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BuJo Wankers 2 - declutter your mind!

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mercifulTehlu · 23/02/2016 21:37

Woo hoo! It's the second Bullet Journal thread! For the benefit of newbies - Bullet Journal is a brilliant way to organise your whole life in a lovely notebook. Perfect for anyone who has tried every app and every scheduling system but just can't seem to get on top of things. Also perfect for lovers of beautiful stationery and especially for people who like lists!

Sooo - get out your fineliners and your washi tape! Stroke your Leuchtturms! And get all that stuff that's whizzing round in your head out onto paper instead!

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ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 28/02/2016 01:09

Future Log

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Greymalkin · 28/02/2016 07:06

I've also started planning March, and got lots of cursive handwriting practice in at the same time!

I wanted a system to help me keep in mind household and personal tasks that either get forgotten or I can't always remember when they were last done. Here you go!

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Greymalkin · 28/02/2016 07:08

I've also started planning March, and got lots of cursive handwriting practice in at the same time!

I wanted a system to help me keep in mind household and personal tasks that either get forgotten or I can't always remember when they were last done. Here you go!

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mercifulTehlu · 28/02/2016 08:08

Unlucky - that article gives me the heebie jeebies. I don't want to be a 'highly successful person' in a Steve Jobs kind of way. I don't have that kind of high-powered, crazy-paced lifestyle. I don't have constant appointments .

As for the doing things you don't want to do, swapping things around etc, the bullet journal isn't rigid because you set up each day one at a time, so you can think 'what can I get done today? What do I want to get done today?' , not force yourself to stick to a schedule you made weeks ago.

But once the tasks are in my daily journal, I either do them or I have to migrate them forward (which encourages me to get them done). I procrastinate far less because I no longer put off the annoying or undesirable tasks.

I just find the BuJo a million times better than any calendar or app I've ever tried. Because it's not just about appointments and scheduling. It's about all the other stuff too.

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mercifulTehlu · 28/02/2016 08:26

Enjoying your pictures! Here's my future log (as you can see, I don't have much planned in advance! ) and the current double spread of my daily journal. I squeezed the last few days of Feb in a bit because I didn't want to start a new double spread just for Monday 29th!

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Mookbark · 28/02/2016 08:26

So, I was up until midnight getting my March pages ready. GrinVery unusual for DH to go to bed before me!
Here's mine to share: my existing future log, my monthly and a weekly log:

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Mookbark · 28/02/2016 08:27

So, I was up until midnight getting my March pages ready. GrinVery unusual for DH to go to bed before me!
Here's mine to share: my existing future log, my monthly and a weekly log:

BuJo Wankers 2 - declutter your mind!
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BuJo Wankers 2 - declutter your mind!
motherigloo · 28/02/2016 08:31

Grey - that looks so nice! Some of those jobs only need to be done once or twice in March and some are daily? Is that correct?

With mine I have Weekly routine jobs lists and a monthly. The monthly just has a tick box to the left. Weekly tasks have a small grid of 5 shares next to it so I just tick them off every week.

I don't do daily entries for mine. I might start but I'm not sure I need to. I do have a weekly work page where I jot down important dates and my work 'to do' list for the week. I used to have a complicated post it note system on my desk but this beauty has replaced that!!!

Mookbark · 28/02/2016 08:34

Sorry for the double post. MN Now says ive used my photo quota for the day because of it, so you have been spared the photos of my March food and exercise logs. Grin
Keep'em coming, I love looking at other peoples BuJo's. It interests me how they can all be different within the same framework as we all do what works best for us.
I think Grey gets the award for nicest handwriting. Beautiful.

BYOSnowman · 28/02/2016 08:42

Not sure if this will work but here is my habit tracker. 6 months on a double spread as I keep just 6 habits and can up date each month

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JeepersMcoy · 28/02/2016 09:11

I've just made a month by month spend planner for the year for planning out bigger spends. I'm trying to stay out of overdraft so want to spread out buying larger things over the year. I have also put in time specific things like dd starts school this year so I will need to spend lots on uniforms and stuff in august. It now means I can book in my new glasses for May. Yay!

I have also started a small spends wish list for small and medium things I want to get at some point. I am thinking of making more space on the large spends planner and then adding in the smaller things on here as well.

I have added a picture though it isn't very pretty I'm afraid Blush

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Greymalkin · 28/02/2016 09:17

Mother that's right, some tasks are weekly and others monthly. I needed a system that would let me see when I last did certain jobs and hopefully this will help.
I'm not bothering with recurring daily tasks as most of them I have under control.

Mook ahh thanks Smile I've only just started practicing cursive writing so it's not natural to me just yet. I'm going to stick at it though!

Jemster · 28/02/2016 09:32

Hi I'm still yet to start mine but spent last night reading the whole
of the first thread & now this one.
I've got the notebook at the ready but am almost worried to put pen to paper in case I mess it up!

The first thing I'm going to do is a brain dump as I have so many things in my head that I feel permanently stressed & overwhelmed. I need to get it all down on paper.

My question would be, once you've done the brain dump & find you have a million things that need doing, where do you start? How do you prioritise things & actually find time time to get all these things done if you work & have small, demanding children?

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 28/02/2016 11:00

Jeepers
DD is starting school in Sept too! Aawww! Smile

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 28/02/2016 11:20

Jemster

When do you find time? I don't know how to answer that, sorry. But if it's important you'll find the time. I always say "I don't have time" but then spend hours in the evening crocheting or sewing when I could do some things - I just don't want to do them as much as. Making stuff is more important to me.

