How To Be Ready For The Whole Year
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- čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
- Plan your entire year with a year at a glance spread in your bullet journal. The purpose of this spread is to help you quickly conceptualize the year, like cliff notes. That's why not all 52 weeks are represented. To be more accurate, you can just adjust the weeks inside the months as needed. You can increase and decrease the fidelity as you need.
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I realized that the spread does not fit 52 weeks. So I added one more line for the Months of March, June, September and December. Then it works out. Thank you for the great spread idea 💡😊
Oh wow… lol good catch. Next year it will apply to Feb, May, Aug, Nov. crazy 😜
Or you can think of the extra weeks as buffer. There are 13 weeks to a quarter but it’s safe to think of the month as 4 weeks
The tampons lying on the desk at 0:35 disctracted me for a second :'D
Haha😂 Exactly! Tampons, thermometer and pills. Really weird in this context😂
When I saw these comments, I went back to look. Actually, it looked to me like using the yearly overview as a fertility tracker/planner. Which is actually a pretty good use for one of those type of year at a glance, so it makes sense, just a little surprising.
It can be expanded to a more extended period, like 10 years or even 20 years. What a brilliant idea!
that's a clever idea!!
would love to see that!
I wish I could double love this!
I’m an event manager. This spread is a genius solution to seeing all my major events for the year in one place so I can easily identify the peaks and valleys.
It's a good idea! I can see using this retroactively, filling in any major theme, problem, or accomplishment for a given week in hindsight, to get an overview of where my time and performance has gone when I look back over the year. This might help me better appreciate where opportunities for advancement exist, and also forgive perceived gaps in productivity by remembering obstacles I was facing at the time.
Omg that is brilliant! I often go back and forth checking my monthly calendar and forgetting “oh when did we go there?” or “why the heck did I do absolutely NOTHING in April?… oh right we were moving and had to pack, fix, clean, etc. So really, I did HEAPS!” 🤣
Thank you for the reframe!
You could use this kind of spread too, to look back and write down highlights of the week you want to remember. Last year I had a page for each month to write about the special things that happend, the people I met or talked to. It was like the essence of the year. I will continue that this year.
I REALLY want to be better about this kind of thing. But I can never motivate myself to journal at the end of the day. And then the next day my brain is on to other things.
@@TonyBullard That's okay. I just journal when I like to. My notebook is always waiting patiently 😄 And I don't journal to document my days, but to think things through that occupy my mind. So I don't have to write about the past days if my mind is on other things right then. And sometimes I take time to reflect about the past month using my calender to remind me what was. Just think about why you whant to journal.
great idea!
some people really like to attach the BuJo practice to an existing habit, like morning tea or coffee, or set alarms, etc in case that can be helpful!
Yes absolutely @ennasus5964. Especially the meeting people one. The older I get, and the busier our lives are (3 teenagers!), I find that I have lost what little concept of the passage of time that my AuDHD brain had. So the events and people pop, but not the when. Thank you!
As a Special Education teacher, I plan to use Bullet Journal as my planner, but I need a year long view for scheduling IEP meetings. This helps immensely!
I'm always forgetting what I did in a certain year (unless I look every month of every bujo..), this is such a great idea to remember it in a glance, too !
Thanks Ryder !
Even though a month isn't 4 neat weeks, the layout helps you see broadly what's going on. For instance, I know I'll be in Tennessee the last week of April, and in Florida the last week of May. Also, that my daughter is coming to visit the second week of June. This is for those big blocks of time. Like what weeks my husband will be traveling. Not specific dates, but just a general idea of when are things too close together, or overlapping. So many events are scheduled as the third week of some month. This is very useful as is, but you could revise it a little to make it serve your purposes.
this is exactly what i was hoping to be able to see when I created this spread, Ruth!
Brilliant, so much easier and fast to draw than what I was seeing on other channels. Can start straight away. 😊 Thanks
I resonate so much with how time feels so different (and weird) nowadays - it is slow and fast at the same time sometimes 😳 this spread seems very interesting to me, and even though I don't have a lot to plan ahead atm, I could also imagine this to be used as a sort of memory keeping and write something about every week. Thanks for the great inspiration, I will definitely try it out for my bullet journal ☺️
let us know how it goes for you!
