focus on. Often, when you search bullet journaling on YouTube and Instagram, you’re met with highly-designed, washi-tape wrapped notebooks. What’s important to remember is that you want your bullet journal format to be flexible, fast, and fit to your focus.
Bullet Journal Index
If you want to learn how to bullet journal like a pro, make sure you have your bullet journal index filled out. Your bullet journal index is like the reference desk or table of contents for your notebook. Keeping a running index of the pages of your bullet journal, and the corresponding topic or subject is crucial to the success of your bullet journal. I like to begin my bullet journal with a prayer after the index, and continue on to build calendar pages.
Bullet Journal Categories
Categories: This is where you breakdown and compartmentalize your priorities for this notebook. Your bullet journal categories will organically start to build up as you journal more regularly. After you have our categories, get into your daily log/ weekly spread. This is where you’ll write down tasks and projects based on categories, and what you’re doing/ where you’re going. Use your categories to keep you honest and mindful of the tasks, projects, and priorities you avoid.
Bullet Journal Daily Log/ Weekly Spread
The bullet journaling style I like to use favors weekly spreads, where you map out your week ahead and supplement it with bullet points from your Categories (life focuses.) The daily log/ weekly spread is where you outline the state of your union: I begin with a breakdown of the categories we mentioned: personal, financial, spiritual, etc. Some of those have daily components in my daily log or weekly spread. On a weekly basis, it’s important that you keep yourself honest and review your logs. Notice what tasks roll from week to week. Notice what categories get neglected and moved back week to week. Once you see that, you’re able to refocus and regroup.
