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February 11 - November 8, 2023
The Bullet Journal method will help you accomplish more by working on less. It helps you identify and focus on what is meaningful by stripping away what is meaningless.
Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others’ choices make us. —RICHIE NORTON
Leading an intentional life is about keeping your actions aligned with your beliefs. It’s about penning a story that you believe in and that you can be proud of.
Have nothing in your homes that you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful. —WILLIAM MORRIS
For most of us, “being busy” is code for being functionally overwhelmed.
Left unchecked, decision fatigue can lead to decision avoidance.
In the first column, list all the things you are presently working on. In the second, list all the things you should be working on. In the last column, list the things you want to be working on.
Does this matter? (To you or to someone you love) Is this vital? (Think rent, taxes, student loans, your job, etc.)
The power of the Bullet Journal is that it becomes whatever you need it to be, no matter what season of life you’re in.
The fact that it takes longer to write things out by hand gives handwriting its cognitive edge.
Rapid Logging will help you efficiently capture your life as it happens so that you may begin to study it.
Topics actually serve three functions: They identify and describe content. They serve as an opportunity for you to clarify your intention. They set the agenda for the content.
Often all it takes to live intentionally is to pause before you proceed.
Things that you need to do (Tasks) Your experiences (Events) Information you don’t want to forget (Notes)
Tasks: Entries that require you to take action. Completed Tasks: Action has been completed. Migrated Tasks: Tasks that have been moved forward (hence the right arrow) into your next Monthly Log (this page) or into a specific Collection (this page). Scheduled Tasks: A Task tied to a date that falls outside of the current month and is therefore moved backward (hence the left arrow) into the Future Log (this page) at the front of your book. Irrelevant Tasks: Sometimes the things we task ourselves with end up not mattering anymore. Their meaning simply expires or circumstances change. If it no
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When you notice a Master Task spawning a lot of Subtasks, it can indicate that this Task is growing into a project.
If you notice that a Task is turning into a project, but you don’t have time at that moment to set up a new Collection, just log a Task to remind you to set one up later:
objective and brief as possible.
recommend unpacking experiences as soon as possible after the Event,
Events that need to be scheduled on specific dates that fall outside of the current month are added to the Future Log
include facts, ideas, thoughts, and observations.
Keep your future self in mind.
symbols used to highlight specific entries to give them additional context.
Used to mark a bullet as important
Most commonly paired with a Note.
delegate a lot of Tasks
recurring Tasks or Events
Keep Custom Bullets and Signifiers to an absolute minimum.
The portfolio of Collections—also known as your Stack—that
To set up your Daily Log, all you have to do is add the day’s date and the page number. That’s it!
If you don’t fill a page, add the next date wherever you left off
The Monthly Log is set up on a spread of facing pages.
On the Calendar page, list the dates of that month down the left edge of the page, followed by the first letter of the corresponding day of the week
Keep your entries as short as possible, as the Monthly Log is designed for reference only.
For some added clarity, you can add lines dividing the weeks.
go through the previous month and see what Tasks remain open. Transfer any important items into the new Monthly Log’s Tasks page.
We rewrite things until we get them done or they become irrelevant.
The Future Log stores entries that have specific dates that fall outside of the current month.
The Index provides an easy way to find your thoughts days, months, or years after entrusting them to your notebook.
I recommend allocating two spreads—four facing pages—for your Index
When you’re working on a project with a lot of moving parts, each of those parts deserves its own separate Subcollection.
It works much the same way as the standard Index, except that each Index page is dedicated to one subject only.
all you have to do is add the page number of one instance next to the page numbers of the other instances.
Use your Index to help you stay focused on the things that are worthy of your yes.
There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.
We need to be vigilant about regularly curating our commitments so that we can focus our time and energy on things that actually matter.
The main Migration happens at the end of every month, when you’re ready to set up a new Monthly Log
If you realize an incomplete Task has become irrelevant, strike it out.
Transcribe the open Task to the Tasks page of your new Monthly Log
Transcribe the Task into a Custom Collection
