these pants don't really match my sweater, but that's okay
i have a cup of tea
we are ready to roll
i'm actually going to take off my cushion
there we go
hello my friends it's nina and
welcome to 2020
today is january 1st
and guess who's planning their bullet journal
the day of the new year
instead of prior to the new year
so you have time to actually prepare for the new year
me
but it's better late than never
in this video i'm going to be setting up my bullet journal, as you can see right here
this is actually my first year setting up a bullet journal
i started bullet journaling in a random month
during a random year
i didn't start in january, i just started whenever
and i didn't even really organize myself
but for 2020 i wanted to do things a bit differently
so i'm going to be starting a brand new journal
in the beginning of the year
and i'm actually going to make this more useful for me
so sit back, relax
get a cup of tea
unless you're actually-
oh that's really hot
unless you're actually really bullet journaling with me
then get your supplies
and let's just get started
i'm going to be starting a new bullet journal
it's the same brand that i'll just put here for you guys
this time i decided to get this nice grey color
just to be different from my black bullet journals in the past
you have served me well but i will use you for other things
so for this video i'm going to be doing my 2020 setup
and i'm also going to show you my 2020 setup
i already have a bullet journal setup video and that was for my monthly setup
how long was that in the shot
this year is going to be the same thing
except this time i am going to add some special elements
for my bullet journal setup i am going with a greyscale theme
as you can also see by my markers
i'm literally just going to be using
yes
i'm literally just using one marker, it is this
grey mildliner
it's a zebra mildliner
it's a light grey color
these i'll be using for january
i'm just going for this light blue theme
but for my 2020 setup i'm going with one color because
i don't want to confuse my eyes
throughout the year i'm going to use different colors
different washi tapes and stickers
and so for my 2020 setup
i want to keep it as simple as possible
i'm not really sure if i'm going to use these tapes
but maybe i will
so now that i've explained myself
let's just actually do it together
so hello here's my bullet journal
these bullet journals have indexes so i'm just gonna write the content pages
first page is going to be a key
so one, key
and then i'll just add to that later on
but here is the first page
as you can see
these pages are dotted
i'm going to start with my key
here is my other bullet journal i'm just going to use it as a reference
but basically i'm going to write key
in the center
and then with a black pen
this is a muji 0.38 tip pen
i'm just going to write out key very tiny like that
and this is my key page
and then under that i'm going to write my bullets
personally for me i like to use square check boxes
for tasks
this is going to represent my task finished
basically i like to put a red checkmark inside the box
and that means the task is finished
task finished
and then for me if i wanna cross something out
or cancel something
i will literally do a cross out through the task
and i also like to do heart bullets
and this is for something good
this can be a discovery i made
or something good that happened that day
something just positive i guess
and then i like to have an exclamation bullet point
and this is for something urgent
or important
and then finally i just have a regular bullet point
and this is for a simple note
but here is my key it's very
simple~
and then finally i'm just going to do a basic grid thing
going on here
so this specific journal has 26 dots by 38 dots
so here we go
make it sort of straight
don't be hard on yourself if the line's not straight
so here's our little vertical line
and then we're going to make a horizontal line
just kinda continuing off of that
and that's our horizontal line
and here i'm going to write that horizontally there are 26 dots
and then vertically there are 38 dots
when i'm making my bullet journal setups i will divide things into fourths
or thirds or halves
and that is your key page
it's literally just there for your reference
now i'm going to be doing a 2020 in a year spread
taking our simple grey color
and we're going to write out 2020
so most of my headers are 2 dots tall
just to make it a little bit bigger
and then we're going to get on with this
there are 12 months in a year
so we're going to go for a 3 by 4
sort of grid
first i'm going to make the headers of each month
we're just going to skip a line
and we're going to start right at the edge right here
we're going to cross out seven
this is going to be the length of a week
then i'm going to skip 2 dots for space and do it again
there is going to be a column left over, but i think
it helps because i don't want it to be all the way here and cramped
here i'm going to write january
just one letter per box
just kinda makes it look centered
i'm writing the first three letters of each month
just to make everything even
and then i'm going to write down the numbers
for the months i go by saturday to sunday
that's basically what we do in america
or maybe just in my life
i know a lot of people do mondays but
for my months i do prefer sundays
just because that's what i'm used to, but
for my weekly spreads i will say
that i have begun to start my weeks on monday
it's definitely much more efficient
but i do still stick with a saturday to sunday month
it's a lil confusing but honestly it works for me
so here is sunday monday blah blah saturday
just gonna write down the numbers
so we have completed three months
now we have nine more to go
i'm going to show you the next row
so for spacing i'm going to skip two lines
and we're going to do the same thing
now i'm going to explain what i do if there are 6 weeks in a month
it's really no big deal
all i do is just move down two spaces
and then go to the next month
so i'm going to set it up
so now there is a 3 line difference
but honestly, no one notices
no big deal
i'm going to do the rest of the months then i'll get back to you guys
and 12 months later
here is our final 2020 full year setup
