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- Hey everyone. it's Amanda, welcome back to my channel.
I hope January was good to you.
February is right on the corner
which means it's time to do my favorite
Plan With Me and Bullet Journal Setup.
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into this video.
As usual, it's time to showcase some of your recreations
from my previous Bullet Journal Setup.
You can see all of them above me.
If you want me to see any of your recreations
from this month, you can tag me on Instagram
@amandarachdoodles.
Make sure you tag me in the photo,
not just the caption, because then I can see
and like all your photos.
One of my favorite things to do
is to scroll through my tagged photos
and see all of your recreations.
Anyways, I think I'm just gonna hand you guys
off to the voiceover, now.
So, let's go.
All right, so just a warning.
You guys are going to be seeing
a lot of hearts and a lot of pink in this video
because that's my theme for February,
very Valentine's Day inspired.
Even though I'm very single,
I decided that didn't mean I can't enjoy
a nice Valentine's Day bullet journal theme.
On the page before, I decided to add in a quote
to fill that blank page that says
"Love yourself first."
This is something that I truly believe in,
whether you're single or in a relationship,
it's so important.
Anyways, I really love how my cover page turned out.
I wanted, of course, to incorporate
the heart theme, but I didn't want it
to look tacky or too in your face,
so hopefully, I accomplished that
and did Valentine's Day in a cute
and sophisticated way.
For my monthly log, I decided to try out a different layout.
This one, as you can see, the boxes are actually thinner
and taller, I believe each box was seven by five.
Usually, I spread my calendar layout
across the page horizontally,
which means that I have space on the top and the bottom,
but this layout allows me to have more space
on the left side, which I actually really, really liked.
So on the left, of course, after I've filled in
all of the numbers, I did a February doodle
that matched the cover page
and I did my YouTube growth tracker.
By the way, the color that I'm using
is just a Crayola Super Tips Marker.
I love this coral pink shade.
Again, it's not a hot pink, baby pink color
that you would typically see for Valentine's Day.
So I thought it went well with this video.
And as usual, if you're curious
as to what pens I'm using,
I'm going to have everything linked
in the description box below for your convenience.
Funnily enough, this theme with the hanging hearts
on the string was actually inspired by a DIY video
I did, four years ago, I think,
where I made a real life physical version
of these hanging hearts in my room.
So shout out to any of you who have watched that video
or have been watching my channel since those days.
I thought it would be a fun nod
to old school Amanda Rach Lee,
especially because this month
is actually the five-year anniversary
of when I posted my very first YouTube video.
A little fun fact for you guys there.
I just realized that me talking about this
is going to entice a couple of you sneaky little viewers
out there to go back and watch my old videos,
which just makes me cringe with every fiber of my body.
(laughing) A warning for any of you brave souls
who are gonna go back and do that,
you are going to experience awkward preteen Amanda,
please keep in mind, I was 14 or 15 years old, so be kind.
Enough about my fetus days and back into this video.
For my habit tracker, I decided to try something
a bit different this month
and do multiple habit trackers.
As you can see, I split up what I normally squish together
on one chart into separate boxes.
You're gonna see later that I numbered each mini box
and basically, every mini box represents a day
and every day, you'll fill it in if you actually
did that habit.
My hope is that this way of tracking habits
is going to be a lot more efficient and telling
because I'll be able to see how I did for each category.
So, for example, if my eating healthy box
is a little sparse, I'll know that, for next time,
I should try to focus on that more
and the goal is to fill in as many boxes
for each category as possible.
I found that the previous way that I did my habit tracker,
it was nice and it was a good way
to keep myself accountable,
but, in general, there wasn't a lot of payoff.
I was able to look at the chart as a whole,
but not really focus in on each category as much.
So fingers crossed this works out for me.
I think it's gonna be a nice little switch up
and hopefully motivate me to fill it in every day.
It was pretty tedious to fill in the numbers
for all of the boxes, but I made it through
and at the end, I rewarded myself
by making it pretty and pink
and adding the heart doodles all around it.
For my mood tracker this month,
I decided to do the same style of mood tracker
as I did in my January Plan With Me, last month,
with the wheel, I don't even know how to describe it,
but a lot of you were asking me how this works.
Basically, every single dot represents a day
and I have lines sprouting out from each of them
in a sunburst pattern.
And every single day, I'll draw a line,
a longer line represents a happier day
and a shorter line represents a not-so-happy day.
Instead of sparklers and fireworks,
like I did last month, I decided to decorate the lines
as Cupid's bow arrows,
which I thought was such a cute and fun idea.
This was, honestly, my favorite page
and spread to do last month.
So I highly recommend it if any of you
have been struggling with your mood trackers.
There's a bit of empty space at the bottom,
so I continued with the string of hearts.
And that's it for this mood tracker.
If you're still confused as to how to fill it in,
I did post a picture of the finished spread on my Instagram,
so you can go check that out,
but anyways, for my expense tracker,
nothing special, exact same spread.
This spread has probably been the most consistent
throughout all of my monthly setups,
although I am trying to think of different ways
to upgrade it and make it a bit more effective for my life
because I have been finding that I've been slacking
a little bit on the expense tracking
and maybe that's because I haven't found it
as useful anymore.
And as I always say, if the spread is not adding value
to your life, then switch it out.
So next to it, I have my video planner page.
This is actually a spread
that I really enjoyed from last month.
It was nice to have a page with no structure
where I could just dump any ideas or lists
that I had that are video related.
So I think I might implement more of these categorized
brain dump pages into my bullet journal more
because I have been loving them.
And finally, for my weekly spread,
I decided to go back to an oldie, but a goodie.
If you guys have been watching my Bullet Journal Setups
for a while, then you probably recognize this
and that's because it is one of the OG spread layouts.
(laughing) I split up the page, I think between each day,
there was eight dot spaces
and then underneath each day of the week,
I did one of those scribble circles, as I like to call it,
that match the cover page for February.
And then inside, I'm going to be putting the number
and, of course, decorating it with a whole bunch of hearts.
The trick that makes it look not as simple and basic
is the decorations that you add.
So you can add any little personal touches that you want,
depending on your theme,
of course, I'm going for the hearts.
And then, as you guys know,
I like having a designated area for my events
and appointments, but instead of doing a side bar
or a bottom bar, I just decided to run a straight line
right through the boxes.
We're keeping it simple.
Just a couple little finishing touches,
including more hearts and then a notes section at the bottom
for me to do any shopping lists or any special reminders
and we are done with this weekly spread.
Of course, this is only the weekly set up
for the first week of February,
but if you wanna keep up with any of the weekly spreads
that I make in the future,
be sure to follow me on my Instagram
because I do a livestream there every single Sunday,
setting up my weekly spread.
I have so much fun doing those.
So I hope to see some of you guys there.
But anyways, here is the final flip through
of my February 2018 Bullet Journal Setup.
Hopefully, I did the Valentine's Day theme justice.
But anyways, I'm gonna pass you guys off
to the outro, stay tuned.
All right everyone, so I hope you enjoyed
my February Plan With Me and Bullet Journal Setup.
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and thanks to you guys for watching.
Don't forget to tag me in your recreations,
but anyways, keep doodling and I'll talk to you
in my next video.
Bye everyone.
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