Love this... I've used this style spread ever since I read the 12 week year in 2021. Its great help to have the year in quarters for tracking and planning.
“The Goldilocks Zone” 😂❤ I’m stealing that phrase. Thanks!
Wonderful spread! These days I use bujo strictly for tracking my intentions. I find that remembering what my intentions are helps me to find the motivation to get things done.
Great idea, great video! Year at a Glance Page is exactly what I was looking for... thanks! All my best from Italy!
Glad it was helpful!
I wasn’t sure this was something I needed, but I decided to try it anyways and it was actually very helpful! I love trying new spreads.
I love this spread. And I agree that having an analog spread / overview of the year is an invaluable tool.
Ryder, you’re a genius. I appreciate what you have created and continue to give the world. My life is better because of it. Thank you.
thank you for your kind words
I love watching his videos. They are so minimal & awesome.
I love this idea so much! I always found useful to see complete months or weeks, but this way to see the whole year gives me a lot more perspective, I can see the bigger picture!
I cannot express to you how indebted I am to you for creating this system and continuing to evolve it through trial, error and iteration. This new spread is supremely helpful as I've also been feeling like I can't get a grip on how I'm spending my time. Thank you Ryder.
it means a lot that it can be helpful
This view of the year would be so good at Reflection time, too.
Yes! Whether it's to compare what actually happened or see how things aligned with your intentions... absolutely
Wonderful - that's exactly what I was looking for :-) Thank you so much for having this brilliant ideas ... and sharing them. Greetings from Germany 🙂
Thank you, I was just missing that today. I bird view of my year. This covers my needs, as I book my year per week and I tend to skip my holiday
I have to use my work digital calendar extensively since I travel a lot. But the immediate thing that jumped out at me at how useful this spread could be for mapping out quarterly targets and actions for my goals.
Yay! New tutorial!!
Tbh, I hope we get more of these. Getting new stuff to use in our BuJos from its creator would be nothing but helpful
Thank you for the video!
Love this idea! Thank you!
Ryder, just curious if you would consider yourself a modern day philosopher? I always glean so many insights from your videos and quotable things. You are well-spoken. Love the content.
This is great idea. I started now using this for my book reading plan. I write when i start new book and when I have read it. Simple. Perfect. Thank you.
what a great application of the spread!
I love this spread and incorporated it immediately!
I think I need this one. This is like a more detailed version of the future log, isn't it? Thank you very much for the video!
I love this year at a glance spread. Thank you!
Others have commented here about 5 weeks in some months. Since im also using the 12WY, an essy work around for me is to modify the layout slightly and not worry about the month boundaries at all. 4 columns of 12 weeks. Since I use the 13th week for review, reflection,, and planning the next quarter, I suppose I could add the 13th week.
Yes, it is not *exact* - but it's designed mostly to get a general overview of the year rather than anything too specific. Monthly views can be helpful there, but I just wanted to get a broad stroke. Hopefully it can be adjusted for your purposes as well
Great approach! I will do this now. I had done some calendar-blocking (digitally) at the beginning of the year and already feeling those boundaries erode.
I love this idea, thank you so much for sharing it with us. Yeah, the past couple of years have been... interesting, to say the least. As a side note, have you considered doing ASMR videos? I could listen to your voice for hours, lol. Thanks again for the great spread.
that's certainly not the first time that's been said 😆
Awesomely Simplified -
thank you very much ❤
Very good tool to stay on track with long term goals or large projects
Great video. Super helpful spread!
This is such a cool idea, thank you!
I've also been having that pandemic issue. Thank you!
Will try to use this spread on my new Bullet Journal 2.0. love here from the 🇵🇭
let us know how it goes!
I love this. I would need a little color though. No I'm NOT one of those highly decorative people (nothing wrong with that; it just ain't me), but I would need something to make the divisions a little clearer.
yes! definitely make it yours - color can be very satisfying and helpful
Thank you for sharing this spread with us :D
Thank you once again!
I love this idea. I now have to try it today...lol.
Love this idea! Thank you.
My concept of time has changed in the last 3 years as well, and the speed of 1 year seems staggering, so I love this. I have a question, as you requested, but ask with literally a few days of exposure to your approach, and about 1/3 of the way through your book. Our 'why' plays an important role. Are you checking-in on your 'why' daily, weekly, monthly, yearly? For example, you have a monthly ritual but do you also have a yearly or quarterly ritual where you focus on why something is important, or is it more fluid than that?