and so i'll use this as a reference so i'm not on my phone all the time
trying to look at what day it is
we are going to move on to our 2020 goals page
so i do plan to use this setup throughout the year
i'm not just going to come up with a full list of goals right now
but i'm going to add to it as the year goes
for this spread i'm going to divide the page in half
and have a section for realistic goals
and a section for dreams
so my realistic goals are obviously for things i can achieve eventually
so first i'm going to divide this page in half
as we remember, there are 26 dots this way
i'm going to the 13th dot
i'm pretty sure that's the 13th dot
i'm going to actually confirm it
1 2 3
13
i've been bullet journaling enough that i just
know where the 13th dot is
that's kinda straight
and next i'm going to write my header for realistic
and header for dreams
now i'm going to write out realistic
i should've spaced it better
you live and you learn
realistic
dreams
and that is pretty much it for this spread
it's very clean
i might just add a few washi tapes here and there
to kinda complete it
i'm going to write out a realistic goal right here
i personally want to stretch more
so i think i'm gonna write stretch more often
i used to be very flexible but
obviously i stopped stretching and so
i want to incorporate that into my life more
and then dream
what's a dream i have
do i have dreams
what's a dream
i'm just going to leave some boxes here
so i can fill it out later
and here we have our 2020 goals page
i might just add a few washi tapes here and there
ahhh
i added some washi tape to make it more exciting
we have completed two of my spreads
now i'm going to do my things i did spread
i just wanted a log dedicated to things i did in 2020
i tend to forget things that happened
so i want to have it visually and physically out for me
again simple title
and for this i will show you how i make my logs
we're going to make a long horizontal line
let's hope that i do this smoothly
i'm going to separate my spread into 3 categories
we're going to have a date
thing i did
and a category
so i'm going to start here and make a long vertical line
this year i'm just doing freehand because
we're going to trust ourselves a little bit
we're going to go down
i literally didn't breathe
okay phew
we're going to do the same thing here
four dots
and here we have our divided columns
now simply i'm going to write the headers
we've got date, thing i did,
and these things can be accomplishments
events, trips you took
anything like that
and here's category
and then for category i would write
travel, event, any other thing, achievement, something like that
to organize it
and that is pretty much it
again you can decorate it with whatever you want
but i honestly like it just plain
here i would write the date
the name of the thing that happened
and the category of it
and at the end of the year i can see how much happened in my life
if i don't end up filling all two pages
that's okay too
the very fact that you're existing and breathing is enough and all that matters
next page is the finances page
i'm not really sure if everyone needs this
or if this will be useful to anyone
but this is what's useful to me
i just wanna keep a record of my earnings and all that
gonna do the same thing again and start with a header
and then i'm going to make
12 little boxes for each month
this is kinda similar to the year layout we just did
to make everything even
the boxes are seven by eight
so we're going to go down 8 dots
and then i'm going to make the box with the same marker
i'm using the fine tip part of the pen
these boxes are just so cute
we're going to skip one line and then move on
so now i'm going to write the months out
basically these boxes are going to help me
total my earnings
as you can see, here's the total
and here's a dollar sign
so things are just going to add up
and that'll be my earnings for the month
everyone's needs are different so you might not need this spread
or you might change it up a little bit
i think it's just useful to have some sort of finances page
and here is my spread for my finances
it's just kinda cute
we are now moving on to my wishlist spread
we're making the same sort of grid
except for just one page
and then we're going to break it down into 3 categories
i'm going to have the item here
the price and
the category of the item
here i'll just write an example of
a wishlist item that i have
i wanna get an ergonomic office chair for my back
i'm gonna write ergonomic office chair
i don't have an idea of what kind of chair i want
so i can't write down the price yet
but i do know i just want a nice office chair
here i'll just write work / office
and here is my wishlist
we're going to make our expenses page
you guys probably get this by now, but
i'm just going to make another log again
here i'm going to write the expense
here is the cost or the price
and here is the category
these are my expenses pages
i left myself two pages, i think that would be enough
and then personally i want a video ideas section as well
just having these brain dump pages where you can throw in whatever you want is kinda useful
and then just to make this a little fancy
kinda like a washi tape
i'm going to write all these little play buttons
i should've probably made a space or something
because now i have to keep going but i'll see you guys in a minute
there we go
so it kinda looks like a washi tape
i just put all these play buttons because of youtube
now we have freedom to write whatever video ideas we have
finally i'm going to leave space for my reflections
i want my 2019 reflections and my 2020 reflections
2019 reflections
and then 2020 reflections
this just allows me to
kinda reflect
what
i think physically writing out my thoughts
is just more effective
and meaningful to me
so i like to keep reflections pages in everything i do
then i just do simple hearts
and here are the reflections pages
i'll write out all my thoughts here and leave this for the end of the year
now i will briefly go over my monthly layout
just because it did change a little bit
but overall it is pretty much the same as my last bullet journal video
so that's why i'm going to quickly go through it
and for january i wanted to go with this color
i'm going to write january nice and big