And there's the how, you need to pick just one thing that is the most important or urgent at the time/for the day/for the week and do that. Don't worry about the rest.
If you should have done something 2 years ago clearly it wasn't urgent so either it can wait or you can decide it's not important at all anymore and you can forget it.

Then pick the next one.
And see if you can delegate a task completely or if your friends or family could come and help a bigger chunk done, don't think that you have to do everything & all by yourself!

I've given DH a list of things to do this morning, marked 2 of the things that are absolutely essential today (and asked him to get what he can do out of the rest. (He's only had 2 hours before picking up DS2 from choir so of a dozen things anything he can do will be fab).

If you look at your task and find it overwhelming please remember that now it's on paper you can actually deal with each task (do or discard) as opposed randomly thinking about them but never actually moving forward.

One thing at a time and it will all get done or dumped.

Jemster · 28/02/2016 11:25

Thank you Zing that's very encouraging. DH has sent me off to get a coffee and have a whole hour and a half to myself so I'm in costa about to make a start.

With the future log should I set up one for 12 months? The guy on the BJ clip just does it for 6 months.

motherigloo · 28/02/2016 12:41

Grey - I quite like your system!

As I was setting up mine last night I did think that my monthly tick list was problematic in that I couldn't see when things were done - eg I don't want to clean the fridge out the last week of Feb and then the first week of March and then not until the last week of April. Perhaps I'll try your system instead. I like that I could see what's 'due'.

Iggi999 · 28/02/2016 12:49

The more things you get done the more you get done, I think. I mean the sense of accomplishment of doing something you've been putting off seems to help you get just one more thing done.
I do use strategies from the Getting Things Done book too - if I just have something vague like "ds2's party" I don't know where to start - so I put in things like "choose a date", "ask nursery for names" etc.

SoupDragon · 28/02/2016 12:50

Mine is really still in the planning stage. I want to set up "permanent" pages at the front before launching into lists and stuff so I have my fancy looking weekly planner and birthday chart, a page to update with appointments (hair, vet, orthodontist etc), a daily To Do box where I stick a post it note with the day's tasks on, a page for little post it note lists (shopping etc, split by shop) and a page where meal plans will go.

I'm going to work on a "mega list" of jobs (including things like polish the steel kettle which never gets done!) which can then be allocated to some kind off planner or other.

For me, I need to spend some time making sure it's set up in a way I like. Also, I like the creative process more than the actual chores...

motherigloo · 28/02/2016 12:51

Soup I like the idea of a post it for daily tasks. I'm still quite attached to my post its! Blush

SoupDragon · 28/02/2016 13:02

I guillotined my post its to make them the perfect size Blush

AtiaoftheJulii · 28/02/2016 14:12

I did my future log for 6 months (March - August), but this week I've had some September dates come up, so last night I did one page divided into 4 for Sept-Dec. Partly because I don't want to think about 2017, mostly because I just had one facing page available rather than a double page spread!

I like your spending plan Jeepers, glad you won't have to wait too long for your new glasses Grin

Also yesterday I started a films/tv to watch (was reading an interview with an actor I like and thought, "oh I must watch that then" and then realised that I always think that and then forget, and end up watching any old crap thus missing out on a pervable moment) and even looked some of them up to make a note of whether they were available on Amazon Video or Netflix. (I am supposed to be writing an essay.)

unlucky83 · 28/02/2016 15:51

merciful I was actually sort of disagreeing with that article - saying the 'timeblocking' I tried is similar to the calendar idea suggested as a good way of doing things in that article...
and as I said it didn't agree with me at all...
(A bullet journal I think is a better idea ...you can target jobs to days but not the rigid timeslot suggested)
Anyway thought was interesting to read for people trying to organise their lives ...seems you just need to try and find something that works for you...

TheWombat · 28/02/2016 19:08

Baaaaaa! 🐏 Hello BuJoWa friends, I feel like I have found my home! I've been lurking on the thread for a while while I tried to remember my MN password, which is now handily stored in the BuJo. I'm a bit of a planner addict and thanks to you I have been adapting the BuJo for use in my lovely Erin Condren planner. I use the pages at the back for lists and trackers, and the side column of each weekly page for goals / to-do's. The downsides are, it's quite bulky and some of the planner designs are very 'inspirational quote-y', but it's great quality, plus STICKERS. And there's a separate booklet tucked into a back pocket for things that are permanent and need carrying over to new planners, like addresses, user names, etc.

I'm actually rather jealous of your Leuchturms, but can't quite figure out how I'd manage without a really structured diary section. My work days are full of meetings with different people, in different places, every day is different and many days are often planned quite far in advance, so I think I need a week to view page, where each half hour is marked out, like a standard diary. Has anyone seen any weekly spreads like that? How does everyone else manage their work appointments?

On the prettiness front, I am a fan of pepper and twine's Instagram account - she does some beautiful diary / BuJo spreads. She inspired me to get some family photos printed on stickers to use in my BuJo/planner. I got them at Moo printworks - I got 90 tiny postage stamp sized stickers (all different) for about £5.50! Am tempted to get bigger rectangular ones too..

Have also been practising my handwriting which is awful! Thank you Bendy for the lettering lesson link. I think it might take longer than 5 days though...

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