It's a way to stay (or get) organized with life and work while adding some creativity to it. Despite the simplicity of the minimal bujo set up, it allows me to own what I'm doing to a larger extent. Thanks for the content!
Bullet Journaling is the only thing I have been able to find that has been able to keep me sane managing my Supply Room (U.S. Army) going to college and keeping my home life together. The Journal is the Sword and Shield I take into combat with my forgetfulness and scatterbrain on the daily. I was really exited when I saw the email about this, and got my hopes dashed on the rocks when I missed it. did Ryder happen to mention when stock will catch back up? anyways, thanks for reading, your attention is greatly appreciated.
What bullet journaling means to me is that it's a hybrid planner and diary, which marries my analytic/planning side and my reflective/instrospectivve side. For me, that's the power of the bullet journal, as I use it. I still journal in a traditional diary, but making quick notations in my bullet journal allows me to capture things I want to journal more at length in my diary, at a later time.
Bullet journaling means a lot to me. It’s been absolutely essential for managing my ADHD. Everything from generally keeping track of life events, college assignments, goal setting/tracking, and things I’m thankful for. Bullet journaling has been instrumental in taking control of things that I normally don’t feel in control over and improving my physical and mental health.
Got diagnosed with ADHD on Friday, and have previously watched a video by HowToADHD on bullet journaling and ADHD, and am considering getting this Also, I love that the top comment for me is about ADHD lol
@@jeniravorster3039 Absolutely! Now that I’m graduated from college, I continue to use the bullet journal to keep track of my personal life and work projects!
Hello. I'm new to journaling. I've looked at the 1st edition bullet journal as well as many videos including the Creators. I'm 70 years old and to say I was overwhelmed is an understatement. I'm no artist and everyone's journals are so beautiful. I have watched your videos previously and questioned if I would be able to grasp the bullet journal concept. Not convinced that I could, I opted out, while secretly wishing I had a bullet journal that would work for me. After watching this video, I feel encouraged enough that I would like to stop wishing I had a bullet journal to seeing myself working with one. I visited your website and I must say that the templates you have available have given me that little extra push to believing that I can to this too. Of course working with the new and improved Bullet Journal will make the journey exciting. Bullet Journaling, to me, means conquering my fear and moving forward.Thank you. You have permission to share this comment.
Bullet journaling has really been an exploration of my character, personality, habits, etc. All too often, I think, we're too quick to say things like, well I'm a big introvert, I'm a messy person, I'm too spacey and can't really pay attention for too long, etc. etc. And I wanted to stop myself and really explore the alternative, and the ways that it would suit me. It really clicked for me when I realized that bullet journaling isn't for a particularly specific type of person, it's a tool or system that you use in ways that fit your personality, to enhance those and various other areas of your life. I know it all sounds too philosophical, but honestly I consider myself a very messy organizer, a visual learner, a jot-it-down-memorizer, and once I was okay with that, and being okay abandoning things that didn't work for me and being okay with trying new things temporarily, did I start becoming more consistent. Because at that point it became a thrill to explore other parts of me and what I enjoy doing and continuing to do. Sorry for the longwinded answer, but this has become a topic I'm very passionate about, and that truly surprises me.
Bullet journaling has completely changed the way I live, plan, study, track, take notes, and everything in between! I would not be able to keep up with my business, school, personal projects, and day-to-day life without it! Thank you for doing this!
I found Bullet journaling a few years back when I was majorly depressed. Surprisingly, the practice of bullet journaling was a large help for me to get out of that season of life. Thankfully, these days I am not depressed, and now Bullet journaling is occasionally a artistic outlet and always a tool to help me from having things fall in the cracks. Its been an awesome productivity tool during this pandemic, also.
Bullet journaling is one of the only things that qualify as "consistent" in my routine nowadays. I'm self-employed, work comes and goes and I'm struggling with many things. BUT one thing I know for sure is that, when I check the third bookmark on my Bullet Journal, I find my daily log and I'm impressed by how I've managed to keep it going throughout 2020. To me, that's a huge achievement, and I'm happy to have this habit stand out amidst the chaos of the times we're living. The consistency of bullet journaling transcended last month to another practice that I resumed after five years of inactivity: going to the gym and doing karate. I hope that I can add many more things to this brief list in 2021 (and probably start a collection with them ;P ). Thanks a lot for your videos, Matt. I've been following you for a long time now and your content has brought me a lot of good vibes, motivation, and joy. You're a great communicator and I want to see you grow even more, especially now that you're doing this as a full-time job! Keep it up, and thank you for putting up this giveaway!
I couldn't find a "one-stop-shop" planner where I could keep everything I needed in one place and then a mentee suggested Bujo. 5 years and at least 12 Bujos later, I haven't strayed! This is remarkable and I'm so happy and grateful that she introduced this to me.
Bullet journaling has been the way I’ve taken control back over my life. For me my bullet journal is my opportunity to ground myself and deal with the very real anxiety that makes getting anything done impossible. The act of putting thoughts on paper in an ACTUAL SYSTEM has been life changing because nothing is too overwhelming when it’s on paper. Thank you for sharing your methods with the community.
I started bullet journaling almost 5 years ago. I was the person who wanted to make it pretty and look like all the beautiful, stylized bullet journals of CZcams. Artsy-fartsy lasted for a short time, and the bullet journal continued on in a slightly pared down fashion. Jan’s Journal V2.0 still had a lot of color, panache and flair, and yet it became much more useful and more of a daily companion. As time went on, I noticed how my life was flowing a little easier. Projects were getting accomplished...even those old, unfinished projects so neatly tucked away for months or even years. Over the past year Journal V 2.1 emerged. It has far less color, yet has everything I need. It is minimal, yet it holds my life. I can’t imagine a day without it. This notion of a bullet journal has morphed from a creative project to a more organized life, and from an art project to a friend I cant live without. My bullet journal is my anti-technology, yet it holds the same draw: I don’t know how I would ever live without it since I have experienced it. The thing that most blows my mind is that I have never kept a journal consistently in my entire life, and it spans a number of decades. Now, I find myself lost without my journal. That is what my journaling means to me. Either that explanation, or...”Simply Life Altering” . I learned all I know about bullet journaling on CZcams. I followed all the fancy, frilly, absolutely stunningly gorgeous journals for quite a while. I got many good and useful tips and some very fun layouts from those videos. Recently I stumbled upon you and your videos..and at the perfect time in my life where I am simplifying and “minimalising”. Thank you for doing what you do. You chose wisely, Matt This niche suits you.
To be honest, I re-found Bullet journaling since Covid quarantine. I needed so much help handling the absolute epic crash of all the different parts of my life now at home, 24/7. My 3 kids home, husband at home, working my full time social work job remotely and also having ADHD... my sanity needed help. This bujo community has saved my sanity. Having this community has helped me have compassion for myself and organization during this time in my life. I found my tribe and it’s with my fellow Bujo fanatics. It’s more than a notebook. You are my people and I’m so grateful to all of you.
To me bullet journaling means offloading everything that’s in my head and keeping myself accountable. Trying to memorize everything usually ends up making me not only overwhelmed, but forgetful as well.
Love this! Bullet Journaling has really been a game changer for me. I’ve always struggled with organization and procrastination. Since starting my BuJo a few years ago, I’ve accomplished so much more and had so much more peace about my to do lists.
Bullet journaling has changed my life, quite literally. I started 3 years ago and ofc had to experiment a lot, fail a lot, before actually figuring out how to do it in a way that made sense to me. I was in a rough patch, when I started, utterly overwhelmed with academics and in complete disarray. The bullet journal method, combined with CZcamsrs like you who encourage people to just make it work, instead of making it pretty, slowly started putting my life in order. I was preparing for a very difficult exam then and I'm glad to report that I made it through, with pretty good results and I don't think I'd have been able to do it had it not been for the way bullet journalling organized my life. So thanks for showing us that messy doesn't equal unproductive and it's ok to have an ugly bujo as long as it works for you. Literally changed my life ❤❤❤
Oh btw not participating in the giveaway cuz I'm in India, but just wanted to take this chance to say how much it means to me and how much you've helped 😊
I appreciate your channel because it shows how to set up a BUJO as simply as possible. It helps avoid the analysis paralysis of creating the "perfect method" and getting overwhelmed. I especially liked your advice about digital-analog flow. Bullet journaling for me is a way to keep my mind on paper.
I have struggled my entire life keeping must-do’s and nice-to-do’s in the proper perspective. Bullet Journalling has allowed me to quickly identify that intention and pinpoint which needs to be accomplished first. Ironically, now that I’m able to put the must-do’s first, I’ve found that I have more time for the nice-to-do’s. Family and dogs rejoice!
