I have been staring at this notebook for far too long just wanting to set it up so that is
what we are doing today hello team today we are setting up my 2023 everyday bullet journal in
this absolutely gorgeous notebook from Archer and Olive I love the glitter I love the snowflake it
is beautiful opening it up though and getting on into it the first thing we're actually going to do
is not write in the notebook instead I'm taking a piece of dog grid paper from my Archer and all of
notepad and I'm going to make a year at a glance now you might be wondering Jess why do you not
just put the year at a glance on the first page of the actual notebook well this is because I don't
want to have to write this calendar out when I come to migrate into my next journal for 2023 I
already know that this notebook is not going to be lasting me the entire year so rather than setting
up a year at a glance in the notebook and then having to rewrite it in my next one I'm setting
this one up as a removable year at a glance so putting it on this separate piece of paper and
then I'll wash it tape it into the front cover of my notebook so that I can move it when I move into
my next Journal it feels very odd to be thinking about my next next journal when I'm not even in
this one yet but hey I am nothing if not a planner normally before setting up a year at a glance I
would go in with a pencil first and mark in when the first and last day of each month was just as
a way to help me avoid potential mistakes as best as possible but this time I was obviously feeling
adventurous and decided not to do that thankfully it wasn't too disastrous I do have an extra day on
the calendar I wonder if you can see which month it's in this small mistake doesn't really bother
me so I don't actually go and correct it I know that the day isn't supposed to be there though
the mistake could have been avoided if I just used my free printable of a year at a glance if
you didn't want to write out all of the numbers to set up your year at a glance then you can use that
one it is linked in the description box below it has 144 different options depending on what
kind of styling you like but now as the year at a glance is done it's time to attach it to
the journal as mentioned I want this one to be removable so I'm just Washi taping it into the
front cover and then I can write in my nameplate page as can be expected that one doesn't take very
long either we're just writing my name out and I also put in some super simple little branches as
a way of decoration and I'll be using those later in the setup for further decoration too before we
flip over to the next page I'm actually going to set up another tool that I want to use in this
journal which is a grid spacing ruler for this one I again just use a piece of spare dotted paper
and I've cut it to the size of the length of the journal on one side I'm going to have the vertical
spacing and on the other I'll have the horizontal spacing so starting with the vertical spacing I go
and put the numbers 1 through 38 down the side of the piece of paper to represent the 38 grid spaces
that are found vertically in my journal from here I can also put in some dividing lines so
that I can easily find the halfway and third-way and quarter-way points and I do each of those in
a different color so they're nice and easy to distinguish I've kept the color palette for the
ruler and the euro to glance to be fairly neutral so that it won't clash with anything that I put
in my next Journal setup as well flipping over we have a similar thing on the back but for this one
we only have 26 spaces to represent the 26 spaces horizontally in my notebook and for this one I
just mark in the halves and the thirds because those are the typical sizes that I like to use
I made some stage also go and mark in the calendar spacing because all of my monthly calendars I set
up in the same way to have six boxes across and six boxes down for each of the calendar boxes
for now though that one is finished we can tuck it into the back pocket and flipping over to the
first dot grid page of the notebook though this is where I'm going to be putting a quote page to do
the decoration on this one and all of the other pages of the setup I'm using this red notepad
paper from the Archer and Olive rainbow notepad which I've turned into a buffalo plaid piece of
paper rather than sticking in that paper as I went I decided to cut it all up at once and stick it
on all of the pages of the setup just because batching tasks like that makes it a little bit
faster when you're trying to set up as many pages as I'm doing so doing all of the cutting at once
doing all of the sticking at once and putting down all of my washi tape because the notepad paper is
a little bit shorter than the full length of the page but I wanted the Buffalo plaid to span the
full length I did have to go and color in the page just using my Tombow in color 856 this just made
it easier to continue with that Buffalo plaid into the parts of the paper that wouldn't have
been covered by my red piece of paper hopefully that makes sense in terms of actually drawing out
the Buffalo plaid though because this was done by hand not necessarily something I recommend it is
time consuming but I love the way it looks when you hand draw it of course you could just find
a reference picture online and print it off but my printer kind of sucks so I would much rather
just draw it out myself the process for this just includes putting in a whole bunch of little boxes
