Hey friends Elizabeth here from plant-based bride and I am back with a very special video today
I am setting up my new notebook as many of you are aware
I was very very close to finishing my Rhodia Webnotebook
So I knew I would have to set up a new notebook for October and I wanted to try something a little different
So I did a bunch of research
I asked all of you what notebooks you use what notebooks you'd like to see me use and
I came to the conclusion that I wanted to try out dingbats* notebooks
So this is a notebook from dingbats* earth collection
Which is a newer collection that they have that is more tailored
Towards a bullet journaling and the one I got is in the color sky blue and it is themed around the Great Barrier Reef
so you saw as I flipped it open that there's actually an infographic with a bunch of
Information about the Great Barrier Reef its current state and the kinds of things that we can do to help protect
the Great Barrier Reef, which I really really
Love the range has three different notebooks and each one highlights a separate fragile ecosystem from around the globe
That is threatened by human activity
Which I just think is such a wonderful wonderful concept
I can
100% make a full review on the dingbats notebooks if you are interested once I've had a little bit more time to use mine
So I can give you a really accurate impression of the use of the journal
So I'm just starting off here with the future log as I always do starting with November
I'm going through an entire year's worth and
Giving space below the month to add dates and the event and the purpose of this is to keep track of holidays birthdays
Events plans that are coming up in the next year
Since I don't set up my bullet journal until a couple weeks before the month begins
There's really no way to put in a doctor's appointment for six months from now or a reminder that I'm going to my in-laws
house for Thanksgiving or any of those things ahead of time in a bullet journal unless I have my future log so my future log
Well, it's not the most used right of my bullet journal is definitely a necessity for me
this is a very similar setup to how I set up in my last bullet journal and I really enjoyed that so I stuck with
this
general concept but did a slightly different style while still keeping it very
Minimal and that's something you'll see you through this entire set up. I really wanted to keep it very plain straightforward
I didn't add any color
I just wanted it to be minimal and
Practical and something that I wouldn't get sick of as I continued to use it for the entire life of this journal those little dots
I'm adding are really the only decoration
for these setup pages and those are just tiny little bubbles to
Very loosely tie in the theme of the notebook the fact that it is a Great Barrier Reef
Notebook to have those little bubbles like we're underwater so next I'm doing a quote page
I don't believe I've done a quote page on a set up of a new bullet journal before
but I just felt like it was important to me in this setup to really focus on
Trying to improve my mindset trying to really get my head in the game
To finish off this year strong as some of you may know especially if you are following me over on Instagram
I've had a very rough month just a lot of things have happened. A lot of things have gotten wrong. It's been very stressful and
I feel like I've kind of fallen behind on a lot of my goals with the busyness of summer and then the month of
Everything going wrong
So I really want to take this as an opportunity for a brand new fresh start
I'm leaving September behind and using the next three months
To really get my head in the game and make myself feel as though I've really accomplished something to be proud of in 2018
so in keeping with that kind of feeling of a fresh start of
Inspiring myself and of also being kind to myself which is something I've been working on this entire year
I wanted to use the quote flawed and still worthy because I think it is
so so so important to remember that every human on the entire planet is so incredibly flawed and
Yet you still have inherent worth your flaws
Do not make you less worthy of respect and love and happiness
And that's something that it's very very important to remember especially if you're going through a rough time
Next to that I did a grid spacing page which was inspired by Amanda Rache doodles
she did a grid spacing page in her bullet journal set up and I
I've seen one before and as soon as I saw it
I thought this is exactly what I need because no matter how many times I set up a spread
Every time I have to count the dots again
I always forget how many dots wide and how many dots tall whatever notebook. I'm using is no matter how many times I counted
It's really quite ridiculous. So I actually thought about making a mini reference in my Rodya web notebook
just
Writing how many squares wide and how many squares tall so I would just have it written down somewhere and I just never ended up
doing it and then when I was watching
Some bullet journal set up videos to get inspired and excited to do mine and I watched Amanda's I thought yes
This is the opportunity
I will put it right at the beginning and it will be a reference for the entire time
I use this journal, especially because the dingbats notebook is actually a little wider than my rodeo web notebook
It's a little bigger than a standard a5 journal
So for that reason, it's even more important that I keep track of the actual dimensions of the pages
So now I'm moving on to my next spread which is my wish list spread