Hi everyone. I discovered bullet journaling in quarantine to help with my anxiety. I’ve seen so many beautiful layouts and felt inspired. However, because of my need for perfection, I’ve adopted a minimalist style. Along with this channel and others sharing their experiences with bullet journaling, I have been able to explore my style. One of the things I struggle with is my ADD. As a Mental health therapist, I have found the additional benefits of bullet journaling to layout my day without excess notes everywhere. I was also promoted in my job because of finding bullet journaling. Along with this, I can see the self-care benefits. While I still am a work in progress, bullet journaling is something I advocate for in my daily practice for a more healthy mindset.
Bullet Journaling to me means being in control of my story. Not only does it keep me on track so I don't loose any of my tasks pertaining to my multiple businesses but it also means I can have thing that matter to me in my personal life everywhere I go. It's my journal for writing down my feelings, it keeps track of my events, who I've seen, what we did, meals I've been making, things I want to do someday, dreams I've had, notes on my spiritual practice, photos from adventures, the first snow of the year. Literally everything. It is my life in a book, an extension of myself. Now that I've been doing it for years I can't imagine ever not having one. Thank you so much for the giveaway Matt! Happy Holidays 💙
Bullet Journaling has done so much for my productivity. As I got older, my memory was starting to fail me. I was also taking on much more responsibility at work. I couldn't remember dates, activities, events, or decisions made during meetings. I stumbled on bullet journaling method book by accident at Barnes and Noble one day. This book has done so much for me, that I am trying to get my daughters to start journaling. It is so nice to be able to review dates and events, or just feelings that I was feeling 6 months ago. I use it to track my goals, and see if I'm progressing or staying stagnate. I'm on my 4th book of journaling. I find it just so relaxing to write and read in it. I've never tried one of the professional journal books, but this one has me excited. Thank you Matt for your professional help for free! Best wishes to you and your family in the New Year 2021. Chris.
My bullet journal practice keeps me sane! Without it, I feel like I’m juggling chainsaws while tiptoeing through a pit of vipers. I have a work bujo and a personal bujo. My work bujo helps me keep up with the myriad responsibilities at work and the key notes related to my job responsibilities. It helps me leave work at work, so I can relax at home. Working in a surgery center, staying on top of things is critical. My personal bujo helps me stay focused and organized at home. Love my bujo’s! I’m so excited about his new edition! Matt, I’ve been watching you for a long time, and I really appreciate your practical and functional style. Keep it up!
Bullet journaling helps me remain sane & intentional. Every time I get in over my head, I can return to the intentions and goals I set in my bujo and feel instantly relieved. I ♥️ bullet journaling & the bujo community!!
Bullet journaling has CHANGED my life - from helping me to understand what is essential and what is not. After trying so many systems, apps and notebooks, it wasn’t until I discovered the Bullet Journal method last year is when my mental health improved.
Bullet Journalling for me means my SANITY! Live as we all know can get hectic and with these changing times the Bullet Journal allows me to manage my healthcare, my self care and that of my family. With Covid-19, my wife and I rotate teleworking and being onsite at our different jobs, alternating days of the week. I also started using a separate Bullet Journal for my work flow and productivity. Thank you Ryder for sharing this awesome tool with the world and THANK YOU, Matt for your videos, tutorials and insight! Keep em coming!!
I am very happy to have found your youtube channel! I searched heaven and earth to find the perfect planner that can satisfy all my needs. I have tried custom order planners, various shape and size of planners, and so on. This year I came across Bullet Journal book by Ryder Carroll and knew that finally I found what I've been looking for. It's flexible, expandable, and so simple to use, yet you can customize it to so many different ways to fit your needs. I am a full time software engineer tracking multiple projects, need to take many classes for work, starting Masters degree next year, need to eat better and exercise more, need to keep track of many household tasks, keep track of home projects for hobbies, and so on. I've been using bullet journal method on the existing weekly planners and working on setting up new journals for work and home for 2021. I am so excited to start fully on bullet journal method. I tried to buy Bullet Journal Edition 2 but it was sold out already. I would love to get the blush one and start full bullet journal methods.
Journaling, at the time I started, was seen as nerdy. I needed the organization because I was involved in so many different things. As I got older journaling turned into a place to log memories. I watched Greys Anatomy and really loved the idea of have it something that my kids could look over one day and see what life was like for me! Today I see bullet journaling as my way of helping other college students. I just finished my first semester of my senior year and I have a 4.0. I give all of my credit to my success to my system that I have made through watching CZcamsr like you! So thank you for working hard and uploading such amazing content. Regardless give away or not, I want you to know I love your videos and it’s kinda awesome to see someone from TN get so famous lol! I’m from Gallatin!
Bullet journaling has been life changing. I have struggled with getting organized the way that works best for me and the bullet journal has made that possible!! I love that I can have all my thoughts, tasks and events all together in one combined space. Bullet journaling means getting life together and not overwhelmed.
Bullet journalling means to me: • Organization • Reflection • Evolution • Happiness Thank you for the opportunity! Great video! Warmest regards, Shane a.k.a. Uncle Dooga
I’ve just started bullet journaling / time tracking for work the past two to three months and it has helped me immensely to provide feedback to my boss and verify that I am not being overwhelmed in a position that will ask more and more from me. Additionally, it has helped me keep my projects on task. Thanks for all the hard work putting this information out there for newbies like me to pull bits and pieces that fit into my life.
I have been doing modified bullet journaling for 2 years. Modified only because I am now retired and I don’t have as many things to keep track of. Bullet journaling has enriched my life. It’s fun! Thank you Matt!
Bullet journaling helps with my profesisional and personal life. I started bullet journaling as a college student because I could not find a planner that helped me until I actually found YOUR CZcams channel. I got my first journal and started. Now, as a high school teacher it helps me stay organized and helps to note take on what happens daily!
Thanks for a closer look at the newest version of the Bullet Journal. I will add an intention spread to my new journal in 2021. I started using the BuJo with a huge lined hardcover notebook. Transitioning to dot-grid notebooks was amazing because of the freedom it gave me to organize the page in ways that fit my brain. With ADHD, I need a format that doesn't hem me in by allows me to keep the core features of my planning and organizing and switch up the layout or modify what had stopped working for me. Your videos have helped me consider new ways of thinking about my time blocks and notetaking. - I'm not going to cards though since loose paper is a battle zone for me. Indexing has been life-changing. I've gone back to high school journals and beyond (I'm 65) and added indexes wherever I could find blank pages. When writing today, if I think of a story or a particular period of my life, I can glance at the indexes and discover if I wrote about that close to the moment it occurred. Vital for a writer.Thanks for being part of my journey Matt.
The bullet journal is the mess that keeps my life organized and the master journal where I can plan the future, log the past, and tackle the present! Its flexibility is what really works for me as I can personalize whatever is fit to my current needs. I just freaking love it!
Bullet journaling has helped me get everything in one place, Calendar, to-do list, notes, and reminders all together. Since switching to a bullet journal, I've not forgotten or missed one important thing.
It took a long time for me to start bullet journaling. I loved the simplicity of it but every time I sat down to use it I could hear my mom saying what a waste of time it was. She never actually said that to me but I was convinced she would. Imagine my surprise when she said the opposite. So I started and stopped bullet journaling for three years before I finally made it through my first full year of bullet journaling. This past November marked that occasion. It’s been awesome! I haven’t noticed that I’m more productive for bullet journaling but my peace of mind has improved. Before I wasn’t even aware of the mental strain of trying to keep up with everything between planners I’d stop using and google calendar. Now that I’m bullet journaling that stress I wasn’t even aware of has been lifted. With everything else that went on in 2020 not having to worry about keeping up with everything was nice.
I’ve been using a bullet journal for two years now! It has been a God send for my work life. It was exactly what I was looking for. Since I often enter into meetings where tech isn’t allowed, I wanted to consolidate from a planner and a journal to an all-in-one. This fit the bill! I’ve used it at home station and while deployed. I love it!
Bullet Journal method has changed my life. I can’t tell you how many notebooks/planners/digital planners/digital task managers I have poured my hard earned dollars for to manage my stress and up my productivity level. It’s the only method I have been able to make it a consistent practice in my life that lasted longer than a couple months. I did end of straying to a TN system because I got too ambitious after I started to get more confident and bujo and then ended up getting lost and now I fell out of a routine again. It would be great to revisit this whole system again back to basics so I can revisit what I originally fell in love with and what I remember gave me planner peace! Thank you for the opportunity.
