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- Hi everyone, it's Amanda, welcome back to my channel.
So 2019 is coming to a close,
we're just a couple weeks out from the brand new year,
slash, also a brand new decade, which is crazy to even say.
But of course, with a brand new year comes a fresh start.
So today, I'm gonna be doing my 2020 bullet journal setup.
That just sounds so great, doesn't it?
Like 2020, it's such a satisfying year.
Hopefully, it'll be a great one as well.
I realized the other day
that this is gonna be my fourth year bullet journaling.
I can't believe I've done three full years of this before.
If you haven't seen those past years' bullet journal setups,
my 2017, 2018, and 2019,
I highly recommend you check them out.
I love those videos as well.
Every single year has a different style
so definitely if you're looking for more inspiration,
you can check those out, I'll link them down below.
I know a lot of you guys are starting bullet journaling
for the very first time this year,
so hopefully, this video as well as those videos
will help you out and give you some more inspiration.
My bullet journaling goal for 2020 is to experiment
with new things, I have a couple ideas already,
but I definitely want to experiment with new styles,
try different things, so you might be seeing
different spreads for me this year
or different styles for me this year, I hope that's okay.
Other than that, I'm really looking forward
to this coming year.
I don't know about you guys,
but I am ready to leave 2019 in the past.
It was a whirlwind year so I'm looking forward
to some new things for 2020.
Hopefully, it'll be a lot of fun
and I really hope it'll be a great year for all of you guys,
my little doodles as well.
I'm sending all of you guys good energy for 2020.
All right, I think I've talked enough.
I have a tendency to do that in these intros
so I'm sure you guys wanna get started,
so grab your brand new bullet journals
or if you're not planning with me, you can grab a snack,
just watch along, hang out, that's totally fine as well,
and let's get started.
The very first thing I did actually was plan out
all of the pages that I wanted to do
in my previous bullet journal so I just had a master list
of the spreads that I wanted to do
and I sort of ordered them and drew diagrams
of which page I wanted to go and in what order.
So here is my fresh brand new journal that we are opening.
This is from Archer and Olive,
I'm going to link it down below,
but I thought it was perfect because the teal color
on the outside is actually the color of the year,
the Pantone color of the year.
I believe it's called the classic blue or something
so I thought it's very fitting for this year.
Also, I just really love the look of it
and I love Archer and Olive notebooks anyways.
On the inside cover of my notebook,
I'm actually writing out my key
which basically outlines what symbols mean what.
I have a symbol for tasks completed, et cetera.
I thought I was gonna skip this this year
because I have been bullet journaling for three years
so I pretty much know what symbols work for me,
but this year, I'm actually going to be adding symbols
so I have a star and a diamond for birthdays and for travel.
And I might add some other ones later on,
like maybe color coding even,
so I thought I would just redo the key anyway
just in case I lose track of what symbol means what.
I'm just writing out my name on the name page.
This is always my favorite part
about starting a brand new notebook.
We are ready to begin the first actual spread.
So for the first spread, I am doing a big title page,
so I'm just writing out 2020 in big block letters
to mark the beginning of a brand new year
and a brand new decade.
And for this page above it,
I'm actually going to be writing out a couple things.
So this is acting like my goals page.
It's a bit different from goals pages
that I've done previously.
The reason why I'm doing it first
is because I want to have a reminder
every time I open up my notebook.
You'll see that above, I'm splitting it up
into four different sections.
I have a section for my goals,
I have a section for my focus, my dreams,
as well as my affirmations.
So for my goals, that's sort of the usual resolutions.
For my focus, it's like a word of the year
that I really want to embody
or that I want to, quote unquote, focus on,
as the name suggests.
For the dream section, it's a bit different from my goals
because this is where I will dream big
and put something that doesn't seem as realistic.
I like to keep my goals more realistic
and doable and tangible,
whereas my dreams will be something that is crazy
but I always think it's nice to manifest it
and write it down 'cause who knows?
Maybe it will happen.
And then finally, I have my 2020 affirmations
which is basically just a affirmative sentence
that you can say to yourself to help motivate you
and inspire you and overcome any negativity.
All right, so for the next page,
I'm doing my grid spacing cheat sheet.
I've mentioned this several times
but this is an absolute lifesaver
and another thing that I need to do every single time
is make sure that it's on the left side of the spread,
because when you're setting up spreads
and you're referring to it, it's just way easier
to flip to this page when it's on this side.