I have one of these in my current bullet journal and I've used it quite a lot
So I wanted to make another one but actually expand it and have it cover two pages
Because I felt like I ran out of space quite quickly and the one page spread that I did in my last bullet journal
So the spread is very very simple. I just have my wants my needs and then a waiting on section
So for my wants I write down any item whether it's just a general item, so I wrote slippers as an example
I need to get slippers or if it's something very specific if I have a specific
brand and type of slipper that I want if I know the very
Specific item I want I'll also ask the price and then I check it off
Once I order or purchase whatever it is same thing for need anything I need to get so the example I put down was cat
Collars, I need to get collars for both of my cats
And once I've ordered it if I am ordering it online
I will move over to the waiting on side and I'll write in that item
And I'll write in the expected delivery date based on the information on the website about shipping
And that gives me a general idea about when I should be around the house when I should expect to have a package coming in
and then I can track it in case I miss it being delivered I can make sure I look for a delivery slip so that
I don't miss it entirely forget about it and have it sent back
Because that's happened to me a lot of times and let me yeah, it's not fun
And then I also left a space for me to write the actual date
It was delivered just for my information to see
How quickly something was delivered from a specific place for a future
Reference and then a place to check it off. Once it is arrived. It's done. We're good
We're happy and that item is no longer needing to be tracked. So next I'm moving on to my date night ideas spread
I had one of these again in my last bullet journal and I really enjoyed
Having a place to write out ideas for dates to go on with my husband and a place to track
What month of the year we went on that date?
So how this works, if you didn't see my last bullet journal setup video, is that on the right side?
I write all of my ideas for dates to go on with my husband and when we go on one of those dates
I will put a little dot across from it underneath the month that we're going on this date
So, for example, I put a fancy dinner at Ojai
which is a fancy vegan restaurant in Toronto where I live so just say we make plans to go to oh
I in October
I'll put a little dot under the O for October draw a line across connecting to the dot beside the idea
Fancy dinner at ax y and then I'll cross it off when we go and that way at the end of the period of using
This bullet journal I can look back see what ideas we've used
what ideas are still available for me to plan amazing dates for my husband and
what months we went on what dates this is also nice for us because we're very very very busy and we tend to
Forget to put ourselves first and to go out on real dates sometimes
So it's really a nice way for me to remember that we should be prioritizing going on real dates and spending time together
Not just working on things or around the house
So the next section is my minimalism game section as I explained in my last video. I am doing a challenge
attempting to get rid of
2018 items by the end of 2018. Yes. I know it's ridiculous. But I think I can maybe do it so I'm trying
In that video I showed Dave was one through 10 and then on my ig TV I'm showing every day after that
So day 11 is already up on my IG TV and I'll be putting up new videos as I have time to
Sit down and get rid of some things and as I have time to film and put together little videos
as of the recording of this video
I have completed 10 days of the challenge which are all filmed and included in that video that I put up last week
So later on in this video when I realize I hadn't done it yet
I'll highlight days 1 through 10 and items 1 through
55 to indicate that I've completed the first 10 days and gotten rid of the first 55 items
So that's my plan as I go along as I complete a day and get rid of that number of items
I will highlight the next little section until hopefully before January 1st 2019
I will have filled in both boxes completely on the next page is my end of year reset
So again, this is going back to what I was saying on the quote page
I've had a pretty rough month and it's important to me to try to give myself a bit of a reset so that I won't
Stay in some of the patterns and habits. I've developed over this month and really pushed myself to accomplish everything
I know I can accomplish in the rest of 2018. So this page was actually inspired by Kalin Nicholson
I don't know if any of you watch her in YouTube
She is one of the original YouTube girls
Who I used to watch in high school and I recently found her again and she made a video recently and some of the things
She was talking about these ways to
Sort of focus and find a new mindset really resonated with me. So the first section is a reflection section
So so I'm gonna sit down and think about how my year has been so far and be very honest
I just gave myself a couple lines there to write out a
Very very brief summary of how the years been so far and then space for a one win that I've had this year
So something really great and then one fail
Something that really didn't turn out great so that I have an honest reflection of what it's been like from January through September of 2018
The next section is mindset
And this is where I really want to set an intention or write out the kind of mindset
I need to have to end the year off, right what?