I look at my bullet journal as a body part I didn't know I had been missing all this time. Before, I was "blindly wandering in the desert of life" with my ADHD as it were. Even now, with several years of practice in, I still feel the instant relief of offloading my thoughts onto paper... knowing they will be there at the ready whenever I need to come back.... giving me even more relief. To close, I like to describe life with my bullet journal like this: This is my bullet journal. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My bullet journal is my best friend. It is my life and I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my bullet journal is useless. Without my bullet journal, I AM USELESS. Thanks Ryder. Thanks so much.
The Bullet Journal helps me “decide once” ... and then just take the next step. It’s reduced my brain swirls around what to do and when. It also keeps me attuned to what matters most, so I spend my time on the life that matters most. Plus, it’s calming to have “one place” for all the bits and pieces. Thank you!!
Bullet journaling has helped me overcome a lifetime struggle with procrastination. I used to never write anything down, and keeping track of everything I had going on in my head made me feel overwhelmed and stressed. Putting everything in my bullet journal takes a load off my brain and let's me be present in the moment and get stuff done!
For me bullet journaling keeps me focused on my priorities not only for work but also for self care and my family. Following the first rule of only having one notebook, it’s my data files for work, lesson plan for homeschooling my 5 years old, tasks and chores list as a frontliner and also my little therapy/getaway when things get rough. It’s not just a notebook, it’s a lifesaver.
To me, bullet journaling is about intentionality. In a world where we're constantly bombarded by the latest technologies and gadgets, the bullet journal stands out as a surprisingly powerful tool. The simplicity of the bullet journal allows me to hone in on what's important and helps me navigate my day-to-day with clarity and intentionality. Thanks for another great review, Matt!
Bullet journaling has become a valued part of my daily life. It keeps me organized, gives me numerous way to use my beloved fountain pens, and is the first system that's ever gotten me to finish a notebook.
Bullet journaling is very meaningful to me because it has helped keep me organized over the last 3 years. Before bullet journaling, I was all over the place and feeling I overwhelmed. When I began using it, I noticed how I was able to get more things done and keep tracking of everything I was doing for work and my personal life. Less stuff fell through the cracks. To sum it up, having a bullet journal keeps me calm.
Being a 50,000 ft person, the Bullet Journaling has allowed me to keep my weaknesses in check. The small things I normally would forget or gloss over I now keep record of. It's a game changer.
I've found that throughout my life I keep coming back to writing. Before 2019 it was in the form of diaries, to do lists, notes, letters that weren't ment to be sent out etc. A friend once told me that I'm like his grandmother - I write everything down because otherwise I forget. With bullet journaling I found that I can do all of those things in one place. Sure, it has many very real and practical uses in organising tasks, thoughts, lists. However the most meaningful experience to me would be being able to collect and document different aspects of my reality - all the diverse things that seem to be important right here and right now.
love the Bear in your handle. Have you gone back to any previous diaries and tried indexing them? I was always sporadic in my daily writing until Bullet Journalling came along. It helped me combine daily reflection with my lists.
Since I began bullet journaling in 2016, I have used it to launch a podcast, make plans for my various work opportunities, and plot my dreams for the future. I’ve practiced word art by writing a word or phrase to document each day which has become a historical record of my life. It would be awesome to continue planning my life with one of the new bullet journals. Thanks for another great video, Matt!!
As a teacher, this is how I keep everything organized. I've never had luck with schedule apps like my coworkers use. I had been looking for a simple way of keeping everything together, and writing things by hand just makes sense to me.
To me, bullet journaling means finally finding a happy balance of storing current ideas and reviewing the past to best prep for the future. Since discovering the foundational system of bullet journaling, your videos and courses, I have been able to build a system that feels natural to me. Thank you Matt! Stay blessed, safe and happy holidays!!!
I’ve followed you for a while and gone back and forth between bullet journaling and other journals that have more structure. I keep coming back to a more minimal bullet journal because it’s just more functional and flexible for me. Thanks to your channel, I’ve also read several books I might otherwise not have. Thanks for helping me be a more productive person! Keep the content coming!
Bullet Journaling has given me a way to balance my life between my family, the National Guard and my civilian job. It provides me a single view on what I have going on, and empowers me to be intentional with my time. Matt really enjoy what you are doing. Found you on the Focused Podcast and have been following you ever since.
Big fan of the channel! Congrats on your recent mile stone. You’ve worked hard and it is well deserved. To me bullet journaling is about getting rid of distractions, embracing minimalism, and taking control of my life. I am a huge tool and app person. I love tinkering and finding the perfect “productivity system” to change my life. However this often ends up with me spending weeks switching from app to app, changing set ups, adding views, customizing filters, playing with settings. And of course, I never get anything done. The bullet journal helps me to embrace minimalism and only hold on to those practices that contribute positively to my life. It helps me cut out all of the distractions and get down to what is essential. Through this, I am able to take control of my life and create value. In essence, I’m able to use the bullet journal for what it’s supposed to be: a tool. A means to an end and not the end itself. Thanks for all your great content and keep up the good work!
Bullet journalling means everything to me, it helped me get out of my depression, it keeps me sane and on my path. It helps me stay productive and work towards my goal. Bullet journalling saved my life. I've been watching your channel for a while and I really appreciate your tips ans tricks, so thanks for that!
I started to Bullet Journal a few weeks into the pandemic and it has truly save my career. I have been 100 times more productive and attentive to my job. I used to have post its and various notebooks for different things everywhere, having my life in one place has been so helpful.
Bullet journaling is something new to me but I’ve been journaling since I can remember probably eight maybe seven years old I started with a Harley Davidson notebook. Bullet journaling has added extra steps in my life to move forward with productivity and to leave my son with A detailed day to day Journal of my life if he were to ever want to read and see what it took me to raise him and all the ups and downs of my photography videography hobbies travels and marriage was like. The bullet journal has let me combined everything into one and the help with your videos that you have provided through CZcams has definitely helped me try out new templates that I would’ve never even thought of and has connected me to different CZcamsrs that do the same thing and I appreciate you and your videos.
I began bullet journaling for college and it has been a live saver. There is nothing more important to staying on task and being organized for me, than bullet journaling.
I have been bullet journaling for only half a year, but already I have become much better at breaking a project up into discrete tasks and getting started more quickly on the incremental steps toward completing my task more carefully and with less stress. So, unbelievable as it seems to me, I am learning to solve my lifelong tendency to procrastinate. It almost seems like magic!
Bullet journaling has been what I was missing in my life. I am able to organize my work and home life, keep it all in one place, and reflect on the day. I wish I had decided to do this before grad school, but I’m glad to have it now.
Bullet journaling is life and freedom! It helps me live my life intentionally thus adding meaning and value. I would be lost without this tool. It truly has become my companion.
I am 61 years old and just recently discovered Bullet Journaling. I am using my journal mostly for keeping track of work related tasks while teleworking because of Covid. I’m still learning what works for me as far as layouts and spreads go, but have already found that my Bullet Journal WILL work for me.
I owe my entire life to bullet journaling. When I started I was a freshman in high school. It allowed me to organize my life in a way my ADHD Brain could understand. It allowed me to get good grades, which got me into a good college and with scholarships, and it is how I’ve made my life today.
I'm new to bullet journaling. I only started earlier this year. I was becoming overwhelmed with projects and my brain was literally frying. It led me to having short temper with my family and dropping the ball on multiple appointments. I got the simple advice of writing my day to day from my mentor. I took it and started doing research on it. When I finally got to writing out things in a regular journal, it wasnt working for me. I would worry about blank pages and the pre made templates. With further research on journaling methods, I found out about BuJo. I made the absolute sin of ordering a journal without numbered pages, but I'm still using it every day and I number it as i go along. Since starting, me life has changed completely. I'm way more productive, spend more time with my family, am able to make good daily progress on my projects, and it has made incorporating other good habits into my life a lot easier.
What I love the most about the bullet journal is it's always there for me. I can slack off on my bujo and pick it back up without any hard feelings. That being said, I've realized I tend to slack off on my bujo when I feel pressured to make it "pretty." So now I keep my bujo super simple and get creative in my junk journals!
Bullet journal is such a peaceful and créative way to get more organized. I became more accountable to myself and my friends and family. It is now my favorite tool for my Well being !
What bullet journaling means to me is clarity and organization. I am still relatively new to journaling but what it has done is make me more disciplined and have my thoughts written on paper instead of them roaming through my mind and later forgotten. It is really something I am enjoying more and more every time I log my life.