I do get a lot of questions about how to use this spread
so maybe I will do a separate video on this
'cause it is a little bit complicated.
I know it can look very overwhelming,
but basically, I have numbers counting out
the dot grid spaces on the page,
and then I have various line divisions
that tell me how many spaces are each of those.
So if I wanna divide my page into quarters,
I can refer to this.
There's a lot of different ways that you can do this spread
and there's a lot of different versions,
but this particular one works for me,
so I decided not to switch it up too, too much,
it's pretty much exactly the same as last year.
Oh and I have a little title page.
By the way, for this 2020 setup,
I kept it pretty simple, it's pretty monochrome,
black and white.
I tend to like my beginning of the year setups
to be more black and white and simple,
not necessarily minimal but it is not like crazy colors
or crazy doodles or anything.
I tend to save those for the individual monthly beings.
Of course, as soon as I say this,
this is when we're on the spread that is the quote page.
So this is probably the only page that is a bit more crazy
in terms of the artistic stuff.
But obviously, quote pages are optional.
I mean, you don't really need to do a quote page.
I just really love having a quote at the beginning
of the year to start us off right.
So this code says, "A fresh start is not a new place,
"it's a new mindset", and that's something
that I wanna carry into 2020.
I mean, 2020, it's a brand new decade
so it's the perfect time for a fresh start
and also for me personally, 2019 was a crazy year
so I'm really, really taking 2020 to be a fresh start
but not in the physical sense, more so as the quote says.
In terms of my mental state, I really do want to reset
and have some time to figure out where I want 2020 to go.
I'm adding various doodles.
The only color that I use other than the black markers
in this entire setup is a gray marker.
So I just sort of played with that monochrome look,
and I also played with some washi tape,
simple black and white washi tape
as well to go with the theme.
All right, so now we have my future log
so this is sort of like the yearly overview page.
In the past, I've done yearly at a glances
as well as a future log,
but I don't think that is necessary
for me personally so I combined them.
I was able to put all 12 months on one page in six columns?
Yes, six columns and two rows.
So I have the title of the month, of course, at the top,
and then underneath it, I have the actual calendars
with the numbers, and then below all of that
is where I'll put any future events and birthdays
and all of that for me to refer to
when I'm setting up each specific month.
As you can see, I'm using a black marker
with a white gel pen on top.
I get a lot of questions about what white gel pen I use
for it to show up on top of the black
and it's a lot of things,
obviously depends on what white gel pen you use
but it also depends on what you use
the white gel pen on top.
If you find that your white gel pen
is not showing up on top of any black markers,
I recommend even trying to switch out the black marker
that you're using underneath.
I will link all of the materials and markers and supplies
that I use down below in description box as usual
in case you are curious.
All right, so for this page, this is my goal planner.
In the past, I've done goals pages
where I just list out my goals,
but I do think it's really important
to not only set goals for the year
but also set actionable plans,
so that you can achieve those goals.
It's one thing to say my goal is to do this
but you have to have some steps
and you have to take action to do it,
so I have a simple two column layout.
On the left side, it says goal,
and then on the right side,
I am going to be outlining different ways
that I can do that and what I'm planning on doing
in order to achieve my goal for the year.
On the right side, I have my YouTube ideas page.
This is very similar to last year's.
I really liked having it all split up
so I have various columns for different types of videos,
bullet journaling, art, lifestyle videos.
So if you do have any videos
that you wanna see from me in 2020,
leave them down below in the comments
so that I can fill up this page with your ideas.
All right, so the next page is, what is this page?
Oh, this is my things to check out page.
I always like to have a page for me to write down
any TV shows or movies or podcasts and stuff
that maybe someone suggests to me and then I'm like,
"Oh yeah, I do wanna check that out eventually."
So this is my main hub for that.
I currently have it split up into four sections
for movies, TV shows, music, and podcasts,
but I think I wanna add a couple more
so I think I'm going to make a new spread later
for stuff like books and other things
because I realized afterwards that I forgot
to add a section for books.
Okay, so my next page is a songs to learn page.
This is something that I added
halfway through the year last year
and it became one of my most used
beginning bullet journal pages because I love to play music
and I always, whenever I listen to a song,
I always think like, "Oh, I should learn how to play that
"on the ukulele or on the piano,"
and then whenever I sit down
to actually do a little practice,
I forget the songs that I have been wanting to play.
