oh shoot I'm about to say a whole bunch of Swedish words everyone is Wendy and it's been
a little while since we've done a nice little black journal bit so I wanted to do one today
Before we jump into it though I need to add this video is sponsored by IKEA and their brand new
2020 catalogue when I can't reached out to ask if I wanted to show any of their 2020 items and
catalog in a video I was like I already did the wladis the wristlet or the classic IKEA calyx
slash expedite r.i.p I'm Way too into IKEA on top of that I'm gonna do it some more so it's
basically to be totally transparent gonna be a bullet journal video I'll give you all the tips
that I have plus kinda kinda an Ikea haul so like any a good bullet journal where you want
to set the mood we got a candle here this is a brand new IKEA Sonos collaboration for 2020 it
is called the symphonic and it is a sono speaker that's very budget-friendly here let me play
some music for us so I keep my bullet journal in this Rissa tarp basket that way it's right beside
my table and I can just put it in this basket whenever I need to clear at the table and I'm
still using this blank Beauty from shinola Detroit my friend got it engraved with my name although I
do look quite narcissistic whenever I whipped this out this book is blank there are no dots
if that really bugs ya I'm sorry but generally I'm relatively neat and the note format has made
it a lot easier to brainstorm without seeing the dots in the background and feeling like I
need to conform to the dots so let's open this up I've got my pencil place and if you want links to
all of my bullet journal supplies I'll put that in the description but the newest thing that I
have which I'm so excited about this is new to Ikea in their catalogue but I already knew it
was new because I browsed that website all the time and I'm always just like sort of I knew to
see what they have this is called the Sachs Borghi basically I enjoy bullet journaling more when all
of my supplies are in one place because you can spread out make a mess and then once you're all
done they all have a place to go and they get out of sight so you can get back to business
I think there's multiple ways you can do this whole tray but I have this top layer right here
because there's like a nice little divot for it and I just keep my random knickknacks in here and
this has a mirror this next layer has a bunch of different writing utensils and tape this in here
is just like various post-its stickers a couple of my Tom bows the calligraphy ink I did go to
the calligraphy class I mean I'm not trying to be a poser but I have no collec if you Pro either so
that's where that stands okay but now on to the bullet journaling we're gonna open it up to a
blank page and the first thing I'm gonna show you is how I've been planning my weeks realistically
there's only so much you can do in a day on the flip side you do have as many hours in a day as
Beyonce so this weekly plan situation always gets laid down on a Sunday night or a Monday and it's
the day where I'm really starting to feel the weight of the week that's ahead knowing how much
I can do in a day and its limitations actually oddly kind of frees me because then I just don't
worry about the stuff that cannot possibly get done because I know like that's it that's what
you can do and don't you dare over promise above and beyond that when the day comes you will get it
done so what I do is I lay out a little like this week plan we got Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday
Friday all right let's do orange these are the IKEA colors so I basically have been thinking
of every single day as three chunks only morning afternoon and evening and that helps me to set the
major priorities for the week so the first thing I'll do is I'll look on my calendar to see what
kinds of things actually are already scheduled on Tuesdays every morning I have like a staff
meeting so I'm gonna put that in there and then on Monday night I always call my family so I'm gonna
put that there so I'll fill in the rest of these as they go as you can tell I do end up spending a
lot of time in the studio because I got stuff I hate to get done here for you and sometimes
if I don't have plans I'll leave the evenings blank because you know it's nice to be able
to be flexible and make plans with other people and then underneath that I like to put in other
section which is where I keep track of all of the other little to do is that I have that don't have
a specific whole chunk of day allocated to them because they're kind of an ongoing project that
needs me to babysit and take care of it for a whole week so for example I got something I need
to settle with the CRA I have an event that I'm planning so I need to keep caps on that and now
for my daily plan I keep all of it here on the same page so that I can still see what was the
big plan for the week you can do this format a lot of different ways but what I've been doing
is just putting the day of the week and the month because you know well you could forget that I've
been trying to keep using my bullet journal as a place to practice my cursive we're gonna make that
hourly schedule all right one line for every single hour the first things I write down are
food related I got to put in my breakfast oops I can't spell finally at 10 that is when I aim
to go to sleep the cue to becoming a morning person is to be disciplined and going to sleep
early this is for me to make sure I'd give space to introspect think about what I've been reading
what I've been going through what's kind of on my mind and then next up there's a space that
I leave to write to dues and these are things where it's like even as simple as like reply
to so-and-so's email one really specific line that doesn't require a whole hour to do but it's
like hey just a reminder if you're staring into space stop because you still have a lot of things
the self-talk is intense I'm gonna take you to this page which is a page that I already started
whatever item that I'm trying to make I try to print a photo of it so that I have it handy to
remind myself what we're aiming towards I'll also use it as opportunity to draw a sketch over here
on the Left I've already done this skirt was the focal point that she's wearing and I drew here the
front and the back these are these like templates that I have from fashion Airy this whole tutorial
has two halves there's a top and there's a bottom and as you can see here there's only the bottom
so I'm going to show you the top half but a BAM inspo photo printed and that about the waist and
here shows that it's a cut of beauty all this free space I'll use it to write out steps and
while I'm sewing I'll write down any measurements I'll cross off the steps that I've completed so I
have a sense of progress climb a mountain one step at a time okay oh yes you get to show you
another brand new Mikey I think there's this new little garbage bin that I've been keeping
