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Tip #4

How to Get

and Stay

Organized!

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It’s a journaling system that you create yourself
Helps you organize days and months
Helps you keep track of goals, future plans
Is completely personalized to what you want to keep track of
Can be fun to decorate and design or keep as plain as you want

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A journal - it’s easiest of has dots or grid lines
Journal should have good paper that markers won’t bleed through
Pens or Markers or Colored Pencils - or all 3!
Ruler

Optional:

Stickers
Decorative Tape

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Dotted Pages

Grid Line Pages

Close Bound Edge

Spiral Bound

Choose What Works Best for You

Choose What You Like Best

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Choose What Works Best for You

Choose What You Like Best

Gel Pens

Colored Pencils

Fine Tip Sharpies

Regular Pens & Pencils

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Your first journal will be your learning notebook. Like any new activity, it will take time to find a bullet journaling flow and system that works for you. Don’t go crazy and buy expensive journals and pens. That’s too much pressure. Bullet journaling involves letting go of perfection. Go ahead and make a mess.

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The index, which takes up the first page(s)of your journal, is where you'll keep track of the page numbers of all the things that go in your bullet journal, from you daily to-do lists to your sports and club meetings

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The key details the symbols you'll use to differentiate everything you're writing in your journal, like a bullet point for a task, a circle for an event, and a dash for a note.

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The future log is where you can look at the next six months of your life at a glance.
In this section, you're not tracking anything you want to do in the immediate future, but rather the things you want to get done at some point down the road.

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The monthly is a bird's-eye-view of your current month.
On this page, you write down all the things that you have planned this month along with the tasks and goals you want to get done throughout the month.
This page is something you can refer to throughout the month so that you can stay organized daily.