Hey Matt, hope all is well. I haven't sent you congrats yet on the new chapter in your life with going fulltime with CZcams! I wish you all the best and I will continue to look forward to new videos. The new bullet journal looks so awesome! I found out about bullet journaling almost 4 years ago and I haven't looked back. Started in a Moleskine but quickly moved over to the Leuchtturm. It is a place where I can not only manage my tasks and notes but also a place where I can ground myself. I am calmer when my journal is open and I'm creating a new collection or spread. And while I do try to make things pretty from time to time, channels like yours have kept me focused on the intention behind bullet journaling. Thanks!
For me bullet journaling has been a great way to track all of the things that make up life in a meaningful way. I’ve loved going back through old journals to see how I’ve grown and changed and also maybe discovering patterns that haven’t served me well. I’ve enjoyed your content - keep it coming!
As a person with ADHD that wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood, bullet journaling gave me hope that I could finally, for real this time, manage to keep some sort of planner so I could stop forgetting literally every appointment, task, or event in my life, due to its inherently forgiving, build as you go nature. Before picking up the book bundle special edition two years ago, I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to actually *DO* with a planner, and my closet was littered with planners from years past filled with several weeks or even a few months of schedules, and then forgotten for a few weeks, and abandoned in shame as the wasted pages stared balefully at me. With the BuJo system, if I got overwhelmed with life and couldn’t keep up my daily reflection and planning for a bit, I could just start up on the next clean page without any wasted blank pages haunting me. As a casually creative person, and someone who craves organization but also flexibility and variety, I could fiddle around with different layouts, add some simple artwork, and not be confined to and particular layout or system if I didn’t like it. As a fountain pen and stationery enthusiast, the premium paper was perfectly suited for my water-based inks, and could even stand up to some gentle watercolor painting. With this system, I was able to make the single most apparent and significant advancement in my life after my diagnosis, and begin to learn how to harness and organize my thoughts and ideas and obligations, get them on paper that I could actually find again when needed, find a creative outlet, and not only feel a sense of forward motion so desperately lacking in my life before, but be able to track and refer back to my progress as proof when I felt discouraged-look at how far you’ve come, self! You CAN do the thing! As I raise my now five-year-old son (who also has ADHD), I will be teaching him how to use a bullet journal with me as part of my mission to prevent the same three decades’ worth of scattered thinking turn into scattered living, teaching him to be aware of his struggles in order to make plans to overcome them, and to find his strengths to develop them into superpowers, keeping a record of his journey so he can look back on his own progress whenever setbacks leave him reeling. ...Uh. This was NOT meant to get this deep lol. Time to go to bed lol!
Bullet Journalling has helped me in so many ways I’d need a week to write. But to keep it short it’s brought calm to my storm, structure to my chaos, focus to my dizziness, dedication to my drive and peace to my well being and mental health. I love writing which I feel is a dying art and the analogue system rests so well with me in this digital world!
Bullet journaling means clarify to me. In a world we’re we are constant bombarded with distractions, this daily practice of mine allows me to ground myself as well as realize my priorities.
When I found your channel I was just looking into bullet journaling. I had found all of the artsy style with stickers and colors and that was not for me. Because of your channel I started using a journal and have been using it for a year now. It really help me keep my day and projects in focus. Meeting notes are in one place, easy to find. I have also recently found the Hero’s Journal and got one of those to help get to a goal or quest for the next 90 days. At 55 I have found a new way to keep things focused.
Bullet journaling helps me keep track of everything my family has going on and it becomes a functional memory keeper. I love looking back at previous years.
I love bullet journaling because of how quick it is to actually log things! With any other system its too easy to get bogged down with organization. Bullet journal really makes it simple to record ideas and tasks.
What I love about this method is that it's so customizable and can be changed as needed. I think what you mentioned about intention is important as well. Bullet Journaling gives us an opportunity to record and reflect and realize what's important. In addition, until I read Ryder's book, I'd never heard of "Decision Fatigue" and it made me structure my day differently and recognize when it was happening, so that I could go do something automatic and not try to power through and get frustrated not being able to get something accomplished. P.S. I have to add that I really appreciated learning about QMWD from you, Matt!
What bullet journaling means to me - peace of mind, stress relief and organization. Bullet journaling was introduced to me by a friend during an exceptionally stressful time, and I have relied on it since to keep on top of what needs to be accomplished, focusing my attention, and emptying my brain when it's too loud in there lol.
I"ve been journaling since 1984. I did the Franklin Covey What Matters Most training in 2000 and have been using FC's system ever since. It's only in the past 4 years that I've started using bullet journals for journaling and tracking and now I'm looking at a way to use it for my daily planning as well. Thanks, Matt, for sharing your systems, approaches and learning from those experiences.
I absolutely love my bullet journal. I started this right out of highschool and it has helped me stay on top of my schedule/life. Since starting I have incorporated scrap booking and reflections. It has helped me make memories and is a great keepsake
I am a bullet journal addict. I have my daily use journal that keeps me accountable and focused. In fact, it was your videos that inspired me to strip down my journalling to a more realistic and functional tool. I do have a journal for my projects (which is more for notes, tasks, sketching and management), but again I focus on the functionality than the elaborate designs. However, when it comes to my personal and wellness journal I take a more artistic approach because I want to use it for reflecting on my progression. In fact, it is themed as if it was a D&D spellbook with maps, "spells" (aka: meal ideas and workout routines) and my "stats". I think journaling freedom. It allows you to simply your life to increase productivity, but it also allows you the opportunity to release your creativity. The possibilities are endless.
Bullet journaling has been VERY resourceful for me in finding a path/way of organizing in my own way. This year was my first year doing it, & I found that between doing habit tracking, weekly, daily, & monthly logs, I was able to become much more comfortable with writing down my tasks and plans along the way. I also enjoy these videos & the content provided.
Just started bullet journaling this past March. I like that it allows me to get down my todo list any any other thoughts whenever I want to. I sometimes start looking for online tools again but then realize my bullet journal does everything I want it to do and I can change what that means whenever it suits me. Also, I tried your 3 month goal spread and it worked well. Need to do it again though. Thanks for your content!
Bullet journaling has helped me overcome so much of the daily anxiety I struggled with being a work at home mom of four children. It keeps me organized in a simple, concise way. Your channel has given me the freedom to embrace my imperfections and not allow a mistake on a page to derail my productivity. Thank you for always sharing honest, thoughtful information and encouragement.
Bullet Journaling frees my mind and keeps me calm. I have been using this method for years and no matter how many times a try another way ..... I end up back in bujo. A book, a pen and this method - nothing better!
Bullet journaling is meaningful to me because it’s a means of expressing the chaos that accumulates between my ears. Once that’s done I can go on to find the bits of information that are useful and productive and then go on to apply them in my life. Great video Matt!
I actually didn't realize how often I put off doing my tasks and chores to do things for other people until I started bullet journal and could see that some really easy tasks were perpetually put off for weeks and then when silly things like get watch battery migrated daily for a couple months I was able to look at everything and see that I do A LOT... but at the sacrifice of what I need and that's been really valuable. I still do lots for everyone else, but it's really helped me prioritize my time for my things and not over-commit, which has led to less feelings of being being overwhelmed
Bullet journaling is the only way I can stay on top of everything going on in my life. I have separate personal & work journals, and being able to get everything out of my head and onto paper in one place is amazing!
Bullet Journalling is my favorite way to get my thoughts onto paper and out of my head, and make them functional and applicable to my time and my days.
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The Bullet Journal is the only process that has helped me keep my multiple film scripts organized and keeps the development process on track!!
It's a way to stay (or get) organized with life and work while adding some creativity to it. Despite the simplicity of the minimal bujo set up, it allows me to own what I'm doing to a larger extent. Thanks for the content!
Bullet Journaling is the only thing I have been able to find that has been able to keep me sane managing my Supply Room (U.S. Army) going to college and keeping my home life together. The Journal is the Sword and Shield I take into combat with my forgetfulness and scatterbrain on the daily. I was really exited when I saw the email about this, and got my hopes dashed on the rocks when I missed it. did Ryder happen to mention when stock will catch back up? anyways, thanks for reading, your attention is greatly appreciated.
What bullet journaling means to me is that it's a hybrid planner and diary, which marries my analytic/planning side and my reflective/instrospectivve side. For me, that's the power of the bullet journal, as I use it. I still journal in a traditional diary, but making quick notations in my bullet journal allows me to capture things I want to journal more at length in my diary, at a later time.