at my feet and so I just toss the stuff down there it's nice because during sewing I just
have it opened so I can keep throwing threads and loose bits into it but then normally when I
want my studio to look tidy lid on peaceful it is part of their bro grand collection which I think
actually belongs in the bathroom so there's a lot of matching pieces for this I think you
can mount it to the wall but personally I just have it here on the ground beside
okay so I've taking you through my weekly plan daily plan as well as how I plan my sewing
projects is how I brainstorm you know really treat your bullet journal as like a mood board
open format space so the last thing I wanted to go through I guess this gets a little bit more
personal but it's how I've been using my bullet journal as a space to process my emotions stresses
and turn it into constructive action to share a little bit about this last year I went through
a couple of periods of time where I don't know I just felt a bit sad or burnt out or overwhelmed I
kind of spent too much time sitting around waiting or hoping that things would just magically get
better and I was like you know what you should take steps because your life is still your life
no one else is really responsible for it or more responsible for it than yourself so I'm actually
just gonna replicate for you this mind map that I did a couple of months ago that actually really
really helped me out of a rut and hopefully if you're feeling down I can I'm cheering for you
okay all right so yep okay so the first thing I did was I wrote in huge letters in the middle the
words assess my circumstances I'm sure with the start of that word you didn't really feel like
that's where that was headed whenever things are imbalanced you just gotta add a couple of stars
okay that is a real bullet journal hack for you at the time I was just trying to pinpoint if there
were two top things that were contributing to how I felt what were they so I wrote those two things
down and the two things were I feel lonely it's about to get really real up in here I don't feel
like I shared this kind of stuff a lot and then I the other one that I wrote was I feel overwhelmed
I could tell I felt lonely because every day I would feel like I didn't really have anyone to
talk to about my youtube work or that like maybe there was stuff that I just didn't feel like my
friends who who aren't in you too wouldn't understand and then I also felt overwhelmed
in the sense that every I thought about all the things that I should be doing or could be doing
I just like fries because it was so so up in my face so underneath that I wrote a little bit of
expansion just to help even future me chew on what these men under lonely I wrote every day
it's up to me to get the work done and underneath I feel overwhelmed I expand on that a little bit
more - I wrote YouTube is so hard I don't know how to get better and keep pushing so big how I
from here wanted to break it down more into steps that actually have action to them there were four
different types of action that I identified that could help me with feeling less lonely and so the
first one that we're going to talk about is form a support group and I asked my friends
call me and Billy who are two friends of mine that don't judge there they're good at problem-solving
but I even wrote for them you don't have to solve my problems for me you know you don't
have to bear my burdens all I want is for it to be a place where if something bad happens I can
tell them and they'll be like you can do it and then if something good happens I can tell them
and they can be like you did it a good job so that was the first step that I wanted to take
the next step that I wanted to take in terms of not feeling lonely I felt like rise or fall
I celebrated alone and so I wanted to set more concrete goals so that I would truly know when
something is worth celebrating the next thing that I added here was that I needed to start
establishing a monthly status call with my team members and we're gonna share knowledge so that
they know what I'm going through what our goals are and that I don't feel like I'm bearing this
whole thing by myself lastly I mean this might be a bit obvious but I had decided that a good
action to take would be to shoot more with others I've been it a little bit shy to be honest from
the internet reaching out for collabs I don't know what it is but I just a little eeek well
they like me is it gonna go great let's add some arrows just because I'm trying to remember the
flow of these thoughts so let's tackle the other half I feel overwhelmed from there I added three
outcomes that I thought were realistic so the first one was I wanted to add team members the
action I got was find a PA on top of that I also added what does that even mean and on the other
one that I thought I needed to add and I have since added was graphic designer hope you like
the new graphics the next thing I wanted to do to help myself not feel as overwhelmed is I wanted to
promise myself that I would test more and what I meant by that was I was going to experiment a lot
more on YouTube and I cannot be afraid to try out new things because you learn from them and then
the very very last thing that I added here which kind of relates to adding team members but it was
to outsource or just overall to have a better attitude about outsourcing yeah and that's how
I tackle what was going on in my brain that day a very last thing that I like to do is my bullet
journal before I close it every day as I flip to the back and take a look at what I have this
just helps me to keep my papers organized I have receipts in here this is another IQ I know it's
not brand new store catalogs but I do really love it because I love baskets down the middle it's got
a divider here and then it's also got little extra dividers and I have like a little folio here that
I use to keep all of my receipts this is called the pledge ah I'm just giving it a plug I don't
think it's brand new but I love yep so what are your shiny er than when I started I really want
to thank akia let me know if you know what an Ikea fans name is whatever it is I'm one of them and
I've definitely enjoyed the excuse to pick up a couple of brand-new IKEA stuff that I really
love actually this cart the Nyssa force is brand new in a previous video I raved about the RAF's
cog utility cart which I also have but this one I love that it kind of has this like sleek sharper
edge thinner lines thing going on love it this is the Fiala magazine holder they have this magazine
aisle holder already but this color pattern is pretty new and then these are also IKEA actually
know that I think about it we need to wrap up so that I hope these volatile tips are helpful for
you if you want to go check out everything new at IKEA they have their 20/20 catalog out now as
well you can always just go online or go in store if you've watched at this point of the video and
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