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- Thank you to Skillshare for sponsoring today's video.
Hi guys, it's Amanda.
Welcome back and happy New Year.
Happy 2021, guys.
I was actually looking back
on my beginning of the year videos from 2020,
and I was so optimistic and excited for a fresh start.
And then obviously, 2020 happened and looking back,
it's just so funny how naive I was, not knowing anything.
But I really, really hope that 2021 is a start
of a better year for everyone.
So in order to hopefully set ourselves up for that mentally,
today I'm gonna be doing some New Years-related
bullet journal spreads.
I've done a lot of these videos before,
so I'll be sure to link a few down below
if you want even more inspiration.
And of course, if you missed all of my beginning
of the year set-up videos, my 2021 bullet journal set up,
my January Plan With Me, I'll be sure to link those as well.
But without further ado I feel like I talk so much
in these intros so I'm really trying
to cut down on my words.
So let's just get started.
All right, so for this video,
I just kinda wanted to do a chill journal with me
while I created my 2021 vision board slash gold board.
I honestly don't really know what to call this
because it's not what you would typically think of
as a vision board, you know with the glued-in pictures
and all of that.
I did do one of those last year actually,
I'll link the video if you're looking for more of that style
of typical vision boarding with the pasted pictures.
But this year I wanted to do something different.
I don't know whether anyone else can agree with me on this
but I feel like this new year feels way different
from previous New Year's obviously
because of the situation the world is in.
But even in terms of my goals, usually at the beginning
of the year I'm so excited to set goals
and I have a really clear idea of what
the year's focus is going to be.
But this year it was kinda harder for me to determine that,
I really didn't know where I wanted
to focus my energy for 2021.
And I had all these small goals or scattered goals
that I had thought about sporadically
and I wanted to kinda find a way to organize them.
So for this vision board, it's, I mean,
I'm calling it a vision board guys but please
don't come for me, any of you vision board purists
if this is not what a typical vision board is.
But for my vision goal board I am just going to be
writing out any goal or anything that I want to happen
in 2021, things that I have thought about,
in a fleeting moment.
And then from there, I'll kind of funnel them
into a more organized manner.
You guys will see what I mean.
So for this, I still wanted to have some creative elements.
So I am just playing around with some lettering
but I did not have a clear idea
of where this spread was going.
Honestly, it was just mostly me sitting in front
of my bullet journal, trying to think of what
I really, really wanted to happen or focus on for 2021.
So I have words like healing, health.
I wrote those down first 'cause it's like,
first and foremost.
And then I had more specific goals
that I wrote out like hiring an assistant.
I really want to expand my team a little bit
in order to help my work-life balance.
And you'll see on the spread that I'm kinda switching up
the lettering styles, rotating the book.
I wanted it to kinda of look like a word collage almost
but as I mentioned, I did not sketch anything out beforehand
in terms of the lettering.
It was just me writing down my goals,
playing around with lettering, having fun,
which coincidentally is one of my goals for 2021
is to just loosen up a little bit in terms of like,
my videos and my journaling and what I do in art.
Again, I know I mentioned this a lot in my previous
most recent bullet journal videos but I really want to
kinda of bring back aspects of my videos from 2017
because there was kind of like an innocence to it in 2017
when I first started making the videos.
I obviously had no clue how big the videos would become
or how big the community would become even.
And it's grown so much.
And obviously naturally that kind of affects what I create.
As much as I don't want there to be external pressure
on what I create through the videos and in my journal
and through art, of course there is.
So one of my goals is to just let go of that a little bit
this year, amongst other things.
So that's why I thought this spread would be a good idea
because it's really for myself
just jotting down all of these goals.
It's not necessarily for you guys.
Everything is going to be different.
So of course you're not gonna copy exactly my spread
but it was kinda therapeutic to really spew out
whatever I had in my mind for 2021.
So since there's nothing much to really describe
in terms of what I'm doing on the actual spread,
I'm pretty much just writing out my goals
in different lettering styles, very chill,
but I wanted to take this opportunity to kind of chat
about those specific goals and maybe it'll act
as a further step in manifestation
or putting it out into the universe.
Me saying it in this voiceover is going
to keep me accountable because I'm saying it
to all of you guys, hundreds of thousands of people.
Oh, actually 2 million people.
I just realized this is my first video back
since I hit 2 million subscribers, which is crazy.