I’m a novice to BuJo, not quite a newb, but very practiced in planning and journaling due to years of coaching and being coached, and having a “why” is something practiced somewhat universally, so I can assist here, I hope.
Revisiting your why is a fluid process, and dependent on you and your needs. It might be that you need that inspiration on a weekly basis to spur you into motion, or monthly or quarterly might be sufficient. One of the biggest things that I’ve taken out of 20 years of coaching and being coached is that no one path will work for everyone - which my autistic/OCD brain HATES, because just give me the system!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣 But, my ADHD brain understands that sometimes, the stars watch us making plans and laugh… 😜 #NeuroDivergentProblems
What I find works best for me is starting with a framework, like BuJo, and then adding in those items that the framework has left ambiguous, so that I have a clearer, more concrete picture. In this case, I would revisit my why on a monthly basis, because Criminy the weeks fly. But if I get to the first monthly and find that it’s too soon or too late, I adjust.
Take the framework and make it yours. What is easiest to integrate into how you currently pass your days? It’s harder to start something from scratch and completely new… it’s easier to piggyback it onto existing habits and routines to make it stick.
Good luck! 💕
Yes, as mentioned, a fluid process that is iterative. these rituals are great moments to help me check in with myself on my Why at minimum Monthly. Doing it regularly can mean my adjustments are small rather than going a year without checking in and having to do a large reset
I love this spread. It’s exactly what I need. I love my bujo - I just wish it was available in a larger size.
you never know!
Great idea Ryder
So clever! This was a missing link for me. Thank you!
if you've got a minute, Ryder, could you list a few examples of what you put into these lines for the weeks? I struggle a bit to understand the potential of this. See, my week has lots of priorities. Example of this week: I needed to visit my customer and make the meeting there successful (work priority), I also have a work deadline end of this week. At the same time I am getting a new car on Wed which is important as I have to prepare the old car. Also, a new event series for my kid starts this week (super important) and I need to make sure it starts off well. Then I am going on vacation on Friday and need to get me and my kid ready. Since I will be away for a week, I need to put in time to practice the piano for an upcoming event where I am playing publicly and I also need to put in physical training sessions to prepare myself for a competition (sports) in June. So.... how could I use the "Year at a Glance"? Cause I totally feel you, it would be so nice to get a grip on where the time went.
I am retired now, but remember those times. I had always done something similar I just called important dates where I listed birthdays anniversaries and the big bills like taxes,car registration, things like that. It helped me plan my priorities as well as my money!
Then I did a page for each month divided into sections horizontally , one per week. I then added things like your piano practice, or a reminder to start working on a project that would be due in six weeks. It wasn’t really a monthly in my mind because I didn’t put in dates unless it was critical. If it has a specific due date I usually just wrote the number and put a circle around it. I used it mostly to remind myself to decide on a date for the specific tasks. I had a habit of letting things get away from me until it became an emergency.
I tried to use it as a way to visualize all the things I needed to do that month and roughly when I needed to do them more than specific dates.
It helped me plan both time and money which were always tight. I did not put them all at the front of the journal like I do my future log.
I usually put them at the front of every month and then I could just keep adding and moving things around. I worried less about specific dates and more about all “the stuff” that needed doing.
I don’t know if it would help you or not but it sounds like you have a lot of important things but some are more urgent than others. The more urgent or more high priority is what I would put on his at a glance and then I would probably fill in the rest on a page dedicated to that month.
Yes it means you have to copy things but I *have to* see 👀 everything at one time. So from then I would do a weekly so that I remembered that on Wednesday I had an important meeting with the higher ups and I had to dress accordingly! It took time and a couple extra pages but it kept me on track and was immensely helpful after I got in the habit of it. Good luck on your piano performance!
@@janetdw Thank you for taking the time to answer my comment! I like your ideas, but they don't address my pain point. I don't have difficulties to PLAN my important events or processes or priorities. What I would like to address is KNOWING how I spent the year. Where did my time go? What were the key themes in my life this year? Which important things / processes started this year? And all of this in one view.
