Happy New Year! What are you doing for your bullet journal setup in 2021?

I plan month by month. As one month comes to an end, then I set up my next month. I'm definitely not someone who plans their bullet journal for the year.

i love how you addressed how journals have to be flexible, depending on the progress you have or how the set up really worked for you for a time being.. so happy with that ❤ i mean i wanted to do journal back then but i didnt like the idea of having to set it up for the entire year coz it might not work for me later on, which was what happened..

Absolutely agree. In year 2022 now. What I have learnt, for my future log, I do not even want to do in the bullet journal anymore. Life changes too fast. The monthly / weekly & daily log / collections is more than enough.

Yay to 2021! Planning out a new year is a ritual I enjoy, and I’ve simplified mine this year and embraced some of the Nice to Have, but not essential lists (futures log and assorted lists) to the back - as you recommended. It’s definitely lovely to get straight to January at the start. Last years journal had a lot of goal planning at the start... although that all went to hell with COVID, and my journal took on more of a journaling role as my anxieties increased. So with this habit formed, I did my January monthly log, monthly tasks, I’ve introduced a weekly task list of areas of focus (thanks for that)... but then just followed with Friday 1st for my first daily log entry - end of pre-planning, allowing a day-to day space for brain dumping and planning of each day (my daily morning ritual as I wait for the water to boil for my cup of tea). I also appreciate a space to dump a thought throughout the day, an emotion, an event. I also supplement with calendar, reminder, note apps as my secondary brain.

Thanks for this! Your set-up is truly minimal and seems to work so well for you. My set-up has a simple future log for Feb21-Jan22, reading list and a few pages for a running diary. And that's it! After these I'm ready for the January monthly spread (much like yours, but with weekly tasks included) and rolling dailies. My dailies can be anything from 0 lines to 2 pages, I can't set them up beforehand like you do. So I just make use of my future log and migrate to monthlies when it's time to set them up. It's great how we can all adjust the bujo method as it best suits us. Hoping for a peaceful and productive year for you!

Your planner spreads just keeping getting better! 💫 Keep rising to be who you want to be! 💫 #keeprising #risingtobe

Cheers to a good and healthy 2021!!!! I love this idea. I used to do the whole year in advance but now like you say I’m stating small with only one week and day at a time, and that’s ok.

Yayyy... please please do more plan with me’s I love ur videos and would be nice to see more of PWM’s 👌🏻👊🏻💖

I plan to add a Vision Board to my Bullet Journal this year. ✏🖊🖋📓

Just what I needed today to get off my butt, setup my January collections, and start my quarterly plan. Thank you!

Avoiding set up is why I like the Rhodia goals book. The perpetual calendar and future log are already printed and then I just freestyle my way through the rest of the book

Thank you Matt. This is the first time I am using the Bullet Journaling method and I am really excited about it. Thank you for your videos. I'm looking forward to seeing more of them. Happy New Year!

Thank you! This was so helpful and made my first go at the bullet journal achievable. I started just January, and see what I use and don’t use. What I like and don’t like. Thanks for this video!

Matt I watch your bujo videos to learn bullet journalling. You look like Tom Cruz really. Keep growing, happy new year.

Hoy comienzo mi Bujo, un diario entendido como bloques de programación es de lo más asombroso. Thanks for the great content 🙌

Really happy to see this video in my inbox. Happy New Year, Matt!

Happy New Year Matt, thank you for all your great content. Embarking on my first full year with a Bullet journal.

You deserve more followers man ! Thank you so much for your content

Great video! Ive been bullet journaling for a few years now. I use google calendar to sync with hubby's calendar and future log in there. I have a heard time sticking to the future log in a bullet journal. With that said I definitely do weekly layouts and daily layouts. Most the time weekly. I do go back and forth with the layout of the weekly spreads though.

Nice video, I really liked all the tips.

I tried a major layout for 2021 and 2022 because i needed to put something related to 2021 last year and wasnt able to do 😂. Something that works for me is that I keep all my "miscellaneous" speads in the back of my bullet journal or else it will be "mixed up" with my monthly spreads. For example, a spread about books i want to read goes in the back of my bujo as this is not necessarily linked to a specific month / year. This way I could get back to it the next year snd that way it won't be forgotten. Ah i don't use an index in my bujo.. never been a fan of!

Hey Mr. Ragland, my executive function says this is yum.

To be honest.... try everything out. I need some kind of a calender and somewhere I put in my to-dos.

Posted on Jan 1 lol :D Found you by sheer coincidence when searching for reviews on 2nd edition Bullet Journal (BTW it is not sold out in Canada). I really like that you are focusing on what is important when bullet journaling.

I follow the original method and I don't set up even the week in advance as it constrains the daily logs. The "variable length" daily log is one of the main advantages of BUJO imo.

Hi Matt, really enjoying your videos. Im struggling to get BuJo off the ground however. I want to use BuJo to also do goal setting for the year. Im bot sure how to set and track goals, especially aspects of goals that are required on a daily/weekly basis.

I have never seen anyone put more than one monthly in their journal at a time (a whole year? who does that?). Even here, where do you put the other monthly pages? Since dailies take a variable amount of space, you have to thread like crazy if you put in a monthly ahead of time -- Feb monthly will either be right in the middle of january dailies, or there will be feb dailies before the monthly.

Happy New Year Matt! - I'm curious. Where do you put your grocery lists?

You should do a giveaway of that makers mark you have had up there for a couple of weeks😂

I've noticed that behind you, you have a copy of both tools of titans and tribe of mentors. Is there a difference between them?

Sometimes my future log only has 2 to 3 months.

Integrate with Asana and Evernote

This is the most "ahead" planning I have ever seen. I've never actually seen anyone plan a whole year from the get go. I don't think most people setup more than a month at a time. The original Bullet Journal system doesn't do any setup ahead of time.

I hate the traditional future log ... I much prefer just setting up all the months at the beginning

You’re rather handsome.

If you were to shave and cut the longer parts of your hair you'll look in your 20s

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