Bullet journaling means a lot to me. It’s been absolutely essential for managing my ADHD. Everything from generally keeping track of life events, college assignments, goal setting/tracking, and things I’m thankful for. Bullet journaling has been instrumental in taking control of things that I normally don’t feel in control over and improving my physical and mental health.
Got diagnosed with ADHD on Friday, and have previously watched a video by HowToADHD on bullet journaling and ADHD, and am considering getting this
Also, I love that the top comment for me is about ADHD lol
I agree so much with what you are saying here, bullet journaling means a lot to me for my ADHD to not take control over my life. ❤️🫶
@@jeniravorster3039 Absolutely! Now that I’m graduated from college, I continue to use the bullet journal to keep track of my personal life and work projects!
Hello. I'm new to journaling. I've looked at the 1st edition bullet journal as well as many videos including the Creators. I'm 70 years old and to say I was overwhelmed is an understatement. I'm no artist and everyone's journals are so beautiful. I have watched your videos previously and questioned if I would be able to grasp the bullet journal concept. Not convinced that I could, I opted out, while secretly wishing I had a bullet journal that would work for me. After watching this video, I feel encouraged enough that I would like to stop wishing I had a bullet journal to seeing myself working with one. I visited your website and I must say that the templates you have available have given me that little extra push to believing that I can to this too. Of course working with the new and improved Bullet Journal will make the journey exciting. Bullet Journaling, to me, means conquering my fear and moving forward.Thank you. You have permission to share this comment.
Bullet journaling has really been an exploration of my character, personality, habits, etc. All too often, I think, we're too quick to say things like, well I'm a big introvert, I'm a messy person, I'm too spacey and can't really pay attention for too long, etc. etc. And I wanted to stop myself and really explore the alternative, and the ways that it would suit me. It really clicked for me when I realized that bullet journaling isn't for a particularly specific type of person, it's a tool or system that you use in ways that fit your personality, to enhance those and various other areas of your life. I know it all sounds too philosophical, but honestly I consider myself a very messy organizer, a visual learner, a jot-it-down-memorizer, and once I was okay with that, and being okay abandoning things that didn't work for me and being okay with trying new things temporarily, did I start becoming more consistent. Because at that point it became a thrill to explore other parts of me and what I enjoy doing and continuing to do.
Sorry for the longwinded answer, but this has become a topic I'm very passionate about, and that truly surprises me.
Matt, what I find the most important about Bullet journaling is that even if I get distracted for a day or two, I can jump back in and move forward.
Bullet journaling has completely changed the way I live, plan, study, track, take notes, and everything in between! I would not be able to keep up with my business, school, personal projects, and day-to-day life without it! Thank you for doing this!
I found Bullet journaling a few years back when I was majorly depressed. Surprisingly, the practice of bullet journaling was a large help for me to get out of that season of life. Thankfully, these days I am not depressed, and now Bullet journaling is occasionally a artistic outlet and always a tool to help me from having things fall in the cracks. Its been an awesome productivity tool during this pandemic, also.
Bullet journaling is 3 things for me: 1) focus; 2) structure; and 3) peace. Thanks for all you do for the community Matt!
Bullet Journaling has helped me to not feel overwhelmed each day. Breaking things down into small tasks each day really puts the day into perspective.
Bullet journaling is one of the only things that qualify as "consistent" in my routine nowadays. I'm self-employed, work comes and goes and I'm struggling with many things. BUT one thing I know for sure is that, when I check the third bookmark on my Bullet Journal, I find my daily log and I'm impressed by how I've managed to keep it going throughout 2020. To me, that's a huge achievement, and I'm happy to have this habit stand out amidst the chaos of the times we're living.
The consistency of bullet journaling transcended last month to another practice that I resumed after five years of inactivity: going to the gym and doing karate. I hope that I can add many more things to this brief list in 2021 (and probably start a collection with them ;P ).
Thanks a lot for your videos, Matt. I've been following you for a long time now and your content has brought me a lot of good vibes, motivation, and joy. You're a great communicator and I want to see you grow even more, especially now that you're doing this as a full-time job! Keep it up, and thank you for putting up this giveaway!
I couldn't find a "one-stop-shop" planner where I could keep everything I needed in one place and then a mentee suggested Bujo. 5 years and at least 12 Bujos later, I haven't strayed! This is remarkable and I'm so happy and grateful that she introduced this to me.
Bullet journaling has been the way I’ve taken control back over my life. For me my bullet journal is my opportunity to ground myself and deal with the very real anxiety that makes getting anything done impossible. The act of putting thoughts on paper in an ACTUAL SYSTEM has been life changing because nothing is too overwhelming when it’s on paper. Thank you for sharing your methods with the community.
I started bullet journaling almost 5 years ago. I was the person who wanted to make it pretty and look like all the beautiful, stylized bullet journals of CZcams. Artsy-fartsy lasted for a short time, and the bullet journal continued on in a slightly pared down fashion. Jan’s Journal V2.0 still had a lot of color, panache and flair, and yet it became much more useful and more of a daily companion. As time went on, I noticed how my life was flowing a little easier. Projects were getting accomplished...even those old, unfinished projects so neatly tucked away for months or even years. Over the past year Journal V 2.1 emerged. It has far less color, yet has everything I need. It is minimal, yet it holds my life. I can’t imagine a day without it. This notion of a bullet journal has morphed from a creative project to a more organized life, and from an art project to a friend I cant live without. My bullet journal is my anti-technology, yet it holds the same draw: I don’t know how I would ever live without it since I have experienced it. The thing that most blows my mind is that I have never kept a journal consistently in my entire life, and it spans a number of decades. Now, I find myself lost without my journal.
That is what my journaling means to me. Either that explanation, or...”Simply Life Altering”
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I learned all I know about bullet journaling on CZcams. I followed all the fancy, frilly, absolutely stunningly gorgeous journals for quite a while. I got many good and useful tips and some very fun layouts from those videos. Recently I stumbled upon you and your videos..and at the perfect time in my life where I am simplifying and “minimalising”. Thank you for doing what you do. You chose wisely, Matt This niche suits you.
To be honest, I re-found Bullet journaling since Covid quarantine. I needed so much help handling the absolute epic crash of all the different parts of my life now at home, 24/7. My 3 kids home, husband at home, working my full time social work job remotely and also having ADHD... my sanity needed help. This bujo community has saved my sanity. Having this community has helped me have compassion for myself and organization during this time in my life. I found my tribe and it’s with my fellow Bujo fanatics. It’s more than a notebook. You are my people and I’m so grateful to all of you.
Welcome to the tribe.
To me bullet journaling means offloading everything that’s in my head and keeping myself accountable. Trying to memorize everything usually ends up making me not only overwhelmed, but forgetful as well.
Love this! Bullet Journaling has really been a game changer for me. I’ve always struggled with organization and procrastination. Since starting my BuJo a few years ago, I’ve accomplished so much more and had so much more peace about my to do lists.
Totally echo this! The update is INSANE. I can't wait to use my in the new year!
Bullet journaling has changed my life, quite literally. I started 3 years ago and ofc had to experiment a lot, fail a lot, before actually figuring out how to do it in a way that made sense to me.
I was in a rough patch, when I started, utterly overwhelmed with academics and in complete disarray. The bullet journal method, combined with CZcamsrs like you who encourage people to just make it work, instead of making it pretty, slowly started putting my life in order. I was preparing for a very difficult exam then and I'm glad to report that I made it through, with pretty good results and I don't think I'd have been able to do it had it not been for the way bullet journalling organized my life.
So thanks for showing us that messy doesn't equal unproductive and it's ok to have an ugly bujo as long as it works for you. Literally changed my life ❤❤❤
Oh btw not participating in the giveaway cuz I'm in India, but just wanted to take this chance to say how much it means to me and how much you've helped 😊
I appreciate your channel because it shows how to set up a BUJO as simply as possible. It helps avoid the analysis paralysis of creating the "perfect method" and getting overwhelmed. I especially liked your advice about digital-analog flow. Bullet journaling for me is a way to keep my mind on paper.
This is how I survive. Can't keep everything in my head and this is the way I organize my life.
I have struggled my entire life keeping must-do’s and nice-to-do’s in the proper perspective. Bullet Journalling has allowed me to quickly identify that intention and pinpoint which needs to be accomplished first. Ironically, now that I’m able to put the must-do’s first, I’ve found that I have more time for the nice-to-do’s. Family and dogs rejoice!