Julia, I would consider this spread to plan your year in a birds-eye overview, but still also do a future log to lock in your specific dates. Closer study from month to month would then be highlighted in your monthly logs, weekly logs and then you have your day to day in the daily logs.
this is a great question and there are subtle differences. A future log and dailies are more specific, whereas the Year at a Glance is more for reminder/reference and intention planning. The Year at a Glance is more for understanding "Okay I need to focus heavily on Project X these 3 weeks" or "I'll need to wait til May to do Project S because I'll be out of town in April" or "Wow we have a big launch in August so that means our focus is there for the weeks leading up, so we shouldn't do this other project or travel until after."
In your case with the Year at a Glance, you might mark your Vacation, "Competition" in June, "New car" in March -- which will then inform your more granular plans--
Then in Weeklies or Dailies you'd be able to identify more specific deadlines and tasks that support those larger intentions such as your clearing the old car, practice piano, increasing frequency of working out... does that help?
@bulletjournal I love your answer to this, helped clarify the purpose of the spread. Excited to try this out in 2024 and maybe make a version for my team at work. This spread can really help me with prioritizing. Thanks a lot! ❤
This rocks! If I only use it for tracking which modules (I teach) I'm in which weeks of the semester, it will save my sanity
would love to see that, Virginia! Feel free to share in BuJo U :)
13 weeks in each quarter. Week 13 is good for reviewing the quarter (For those who may wish to.)
it is a great time to pause and check in!
Best ever!!
Very cool Idea, Journaling is very nice work to do
Who’s here to plan for 2024? We got it, we will win.
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What are the differences compared to the future log?
I was using future log for similar purpose. What are main differences for you?
we will do a video to clarify this more, but really generally the future log would be for specific tasks and events, whereas the Year at a Glance is more for setting intentions with projects and time. For example, the Year at a Glance would identify that focus is going toward "Develop X Course" whereas the Future Log would have something like "Create list of Beta testers" or "Set up platform" - does that make sense?
That's a nice idea, and I love to see whole year on one sheet... but a month is not exactly 4 weeks, mostly it starts on a random day... And there are 52, not 48 weeks..
I think he sees it more like quarters of the month and not specifically seven days. Because his meeting might start on Monday and not until the following Wednesday but he would still block out maybe the second week.
like Janet was saying, it's meant to be a general overview, rather than something more precise - apologies for not stating that more explicitly in the video
This looks really practical on one level, but how does one account for the fact that there are 52, not 48 weeks in a year? Am I missing something?
I am thinking hard about this.. maybe it doesn't matter on this level of abstraction. But it bugs me! Haven't tried it yet though.
Yep, I thought the same.
I was scrolling through all these "great idea" comments hoping that someone else noticed the same. every other month has 5 weeks, how do you deal with those?
Just tried to make it fit in 4 segments per month. It feels a bit weird.. looks good though
@@noatomics8466 Cool! How did you do it? I drew the spread and my brain short-circuits every time I look at it, lol.
Ah, people and their overinflated lives and schedules and I just drive a bus every day. True, bus driving is no easy task but it's a lot easier than being a CEO at Microsoft and women who overthink about every tiny detail. I do my job and fill out my daily diary cause I love writing.
Driving a bus, consistently and safely, with people everyday, is not an easy task! We all have different contexts and it's great that you can enjoy the writing process :)
I never thought to use the guide as a ruler...
Should have learned this yeaaaaaaaaaars ago. Im 32 now 😭
I won't share what age I am then 🤣
I understand the concerns expressed about this only providing a 48 “week” view vs 52 weeks. My only thought is that with one rather small line, it’s not intended to capture detail in that way. It’s an opportunity for a birds-eye view a quarter of the month.
Exactly. Now I know to state this more explicitly in the future so it is clear about the design and distinction
@@bulletjournal I think you did say it. 😬 I get that there are lots of different ways we absorb info; part of why the BuJo concept is so sweet. Supremely customizable! I really, really like this spread. It’s simple and it works!
5:57 STACK: The library of collections one has in their BuJo. From Bullet Journal Method book.
Thank you for sharing this. It was so inspiring. There are two things, I can't understand in the Bullet Journal Community. Why don't people understand, that there is no theme needed for the Bullet Journal month? And why don't people understand that the Weekly Log how most people do it, as a second calendar, has nothing to do with the bullet journal method? Please go on making videos like this. Greetings, Madlen
Thanks! What digital calendar is that?
