Practice: Bullet Journaling

← CHAPTER OVERVIEW

How to keep our long-term goals in sight

I remember that I was still living in Berlin, when I first heard about bullet journals, and I immediately loved the idea.

I love to draw, and the rational thinker that I am, I love making plans and statistics, structuring, evaluating and researching things, and have been keeping notebooks full of ideas and illustrations and memories for years – so the bullet journaling method brought a lot of the things that make me happy together.

But let’s start at the beginning: What exactly is a Bullet Journal?

“A bullet journal (sometimes known as a BuJo) is a method of personal organization developed by digital product designer Ryder Carroll.

The system organizes scheduling, reminders, to-do lists, brainstorming, and other organizational tasks into a single notebook. The name “bullet journal” comes from the use of abbreviated bullet points to log information, but it also partially comes from the use of dot journals, which are gridded using dots rather than lines.” Wikipedia

It is basically a personal planner, or calendar or journal, in which you can write down your yearly, monthly, weekly and daily goals and things to remember so that you keep your focus where you want it.

If you’d like to find more information, you can visit the official website, and I also found this guide from Tiny Rays of Sunshine very sweet, insightful and useful.

Also, if you create your bullet journal with love and attention, it will be something to come back to and look back at and to remind you of the interesting and fun things you do and did.

What we’ve been doing in this chapter of the CREATRIX School is huge.

We’ve looked at things we’d like to do before we die, what we would like to do in the next ten, and three years, and now it’s time to really get down to making sure that we lay the foundation for this, this year.

So, depending on your current system (if you have one) you might have everything you have learned and have been working on in the CREATRIX School or in your life in general written down somewhere.

But as we all know, things in life can and will always come up, and you might move your papers away and make room for something else and once they are out of sight they might also be out of mind.

With a bullet journal, you can avoid that.

And of course, the level of attention you give to this matters. If you do this half-heartedly, then the outcome will be the same.

If you use this well, then it can be an incredible support system that can help you to make the very best of the rest of your life.

And as with everything, the better you know yourself, the better you can use this for yourself, but of course, you can also try this, to get to know yourself better.

A personal story

I’m a hard worker, and as I said above, the idea of tracking and documenting my life gets me incredibly existed – not everyone is that way.

I sat down and made plans and plans and to-do lists and checklists, and it was incredibly wonderful to be able to check off all the boxes each day.

Until I realized that I just did what I did to get my little mark by the end of the day, and not because I wanted to or because it was good for me or because I was in any way able to follow my bliss.

In fact, I would silence my intuition, so I could tick a box.

Of course, that also had to with my level of awareness at the time and what I had put on my to-do lists and why my daily checklist looks different now, than it did then.

Then it was a day packed with half an hour for learning this, an hour finishing that, work-out, a little time for food, a little time for dog walks and no time for roaming, letting thoughts arise or being spontaneous.

I say this because this might be the best thing for some and yet, the worst thing for others.

You will know, and once you do, you can change it or leave it and do something else that is more relevant for you personally.

If you’re already putting too much pressure on yourself, this might just be what you need to lead you to complete burn-out.

So be aware of yourself and what you need and do that 😉

If you need help or have questions about this, ask (me, or someone you trust).

The best ways to use this for a Creatrix

In the self-actualization chapter of the CREATRIX School, we’ve defined some goals for our lives, for the next ten and three years and for this year.

I would recommend starting with writing these goals down at the end or the beginning of your book.

You can also include your Wheel of Life and your Wheel of Colours so that you have it all in one place.

Then I always used to create an overview page for all important events of the year so that I don’t have to look at each month when I try to plan a trip or something like that.

And then I create a monthly page and then weekly pages.

I don’t do the monthly and weekly pages in advance but month by month and week by week, as this allows me the flexibility to adjust the things that have not been working out the way I wanted yet, and try different things whenever necessary.

There is a mindfulness practice in this well.

Often, when you just buy a calendar, journal or notebook, you just write in your dates, but you don’t evaluate.

If you sit down once a year to look back at the last year, check in with your overall goals and see what you’ve learned and achieved and how you’d like to consciously create your next year, then you win and learn a lot.

Brendon Burchard has also created a High Performance Planner, that you can check out, if you’re interested in really pushing your life forward.

The daily checklist will help you to get some ideas on what to look at and think about in your daily reflections, but also in your monthly and weekly reflections, and you have the Wheel of Life and everything we went through in this Chapter of the CREATRIX School to really reflect on your life once a year.

Now just imagine reflecting on your goals and prioritizing them each month, each week and every day. Whew.

Does it feel like your life is about to change and take up more speed?

Your efforts and focus will show.

And you will see your results and your life change.

So give this a try to find out how this might best work for you and while I rarely encourage people to spend time online, I would really like to invite you to go to Instagram and Pinterest and look at all the beautiful bullet journals people have created and see how they structure theirs and then find out what style, structure and also format seems most inspiring for you and go with that.

