hey guys it's Tasha from one big happy and welcome to my first ever a bullet
journal flip through and this is for December 2017
so this is my first month of like officially bullet journaling I have
bullet journaled in the past in a lined regular notebook and I enjoyed
that but I decided I wanted to go the traditional route and get a Leuchtturm I
think that's how it's pronounced a4 book with the dotted paper so that is
what I have right here I also used this small six inch ruler which is great
because it fits in the back pocket of the journal itself and I used a couple
different pens all of which we already had on hand so I
had this uniball vision needle micro and it's great because it's fine tipped it
does sometimes produce a little bit too much ink so it's easier to find than the
other pens that I have you can find this in the store so I used both this and
this pen is a master fine liner and calligraphy pen and we actually had the
whole set here I bought this for Joseph as a Christmas gift a couple years ago
when he got into zentangling which is the type of line drawing that helps
relieve stress so we already had these and this is the zero one which is the
point two five millimeter thickness nib and these firm fine points are really
useful for making neat thin lines in your bullet journal the other thing that
I used are these Crayola super tips although I do want to keep my bullet
journal more like minimalistic and simple so you won't see a lot of art in
my spreads I just because that just takes a lot of time and I need my bullet
journal to be functional first and foremost but you will see a little bit
of color here and there and so I used these these were five dollars at Target
and Reeves uses them too so but those are optional alright so let's get into it
since this is my first official bullet journal and because I knew I was going
to be making this video I put a lot of thought into what exactly I wanted to
do so when you open up the bullet journal
first of all there is the the index the contents which is really helpful because
the whole point of the bullet journal is for you to be able to you know just kind
of get your thoughts down and have it all somewhere that's easy to find and so
the index is where that easy to find part comes in okay so the very first
thing you'll see on this side here is a yearly calendar because you never know
when you'll need to refer to the full year for the dates and all I did was I
used a a hand lettered all of this and then I used just one of the fine liners
the broadside to just add a little color in here and then I highlighted all of
the federal holidays then over here I have my future log which is normally it
would have you know at least six months but since I know that I'm only going to
be using this journal till the end of the month I just went out to February
but this is where you record things as they come up birthdays holidays things
like that and I generally prefer my things to be in order that's why I'm
spacing them out but the other thing that I thought of was that if things had
to end up going out of order what I might do when I circle a date like say
something happened to come up for the 10th between you know now in the 10th
then I would circle the 10th use one of the super tips to assign it a color and
then down here I would color in the box to help me know what order things are
supposed to be in but I'll have things like that appointment birthdays and
things like that would go due dates for things would go in the future log so
next we have my never-ending to-do list and these are like whenever something
comes up that I think oh my gosh well I need to do this but I don't want to
assign it to a particular day yet I just want to throw it somewhere so that when
I'm ready to kind of plan a week I can refer back to it and think about okay
well what do I which one of these am I going to take care of this is where I
kind of dump everything so for example I have Reeves preschool medical forms so
Reeves will start preschool two days a week in
February so that has to be done sometime before February so I'm just gonna throw
this up here because I doubt I'm gonna get it done in December because of
Christmas and vlogmas then over here is a need and want list which is basically
a wish list so anytime I think of something that I want I'll put it on
here and anything I think of something that I need I'll put it on here which
goes into you know what we talk about when we say that you should have a
cooling-off period before buying things this is a great way to do that you just
keep a running list of the things that you need to buy so that you're not
making impulse purchases next I have a goals page which is not filled out
because I really want to spend some time thinking about exactly what kind of
goals I want to have for the upcoming year next I have my stats tracker so I
want to keep track of our various social media stats so that's what I'm gonna do
here in the stats tracker these are books movies and games that I want to do
meaning play read or watch and for the book symbol will be kind of like a
rectangle and the games that's a little Pacman and then a play button for any
books that I want to read or watch and then here is a collection of the books
and games and movies that I have enjoyed or finished over the year and sadly I
wish that there were more books here I think this helped me realize that I need
to be reading more books this is not nearly enough and so this is and I
haven't finished any games I've played a couple but I haven't finished them so
and I do enjoy playing video games so I maybe need to try to figure out how to
make more time for that in my schedule okay so that is the end of the
collections pretty much and you can see I have them all here in my index so if
I'm looking for one in particular then I can just flip to the index and then flip
back to it so here is my December monthly overview
which I'm not 100% that I will keep this some of this is figuring out what's
gonna work for you me and what doesn't and so here I've just
for the appointments or events from the future log which is here into here and
then I also put the days that I'm on vacation and then general to do's that
need to be completed that month or goals that I have the month in that month will
go here I also have my habit tracker and a lot of people will make their habit
tracker take up one entire page and they have like 20 different habits that
they're tracking for me that's like too much so at least for right now I picked
a couple of habits that were really important to me and you see that they're
all kind of centered around self-care so this is get at least seven hours of
sleep a night this is work out and this is meditate those are three things that
