[SIMPLE Writers Bullet Journal | 2019 Set Up]
hey friends I'm author Brittany Wang and if you are a writer and love bullet
journaling as much as I do or you've been looking to get into it you are
going to love this video because I'm going to show you exactly how I set and
accomplished my writing and author platform goals using my bullet journal
I'm also going to give you a little recap of how I did on my bimonthly goals
the last two months and what I'm planning for January and February as I
show you my tips and tricks and the different spreads I use in my bullet
journal I'm also going to be giving you guys a little recap because I do
bimonthly goals on this channel of how I did on my goals for November and
December and what I am looking to do for January and February alright so first
thing I did when setting up my bullet journal for 2019 was to make sure I had
all the materials I wanted and so I'm just gonna briefly list them here and
they will be in the description below as well if you want to check them out but
first of all I love using the Sharpie fine lighter pens that they are my
absolute favorite and you're gonna see that they just write really well and
really stick out on the page and then my favorite highlighters are the mild liner
highlighters and you can see they come in a variety of colors and I actually
use them for most of my banners and different things like that so you'll see
what those look like then I have some sticky notes that I wanted to get in
sort of matching pastel colors to my notebook a ruler and last of all my
notebook which I originally got from Barnes & Noble but I did find on Amazon
so if you're looking to get something like this they have a bunch of different
patterns you can check that out again in the description below ok so let's see
what is inside my bullet journal so first thing we're going to see it's just
a simple 2019 welcome page I eventually want to put my word of the
year here which I'm still trying to figure out if you guys have any
suggestions let me know in the comments but one thing I do want to say as we
proceed is I'm pretty minimalistic when it comes to and below journal I like it
to be really clean obviously I love colors but I keep it pretty simple and I
also keep it simple so that it's easy to update and I don't have to spend hours
and hours on each spread so if that sounds good to you definitely keep
watching because I just make it really simple and really clean and really easy
to keep up throughout the year then as we go to the next page you would usually
see an index here because you'll usually have just different spreads like daily
and weekly and monthly spreads sort of interspersed with all these other kinds
of spreads but what I actually do is I put all of those different spreads in
the back and I start from the back and go forward so I'm going to show you this
at the end but what I like to keep is just my planning pages my like monthly
weekly yearly kind of pages I have to be getting sort of going straight through
without other spreads sort of going in between so you'll see how that functions
in a minute but first of all I have my future log and so I just have it the
different months sort of set up with just major events or holidays so I can
keep track of the year also on these pages I have little markers for just
tracking my social media stuff's on Instagram YouTube Facebook Twitter and
my newsletter and I just want to track throughout each month how many followers
or subscribers I have for each social media platform and then next I have my
first monthly spread and so you'll see here that I have this first page that is
just the events of the particular month and what I also like to do is use this
as like a Thanksgiving this was supposed to say Thanksgiving but like I thinks
giving our gratitude page and sort of highlight the major things
that happen throughout the month so for example on Monday put that I hit 900
subs on YouTube so thank you everybody so much for subscribing and helping me
get to 900 subscribers so fun but those are the kind of things that I sort of
put in here and different events like my dad's 60th
birthday and all that Jess then over here on this page I sort of separate my
goals into author and like business goals because I do some side business
stuff but then also personal goals and if you've been on my channel for a while
you're probably wondering hey don't you do bimonthly goals and I do
I just forgot to create that page first so it actually comes a little bit later
so I'll show you that afterwards but I also take those bimonthly goals and
separate them into the monthly goals so that's what this page is you'll also
notice that we're about halfway through the month and I haven't checked off a
bunch of things but I usually wait to sort of go through and check off these
things until I've been through the whole month I go back here and I do like a
little review the next thing I include in succession are just the week's
spreads and I sort of do daily stuff within each week so at the beginning of
the week I will put my author fiscals slash personal goals sort of up here and
then progressively as it fills out I will do Monday and then Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday Friday it's sort of like whatever fits where so I can do it
progressively and I don't have to like waste space and then I just set up the
next week and you can see here again that I keep it super simple I'm just
using my highlighter to highlight the banners and then I just use little
circles instead of checkboxes I also try to set my priorities so you'll see here
I have some little stars and I use those stars to sort of mark the things that
are top on my priority for either the week or the day and to sort of say hey
if I get nothing else done if I get those things done then I've been a
success today so usually I'll have about two or three per day and also if I don't
get to something I put a little line with a little arrow just telling me that
I need to push it off to you the next day now this next spread is my January
February bimonthly goals and I wanted to tell you guys what I did and what I
didn't do in November and December but before we get there I did promise that I
was going to show you what spreads I'm in the back here and so here again I
have my index and then the following pages I have different spreads so this
spread I have spread ideas so as I see other bullet
videos or get ideas I sort of list ideas of spreads that I can do in the future
and then the ones I've done so far are like a writing and author calendar so I
wanted to sort of see the year at a glance and see just different events
that are happening that pertain to authors or writers and sort of either
