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I am an avid journaler, but apparently an even more avid journal purchaser. At my current rate of journaling, this is 3.5-4 years' supply. I have decided that I am not allowed to buy any more journals until 2027 (unless I start using them faster and need another sooner than that).

Rereading parts of the books as I'm trying to set up my goals for the next half year and found this motivational quote.

This is amazingly helpful. I bet I have to reread parts of it to get the most out of it and remember all the helpful stuff!

Now things with bullet journaling begins to click. I never really thought about the reason behind specific logs. And I've never done the migration or reflection part!
In short, I didn't do it right. So I'll try again and this time I have specific times set aside for journaling, too.
So worth it to buy this book!

"We need to reduce the number of decisions we burden ourselves with so we can focus on what matters."

#NetGalleyGroup #Netgalley #WeAreBookish

Ooooh 😍 I just received an email gifting me a copy of We are Bookish's reading journal. Did anyone else get one? I usually log my reading in a diary.
I'd be grateful for tips on journalling from any journalling Littens. 📚📒✒️👓

Bullet journaling was suggested as a helpful tool for ADHD. I get very overwhelmed and forget a lot of normal daily tasks (why is brushing my teeth so hard?)

I wasn't convinced because I have perfectionist anxiety which means I get very stressed out if I can't keep things consistent and then give up because it's not right.

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Yesterday‘s bullet journaling class was fun and informative. I‘m ready for some football and calendar grids! Also, how cool is it that the entire wall is a whiteboard?

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Second or third re-read and I got more out of it than previous listens. I‘ve been keeping up with it more than I have in a long time and have a better sense of what parts are helpful to me and which aren‘t as much.

3/5⭐ Basically the KonMari method for activities rather than objects.

The book is very repetitive. That said, it's an easy read, and I did get some good advice out of it (particularly the points about offloading all your thoughts/tasks via journals). I do plan to incorporate some of the ideas into my organization and mindfulness techniques (the personal customization of which the author fully encourages).

Yet another reread of this one. I always get something new out of it.

Any other #bulletjournal peeps out there?

Read in 2020. Works for me.

I think you can find most of this information about billet journalling on the internet (in some cases verbatim). For me, the best part of this book was the chapter on goals and how to break goals down into sprints and I‘ve started to put that into practice already!

Hi Littens,

Does anyone Bullet Journal? I have quite a few of these blank calendars from Papergang that I will never use and don't want to go to waste. If you can make use of them let me know and I'll share my email so you can send me your address. There are about 12 of them so I can split them 😁

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I discovered Bullet Journaling a few years ago and have since dabbled in and out of the practice. Heading into 2021, I want to re-commit to the practice, and reading this provided the perspective and encouragement I needed to dive back in confidently.

I‘ve been a bullet journaler for quite a few years now, so I didn‘t expect this book to add much for me, but I figured it was worth a read. I was right; I did get a couple of interesting ideas for my bullet journal, but mostly I found the book dull, repetitive, and too long. It doesn‘t repeat itself, but rather Ryder‘s ideas and those of others that are already widespread in the internet.

Also, the ebook format doesn‘t work for this book.

I‘m rather skeptical that it was actually Abraham Lincoln who said this 🤔 Though imagining it coming from him puts a different spin on it. Usually people seem to mean “it doesn‘t matter that I‘m old because I act young,” but now I see it as more like “it doesn‘t matter how long you live as long as you live life to the fullest.”

First day of (online) classes for Spring Semester was today.

I learned a lot last semester about my learning style and so am setting up Bullet Journals for each subject.

Also got my grades for Winter Semester (my first). If I may brag: A+, A+, A+, A+, A.

(And that as a 40+ mature student in a semester interrupted by a pandemic.)

#yayme #bujo #saitlife #learning

For some reason this week has been really easy to keep up on my #bulletjournaling #coronadiaries 🤷‍♀️

An in depth look at how to bullet journal. This was interesting but I would have liked more pictures for examples. 3* my two journals are on either side. The pink is for reading, the brown for everything else. Not been going long but enjoying doing it. I also have a diary, daily planner and calendar may be obsessed.

I thought this was good. I'm looking forward to getting my bullet journal and making a start.

BuJo book log for January. Summary of the tiny text, this month I:

Finished 8: The Library Book, Cold Comfort Farm, The Art of War, Untangled, Heretics Anonymous, Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal?, The Wild Robot, Sorry to Disrupt the Peace

DNFed 4: A Short History of a Small Place, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City, White Fragility, Small Great Things

3 in progress: Ghosts of Greenglass House, Everything I Never Told You, Periodic Tales

Not my best times but having a much busier weekend then intended. Might hit 12 hours if I'm lucky. #24B4Monday @Andrew65 @TheReadingMermaid @jb72

I love bullet journaling and my bullet journal. However, I was disappointed with this book. I learned a lot more from social media sources, from people who have expanded on his method. If you want to start bullet journaling, you can best learn and continue to benefit from YouTube, Pinterest and Instagram, in my opinion. ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Of course, knowing me, I want to start doing this exactly by the book. Of course this will be done while reading Virginia.

