Bullet Journaling 📓 📝

 My plan for the bullet journal was to get a planner and jot down a few points on each day, in the beginning of the day. Then I started listening to the audiobook, and I realized it’s a whole process. There’s nothing intimidating about the big process, though. Ryder Carrol, the author, came up with this system himself, and he has ADHD. There’s “no rules”, but there are some key elements. The “no rules” part just has to do with what you chose your goals to be and what you yourself put in there. As I listened to the method a second time, I realized that not only would a few lines in a planner not work, but the actual bullet journal has the potential to work for me. 

When I worked at the children’s museum, we used to have about 30-50 minutes between the museum opening and the rush of children (on weekdays that is- because of the start times of school tours.  Weekends there was always a rush.) I used to get out a piece of chartreuse paper and a very sharp pencil and make my to do lists during this dead time. This was during my pregnancy and when my daughter was a small child. She was born a year after I started there, and I can’t remember if she was in first or second grade when I left to finish school. After I finished college of course is when my life completely fell apart and I started having disabling panic attacks. To-do lists were suddenly a thing of the past, and I didn’t even realize my system was being dismantled, nor did I realize how the system helped me. 

It’s well past time to restart an organization system for the many aspects of life. I can definitely still do chartreuse paper and super sharp pencils and throwing it away when all items are crossed off. I want something new, though. Of course, I can do that if bulletproof journals don’t work out.  

I do have SOME chartreuse paper, so I can use it to brainstorm topics for the bulletproof journals journal. 

Let’s see how this works out. www.bulletjournal.com