so in every second cell of every second row of the doc grid paper and then coloring in those
boxes fully in Black to do that I decided to use an an Artline calligraphy pen just because it has
a chisel tip so it made it a little easier to get it nice and close to those edges without
going over after this it's time for the fiddly part which is drawing in all of the diagonal
lines and those diagonal lines go between every single one of those black boxes both vertically
and horizontally that gives you the full sheet of the Buffalo plaid paper which I could cut up
and stick into my notebook whenever I start a new bullet Journal I typically like the first page to
be a quote page and this one is no different the quote that I've gone for this time is the grass is
greener where you water it and I'm putting that in with a simple monoline cursive though this style
of cursive is not my usual so it does take me a little bit longer to pan out compared to just my
regular writing I thought this quote was a really nice fitting one for the new year and it aligns
well with some of the things that I want to work on for myself for 2023. to finish it off though
I did go and put in two of those little branches that we had from before and then it was over the
page and onto the future log if you've seen my other 2023 Journal setup you'll remember that
in that one we didn't have the future log because that was in my yearly collections Journal I prefer
having my future log in my everyday Journal which is what I call this one because the purpose of
this journal is very much about keeping plans and to Do's so having the reference of what's
happening when in the future is a good thing to have here we're continuing with that simple
monoline cursor for each of the headers for the month and I also used a Tombow dual brush marker
in a light gray color in 89 to highlight every second line I just like the way it makes the
page look more full this style of future log is super simple because you don't have to write out
any of the mini calendars especially because I already have them on the year at a glance so in
any Journal that I have a year at a glance I don't typically include many calendars on the future log
that one is set up though and we can flip on over to what is going to be my level 10 life page on
the left and my actions page for my level 10 life on the right if you hadn't heard of it before the
level 10 life is an idea that was popularized by Hal Elrod in his book The Miracle morning and it's
effectively about the idea of for each category of Our Lives we want to be at a level 10 where 10 is
best and zero really really sucks on this page that I'm setting up here though this is where
I'm going to rate myself out of 10 for each of my different life areas and then on the actions page
on the right hand side I can outline a couple of things that I could do to improve my score
in each of those areas I have never once rated myself at a level 10. I'm a very harsh marker so
I know that there's going to be something that I can do to make myself happier in those areas
in terms of the life areas that I like to keep track of from top to bottom these are physical
health mental health physical environment personal development financial health professional health
partner relationship social health and family relationships I wanted each of the terms to be a
two barrel thing so that then it looked balanced when I wrote it out otherwise typically I'd
probably just write finances and partner rather than partner relationship but I do like the way
that it looks having two words for each of those labels of course if you wanted more information
about the level 10 life I do have a separate video about that one and any other video related to this
one can be found Linked In the description box below with that one set up though we are flipping
over to my goal planning and action plan page and you might be thinking yes didn't we just look at
an action plan you are not wrong we did but those were the actions specifically related to my level
10 life rather than to my goal in particular we're going to talk more about my goal setting
in an upcoming video but in general I have two main goals for 2023 and one of those is going to
get outlined here this spread is really simple to set up because I'm not putting in any pre-planned
sections just writing out the headers for each of the pages when it comes to filling it in though I
know that on the left I'm going to outline what the goal is why I want to work on it and also
have a space to do some brainstorming regarding action steps and then the action plan section on
the right hand side is going to be more of those individual steps that I can take to actually work
on the goal in naively thinking that this page was done we're flipping on over I do come back to this
page though to add in some gold accents in a bit but the page we've turned to here is going to be
from a Content planning one of the things that I've been trying in my current bullet Journal
are monthly content plans and I've been finding them really useful just to make sure that I know
what is getting posted on which platform on which day of the month this helps me space my content
out better to make sure that I don't have any kind of overwhelming pinch points and it also
just helps make sure I get all the things that I want to get done done we're continuing with that