Hi everyone. I discovered bullet journaling in quarantine to help with my anxiety. I’ve seen so many beautiful layouts and felt inspired. However, because of my need for perfection, I’ve adopted a minimalist style. Along with this channel and others sharing their experiences with bullet journaling, I have been able to explore my style. One of the things I struggle with is my ADD. As a Mental health therapist, I have found the additional benefits of bullet journaling to layout my day without excess notes everywhere. I was also promoted in my job because of finding bullet journaling. Along with this, I can see the self-care benefits. While I still am a work in progress, bullet journaling is something I advocate for in my daily practice for a more healthy mindset.
Bullet Journaling to me means being in control of my story. Not only does it keep me on track so I don't loose any of my tasks pertaining to my multiple businesses but it also means I can have thing that matter to me in my personal life everywhere I go. It's my journal for writing down my feelings, it keeps track of my events, who I've seen, what we did, meals I've been making, things I want to do someday, dreams I've had, notes on my spiritual practice, photos from adventures, the first snow of the year. Literally everything. It is my life in a book, an extension of myself. Now that I've been doing it for years I can't imagine ever not having one.
Thank you so much for the giveaway Matt! Happy Holidays 💙
Bullet Journaling has done so much for my productivity. As I got older, my memory was starting to fail me. I was also taking on much more responsibility at work. I couldn't remember dates, activities, events, or decisions made during meetings. I stumbled on bullet journaling method book by accident at Barnes and Noble one day. This book has done so much for me, that I am trying to get my daughters to start journaling. It is so nice to be able to review dates and events, or just feelings that I was feeling 6 months ago. I use it to track my goals, and see if I'm progressing or staying stagnate. I'm on my 4th book of journaling. I find it just so relaxing to write and read in it. I've never tried one of the professional journal books, but this one has me excited. Thank you Matt for your professional help for free! Best wishes to you and your family in the New Year 2021. Chris.
My bullet journal practice keeps me sane! Without it, I feel like I’m juggling chainsaws while tiptoeing through a pit of vipers. I have a work bujo and a personal bujo. My work bujo helps me keep up with the myriad responsibilities at work and the key notes related to my job responsibilities. It helps me leave work at work, so I can relax at home. Working in a surgery center, staying on top of things is critical. My personal bujo helps me stay focused and organized at home. Love my bujo’s! I’m so excited about his new edition! Matt, I’ve been watching you for a long time, and I really appreciate your practical and functional style. Keep it up!
Bullet journaling helps me remain sane & intentional. Every time I get in over my head, I can return to the intentions and goals I set in my bujo and feel instantly relieved. I ♥️ bullet journaling & the bujo community!!
Bullet journaling has CHANGED my life - from helping me to understand what is essential and what is not.
After trying so many systems, apps and notebooks, it wasn’t until I discovered the Bullet Journal method last year is when my mental health improved.
Bullet Journalling for me means my SANITY! Live as we all know can get hectic and with these changing times the Bullet Journal allows me to manage my healthcare, my self care and that of my family. With Covid-19, my wife and I rotate teleworking and being onsite at our different jobs, alternating days of the week. I also started using a separate Bullet Journal for my work flow and productivity. Thank you Ryder for sharing this awesome tool with the world and THANK YOU, Matt for your videos, tutorials and insight! Keep em coming!!
I am very happy to have found your youtube channel! I searched heaven and earth to find the perfect planner that can satisfy all my needs. I have tried custom order planners, various shape and size of planners, and so on. This year I came across Bullet Journal book by Ryder Carroll and knew that finally I found what I've been looking for. It's flexible, expandable, and so simple to use, yet you can customize it to so many different ways to fit your needs. I am a full time software engineer tracking multiple projects, need to take many classes for work, starting Masters degree next year, need to eat better and exercise more, need to keep track of many household tasks, keep track of home projects for hobbies, and so on. I've been using bullet journal method on the existing weekly planners and working on setting up new journals for work and home for 2021. I am so excited to start fully on bullet journal method. I tried to buy Bullet Journal Edition 2 but it was sold out already. I would love to get the blush one and start full bullet journal methods.
Journaling, at the time I started, was seen as nerdy. I needed the organization because I was involved in so many different things. As I got older journaling turned into a place to log memories. I watched Greys Anatomy and really loved the idea of have it something that my kids could look over one day and see what life was like for me! Today I see bullet journaling as my way of helping other college students. I just finished my first semester of my senior year and I have a 4.0. I give all of my credit to my success to my system that I have made through watching CZcamsr like you! So thank you for working hard and uploading such amazing content. Regardless give away or not, I want you to know I love your videos and it’s kinda awesome to see someone from TN get so famous lol! I’m from Gallatin!
Bullet journaling has been life changing. I have struggled with getting organized the way that works best for me and the bullet journal has made that possible!! I love that I can have all my thoughts, tasks and events all together in one combined space.
Bullet journaling means getting life together and not overwhelmed.
Bullet journalling means to me:
• Organization
• Reflection
• Evolution
• Happiness
Thank you for the opportunity!
Great video!
Warmest regards,
Shane a.k.a. Uncle Dooga
I’ve just started bullet journaling / time tracking for work the past two to three months and it has helped me immensely to provide feedback to my boss and verify that I am not being overwhelmed in a position that will ask more and more from me. Additionally, it has helped me keep my projects on task. Thanks for all the hard work putting this information out there for newbies like me to pull bits and pieces that fit into my life.
I have been doing modified bullet journaling for 2 years. Modified only because I am now retired and I don’t have as many things to keep track of.
Bullet journaling has enriched my life. It’s fun! Thank you Matt!
Bullet journaling helps with my profesisional and personal life. I started bullet journaling as a college student because I could not find a planner that helped me until I actually found YOUR CZcams channel. I got my first journal and started. Now, as a high school teacher it helps me stay organized and helps to note take on what happens daily!
Thanks for a closer look at the newest version of the Bullet Journal. I will add an intention spread to my new journal in 2021. I started using the BuJo with a huge lined hardcover notebook. Transitioning to dot-grid notebooks was amazing because of the freedom it gave me to organize the page in ways that fit my brain. With ADHD, I need a format that doesn't hem me in by allows me to keep the core features of my planning and organizing and switch up the layout or modify what had stopped working for me. Your videos have helped me consider new ways of thinking about my time blocks and notetaking. - I'm not going to cards though since loose paper is a battle zone for me. Indexing has been life-changing. I've gone back to high school journals and beyond (I'm 65) and added indexes wherever I could find blank pages. When writing today, if I think of a story or a particular period of my life, I can glance at the indexes and discover if I wrote about that close to the moment it occurred. Vital for a writer.Thanks for being part of my journey Matt.
I love the flexibility that bullet journaling provides. It keeps all my thoughts and notes together, easily accessed in the future.
Bullet journaling is a necessity for my mental health and allows me to be more mindful of every task, event, or goal that I have in my life.
The bullet journal is the mess that keeps my life organized and the master journal where I can plan the future, log the past, and tackle the present! Its flexibility is what really works for me as I can personalize whatever is fit to my current needs. I just freaking love it!
Bullet journaling has helped me get everything in one place, Calendar, to-do list, notes, and reminders all together. Since switching to a bullet journal, I've not forgotten or missed one important thing.
It took a long time for me to start bullet journaling. I loved the simplicity of it but every time I sat down to use it I could hear my mom saying what a waste of time it was. She never actually said that to me but I was convinced she would. Imagine my surprise when she said the opposite. So I started and stopped bullet journaling for three years before I finally made it through my first full year of bullet journaling. This past November marked that occasion. It’s been awesome! I haven’t noticed that I’m more productive for bullet journaling but my peace of mind has improved. Before I wasn’t even aware of the mental strain of trying to keep up with everything between planners I’d stop using and google calendar. Now that I’m bullet journaling that stress I wasn’t even aware of has been lifted. With everything else that went on in 2020 not having to worry about keeping up with everything was nice.
Bullet journaling is the best way I've found to manage my work life, private life and side hustles. Such an integral part of my day.
I’ve been using a bullet journal for two years now! It has been a God send for my work life. It was exactly what I was looking for. Since I often enter into meetings where tech isn’t allowed, I wanted to consolidate from a planner and a journal to an all-in-one. This fit the bill! I’ve used it at home station and while deployed. I love it!
Bullet Journal method has changed my life. I can’t tell you how many notebooks/planners/digital planners/digital task managers I have poured my hard earned dollars for to manage my stress and up my productivity level. It’s the only method I have been able to make it a consistent practice in my life that lasted longer than a couple months.
I did end of straying to a TN system because I got too ambitious after I started to get more confident and bujo and then ended up getting lost and now I fell out of a routine again.