So this is my way of listing it out,
simple three columns, again, with the black marker
at the top and the gray outline,
thrown some doodles at the bottom for good measure. (laughs)
By the way, I've been decorating the top headers with like,
there's two different font styles that I've been doing,
sort of my standard hand lettering cursive
and also been using the gray marker
to add a little bit of stars and dots and squiggly lines
all around, a little bit reminiscent of the 80s design
that I did last year, which I really liked.
And I think it's a subtle, subtle sort of doodle
that isn't too crazy for the beginning of the year.
This is a new page for me, this is a bills tracker.
As you can see I have various columns
and these little squares, there's 12 of them,
one for each month, and then at the top,
I have written out my various bills
that I pay each month and then whenever I pay these,
I will color in the square and underneath the title
of each bill, I'm gonna be putting the exact amount
that needs to be paid every single month,
or for, in the case of things like internet or hydro
where things are different every single month,
I will write that in the little square.
Hope that makes sense.
This next spread is called places I visited
and it's exactly what the title suggests.
It's any cool places that I traveled to during the year
and even if it's within my city, Toronto,
if there's anything that I go visit,
maybe I wanna capture that memory,
I will put it on this page.
I do suspect that I will need another page of this
later on in the year but I will create that
once I fill this one up.
And for this spread, I actually drew out
all of these little squares and post it notes,
sort of, as if they're hung up on a wall.
And what I'm gonna do is write in the date,
the location within each square
and maybe I'll print out a little picture
from whatever place that I end up visiting,
haven't decided that yet.
I guess, I'll decide once I actually go there.
Speaking of pictures, we have arrived at the last spread
for this setup but it's definitely not the least.
In fact, it is actually my favorite spread
from any beginning the year set up to do.
I did this last year and I really enjoyed it
and it's something that I kept up with
throughout the entire year.
It is my 2020 memories, 2020 in pictures,
2020 Polaroids, whatever you wanna call it.
And I have different squares for me to attach Polaroids
from each month and sort of like my favorite memory
from that month, and I think it's just
a really nice thing to do for yourself
even for when you like later on, years down the line,
when you look back at this spread,
you'll be able to see this year in a snapshot form
and all of your highlights and memories
and moments from the year,
and I think it's just really beautiful.
There's a specific charm about Polaroid pictures
which I think is why they've become so popular.
So I quite enjoy having sort of like
a scrapbook element to my bullet journal.
For this spread, I actually did three Polaroids per page.
In the past, I've done four but it was a little cramped
so I decided to split it up.
And this way, it's actually turns out being
a quadruple page spread so there is four pages of this.
I did another one on the other side,
and, yeah, I cannot wait to fill this in
with all of my beautiful little Polaroid memories.
It's going to be a lot, a lot of fun.
I just decorated all the blank spaces,
there was only three pictures per page,
there was a bit more blank space than usual
so I decorated it with some doodles
and some washi tape as well as some stamps that I have.
Again, I will link all of these down below
if I can find them.
I also just wanted to say,
even if you don't have a Polaroid camera,
you can, of course, still do this spread.
You can either print out pictures and just cut them to size
or you can even like draw your favorite memory,
that would be such a fun exercise every single month
to doodle something that represents
a highlight from that specific month
and then at the end, you have all these doodles of yours
and you can see the timeline of the year.
All right, friends, so here is the final flip through
of my 2020 bullet journal setup.
I really love how this turned out.
I hope you guys got some inspiration from it as well.
I think they are gonna work really well for me
at the beginning of this year.
I love the functionality of the spreads
and I also love the way the style turned out.
I feel like it's perfect level of simple and basic
for the beginning of the year but still looks pretty cute,
so let me know what you guys think down below,
and I can't wait to see your setups as well.
All right everyone,
so that was my 2020 bullet journal setup.
Feels good to have everything ready to go for the new year.
I'm ready to be productive,
start setting goals and achieving them
and I hope you guys are as well.
I can't wait to see your recreations as usual.
If you do recreate any of my spreads,
you can tag me on Instagram at @amandarachlee
and use the hashtag, #littledoodles.
But yeah, let me know what you guys think of my setup
or what you wanna see in the new year.
Again, Happy New Year, wishing you guys the best for 2020.
Thank you so much for all of the amazing memories
and support from 2019, it was absolutely amazing.
And, yeah, I cannot thank you guys enough.
I can't wait to see what 2020 brings
for the little doodles, finger crossed,
it's gonna be a fun year, but I think that's pretty much it.
As usual, keep doodling, have a great day,
and I will talk to you in the next one, bye everyone.
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