Mindset do I have to be in to get all my goals accomplished?
and then after that there's a section for each month so month one is October month to
November and month 3 December and under each one
I have a section to write the focus of the month and I really want to write out one focus for each month so that
I can keep it really simple and get really focused
Hence focus, but I do think I've been kind of spreading myself too thin recently
I really always try to multitask and it's just not very efficient
So I have that space for what I want to focus on and then I have some room underneath to write any specific goals
I have in relation to that focus point my hopes is that this page will really get me inspired and motivated and
really zero in on what I want to get done so that I can be more productive and
Efficient in the rest of this year and now we were on to the very very last spread of this setup
I decided to include a youtube video ideas spread and an Instagram content ideas spread
I haven't had one of these in my bullet journal for a while because I do tend to use my phone to record ideas
But I want to have a place in my bullet journal where I can write down ideas that I am kind of
More of a fan of so any idea that pops in my head
I'll write into my sort of master file on my phone
But then ideas that really stick out to me or ideas that I really think I should be focusing on
I'm going to include on this YouTube video ideas spread and I also liked setting it up to split into three sections so bullet journal
Minimalism and mental health which are sort of the three things. I want my channel to focus on for the Instagram content side
I just want to write down ideas for photos. I
Really? Enjoy Instagram, but I sometimes find myself hitting a wall about what I should create
So I wanted to have an area where I could jot down any ideas. I have about types of photos
I wanted to create and then along the bottom of each. I just have a growth tracker
so I'm just starting at 16 and going in 1000 subscriber increments and then for the growth tracker on the Instagram side I started from
6000 since I'm around five and a half thousand followers on
Instagram right now so starting at 6000 and again in
1004 increments all the way up to
18,000 and that is it for this setup
Those are all the spreads that I wanted to make sure I had at the front of my bullet journal to use for the entire
Length of time I'm using this notebook
there are some things that I carried over almost exactly the way they were in my last bullet journal some entirely new spreads and
Some little tweaks here and there
that's one of the most fun things about starting a brand new notebook is that you can really look at what worked for you and
Your last bullet Journal and what didn't and improve upon it for your next one
I'm not even sure what number bullet journal this is now because I've been bullet journaling for such a long time
Probably at least my 6th or 7th if not more
Let me know if you'd be interested in seeing some flip through z' of some of my old bullet journals
I think it would be really really interesting to see especially my first bullet journals
I used to bullet journal in tiny little pocket notebooks. So
It would be interesting to see how things have evolved since then. So let me know if you want to see it
I will be making a flip through video of my most recent bullet journals, so don't worry about that
That will be coming
Probably in a couple of weeks
Once I'm completely done with it and I have time to film that video and next week will be my October plan with me video
I am very very excited for this one. So hopefully you're excited, too
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Enjoy the video of Chewie. He was lying on the radiator behind my desk for the entire time
I was filming this video which was a couple hours and
I thought he deserved a little feature in the video because he was very supportive in
My journey of setting up my new bullet journal and believe it or not
He is also lying beside me right now as I record this voiceover. So who doesn't love a
Supportive fluffy cat because I sure do
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