The Bullet Journal Method: Track Your Past, Order Your Present, Plan Your Future

by Ryder Carroll

improving your GPA this semester? Acing all your classes? No. Get more granular. In which class are you falling behind?

Example using getting a better GPA

Did you keep the weight off? Are

It just didn’t stick. Why is that? The rush of our busy

Like building muscle, we need to train our intentions to make them resilient and strong.

we forfeit our opportunity to define what is meaningful on our own terms.

Intentionality is the power of the mind to direct itself toward that which it finds meaningful and take action toward that end. If intentionality means

In other words, do you know why you’re doing what you’re doing?

the more decisions you have to make, the harder it becomes to make them well. This is why you’re more likely to eat an unhealthy dinner at the end of the day than an unhealthy breakfast at the beginning of the day, when you have a full tank of willpower.

No wonder we often feel stressed, anxious, and overwhelmed.

We try to treat these symptoms with even more distractions. Drinking, eating, traveling, binge-watching, etc. Even though your Netflix queue is four years long,

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