simple monoline cursor to put in the initials for each of the days of the week and also bringing in
those little brown designs repeated elements like this the same font in the same decorative
steps those are the things that I like to use to make the pages of my setups look cohesive
for the calendar itself though I'm using two of my different dot markers one in Gray and one in
red the red is used to represent the days for that month so on this one the days in January
and the gray dots are for the days outside of the month this just gives me an extra week on each of
those calendars so I can see what's coming up I set up four calendars for January through to April
and now we're flipping back to add in those gold details that I mentioned from before originally I
was just going to freehand these but the first line I drew was kind of wobbly so I did end up
using a ruler I didn't do anything to fix the freehanded line it's not that bad but because
the lines a little bit longer than just a couple of grid space boxes the wobbliness stands out so I
didn't want to have that in there flipping All the Way Forward past those content calendars though
and then we are on to my 101 thing space and my reset processes the 101 things list is a list
of 101 things that I want to get done in 2023 and while the list itself is held in my yearly
collections Journal this page in particular is where I'm going to map out which of my 101 things
I want to do in each of the months that should be held in this journal if you hadn't already guessed
I'm expecting this journal will last me about four months for the reset process space this is
going to be divided into three sections the top one being for daily reset processes the one on
the left being for weekly reset processes and then the one on the right for my monthly reset process
I do want to consider a little bit further what these reset processes entail before I write the
steps in although at the moment I have a pretty good understanding of what I want my weekly and
my monthly one to be I'd like to think about them just a little bit more before I commit it to pen
in my journal just like I did on the actions page for My Level 10 life you'll love seeing that I
used washi tape to mask the page to put in these really crisp and clean headers and while these
ones are red ones on the action page from before gray I kind of wish I had done those ones in red
too I think they would have just standed out a bit nicer and I do end up using the red from here on
out this spread is done though and we can flip on over to what is going to be my media consumed
slash check this out page in previous setups I've had the media consumed and the check this
out sections as separate sections but something that I've done previously is had them combined
and I thought I'd bring that back for this journal otherwise I just end up writing things down on the
check this out section and then having to rewrite them on the media consumed section anyway when I
inevitably go and watch or listen to the thing I figured I'd just skip the rewriting step and
have them in the same list this one is set up in an Alastair style though so I'm going to draw in
a little icon to represent each of the different types of media those are going to be going at the
top of the columns that I'm currently drawing in and then anytime I find something to check out or
actually consume a piece of media I can put a tick or a cross in the relevant column to denote what
kind of media it is the media title will go beside this this spread is done though and flipping on
over we're getting to my My Next Journal spread effectively this is a place to write down notes
about what I want my next journal to look like so not the one we're currently working in but the
one that I use after it just so that while I'm actually using this journal here I have a go-to
space to write those things down so that I have them in mind when it comes to planning the setup
of the next Journal this is something that I like to do in all of my everyday journals and on the
left hand side we've just got a place to write out some notes so things like what I did like what I
didn't like any thoughts or musings that I have about the next one the space at the bottom is a
place to write out a list of the layouts that I want to include and then the entire page on the
right is dedicated to thumbnails of the pages that I'll be setting up this is helpful for
when it comes to ordering the pages of the setup thinking about how I want the layouts to look in
general that kind of stuff and it's something that I did in preparing the journal we set up in this
video you may have seen that when drawing out those thumbnails I did accidentally over extend
one of my lines but it's nothing that a white gel pen can't fix that one along with any of the other
supplies I used in today's setup is linked in the description box below and if you happen to find
yourself down there and if you got any good ideas from this video I would love it if you subscribed
and became part of our team we would love to have you flipping through the pages we set up today I
am super chuffed with how this turned out I just think that the combination of the simple lettering
and the Buffalo plaid and those little Branch designs is really pretty and I hope you liked it
too if you did like this setup though and wanted to see more I have a whole playlist of new bullet
Journal setups that you are going to love so click or tap on that one and I'll see you over there