takes up two rows
and then right under we're going to make that line
it's okay if it's not perfect
omg that's really wavy
i'm going to fix it just a little bit
i don't know if that made that better
it's fine
it's chill
in fact to make it even i'm just going to go over this again
there we go no one can tell the difference
i'll just do snowflakes, we're still in winter
now here comes the tedious part
which is making the month
this time i'm not gonna use a ruler just because
i don't really have the patience for it anymore
we're going to skip two dots
and start right here
the title of the days is going to be one row long
so the days themselves are 6x6
so here we have four weekdays
and then three more here, it's going to make seven
and there we have it folks
we have a 4x5 grid
we're going to do a 3x5 grid here
there it is
i don't really know what happened here
it is kinda naked right now
so we're going to add some more color
so january starts on wednesday
i'm going to start on wednesday as well
because these dates are from december
it's going to be a grey color
and then on wednesday we're going to start with blue
january also ends on friday so
i'm going to color this grey for february
then over here we have our little goals section
and then our future section
and that is pretty much it! i'm going to fill these out
and there we have our completed month
moving on i'm going to make our habit tracker
this is pretty much the same thing as last time too
but i just freehand this time
because if you remember my last video
i used a ruler and that took way too long
i'll also just start on my brain dump as well
this is where i just have the freedom to throw out ideas and discoveries
anything i want, just little notes here and there
then for the habit trackers
i have 9 habits that i track
these are similar to the month layout we've done before
so i'm going to make a line of seven right there
skip two, move on to the next
move on to the next
so we're going to make a 5x7 box
and we're freehanding this time because
this is honestly so simple
and here is the habit tracker all finished
and i actually did finish the brain dump because
this is supposed to be blank
i'm going to cross out the days that are not in january
and just like my last spread i'm going to put a slash through it
so the habits i track are youtube, instagram, exercise,
vitamins, iron, walking my dogs
watering my plant, skincare, and korean
i'm going to try and learn more korean this year
actually, in fact, i'm going to write that
in my goals
i'm going to study korean more often
i don't want to pressure myself by writing study korean everyday
i'm just going to write more often
in 2020 we're also going to be easier on ourselves
for the sake of our health
now i will show you my weekly spread
so my weekly layout is basically the only thing that changed
instead of going with my horizontal layout that i did before
i'm going to go for more of a quadrants kind of style
so basically for this quadrants style
i'm just going to divide the page
i drew a line here and a line halfway
same thing for here
and then right down the middle with a fine tip
i'm going to make a line
this is going to divide my page into 4
another 4 days here
it's just more vertical space this way
it's not so cramped
because there are seven days in a week
i had this leftover box
i'm going to separate it into two
and this is going to be our notes
and then this is going to be our future
and like i said before now i'm going to start with monday
instead of sunday
because my week basically ends on sundays because i upload on sundays
having sunday here just didn't really make sense for me
so we're going to start with monday
finally, going to write notes
and then future
so future is for stuff that happens next week
or weeks after that or months after that
doesn't really matter
then i'm going to skip a few pages
these are going to be my future weekly layouts
here is the final part of the month
and it's going to be our january reflections
i like to have two pages that function as a diary
i kinda just write in this throughout the month
it doesn't mean i have to write every single day
it's just whenever i have a mood where i want to
be emotional or sentimental
and write out my feelings
i have two pages for that
then just for the heck of it i'll write the first log
then after that, this is basically my thought for today
but after that if it's like
the 3rd or the 15th
i'll just write right under it
so i can save room
and it's just plenty of space for my thoughts
and that is it for my reflections section
this is basically my diary
and then here are the final results
of our 2020 setup
this is the first page
here is our key page for our reference
and then we have our clean 2020 in a year
our 2020 goals
things i did
finances
my wishlist
my expenses page
my video ideas
2019 reflections, 2020 reflections
and then moving on to our monthly setup
this is basically the same for every month
if i wanna decorate, i have the freedom
this is our month
then we have our habit tracker
our brain dump
and then here's our first weekly setup
it's a tiny bit different but
it's much more effective
and some more pages for weekly layouts in the future
and then finally here is our january reflections
and then this will be february
and that my friends is pretty much it for this bullet journal video
my tea is now room temperature
this was my first official bullet journal setup
i always just go right in
not taking the time to make spreads
for things that are important in my life
i just wanted this to be something
that i could look back at 5 years from now and be like
wow that's what i did in 2020
so that is it for my 2020 setup
hopefully this is still useful to you in 2021
or 2022, or
2023
or 2024
2025-
i also did show you my updated monthly setup as well
i hope that this helps to organize your 2020 a little bit
it's extremely simple
extremely simple
some of you guys are probably looking at this video like
nina that is so simple
and that is okay, this is just what's useful to me
but yea let's just bring it in
happy new year
let's have a healthy, safe, and kind year
i will see you in my next video
thank you for watching and
i will see you next time, goodbye my friends :)
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