Lucie: Hey everyone, welcome back to my YouTube channel! This is one of my first new
videos I'm recording with over 200,000 subscribers, so I just wanted to say a
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excited to have you here. Since today's video is all health and habit
related, thank you so much to CVS Health for sponsoring it. CVS is the
store that I grew up going to for every single one of my daily needs and
essentials, and so I'm just so excited to watch them now expand into these new
health and wellness offerings. They have an awesome new line called "Live Better"
with over a hundred wellness products. There's everything from vitamins to sun
care, digestive supplements, bamboo toothbrushes, and so much more. All of the
packaging is at least eighty percent recyclable, which is really important to
me. I've personally been putting the organic marine greens blend into my
morning smoothies, which has kelp, chlorella, and spirulina in it... and I've
been tracking my green smoothies every day with my bullet journal. And I'm
putting a link down below to where you can check out all the new products, see
their ingredients, see how they were sourced, and learn about how they're
supporting and respecting the world's ecosystems. When it comes to my personal
health over the past few months, I've been reflecting on some slight changes
that I can make here and there to improve my overall physical and mental
health. I've had a couple of random repeat migraines recently throughout the
past month, and I also had some weird sleeping issues at the start of the
month where I kind of went through about three days in a row where I just was not
able to sleep... So I spoke to my doctor about some of these issues, and she
started asking me questions like "What foods did you eat on those days?" or "What
was your energy level like?" or "How long were you staring at your computer screen
that day?" ... So much more... And I realized that I just couldn't remember any of
these details in my day clearly enough to give her any concrete answers. So
that's when the idea of tracking these health markers popped into my head
and I knew it would be useful. If you've followed me for a little while now,
you'll know that I've been into bullet journals for years. I've used them as
agendas or planners, but more and more recently I've been using them primarily
for the tracking element. I love building habit trackers. I love using that as a
way to make sure I'm staying on top of personal goals. So today I'm gonna walk
you through how I built my recent habit tracker. First things first,
I grab my bullet journal, my brush pen, two colored markers, a ruler, a pencil,
and my skinny black pen. As soon as I open the journal, here you'll see that
there are some pencil marks here and there, and that's just because I
typically like to create the basic structure of the tracker first with a
pencil so that I know what I'm doing before I just take my pen to the paper. I
started out by writing "habits" at the top of the page, and then giving it a drop
shadow effect. I like outlining this type of text with the skinny black pen
because even if it's not perfect, or even if I go outside of the lines a bit, it
does make it pop more... So I wrote the first letter of the days of the week
across the top of the page, and then directly underneath that I wrote days
one to thirty. Next, I drew a vertical line about halfway down the page, and a
horizontal line to create a little grid. So, this right here is my habit tracker...
And I'm gonna fill it in a little bit later. Then I moved on down to my "Screen
Time" tracker, and I wrote in the day numbers again here and made sure they
were in line with the same day numbers from above... but I skipped writing in the
weekday letters again, just because I didn't need to be repetitive. I created
another grid here, and then added in the hours one to eight. I will say, I rarely
have a day where I'm staring at my screen for eight hours... but I just wanted
to be covered in case I have a full computer day any time in the month. And
then I started on my key, so that I could differentiate between screen
time spent on my laptop versus on my cell phone... So, I used blue for hours
spent in front of my phone, and yellow for hours spent in front of my computer.
As you can see, for this month I chose to go with a more minimal bullet journal
spread layout. If you have ever searched "bullet journal spreads" on Pinterest, you
likely know how intricate, and artistic, and colorful some of these spreads can
be... but just for the purposes of what I'm tracking here,
I wanted to keep the spread simple, and nice and easy on the eye. So, then I went
back up to the top and filled in the habits that I wanted to track... and the
truth is, not all of these are habits per se... Some of them are just things I want
to keep track of. So, I wrote in exercise... Yoga... Yes or no to having had a headache...