After a brief flirtation with a disc planner, I'm back to my bullet journal for 2020. Here are future planning (which will include a list of #litsylove birthdays for each month) and main monthly spreads. Monthly left side: summary of each day. Right side: trackers... weight and habits on top, sleep below. Not pictured: my book log spread, which currently is a blank page with "book log" written at the top. Any ideas for BuJo book tracking?

#BookReport: I finished FIVE books this week! I'm planning on finishing 115 total for the year. Loved Christianity After Religion and Dear Church and Dog Songs, quite liked Priestdaddy, and The Bullet Journal Method was just something to read quickly on my phone when bored - I got maybe 1 or 2 new bujo ideas from the whole book. @Cinfhen

#adventrecommends day 21!

I recommend this book if you‘re interested in planning, but haven‘t found a planner that suits you - especially if you‘re put off by all the ‘instagram bullet journals‘. This is the original system by the original creator, and it‘s a far cry from its deco-heavy descendants.

I homebrew plan, and while I didn‘t switch over to this I picked up plenty of useful things to incorporate into my own plans.

Just started this one in preparation for the coming new year. I've been keeping a hand sketched organizer the last two years, but it is bare bones and I'm hoping to make it work better for me in 2020. #bujo

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Created by the author, this book goes into the creation, function and purpose of bullet journaling. It provides step by step techniques and includes a wide variety of resources to help get someone started in bullet journal or to help give new ideas for someone well versed in the techniques.

#nonfiction #bulletjournal #journal #audiobook #scribd #library

I‘ve been following different bullet journalers for a few years. I know I don‘t have the discipline to start and maintain one- but I still thought some of his ideas were beneficial and would work in my Hobonichi Techo (which I absolutely love using) 😉

Just thought I'd share my bujo page for #Scareathlon. Plus had to use some of my new washi tape. #TeamSlaughter @Clwojick

If you're looking for a book on bullet journaling - this is not it. Bullet journaling in its basic form as described in the book is no new concept and yet the book makes it sound like it is a groundbreaking method Ryder Carroll himself invented. To me the book felt like a mixture of 75% unrelated stories, 15% generic self help ideas you nowadays find on every website and 10% VERY basic journaling stuff and nothing new (like how to make a list...)

Some of my friends swear by their bullet #Journal, saying it‘s helped them get organised. I‘m so disorganised, I haven‘t even managed to find the time to even understand what it means🙄

#SelfImprovementSept
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
@OriginalCyn620

Few things are more distracting than the cruel stores we tell ourselves

Anyone use a bullet journal? What do you think? I‘ve always had a paper planner but I‘m thinking of trying this. I‘ve dismissed this in the past because it always looked too fancy & complicated and know that will stop me from using it.

Parts of this were good. Your bullet journal doesn‘t have to be fancy, or pretty, or exactly the same all the time. But it‘s much too long and way too focused on being a self-help book rather than an instruction manual with practical tips. I‘ll probably just continuing doing what I was doing - taking the parts of the bullet journal that work for me and using them in my regular old pen and ink planner.

The information was good, but the book could have been cut by 50-75% without losing anything important. I don't need inspirational stories of other people succeeding with this journaling method, I need practical advice for how to succeed with it myself. The book does have plenty of that, but unless you feel you need a book-length intro to productivity techniques, just read the Bullet Journal website and you'll get the gist of it.

Btw: this weeks #bujo is #janeausten themed!
#bulletjournal #janeites #plannerlife

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A Calgary writers‘ conference asks me to give a presentation on Bullet Journaling.

So excited. I‘m a total BuvanJelical.

I get a projector for slides and everything!

The conference is When Words Collide and is awesome. It takes place every August. Would love to meet local Littens there. ❤️📚 #yyc #yycbooks

"Goals give us an opportunity to define our wishes precisely." (p. 171)

The quote fits to #24B4Monday challenge. Today I have read two and a half hours and one hour yesterday. It does not come close to the goal, but shows my desire to read more.

#qoute #bulletjournal

I love the little graphics in the book. (p 156)

#24B4Monday #nonfiction #bulletjournal

Check this one out at the library. I‘d return it if I could. It‘s more self-help less journal set up. He talks about himself a lot. Bullet journaling started long before you were born, buddy! 😒

📝Last year I begrudgingly started a #bujo that didn‘t last very long, all the while asking myself: I‘m a major list maker; why aren‘t I loving this? I‘m starting fresh this year for habit tracking reasons, as well as starting school again after many years. #Bulletjournal

Do you journal? I have always wanted to, but never started. Got this and let‘s say I‘m excited to start! @r

Read mostly for “new year, new you” reasons and customers keep asking if they should buy it. Definitely a Your Mileage May Vary Book ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . It was too prescriptive for my taste; watching some tutorials, reading Rachel Wilkerson Miller‘s Dot Journaling Book, and some googling for layouts was really all I needed to decide what parts would benefit me the most. But some people may need more explanations/instructions.

Look what just came to my door!

Yesterday was a banner day, after getting called into work, I managed not one, but 2 library trips. One to my usual branch to pick up my holds and then in the evening I went to the south side branch for a class on bullet journaling. It was informative and more in depth than I thought but I‘m excited to give it a try.