It would be great to revisit this whole system again back to basics so I can revisit what I originally fell in love with and what I remember gave me planner peace! Thank you for the opportunity.
I look at my bullet journal as a body part I didn't know I had been missing all this time. Before, I was "blindly wandering in the desert of life" with my ADHD as it were.
Even now, with several years of practice in, I still feel the instant relief of offloading my thoughts onto paper... knowing they will be there at the ready whenever I need to come back.... giving me even more relief.
To close, I like to describe life with my bullet journal like this:
This is my bullet journal. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My bullet journal is my best friend. It is my life and I must master it as I must master my life. Without me, my bullet journal is useless. Without my bullet journal, I AM USELESS.
Thanks Ryder. Thanks so much.
The Bullet Journal helps me “decide once” ... and then just take the next step. It’s reduced my brain swirls around what to do and when. It also keeps me attuned to what matters most, so I spend my time on the life that matters most. Plus, it’s calming to have “one place” for all the bits and pieces. Thank you!!
Bullet journaling has helped me overcome a lifetime struggle with procrastination. I used to never write anything down, and keeping track of everything I had going on in my head made me feel overwhelmed and stressed. Putting everything in my bullet journal takes a load off my brain and let's me be present in the moment and get stuff done!
For me bullet journaling keeps me focused on my priorities not only for work but also for self care and my family. Following the first rule of only having one notebook, it’s my data files for work, lesson plan for homeschooling my 5 years old, tasks and chores list as a frontliner and also my little therapy/getaway when things get rough. It’s not just a notebook, it’s a lifesaver.
To me, bullet journaling is about intentionality. In a world where we're constantly bombarded by the latest technologies and gadgets, the bullet journal stands out as a surprisingly powerful tool. The simplicity of the bullet journal allows me to hone in on what's important and helps me navigate my day-to-day with clarity and intentionality. Thanks for another great review, Matt!
Bullet journaling has become a valued part of my daily life. It keeps me organized, gives me numerous way to use my beloved fountain pens, and is the first system that's ever gotten me to finish a notebook.
Bullet journaling is very meaningful to me because it has helped keep me organized over the last 3 years. Before bullet journaling, I was all over the place and feeling I overwhelmed. When I began using it, I noticed how I was able to get more things done and keep tracking of everything I was doing for work and my personal life. Less stuff fell through the cracks. To sum it up, having a bullet journal keeps me calm.
Being a 50,000 ft person, the Bullet Journaling has allowed me to keep my weaknesses in check. The small things I normally would forget or gloss over I now keep record of. It's a game changer.
I've found that throughout my life I keep coming back to writing. Before 2019 it was in the form of diaries, to do lists, notes, letters that weren't ment to be sent out etc. A friend once told me that I'm like his grandmother - I write everything down because otherwise I forget. With bullet journaling I found that I can do all of those things in one place. Sure, it has many very real and practical uses in organising tasks, thoughts, lists. However the most meaningful experience to me would be being able to collect and document different aspects of my reality - all the diverse things that seem to be important right here and right now.
love the Bear in your handle. Have you gone back to any previous diaries and tried indexing them? I was always sporadic in my daily writing until Bullet Journalling came along. It helped me combine daily reflection with my lists.
The modular design that Ryder do in BuJo means that it will keep going for eternity. Just like Lego, it has infinite evolution possibilities.
Since I began bullet journaling in 2016, I have used it to launch a podcast, make plans for my various work opportunities, and plot my dreams for the future. I’ve practiced word art by writing a word or phrase to document each day which has become a historical record of my life. It would be awesome to continue planning my life with one of the new bullet journals. Thanks for another great video, Matt!!
As a teacher, this is how I keep everything organized. I've never had luck with schedule apps like my coworkers use. I had been looking for a simple way of keeping everything together, and writing things by hand just makes sense to me.
To me, bullet journaling means finally finding a happy balance of storing current ideas and reviewing the past to best prep for the future. Since discovering the foundational system of bullet journaling, your videos and courses, I have been able to build a system that feels natural to me. Thank you Matt! Stay blessed, safe and happy holidays!!!
I’ve followed you for a while and gone back and forth between bullet journaling and other journals that have more structure. I keep coming back to a more minimal bullet journal because it’s just more functional and flexible for me. Thanks to your channel, I’ve also read several books I might otherwise not have. Thanks for helping me be a more productive person! Keep the content coming!
Bullet Journaling has given me a way to balance my life between my family, the National Guard and my civilian job. It provides me a single view on what I have going on, and empowers me to be intentional with my time. Matt really enjoy what you are doing. Found you on the Focused Podcast and have been following you ever since.
Big fan of the channel! Congrats on your recent mile stone. You’ve worked hard and it is well deserved.
To me bullet journaling is about getting rid of distractions, embracing minimalism, and taking control of my life. I am a huge tool and app person. I love tinkering and finding the perfect “productivity system” to change my life. However this often ends up with me spending weeks switching from app to app, changing set ups, adding views, customizing filters, playing with settings. And of course, I never get anything done.
The bullet journal helps me to embrace minimalism and only hold on to those practices that contribute positively to my life. It helps me cut out all of the distractions and get down to what is essential. Through this, I am able to take control of my life and create value. In essence, I’m able to use the bullet journal for what it’s supposed to be: a tool. A means to an end and not the end itself.
Thanks for all your great content and keep up the good work!
Bullet journalling means everything to me, it helped me get out of my depression, it keeps me sane and on my path. It helps me stay productive and work towards my goal. Bullet journalling saved my life. I've been watching your channel for a while and I really appreciate your tips ans tricks, so thanks for that!
I started to Bullet Journal a few weeks into the pandemic and it has truly save my career. I have been 100 times more productive and attentive to my job. I used to have post its and various notebooks for different things everywhere, having my life in one place has been so helpful.
Bullet journaling is something new to me but I’ve been journaling since I can remember probably eight maybe seven years old I started with a Harley Davidson notebook. Bullet journaling has added extra steps in my life to move forward with productivity and to leave my son with A detailed day to day Journal of my life if he were to ever want to read and see what it took me to raise him and all the ups and downs of my photography videography hobbies travels and marriage was like. The bullet journal has let me combined everything into one and the help with your videos that you have provided through CZcams has definitely helped me try out new templates that I would’ve never even thought of and has connected me to different CZcamsrs that do the same thing and I appreciate you and your videos.
The bullet journal enables me to keep track of all my experiments in cooking, needle working, woodworking, etc. the second edition sounds awesome.
I began bullet journaling for college and it has been a live saver. There is nothing more important to staying on task and being organized for me, than bullet journaling.
I have been bullet journaling for only half a year, but already I have become much better at breaking a project up into discrete tasks and getting started more quickly on the incremental steps toward completing my task more carefully and with less stress. So, unbelievable as it seems to me, I am learning to solve my lifelong tendency to procrastinate. It almost seems like magic!
Bullet journaling has been what I was missing in my life. I am able to organize my work and home life, keep it all in one place, and reflect on the day. I wish I had decided to do this before grad school, but I’m glad to have it now.
Bullet journaling is life and freedom! It helps me live my life intentionally thus adding meaning and value. I would be lost without this tool. It truly has become my companion.
I am 61 years old and just recently discovered Bullet Journaling. I am using my journal mostly for keeping track of work related tasks while teleworking because of Covid. I’m still learning what works for me as far as layouts and spreads go, but have already found that my Bullet Journal WILL work for me.
I owe my entire life to bullet journaling. When I started I was a freshman in high school. It allowed me to organize my life in a way my ADHD Brain could understand. It allowed me to get good grades, which got me into a good college and with scholarships, and it is how I’ve made my life today.
I'm new to bullet journaling. I only started earlier this year. I was becoming overwhelmed with projects and my brain was literally frying. It led me to having short temper with my family and dropping the ball on multiple appointments.
I got the simple advice of writing my day to day from my mentor. I took it and started doing research on it. When I finally got to writing out things in a regular journal, it wasnt working for me. I would worry about blank pages and the pre made templates.
With further research on journaling methods, I found out about BuJo. I made the absolute sin of ordering a journal without numbered pages, but I'm still using it every day and I number it as i go along.
Since starting, me life has changed completely. I'm way more productive, spend more time with my family, am able to make good daily progress on my projects, and it has made incorporating other good habits into my life a lot easier.
What I love the most about the bullet journal is it's always there for me. I can slack off on my bujo and pick it back up without any hard feelings. That being said, I've realized I tend to slack off on my bujo when I feel pressured to make it "pretty." So now I keep my bujo super simple and get creative in my junk journals!