Drinking alcohol, reading, stretching, and spending time outdoors. This is really
helpful for me because if I have a headache on any given day, I can then
cross-reference with some other things from that day, or from the day before. For
example, I can check how long I was staring at my screens... I can check if I
had any alcohol... and so much more. So this is really a useful tracker. On the next
page, I decided to build out an entire sleep tracker, so I wrote out the days of
the week... And then the dates again, just because I was on a new page... and then I
wrote out the hours in the night, starting from 8 p.m. and ending at 11
a.m. And I'm likely not going to bed anywhere before 8 p.m. or anywhere near
8 p.m. and, honestly, 11 a.m. is really late for me, and it would be rare for me
to sleep until that time... but I figured this was a good, nice time window to put
in there, just in case. I built that grid again here with the ruler, and then I
added in a column at the bottom for the total hours of sleep in the night, as
well as a yes and no line, just to see if I had any sleeping episodes that night.
And what I mean by this is... you might know this about me from some previous
videos, but... I am prone to having some bizarre incidents in the middle of the
night where I wake up and I say things to Michael, and sometimes I've even been
known to walk around the room a little bit, or leave the room entirely, so... I
never really know why this happens to me... But I do feel sometimes like it's tied
to, maybe, what I had for dinner that night... something that I watched right
before bed... maybe even what time I went to sleep... So
this tracker is useful so that I can see if there is a correlation between the
number of hours I slept, and how I'm feeling energy-wise, and if I had one of
those episodes. So, speaking of energy... I think I'm always kind of wondering why
some days I feel more energetic than others... So that's why I built the next
tracker. I turned this one into a double tracker here, so that I could track my
energy levels in a given day, and also how my skin is
doing. You might have seen some of my recent YouTube videos about my skincare
routine, and I've been talking a lot on my Instagram and YouTube about how my
skin has been giving me a little bit of trouble over the past few months... So I
love being able to look at a tangible tracker like this and to be able to see
my skin's progress. Also, it's great to be able to potentially tie my skin issues
to something I ate previously in the week, or maybe how much sleep I'm getting...
So, I wrote the day numbers again on the top, and then I created a rating system
from 1 to 5 on the left. So, one being low energy or my skin is not looking great,
and 5 being incredibly high energy and clear skin. So, I created the key off to
the left showing that the blue marker indicates my energy levels, and the
yellow marker indicates my skin. Now, on to the next page. I am typically not one
to track my food, although I have made various videos in the past where I'm
trying different food trends or I'm eating different diets... But, personally, I
don't ever track my food. I don't keep tabs on what I'm eating at all. But my
doctor did seem to feel like this would be useful information to be able to look
at various foods, because some foods are considered to be things like migraine
triggers and more... So on this next page I created a simple food log. I wrote "meals"
at the top, and then I just wrote out each day of the week, leaving space to
track my breakfast, which is "B"... Lunch, Dinner, Snacks, and Medication... And I just
wrote out all of these words with their first letters, just to save space.
I then recreated this exact setup for all of the weeks in the month. And I was
grateful for how simple this spread was because I did need to recreate it on
four separate pages. Whenever I'm working in my bullet journal with certain
markers, I get these stray black pen marks that bleed out... sometimes my hand
trails the black across the page... And I do sometimes just leave them and
ignore them, but I wanted this one to look really pretty... so I took my jumbo,
white correction pen, and I just touched up all of those black spots with white.
So, all of that footage that you just saw was from the month before, before I
actually filled out the tracker... But now I can give you a closer look at what
this tracker looks like filled out. It's important for me to show
you that I've changed my mind a lot throughout the month, and I wind up
adapting on the fly... So, for example, you'll see that in the habit tracker
section on the top, I was originally going to write Y and N, or yes and no, for
things like having headache or drinking alcohol... but I decided instead to just
keep the X in there for yes, and to leave it blank for a no. I wanted to keep it
consistent with the other items, so I just changed my mind as I was filling it out.
Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this bullet journaling video. I've been getting a lot
of requests for this type of content, so I hope this is the type of video you've
been looking for. If you decide to build a similar tracker for yourself, please
tag me on Instagram @luciebfink so I can see it! Thank you so much
for coming back to my channel, and please let me know down below in the comment
section what other types of bullet journaling or art videos you want to see
from me on this channel, and I will happily make them for you! Give this
video a thumbs up if you liked it, and I can't wait to see what you think! Bye!