Event Recap: Bullet Journaling 101

What is bullet journaling and how could it show up in your life? Last week, I headed out to North Vancouver for Workshop Wednesday’s last wellness event for the year. Along with 11 others, we talked about all things Bullet Journal, from what the system is, to basic nomenclature and how to customize it for your own.

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In Summary We Discussed:

  • Bullet journaling is a system created by Ryder Carrol that helps document and track tasks.

  • Nomenclature: Indexing, Daily Pages, the Monthly Log, Rapid logging, Event, Migrated versus Schedule tasks, Signifiers, Threading, Mini Collections.

  • Collections: Creating our “life at a glance” cake. Looking at the areas of life that may not sit so well with you right now, summarizing into 4 main categories and prioritizing which 3 could be made into collections for future planning.

  • December monthly log – using one system of plotting the days of the month down the left-hand side of a page to help focus on 1-2 main tasks per day

  • Collections: used our “life at a glance” to focus on 2-3 collections we feel may need the focus in our lives right now.

  • By re-writing our collections, associated tasks and events on a daily basis we can start to naturally see the things we are making time for in our lives, and the things that we may not be making space for, whether intentional or not.

  • 2019 Rapid Logging Exercise – a free flowing list of goals & tasks for 2019. Focusing on 2-3 things that you can do in the present that will guide you towards that goal. Using the system of bullet journaling to create collections that we then migrated into your December monthly log

Key Takeaways

  • The power of bullet journaling comes from making it a daily practice.

  • Bullet journaling is about your Time & Energy 

  • Bullet journaling is a system that you can make entirely your own, take what works for you, forget about the rest

There are so many resources and wonderfully creative people online who have dedicated time to the subject of bullet journaling, some of which I found most useful and share here: