If you are alive and on social media in 2017, then I am sure you have heard of the latest trend of Bullet Journals. If you haven't yet then let me enlighten you, it's basically a journal that is supposed to help people organize their life into a few simple pages. You can search it on YouTube and find plenty of tutorials on how to Bullet Journal; and if you're like me suddenly 3 hours will have passed and you'll be on your 10th tutorial and counting. I'll link the original video so you can see where the idea originated from. Keep on reading to see how I made my Bullet Journal which is a little smaller and minimal compared to many people's!
MY JOURNAL:
I've been wanting to start a Bullet Journal since around May when I first discovered the world Bullet Journals, but me being the indecisive little shit that I am couldn't pick out a journal or decide how to set it up. A lot of the journals people use are on the expensive side to me, and spending a lot of money is not something I wanted to do just for a journal so I also tried to create my journal on as much of budget as I could.
I found this lovely (millennial?/dusty rose?) pink journal at my most favorite of stores, Target for around $8! Not gonna lie, I bought it 25% to start journaling and 75% because of the mild Grey's Anatomy "it's a beautiful day to safe lives" reference.
The pens I decided to use aren't anything particularly exciting, they're also from Target. The Papermate Markers came in a 5 pack (I lost my purple one, rip) for $5.99. The pen is a Pilot G2 07, and comes in a pack of 3 for $4 at Target. It's a gel pen and I can't go to work with out them their fantastic.
Most Bullet Journals are used first as a calendar and weekly planner which is something I didn't feel the need to include in mine because I tend to just keep track of my work schedule and daily errands on my wall calendar. The sections that really interested me to use in my journal is the Expense, Mood and Habit Trackers. I felt like they were a good way to keep my life organized, which is something I have been slacking on lately. You can add or remove any sections of the original Bullet Journal that you chose, just use what will help you most!
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| This is the first page of my journal, just a simple title! |
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| I made a title page for the month too. It is headed with July and subtitled with 'and a lil bit of June' because I'm a loser and started at an odd time at the end of June. |
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| For my monthly expense tracker I just made four columns: the date, what I purchased, and how much I added or subtracted from my account. |
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| My Mood Tracker is one page split in half to fit all of the dates and then four columns on each half: the date, and then the moods-happy, mediocre, and sad-represented by poorly drawn smiley faces. |
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| For my Habit Tracker I had to use two pages to fit everything, so the first page has the first half of my dates; and yes I did miss a few dates because I was hardcore jamming to Harry Styles so I'll have to back and fix that lol. |
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| This is the second page of dates, the habits I'm tracking this month are, days I do Laundry, Clean my Room, Read, Exercise, and Eating Well. I picked the top five things I've been wanting to do more often so we shall see how that goes. |
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| Lots of people fill extra space in their journals with awesome art but my lack of artistic skill filled the blank space with an iconic Michael Scott quote. |
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My last page I added a space for Goals and Ideas of the month, I structured the goals portion to fit ten goals and I'll go back and check them off if I complete them. I didn't structure the Ideas half because it didn't seem necessary to me, I'll just fill that part in as I go. Also my goals are so easy so far, if ya girl doesn't complete them everyone should be hella disappointed in me.
So that's my journal so far, we shall see how it goes for this month and I'll probably do an update at the end of the month to see how it goes and what I want to change for August. I'm definitely most excited for the expense tracker, I think it will be the most helpful because I desperately need to stop spending all my money at Target if you couldn't tell from this post.
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