The Goldilocks zone 😆
How does this template interacted with the future log for you?
I have the same question
In my opinion are 2 different things: future log is for general scheduling every month with all schedules in no order, while here you can record a short entry for each week (ex. goals to reach or body measurements to record, etc)
yes, as @sinosabesnotemetas said, the future log is more specific while the Year at a Glance is meant to help design your time around your intentions and major commitments. That might mean you have "Trip to Michigan" blocked off in August in your Year at a Glance. Then you might put "Book hotel for Michigan" task in your Future Log for May. Then in your monthlies, weeklies, and dailies you can get more specific based on that, does that make sense?
What are your thoughts on using an EInk digital device to create a bullet journal. I have a Boox Note Air 3C. Previously I have wanted to be a bullet journaler but but off within a week or so when doing it manually. But my y new tablet has me in love with writing again and removes the fear of making errors. Curious on your thoughts.
As I understand it, pen on paper is important because it forces you to slow down, and thus gives you more time for your brain to catch up and to think about what you want to do and why. Ideally errors shouldn't be a problem, you strike it and move on, but if your inner critic / perfectionist is too hard on you you can always use pencil and an eraser.
Plus with a connected digital device there's always a high risk of being distracted, though maybe it's not so bad on an eInk device.
WheezyWaiter did 2 videos about that : one where he tried bullet journaling on a tablet, and one where he tried again but with a notebook, with snippets of an interview with Ryder Carroll where he speaks of that subject, including the fear or errors.
Love this spread but had to laugh at the comment 'you'll see the markings' for dividing the pages. I'm 65 and no, the markings are so feint, I cannot see them - even with a magnifying glass...,..
🤣 mileage may vary
All you’ll ever need to know about the bullet journal pen can be found at the 1:13 mark.
3 pen strokes and still looked faded. I regret my purchase.
No refunds too.
Could someone comment on how this differs from the future log? I’m trying to avoid redundancy
my take, it's the same but now it's over a year instead of 6 months, across two pages - depends how quickly you fill up the book or need a year at a glance, all up to the user
The future log is for every small detail, this is about the big picture. So less detail, more overview
This is great, but I’m confused about what to do with the other 4 weeks of the week (this only shows 48). Like, if a week has three days in April and 4 in May is it the last week of April or the first week of May?
I have the same question
This isn't intended to be an exact week by week - it's more to get a general shape of the year and where his attention is mainly going
Good idea but there are 4x13 = 52 weeks in a year and not 4x12 = 48 weeks. Some months can have 5 weeks and months don't necessarily end on a sunday. For it to work there should be 13 vertical lines and months should be filled in after the weeks.
nice idea but what about months spread on 5 weeks ??
it's more to get a general idea, rather than anything too specific. the specifics are great for spreads like the Future Log, Monthlies, Dailies, etc!
hi any idea where I can get the edition 2 in the uk please amazon don't sell them I know I can get them direct but worried about shipping and import duties thanks
there should be a UK link on our website, www.bulletjournal.com, if you hover over Shop on the right, the UK link should appear. Does that work?
Is this meant to replace the future log?
This is different - it's more of a year from a super high level view so you can get an impression. Future logs are more specific
@@bulletjournal Oh gotcha. Thank you!
do you use only one journal for everything? i wanted to know because i m using 5 at the moment 😂
yes and no - I do use only one notebook at a time. And, I also use tools for log other things. For example, to manage the projects I share with members of my team, I use a project app called Clarity. For notes from books or other media I consume, I store those in an app called Roam Research. My events and plans go into my digital calendar. Over the years I've experimented with what tools are best for the job I have for them and funnel a lot of it through my BuJo. Hope this helps some
It looks nice, but it only takes into account 4x12 = 48 weeks, while the year has 52 weeks. I think it needs some reformulation, like adding an extra week at the bottom of each column, so we can adjust it.
"Don't need to be super neat"
Yoiu lost me there.
Hope you find something that works for you
THis is very confusing since it leave out one week every quarter....
It's not designed to be exact, it's designed to give a bird's eye view of your time. The more zoomed-in spreads like Monthly Views can be more specific.