The Bullet Journal Method: The ultimate self-help manifesto and guide to productivity and mindful living

by Ryder Carroll

Many painters are afraid of the blank canvas, but the blank canvas is afraid of the painter who dares and who has broken the spell of “you can’t” once and for all. —VINCENT VAN GOGH

There never has been, nor will there ever be, another like you. Your singular perspective may patch some small hole in the vast tattered fabric of humanity.

As the French film director Robert Bresson once said, “Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

Life is so subtle that sometimes you barely notice yourself walking through the doors you once prayed would open. —BRIANNA WIEST

You learn that—to paraphrase the Benedictine monk David Steindl-Rast—you can’t be grateful for everything, but you can be grateful in every moment.

Seth Godin once wrote, “You’re either the person who creates energy. Or you’re the one who destroys it.”52

If your goal in life is to be useful to others, you can start by figuring out how to be useful to yourself.

If you know the why, you can live any how. —FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE