Sharing a bit of my bullet journal today! If you'd like to see more of a "plan with me" style, let me know? Trying to figure out what to do with this thing I pour all my brains into :O

"That's my problem, I'm too optimistic with my goals." I feel you.

Finally a video where the bullet journal/system is NOT perfect from the beginning :D I was a little "scared" to "just" start one because I thought 'What if you mess up a page?' But I feel more relaxed now that I've seen your video and growth over the month. I can just adjust the systems to my personal needs over time. No worries :) ♥

hey wendy, since bullet journals tend to constantly evolve with each month, do you think you can create an updated version of what works for you? like whenever you feel as if you found the a solid way to bullet journal for yourself? it'd be nice to see an update to this.

I like to include the weather every day, with a little drawn icon and the temperature. It's interesting to see how the weather and temperature affect my mood and productivity on any given day. Plus, my journal is super utilitarian looking, and the little clouds and sun give it some personality

I've been watching bullet journal vids all week and now you post one! I'm feeling really inspired and going to try bullet journaling. Great video and love from Sweden!

I like how you found a system that worked for you as you went along and that you didn't seem to just have it all figured out right when you started. Also I think it was nice how you had a simple system and didn't obsess over the look of it at first. You made it functional and eventually added the decoration and color to instead of doing it all from the start.

I love seeing people's bullet journals! I used to keep one but now I'm so busy I feel a lot of it is counter-productive for me and find it much easier to scribble things in a day-view diary instead, but I loved planning it and making it pretty!

I NEEDED THIS WENDY

Ugh! I am on your old system with notebooks all over the place! Love your suggestion for simplicity too. Really helpful! Thanks for taking time to post this 😊

This video was extremely helpful. It made me feel not so overwhelmed with all of the possibilities there are with bullet journaling, and to understand that (especially in the beginning) it's all about developing what works for you and trying the basics before really customizing your journal INTO what it needs to be for what you will use it for.

I'm considering starting a bullet journal and in looking at videos I was intimidated because of all the focus on the the aesthetics in it. I just want to be productive and organized. THANK YOU for bringing that back home.

There are so many BuJo videos out there for beginners that it can be overwhelming, but I always want to refer back to yours as your instructions are simple and practical for beginners, and you don't try to dress it up for us. Just what I need! Always love your way of laying out instructions and tips Wendy. Thanks for this video.

After watching tons of bullet journal videos (and I mean TONS), I really enjoyed yours, because your video is so realistic and so honest about where exactly you are at in self-exploration (ex. what works for you, what doesn't etc.). I am questioning myself if I should start a bullet journal or not, but have been hesitant because I am still more comfortable with my current system. However, your video made me re-think the idea of bullet journaling and I am grateful for that. Thank you so much for sharing!

I don't know what you actually do but you've inspired me to start my bullet journal. You are so articulate and organized. Thank you!

I love how simple your bullet journal is. It's very realistic and achievable.

this was so helpful to see! i attempted bullet journaling earlier this year but it fell flat because i couldn't find a system that really worked for me but seeing how you do yours really inspired me to try again using different systems, thank you!

I'm not even half way through the video and I love this idea. I just recently got a planner and it's just not for me I find myself going to my open notebook to still write down my thoughts and ideas and then my computer for a monthly reflection. I am def gonna try this. Love it! ❤️❤️❤️

Out of all the bujo vids I have watched I love this one the most, and I love your hand writing. It's so simple and easy to manage. Watching all of the vids with the colorful pages and inspirational quotes , yours has caused me to actually maintain my journal and get things done effectively. Thanks for sharing!

You are literally changing my life showing me little by little how to improve my productivity and make stuff i never ever thought i could be able to do so THANK YOU and keep doing what you are doing! ✊

I have bullet journaled for years now and still keep learning new things and see myself making changes to the system, as my life changes 😊 i really loved your video and I love the "to meet or to talk" section. I need to incorporate this in my bujo. Thank you for so much inspiration! 😍

I have tried doing this in so many different ways, but due to my depression it works well on the highs but when I get into the lows that’s when it is not touched at all, because this going back to it always left me flat for the missed days where I have been in so much pain I can not focus at all. Now later in my life I just go with the flow, it’s one of the reasons why I have so many different hobbies. This has been a major brake through for me as each mood takes on a different life which then gives me that different mood to work with something for the day. Before my nervous brake down I was supper good at keeping a bullet journal after the brake down it left my mind fractured (it’s so hard to explain) it’s hard to keep thing straight and in focus all the time, sometimes the silliest of things can distract you that before you know it you have no idea it was you were trying to do in the first place. Many of my new hobbies have been able to calm that storm in the mind and bring me back to that calm place. It is because of this I can function 80% of the time, if I ignore them I get worst as each day passes. So I’ve had to learn to let go of my old life where I was always in control. It’s not easy but at least at my age I’m no longer expected to do certain things anymore. Today is one of those days so I spend it watching KZfaq funny enough this really does help. I have had 4 great days sitting and doing some hand sewing sitting in the sunshine yesterday I tried to but the weather was against me so to the time to run and do some of things in town and pickup the mail. Today it’s windy and cold as if winter is coming back so I’m curled up with my electric blanket and catching up on my KZfaq watching and I have left all thoughts of tomorrow for tomorrow to sort out.

I love you showing your progress on every month (and the yay flag sticker)

I'd love to see an updated bulletin journal video! You're the only person on you tube I can stand to watch about bullet journaling.

I love my bullet journal. I've had one for 2 years. It has made my life so much easier. I love that you posted this video! I really like that you added the grateful/excited for section. I might add that to my bullet journal. Thanks for the inspiration!

I love the idea of putting things in a habit tracker like "praying for someone" and reflections about devotions/readings/sermons. What a wonderful way to track your walk with Christ and keep yourself mindful of it daily. I will definitely add those things in my July spread! Thank you for the inspiration.

I love your down-to-earth approach with bullet journaling! It is so much more realistic for me!

As always, you're super helpful Wendy! Bullet journaling has always been very intimidating because of how involved it was, and how beautiful people made them. But now, it looks much more functional and most importantly, USEFUL! Thank you!!

I love how you merged the monthly goals with the spread - I've been doing mine separately in my weekly, and though it's nice to see things on a weekly basis I feel like I could benefit from moving back to the monthly! This has made me realise that at the 1yr point of my bujo, I should probably strip it back and see what I REALLY need!

I watched a lot of videos about starting a bullet journal...and almost every video i watched left me confused because they were talking about how they very good they have become after doing it for months but not about the struggles they faced at the beginning. This was the only video accurate for someone just starting a bullet journal. Thank you.

I REALLY appreciated your take on discovering and editing yourself thru this process. I need to learn to do that so much more

Bullet journalling is so amazing. I dived into it head first and I found the best system for me and it's just amazing.

Finally a video regarding bullet journaling that isn't filled with so many drawings! I can't draw to save my life but I recently bought my first bullet journal as im trying to figure out what type of planner works best for me but I felt so much pressure to make mine look so beautiful with drawings. Yours really motivated me so thank you for posting this!!

This is the MOST helpful beginning bullet journaling video I've ever seen! Thank you for your comments about not having to do all the beautiful artwork--I just needed to do something functional! Thanks for all the inspo!!

after watching a whole lot of videos, yours was the first one that made me feel like I can do this! Ive found that a hybrid of your old system (minus the planner) still works for me cuz I journal a lot and write out a lot of my prayers- but! I love that I can actually take goals from both my work books and journal and incorporate them into my BuJo! thank you so much for creating a video thats simple and relatable

I've watched a lot of videos on bullet journaling, and I have really enjoyed your take on the bullet journal the most. You've given me some really great ideas, thank you!

I loved everything about this video! After getting a traditional moleskine monthly calendar journal/notebook, I've realized a less structured/more personal bullet journal would be my style. Thanks for the tips and ideas!

I feel like you've given me the best advise on starting up a journal to just keep it basic and slowly work in new stuff

This is such a cool video and idea. I love the concept of bullet journaling. I love how you laid it out and allowed yourself to experiment with the formats that worked best for you and your way of thinking as well as your lifestyle! So, so cool. I wish you could bullet journal my life for me hahaha. I'll definitely have to give this a shot sometime! Thanks for the inspo!!

This was so helpful! Whenever I got overwhelmed or was unhappy with how my bullet journal turned out I didn't revise it to fit my needs..... Just kinda stopped.i like the idea of starting basic and working from there. Thanks so much Wendy. I think I'll give this a shot.

I really appreciate your practical approach! I'm going to share this with patients who are looking for a way to keep themselves accountable to their life (and health) goals. Thanks again!

This is the most helpful thing I've watched so far, thanks! I also like how you added the "pray for someone" on you goals. I'm not Christian/Catholic but I am Wiccan, I can definitely use this to keep my faith related goals on the right path. Thanks again!

Love how this made bullet journaling less intimidating!

I really like your approach to it! I'm not an artsy person with clean hand writing and good doodle skills. I really like that you started with just using two colors and sticking to just things you need to keep track of. This was really helpful! I'd love to see more of your journal videos. :) thanks wendy!

Oh thank you! I've been wanting to start writing down things, but didn't know where to start. This I feel will help my day to day life become better.

I find this video really useful, most of it because i tend to forget half of the things i must do or ideas or names of films etc, so yeah, i will try to adjust it to my daily routine. In fact putting goals and seeing them daily will help me a lot not to lose focus, thanks girl! And if you have updates on your own process let us know! xx

I just discovered the bullet journal idea and thought it might be a good way to organize my health and business but I've been super overwhelmed with all of the ideas. Thanks for sharing your evolution. It gave me the courage to just start writing!

one of the most informative bullet journal videos i've ever seen! So many people begin a bullet journal without any system and order. The mainidea of the bujo system is too great not to make use of.

I really like how this starts out very basic and you add features as you need them. I tried to start out bullet journaling over a year ago and got too overwhelmed! You have given me the inspiration to try again! :)

Wow is that handwriting for real?I thought they existed only in tumbler 😇

I love your “pray for someone” area!! I ordered my bullet journal yesterday & I’m browsing for inspiration. I think that’s something I’ll definitely incorporate into mine! I think it’ll be beneficial in a lot of ways. Thanks for sharing!

This was just the push I needed! I've been wanting to do bullet journaling for quite a few months now but it seemed so very overwhelming. This helped! Thanks Wendy!

Thank you so much! This feels like the only 'tutorial/explanation' I truely understand. This is really motivating and helpful for me. I bought my first bullet journal notebook today!

I love this!! Every video I've seen so far, their drawings and designs were soo crazy mostly because I can't draw for shit but this really helped me so I'm starting to add everything in today to start on June 1st

Please keep updating us on your journal journey! I sadly don't sew, so your other vids aren't as relevant to me, but I really love your way of explaining things and your personality! Thank you!

Wendy you're a great inspiration, and you shine so bright!! Love you so much! Thank you for sharing your creativity in such a soft manner!

I didn't know this thing existed. I love it! It solves every problem I have about planners. I don't know how to post pictures on here or else, I would lol. Thank you, so much!

This is so wonderful! I just posted my bullet journal and then got lost in the rabbit whole of youtube bullet journal videos. Ha! I really love this video, so practical. I will watch it again towards the end of the month when I set up April! So great thank you!

Thank you for an encouraging, realistic picture of what's possible. I find that I overcomplicate and your approach not only makes sense to me but also provides me a little hope because I have a prayer journal, a story idea journal...I'm just journaled OUT!!! I also subscribed to your channel and am thankful today that I saw your video.

Does your dress form happen to be for sale?? 😉 I also find a structured to-do system to be useful. I now merged my to-do's, memories & creative diary in one place because I also switch back and forth between the topics. We'll see how it works out.

Thank you for sharing! we really have to admit that journal designing constantly changes from month to month and the work you've done is amazing!

Thank you for this video! I've been putting off bullet journaling because all I've seen are really artistic/complicated ones and it seemed like such a chore. I love the way you did yours' and it is much more realistic for a beginner.

Hey Wendy, so glad to see that your BuJo'ing. I am starting in opposite direction. Since I try to keep my BuJo with me I decided to try to use a mini Traveler Notebook . The inserts are small (4X3) but they allow me to separate my Planning/To do from my Notes/Journaling. I found I take so many notes that it was hard "threading" ideas together. I will let the world know about how my experiment is working if I ever start videoing stuff.

I needed this kind of bullet journal video!! I love your system and how honest you are about the sometimes intimidating but very very pretty bujos. I don't use my bullet journal regularly because I alternate between one and a planner but I'll be sure to keep these tips in mind when I use a bujo for this upcoming busy week! Thank you Wendy!! ❤️

Really love your bullet journal! I love how you showed the process of things you decided to keep and change as you kept moving forward. I find that it's a whole new level of personal planning, so it's really interesting to see what other people do! I've had mine since December 2014 and just bought a new one, and this definitely gave me some inspiration to keep mine clean and simple for the years to come. I love the simplicity, I try to keep mine limited to black pen and just colors for highlighting/important tasks.

Thank you thank you Thank you! I've seen so many bullet journaling things, but I always felt it was out of my reach just because of how much time that I would need to spend on the bullet journaling and how it needed to be perfect and incredibly beautiful. However, after seeing your simple bullet journal, I'm going to try it again but without all the fluff. Thank you

I love journaling and go through phases of journaling. 💕 Have kept a daily journal for a few years, also sporadic journaling. With my pace of life, right now (home with my 18 month old and 7 week old), I find journaling just takes up too much time and is counter productive for me personally; I would end up feeling anxiety about not being able to write in my journal everyday. 😅 I do love a good to do list, either daily, if I need to order my thoughts or long term; posted on the fridge. Also have a little black book for video ideas.

I've been watching bullet journals so much lately and am so happy you made one!! So fun to see others ideas! Also, I love that you write your daily prayers down and the verses you put at the end of your videos :)

Loved the dot idea for time gone / and objective(s) achieved...thank you

Thank you for explaining your thought process on this. I had just seen a video about a bullet journal earlier and it seemed really intensive. How you explained it make it seem much more doable for me.

Thank you for the walk-thru about how you initially used it, how it evolved to fit your lifestyle, and your reflections - pros and cons. No one really puts into such a succinct review especially in terms of productivity and measuring progress towards goals. Thank you for this! P.S. Yes, I agree - all the attempts at artistry was too intimidating for me. I'm using your dot system, grateful + excited for, and using weeklies more of an end-of-the-week intentions: love, gratitude, discovery and mindshift.

Was up and ready to do so many fancy things and ended up just not knowing what to do when I opened an empty page. That's when I stumbled across your video and couldn't thank you more for sharing on how you started your journal out! It definitely has helped me with that simple system of having 1 Pen and 1 Highlighter! You just earned 1 more subscriber~!

This is exactly what I was looking for, thank you! I appreciate your down-to-earth relatability - this was a great video :)

I was exactly overwhelmed like you said but this video is great! It helped a lot, do more like these!

One of the better bullet journal videos I've seen so far! I love that you shared how you started and not just dove right into the method you've evolved to. I think that's where lots of people trying to get into it get overwhelmed and confused. People need to remember that you should always just start with the original system and try to go from there, adjusting accordingly to your needs. Awesome video :)

hey wendy! i'm so excited for you in starting your new bullet journal, and i can see its really effective for you so far. i have a looot of tips and i hope some are of use! something i like to do when there's extra space i never used is i draw doodles if you're a doodle type, paste in photos or other mementos relevant to the page, or fill it with a relevant quote. also, try researching tracker pages where you consistently flip back to it to reflect on it like how you want to feel and what you want to do by the end of the year (really good motivation!). also, it's a lot easier and less time consuming to choose a color scheme for one month, or week that way you're not switching back and forth from colors. creating an index can really help if you find yourself flipping back in previous pages (but you gotta remember to update it!). if you plan to paste in anything, pay attention to how flat it is and how much bulk it will give your journal. washi tape is also a pretty good decorative element if you want to invest in making your journal look more appealing. i hope some of this helps you wendy!

Starting a bullet journal when school starts again!!!!

Ive been watching a ton of bullet journalling videos but this is the best one ive found

so good! no annoying music, very real - like that! thx for that vid!

I started a bullet journal this year too! :)) I love you're videos I can't wait to see more from you ❤

You're my hero and such an inspiration. Thanks for making this!

This was really helpful I just prayed to find something like this. THANKS FOR SHARING

I also do fashion and bullet journaling and sewing (and booktube) all on my channel!! i usually spend quite a bit of time of aesthetic not because I want it to look beautiful but because I find it to be meditative. I couldnt believe you started when I saw this video, thank you for sharing, it was really direct and helpful!!! :D

this video helped so much!!! I've been wanting to start a bullet journal for so long now but I was always overwhelmed by thinking that it had to be beautiful and colourful right from the beginning

I love the system of x's and dashes you use. I sort of have an all-in-one notebook at the moment: planner, journal, sketchbook, etc. It's maybe a little too disorganized but I do like having everything all in one place and being able to always have it with me. I'm hoping to make it a little more organized in the future. I really appreciate how simple your design is. I think what scares me about bullet journaling is how fancy many of them seem to be.

i love your bullet journal! i've been trying to find a good planner/agenda method, and yours seems so wonderful! i've seen other bullet journals before, but i didn't really like the format for myself until i saw your video. thank you!

Thank you so much, this video was helpful as I have also been juggling three different books. Also, I noticed that you share the faith. Be blessed!

I had to find some time to watch this, but it was SO worth it. I got a grid journal today and am excited to start planning some goals

Awesome and thorough video! I want to start on bullet journaling, and youre right, it seems a little intimidating but you explain your thought process so well. Thanks!

okey this is really helping me figuring out what best for me.. since i have the same struggle.. i see ur ways for bullet jurnal is much more easy n clean.. i love it !

Woah been watching your videos since 2015 and i was shocked on how many subs you got. All your hardworks were really paid off!!! So proud of you Wendy!

I really love the prayer bullet journal idea. Thx

Thanks so much for this!! I have a million journals, projects, and goals and I need to condense them!

Thank you for this video. A friend recently mentioned she was doing a Bullet Journal and I had never heard of it. I am a goal-oriented person who likes to make to-do lists and track my progress so the concept sounded exciting to me. I was a bit intimidated by the other videos I watched, but your approach of trying different formats each month to find what works best for you makes me much more comfortable with it. The long weekend ahead is the perfect time for me to set-up for June. Wish me luck!

Thank you for this! I did get inspired by all the videos but also intimidated like you mentioned could happen. This is the video that actually got me to start a bullet journal right away, for real!

Thank you so much. Your video is so helpful. Been searching for the right video on bullet journaling to help me. Yours was the most helpful.

When I first started my bullet journal, a key for me was to sketch a layout for each "type" of page before I drew them. That way I could plan the spacing nicely and decide what to put on the opposite side. What was really helpful for me is using a disk bound journal. I can use that to move my pages around. If I mess up a page, I can throw it away. I can move the current weekly page to the front every week. If a page is no longer relevant, but I want to keep it, it goes in the back. It's only been 2 months so far, so I haven't done a big purge/archive, but I like knowing that I can keep the same journal and put all new pages in it quickly and easily. The habit tracker is addicting to fill in! Adding it definitely helped me feel motivated to use the journal every day.

Loved this video. It definitely took some pressure off. By that I mean, you don’t have to stick with one thing and you can find out what works and doesn’t work. Thank you!!

Thank you sooooo much for this ~ I've been feeling overwhelmed because of watching too many youtube vids on bullet journaling but I love yours the best ~ Please post again on this topic ~Heather in Londonx

I think I really needed this video to motivate me to get my life together. time management for my spring semester has really been getting me and my GPA down, but no more! I shall figure out how to maximize me because those really cute premade planners also don't really work with me ☺️