And don’t forget to check out our new ritual and to download the morning and evening checklist – to see if my suggestions for this are something you’d like to integrate into your bullet journal as well.

0 Comments

Submit a Comment Cancel reply

← Next Lesson Previous Lesson →

🌈 You have the power to create your reality.

ASK ME ANYTHING

More from the CREATRIX School

Practice: Conflict Resolution

Photo by Monstera Production on Pexels.← CHAPTER OVERVIEW Let's practice how to resolve conflicts peacefully Don't you sometimes wish you could get a do-over? How often have you been in situations which have made you uncomfortable, in heated discussions, or in just a...

Ritual: Intention Setting

Photo by Sohel Patel on Pexels.← CHAPTER OVERVIEW How to set your intentions for the highest good of all This chapter is about the essence of life - how we as people can live and work well with other people. How we can communicate our needs and wishes and listen to...

Recipe: Energy Balls

Photo by Milan on my Pexels.← CHAPTER OVERVIEW How about something sweet and healthy? I love these little energy balls - they are sweet and tasty and healthy and can keep you going for a long time. We will get into healthy snacking and many other fun and mindful ways...

Community – Week 1 – Pt. 1

Welcome to a New Chapter in the CREATRIX School

Starting today, and for the next four weeks, we will think about how we can be at our best with others and how we can use our unique abilities, gifts and talents to contribute to the greater good of all.

As the first week of each chapter in the CREATRIX School is all about assessing where we are, so we can let go of what doesn’t serve us any more, and invite more of what we do want, we start this chapter by looking at our hopes for the future of our world as well as the experiences we’ve made in community so far.

Community – Week 1 – Pt. 2

What do we mean when we say communities, and why do we need them?

There are different ways for communities to be organized. Sometimes, all people are equal and come together to organize things as equals.

Sometimes, there’s an initiator, or someone who finances the project and other people who organize and implement it.

Sometimes, there are some people who are paid and other people who volunteer.

What are the different kinds of projects or communities you have been involved in, or would like to get involved in, in your life?

Community – Week 1 – Pt. 3

How do you envision our future?

It’s easy to think there are so many problems in this world – what am I supposed to do about it – I can’t do anything but make the best of it – and that’s true to some extent – but also not entirely.

Because we’re not just here to get by. We’re not just here to arrange ourselves with what is already here – we are life and a part of the great symphony of life that’s playing right now, in this moment, and we get to contribute to it.

Community – Week 2 – Pt. 1

How to learn to love triggers

In this lesson, we look at why it is so important to unite for a cause and not against someone or something – if we want to create lasting change – no matter how much we might disagree with them or something.

And we look at how love really is always the answer, even, or especially, when someone or something upsets us.

Community – Week 2 – Pt. 2

How can we create a real alternative to what we currently have?

In this lesson, we talk about how judgement can be a very useful tool on our journey to becoming our most authentic and best selves and create the communities we wish for, as long as we don’t use it to condemn other people or to establish superiority.

We also think about how every trigger is really here for us to grow, and not something to be afraid of or to avoid and how punishment, just like suppression, doesn’t lead to anything beautiful – and what we can do instead.

Community – Week 2 – Pt. 3

On Freedom, Responsibility and our Nature

In this lesson, we look at how freedom and responsibility are linked and what that has to do with consciousness.

And how with a raised consciousness also comes more freedom and thus, by raising our consciousness and finding more inner peace, we also obliterate the need for violence.

And we look at another essential thing, that will help us be more aware in our community interactions – our role as humans in nature, in this world.

Community – Week 3 – Pt. 1

What’s your unique superpower?

We start this lesson with a short review of what we’ve learned in the last few lessons to resolve the most common problems found in communities today.

And then we begin to look at our unique superpowers, so we can become more confident in the way we contribute to any community, group or project we choose to support.

Community – Week 3 – Pt. 2

What’s your favourite archetype?

In this lesson, we dive deeper into the roles we can inhabit in a group or community setting.

Are you better fit for a creative role or a leading role, or both, or something else?

Knowing what we are good at, and also thinking about what we would like to learn and grow into, can help us immensely to find our place in any community setting and to be able to contribute in the best possible way.

This is also a great resource if you’d ever like to start your own project or company and can help you make sure all vital roles will be covered so that the project can run in the best possible way.

Community – Week 3 – Pt. 3

What’s your (stress) archetype?

Of course, things don’t always go the way we want them too.

Sometimes we get stressed, overwhelmed, take on too much or don’t dare to step into our power.

But we can always change and learn and grow.

Looking at the Occasional Archetypes, like the thief, victim, fool, hero_ine, adventurer and so on can help us to recognize these archetypes in ourselves and others and help us to come back into balance, whenever we slip into them.