I would like to do a little you know work out and meditate every single day
that would be awesome and then I also want to include a nice little quote this
one says do something today that your future self will thank you for I like
quotes they motivate me so I try to include them often that's something that
you will see fairly often in my bullet journal so you can see I have been I
have done pretty good in terms of getting seven hours of sleep not so much
on working out or meditating but the second is not over yet
and I'm actually filming on the second so fingers crossed that I will get to
these today next I have a sleep log now this may not be a big deal for some
people but like I said I have seven hours of sleep here on my habit tracker
and then I also have it here and that is because I have a tendency to work a lot
and not get enough sleep or to go to bed late and you know it is better to go to
bed at the same time and wake up at the same time every day and I don't do that
which is why I have a sleep log that shows my ideal range like ideally I will
go to sleep somewhere between 8 & 9 p.m. and then wake up somewhere between 4 & 5
a.m. so sleep is a real issue for me which is why I will be doing this every
single month until I am sleeping according to schedule on a regular basis
and feel like I don't need to track my sleep anymore so over here I have
YouTube content calendar here I have the date followed by the day of the week and
then I also have one for the blog which is empty and I need to work on making
sure that I am producing content regularly for the blog so this is my
first weekly page since I started this journal on descent in December it's just
part of a week so it's just three days Friday Saturday Sunday and I just jot in
my to dos for right now and I put it up another quote great people do things
before they are ready they do things before they know they can it's just nice
seeing these quotes and reading them and and being motivated by them so I'm not
sure if I will keep it as just to dos or if I'll start adding in appointments in
the weekly logs we will see as I use my bullet journal more and more I intended
to put all of my weekly logs together and so I thought I had saved the pages
but then I forgot and I ended up putting my meal plan and grocery list which I'm
gonna turn this on what should have been the weekly spread for the next week I
meant to put this kind of behind the dailies but it's already here so every
month I will have a meal plan where I will list the weeks and the various meal
breakfast meals breakfast lunch dinner and snacks and I put this in pencil
because it can change a lot so this is our menu for this week this is next week
I don't really make three meals that we eat all week long so next we get back to
the weeklies and you can see that this is in a different format than here
because honestly I don't think that I will use all of this I think this is an
appropriate amount of space from any given day in a weekly and it allows all
the boxes to be the same size whereas with this spread normally what people do
is they'll have it'll take up this whole thing and they'll cut Saturday and
Sunday in half whereas for me Saturday and Sundays are like the days when I can
get the most done because I work full-time and so I have you know 10 12
hours of my day taken out by getting ready for work community to work and
work so I need my Saturdays and Sundays to be big so I think that this will work
really well we'll see so then I have some more blank pages for the other
weeklies that you know should all be together and now we get to my first
daily this is my daily spread and I'm actually gonna flip to a clean one just
to show you what it would look like with nothing in it this takes me less than
three minutes to do which I really like because this is the thing that I'm gonna
be doing the most often for me my dailies needs to have my to-do list food
and water tracker because I don't drink enough water and that is something
that's important to me that I want to start working on and then also breakfast
snack lunch snack dinner snack because I want to start focusing on my weight in
addition to my exercise which starts with my eating habits and I have a bad
habit of skipping meals getting really hungry and then eating junk so this is
to try to keep me on track with my food I will also be putting the times at
which I ate so that I can start identifying problems and then here I so
a lot of people will just have a to-do list but then not actually have a
calendar or a daily you know hourly thing where they plug the tasks in and
for me I need that if I don't have that I will not get anything done
so my spreads will always include a calendar my day will generally start at
4:30 a.m. and then end by 10:00 p.m. and so I will fit my tasks in there so what
I will show you I can't show you Friday because I worked on Friday and so I do
actually put my work tasks into my bullet journal because that is what I'm
working on during this period and I plot out how long the things will take me and
what I'm going to do with my day and again you can see it generally when I'm
planning out my day I do it in pencil and then as I go through the day I
darken it up in pen so here you can see from 4:00 to 5:30
I plan to grocery shop and then from 6:00 to 7:00 we went live well that was
my plan to go live for vlogmas but I don't think we ended up going live until
eight so things don't always go as planned that's why it's in pencil but
here's my to-do list they started off as dots and as I completed them I exed
them off then here is a random collection that I decided to put on
there because I got some ideas for gifts for Alexis and some other people so I
wanted to jot that down before I forgot it and that is the beautiful thing about
the bullet journal because yes I was in the middle of dailies but now I've got
these these ideas for Christmas that I wanted to put somewhere in catalogue
somewhere and so I could just turn to the next blank page throw up a Christmas
headline start writing what I want to write so here I have gift ideas I have
menu I might do other - dues like decorating cleaning things like that and
then all you have to do is just go in the front to the index which is here 27
Christmas Bam! and it's in place so after that it's basically just my daily so
this was today this is tomorrow and here's Monday I probably won't go
more than a week in advance I might actually just do my dailies every single
day but we'll see anyway this was my walkthrough I hope you guys enjoyed it
and let me know if you have any questions meanwhile I will be using this
for the rest of December and I will see you in January for a new bullet journal
spread for 2018 alright guys bye