Bullet journal is such a peaceful and créative way to get more organized. I became more accountable to myself and my friends and family. It is now my favorite tool for my Well being !
What bullet journaling means to me is clarity and organization. I am still relatively new to journaling but what it has done is make me more disciplined and have my thoughts written on paper instead of them roaming through my mind and later forgotten. It is really something I am enjoying more and more every time I log my life.
My sanity, my passion, my outlet. Bullet journaling means so much to me. It helps me learn and grow more than any other tool.
Hey Matt, hope all is well. I haven't sent you congrats yet on the new chapter in your life with going fulltime with CZcams! I wish you all the best and I will continue to look forward to new videos. The new bullet journal looks so awesome! I found out about bullet journaling almost 4 years ago and I haven't looked back. Started in a Moleskine but quickly moved over to the Leuchtturm. It is a place where I can not only manage my tasks and notes but also a place where I can ground myself. I am calmer when my journal is open and I'm creating a new collection or spread. And while I do try to make things pretty from time to time, channels like yours have kept me focused on the intention behind bullet journaling. Thanks!
For me bullet journaling has been a great way to track all of the things that make up life in a meaningful way. I’ve loved going back through old journals to see how I’ve grown and changed and also maybe discovering patterns that haven’t served me well. I’ve enjoyed your content - keep it coming!
As a person with ADHD that wasn’t diagnosed until adulthood, bullet journaling gave me hope that I could finally, for real this time, manage to keep some sort of planner so I could stop forgetting literally every appointment, task, or event in my life, due to its inherently forgiving, build as you go nature. Before picking up the book bundle special edition two years ago, I had absolutely no idea what I was supposed to actually *DO* with a planner, and my closet was littered with planners from years past filled with several weeks or even a few months of schedules, and then forgotten for a few weeks, and abandoned in shame as the wasted pages stared balefully at me. With the BuJo system, if I got overwhelmed with life and couldn’t keep up my daily reflection and planning for a bit, I could just start up on the next clean page without any wasted blank pages haunting me. As a casually creative person, and someone who craves organization but also flexibility and variety, I could fiddle around with different layouts, add some simple artwork, and not be confined to and particular layout or system if I didn’t like it. As a fountain pen and stationery enthusiast, the premium paper was perfectly suited for my water-based inks, and could even stand up to some gentle watercolor painting. With this system, I was able to make the single most apparent and significant advancement in my life after my diagnosis, and begin to learn how to harness and organize my thoughts and ideas and obligations, get them on paper that I could actually find again when needed, find a creative outlet, and not only feel a sense of forward motion so desperately lacking in my life before, but be able to track and refer back to my progress as proof when I felt discouraged-look at how far you’ve come, self! You CAN do the thing! As I raise my now five-year-old son (who also has ADHD), I will be teaching him how to use a bullet journal with me as part of my mission to prevent the same three decades’ worth of scattered thinking turn into scattered living, teaching him to be aware of his struggles in order to make plans to overcome them, and to find his strengths to develop them into superpowers, keeping a record of his journey so he can look back on his own progress whenever setbacks leave him reeling.
...Uh. This was NOT meant to get this deep lol. Time to go to bed lol!
Bullet Journalling has helped me in so many ways I’d need a week to write. But to keep it short it’s brought calm to my storm, structure to my chaos, focus to my dizziness, dedication to my drive and peace to my well being and mental health. I love writing which I feel is a dying art and the analogue system rests so well with me in this digital world!
Bullet journaling means clarify to me. In a world we’re we are constant bombarded with distractions, this daily practice of mine allows me to ground myself as well as realize my priorities.
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When I found your channel I was just looking into bullet journaling. I had found all of the artsy style with stickers and colors and that was not for me. Because of your channel I started using a journal and have been using it for a year now. It really help me keep my day and projects in focus. Meeting notes are in one place, easy to find. I have also recently found the Hero’s Journal and got one of those to help get to a goal or quest for the next 90 days. At 55 I have found a new way to keep things focused.
Bullet journaling helps me keep track of everything my family has going on and it becomes a functional memory keeper. I love looking back at previous years.
I love bullet journaling because of how quick it is to actually log things! With any other system its too easy to get bogged down with organization. Bullet journal really makes it simple to record ideas and tasks.
Bullet journaling to me means peace of mind. Getting my thoughts on paper always calms me!
Bullet journaling is freedom! Love that there is no date commitment. This new version looks awesome 😎
What I love about this method is that it's so customizable and can be changed as needed. I think what you mentioned about intention is important as well. Bullet Journaling gives us an opportunity to record and reflect and realize what's important. In addition, until I read Ryder's book, I'd never heard of "Decision Fatigue" and it made me structure my day differently and recognize when it was happening, so that I could go do something automatic and not try to power through and get frustrated not being able to get something accomplished.
P.S. I have to add that I really appreciated learning about QMWD from you, Matt!
What bullet journaling means to me - peace of mind, stress relief and organization. Bullet journaling was introduced to me by a friend during an exceptionally stressful time, and I have relied on it since to keep on top of what needs to be accomplished, focusing my attention, and emptying my brain when it's too loud in there lol.
A total stress reliever! I’m even teaching my kids to write stuff down to declutter their minds when they are worried/anxious.
I"ve been journaling since 1984. I did the Franklin Covey What Matters Most training in 2000 and have been using FC's system ever since. It's only in the past 4 years that I've started using bullet journals for journaling and tracking and now I'm looking at a way to use it for my daily planning as well. Thanks, Matt, for sharing your systems, approaches and learning from those experiences.
Bullet journaling is peace of mind for me. Knowing I have a place for everything and everything in its place helps keep my anxiety at bay.
I absolutely love my bullet journal. I started this right out of highschool and it has helped me stay on top of my schedule/life. Since starting I have incorporated scrap booking and reflections. It has helped me make memories and is a great keepsake
I am a bullet journal addict. I have my daily use journal that keeps me accountable and focused. In fact, it was your videos that inspired me to strip down my journalling to a more realistic and functional tool. I do have a journal for my projects (which is more for notes, tasks, sketching and management), but again I focus on the functionality than the elaborate designs. However, when it comes to my personal and wellness journal I take a more artistic approach because I want to use it for reflecting on my progression. In fact, it is themed as if it was a D&D spellbook with maps, "spells" (aka: meal ideas and workout routines) and my "stats".
I think journaling freedom. It allows you to simply your life to increase productivity, but it also allows you the opportunity to release your creativity. The possibilities are endless.
Bullet journaling has been VERY resourceful for me in finding a path/way of organizing in my own way. This year was my first year doing it, & I found that between doing habit tracking, weekly, daily, & monthly logs, I was able to become much more comfortable with writing down my tasks and plans along the way. I also enjoy these videos & the content provided.
Just started bullet journaling this past March. I like that it allows me to get down my todo list any any other thoughts whenever I want to. I sometimes start looking for online tools again but then realize my bullet journal does everything I want it to do and I can change what that means whenever it suits me. Also, I tried your 3 month goal spread and it worked well. Need to do it again though. Thanks for your content!
I like how bullet journaling gives me time to reflect on my day. I think more about what I'm doing.
Bullet journaling has helped me overcome so much of the daily anxiety I struggled with being a work at home mom of four children. It keeps me organized in a simple, concise way. Your channel has given me the freedom to embrace my imperfections and not allow a mistake on a page to derail my productivity. Thank you for always sharing honest, thoughtful information and encouragement.
Bullet Journaling frees my mind and keeps me calm. I have been using this method for years and no matter how many times a try another way ..... I end up back in bujo. A book, a pen and this method - nothing better!
Bullet journaling is meaningful to me because it’s a means of expressing the chaos that accumulates between my ears. Once that’s done I can go on to find the bits of information that are useful and productive and then go on to apply them in my life.
Great video Matt!
I actually didn't realize how often I put off doing my tasks and chores to do things for other people until I started bullet journal and could see that some really easy tasks were perpetually put off for weeks and then when silly things like get watch battery migrated daily for a couple months I was able to look at everything and see that I do A LOT... but at the sacrifice of what I need and that's been really valuable. I still do lots for everyone else, but it's really helped me prioritize my time for my things and not over-commit, which has led to less feelings of being being overwhelmed
Bullet journaling is the only way I can stay on top of everything going on in my life. I have separate personal & work journals, and being able to get everything out of my head and onto paper in one place is amazing!
Bullet Journalling is my favorite way to get my thoughts onto paper and out of my head, and make them functional and applicable to my time and my days.