work my content around that or work my schedule around those things the next
few pages are for my author platform mostly for content brainstorming and
planning and it just makes it so much easier for the rest of the year so this
first spread is my content brainstorming page and so obviously I've blocked a lot
of stuff off because they don't want to give too much away but I listed out a
bunch of YouTube like video types that I could do or topics I could do and then I
also made a list of people I'd love to collab with this year and just general
video ideas there are like more specific than these and for any of you all
they're tubers out there if you'd like me to do a video that sort of lists out
more of these kind of ideas so that you can get ideas definitely let me know and
I can do that the next page is a Content calendar for the year specifically for
YouTube but everything I do sort of blogs and instagrams sort of revolves
around what I do for YouTube so I didn't want to give too much away again but I
did try to plan at least four ideas for every month so that's what sort of
penciled in in here and then I write them in pen as I do them the next spread
is best of author to 2018 so this was sort of part of my planning where I sort
of went back and looked at my top search terms and presented watched and
different things like that to help me plan for the new year
then I am also a Christian and I very much believe in the power of prayer so I
wanted to have a prayer request spread here and then you guys saw this in a
previous video but I just made my general 2019 goals here I also did a
spread about just my routines daily weekly and monthly that pertain to
author stuff and more author platform stuff and then my last fret here is my
TBR and log for the year because one of my goals is definitely to read a whole
more and so obviously I have a bunch of other books that I want to read but I
just started off with a few and I've already completed cinder this January so
that was a really good read and I'm excited to sort of add to this list and
keep reading as well sort of check them off as I go and sort of log how long
it's taken me to read as well finally as promised I just wanted to give you guys
a little recap I do this to keep myself accountable but also to inspire you guys
for what I got done in November in December and what I want to get done in
January in February and obviously this is from a different
bullet journal so you couldn't just ignore this is supposed to be for
November and December of 2018 yeah these are the things I got done I won
NaNoWriMo I started working with my cps for my work in progress for draft - I
wanted to read at least one book a month I'm actually read for I wanted to post
one YouTube video a week and I actually checked this off but there was one week
that I didn't cuz it was just a little crazy during the holidays but for the
most part I did that we hosted the NaNoWriMo house Cup in the plotter life
writers Facebook group which was so much fun I released one newsletter each month
and I also launched my author website services what I didn't get done I didn't
get to prepare for betas that I wanted to in January but I'll give you an
update over here in a second I wanted to hit 1000 subscribers by New Year's on
YouTube I didn't hit that but like I said before I just passed 900 so I think
maybe this month maybe next month that would be awesome
and I had certain Instagram Twitter and blog goals but just with everything else
I wasn't as consistent with that so I definitely want to get better at that
for this next round for this January and February these are my goals separated
into categories so for writing for January I want to finish rounds with my
cps and then in February I want to edit my draft based on that feedback and prep
it for betas hopefully to start that in March yes I still want to make this then
for reading I want to read at least one book a month and in here I will put the
two books one for January one for February here so I can log that then for
author - I want to do at least one video a week one live stream a month and that
includes my secret project with Bethany which hopefully I will be telling you
about soon never
so media stuff I want to keep up with the plotter life Reuters Facebook group
we have some weekly threads going on to help you guys plan as well and succeed
in your right early goals and we want to do one event over the next two months I
want to plan a year's worth of content which actually already did so I should
be checking that off I want to figure out batching routines so maybe batching
enough content for two months at a time ooh that's a big one then these were the
other things that I didn't do the last two months that I just want to do at
least one post on Instagram a week but I do stories like pretty much every day
Twitter at least once a day and I want to blog at least once a week with a
Pinterest post then for my website newsletter I want to do one newsletter a
month I want to revamp my for writers page
which actually I already did this and I have a bunch of tools and a bunch of my
videos actually categorized into different helpful categories for you
guys on my writers page at author brittany wink calm if you want to check
that out and then for other websites i want to create and launch two websites a
month so I just put blanks here for the names of the authors I'm going to create
websites for then I want to prep for the second author website bootcamp because
we just finished the last one at the end of December so I'd love to do this again
maybe in March but we'll see if you are interested in learning how to create an
author website for yourself and want to be in one of my boot camps there is a
waitlist and I'll put the link on the screen here and in the description below
if you want to be alerted about when the next one is so you don't miss it
alright everybody so that is my bullet journal that is how I set up everything
for 2019 I would love to know in the comments if you do bullet journaling are
there any different things or different spreads that you do and if you got
inspired by this or you are just starting out with your bullet journal I
would love to know what was helpful and what you'd like to see more of in my
next bullet journal video if you enjoyed this video please give it a big thumbs
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right early stuff like this on my channel all the time next week I'm
actually going to be giving you a writing space and office tour so that's
gonna be really fun as we've been doing a lot more sort of
goal oriented stuff for the new year and then I have a lot of really cool things
plan for the rest of the year so definitely
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