(inspirational electronic music)
- Hey everyone it's Amanda welcome back to my channel,
for today's video we are going
to be setting up my 2018 bullet journal.
I cannot believe it's already the New Year
but with the New Year comes a fresh start
and a chance for you to get ahead
on your organization and planning
so that's what we're gonna be doing today.
I'm really excited for this one
because last year was actually
my very first year bullet journaling
so as you probably saw in my flip through
that I just posted my bullet journal
went through a lot of changes
and it was kind of an evolution
so that I could find what I really liked
in a bullet journal and what I didn't.
So this year now that I finally have a grasp
of what I prefer to see I feel like
it's gonna be a really great year
and I'm so excited to come up with some new creative spreads
and to get ahead of my New Year planning.
If you are a beginner I'm gonna link
my very first bullet journal setup video
from last year so that you can check it out
because you're probably in a very similar mindset
as I was when I was first starting out
it can be really overwhelming and confusing.
So that one hopefully will help you
to figure everything out a bit,
but I'm gonna stop talking now
and let's just get right into the video.
I don't think there's anything more satisfying
than opening a fresh notebook,
I'll have the one that I'm using linked down below,
but you guys know I love to use A5 dotted notebooks.
This one actually had an index
on the first couple of pages
so I decided to glue them together
because I wanted to make my own index later on,
but I'm starting off by writing
my key on the inside cover of the notebook.
A key is basically just a legend
that tells you what each of the symbols mean
so task complete, migrated, scheduled and events,
different shapes mean different things
and it's nice to have it in an accessible place
just in case you forget.
I've seen different people use
different types of symbols
but I like to keep mine pretty simple.
On the first actual page I wanted to start off
my bullet journal with a nice quote
that encapsulates what I want 2018 to be about
so I have some lettering that says New Year new chances
same dreams, fresh start.
And I thought it was a nice short quote
that will be good to look at and kind of remind myself
that every day in 2018 is a fresh start
for something amazing.
I personally love doing lettering and quote pages like these
in my bullet journal because not only does it allow me
to practice my calligraphy but it's also a very necessary
break from all of the structured
planner pages in your bullet journal.
By the way in case you're wondering what pens
I used for my calligraphy I will have them all
linked and detailed in the description box below.
On the page next to it I wanted to do
a 2018 at a glance these pages are a pain to make
because of all the numbers,
but it's a great page to start off
your bullet journal with especially you know
for the New Year.
I wrote out little calender layouts for every single month.
My journal fit three columns
and four rows so it was perfect.
Be very careful to not mess up the numbers
because if you mess up one number it ruins the whole thing,
this is kind of why this page is a pain to do,
but in the end I really love the way that it looks
and I love how simple it is.
That's also something that I wanted to mention.
As you can see from this spread
as well as pages that are to come
I purposefully made these beginning pages
in my bullet journal very classic simple elegant and basic
just because I didn't wanna add
too much over the top decorations
especially because I do different themes
for every single month.
So I wanted the beginning of my bullet journal
to just be a very simple anchor
for all of the rest of my bullet journal.
The next pages I did my index.
Very simple again nothing too crazy,
just a page number and description for the columns
and I didn't even have to line it
because of the dots so I'll just write in there
you know in the future when I have pages to write down.
Next I set up my yearly or future log
and a future log basically as the name suggests
helps you plan out events or tasks
that are way in the future.
So this is why I'm writing out
every single month and basically
what you're going to do is whenever
you have a task that's in a month
that you are not currently in you can write it down
in the corresponding month so that when you
get to that actual month you can refer back to this spread
and remember the tasks that you need
to write down in your monthly log.
So as you can see I did a vertical layout,
last year I did a horizontal layout.
This one just gives me more space for more events.
This spread looks plain right now
but once I have the accent color for each month
I'll fill it in and it'll be a main hub
for me to plan out my year.
This next spread is my 2018 goals
or New Year's resolution page
and I decided to split mine up into different categories.
So fitness, wellness, YouTube, productivity,
and basically I'll write my goal next to the category.
They wrote a little quote at the bottom
that says, "This is the beginning of anything."
Next to it I have my 2018 memories spread
where I'll just write major memories
that happened that I wanna remember
and then these next spreads are my YouTube spreads.
So I have a list of YouTube videos that I wanna make
and then I also have a YouTube growth tracker
where I'll put the milestone and then the date reached.
I do also plan on having a month to month
growth tracker but this one
is just for individual milestones.
My Instagram growth tracker is very similar
except I had to split it up into two
because I have two Instagrams,
one is my art Instagram and one is my lifestyle Instagram
and then next to it I have a page which is really fun,
it's called the I want to watch page
and I put a side for movies and a side for TV shows
and I'm basically gonna have a running list
of movies and TV shows that I wanna watch this year.
This next spread is probably my favorite new edition
to my 2018 bullet journal
and it is called my year in Polaroids.
I got this idea because last year I did monthly memories.
Sometimes I pasted it in pictures and Polaroids
so I thought it would be cool
to do this but on a yearly level.
I love Polaroid pictures and I wanted to force myself
to use my Polaroid camera more
so I drew boxes to fit a Polaroid picture
and every single month I'll take a picture
and paste it in and it'll be cool
to look back and see different memories
from different months.
By the way I did measure these boxes
to fit standard Polaroid pictures
but in case you're wondering the grid dot measurements
I did 17 and a half spaces by 10 and a half spaces.
I decorated each of these spreads
at the top with a banner of hanging Polaroids
which I thought was very cute
and then finally this is the last spread
for the beginning sections of my bullet journal
before I start my monthly for January
and I wanted it to be another quote page you know,
we started these beginning pages with a quote
and I wanted to end it with a quote.
This one says, "Say yes to new adventures."
It was a bit more decorative
which I really really enjoyed.
It was so much fun to make you know,
playing around with the different lettering styles.
I just really enjoyed the whole process,
there was a bit more planning involved in this spread
than I normally do usually I just wing it with the pen
but as you can see there are pencil marks underneath,
but I am really glad I did that
because this spread was a bit more
intricate than my previous ones
and it just turned out exactly how I wanted it to.
I think I want to do more of these
spreads throughout my bullet journal,
it's just something that I think
adds a little bit of visual interest
when you're flipping through and it's so relaxing,
it's kind of like therapeutic to me in a way
so I personally love it.
Back to the spread I finished it off
by drawing a paper plane flying through the page
and that concludes my 2018 bullet journal setup.
Here is the final flip through of all of the pages,
I actually really really liked the way that it turned out,
I think it's very clean and simple
and that's kind of what I need this year,
I just need a fresh start from the chaotic mess in my mind
and I definitely think that these pages
are going to help me do that.
All right everyone so that was my 2018 bullet journal setup,
I hope you guys enjoyed or found some inspiration
for your own New Year bullet journal.
I would love to see any recreations that you guys create
so be sure to tag me on Instagram @amandarachdoodles,
I am gonna be doing a separate January plan with me
so stay tuned for that and if you're still craving
some more inspiration I'm gonna link
my whole playlist down below,
there should be something there that will help you out
but I think that's pretty much it,
have a Happy New Year,
keep doodling and I will talk to you in my next video.
Bye everyone.