We hit it a lot faster than I expected,
but I'm thinking about doing a special video for 2 million.
So thank you guys.
I can't even explain like how grateful I am and ugh,
it's all happened so fast but thank you, thank you
from the bottom of my heart.
I can't believe there's two million of you guys
watching what I doodle in my notebook.
Anyway, back to my goals.
You can see here I have some specific work goals.
Like I wanted to redesign my logo, my website.
I really wanna look into designing maybe some merch
that isn't stationary-related, maybe some clothing merch.
I don't know, who knows what will happen.
And then other things like currently I'm writing
do more things for myself.
I also have a very, very specific goal
if any of you have tuned into my streams
you'll know about this goal but I want to learn how to say
keep doodling in 20 different languages.
It was a really random the way this came out on the streams,
but I set this goal for myself and now I want to learn how
to say keep doodling in 20 different languages.
So if you know how to say that in your language
let me know in the comments below so I can start studying.
I need to, I guess I need to learn two a month.
I have other goals like cleaning my closet, travel,
if it's safe, connect with my friends more.
I think because of the pandemic I haven't been able
to do that so much, but you know
I want to actually make an effort
whether it's scheduling Zoom calls
with friends and family and yeah, as you can see
I really had no plan for this spread.
I wrote out any goal or thing that I wanted to happen
in 2021 whether it was small and seemed
kind of inconsequential like learning
how to say keep doodling in 20 languages
to the more larger, broader goals like being proud of myself
or balance or taking more breaks.
I just really wanted to make sure to have all of it
in front of me and then from there, I was able
to really see if there was any trends happening
throughout the goals and almost strategize from there.
So you'll see after I finish writing
out all of these goals I actually went in
with different colors and I symbolized each color
for a different thing.
So one color was like work goals.
One color was more mindset, mental health related goals.
One was more like physical, more trivial goals,
if that makes sense.
What else did I have?
Personal goals I think, but then I went in
and I literally just roughly circled each goal
in that specific color to organize it.
You'll see what I do with that later on
but that really helped me to see what trends were happening
so I can kind of separate them out into larger categories.
All right guys, before I continue I wanted to talk
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and let's head back to the video.
One I determined the categories that all my goals
fit into and circled them all to fit them
in the respective categories, I wanted to create
a more strategic, almost analytical way to view my goals.
That previous spread was almost more like
a mind map brainstorming.
And this is where I really want to get down to business
and put those goals into action.
So I'm calling this my goal organizer.
So for this, I created a chart where I have the category
the category that we, you know, assigned the colors
and circled all the goals in.
Then I have a section for the actual goal.
So I list out each of the goals that were within
that category and then specific ways to achieve those goals
or the specifics of that goal.
A lot of you probably know already about smart goals.
So this chart is basically a way for me to strategize
the smart goal aspect to each goal.
If you don't know about smart goals, it's an acronym.
So S is for sustainable, M is measurable, A is attainable,
R is relevant T is time based.
So those are kind of the aspects that you should try
to add to your goals so that it is more likely
that you will achieve those goals.
Sometimes people set goals that are a bit too broad
and vague, and it's hard to gauge whether
you actually did achieve it.
So I tried my best to organize the goals out
as best as I could into those categories
and then add those specifics, obviously, it's, you know,
it's hard to do that for every single goal.
So you just kind of have to pick which specific elements
are relevant to that goal.
And then on the side, you can see I have
some columns for each month.
That's kind of like a monthly check-in for each goal.
At the end of each month I'll check in to see
whether I'm on track or whether I think I'm on track
to achieving that goal.
Again, this monthly thing doesn't apply
to certain goals because some goals I set
for finishing by the end of a certain month.
So you can kind of reorganize this goal organizer
if you want to fit the types of goals that you have.
But I really, really wanted to make sure
that it was a bit more intentional.
So that's why I wanted to make this little chart.
It actually really helped me to organize my goals this way
because I felt like everything was muffled up
in my mind before this and really having a clear,
structured way to view them helped me out
and was kind of therapeutic to do as well
because it gave me time to reflect on the past year
and think of what I actually wanted for 2021.
All right friends, so those were some of
my New Year's bullet journal spread ideas.
I hope you got some inspiration from them.
Maybe felt inspired to start setting your resolutions now.
As I mentioned earlier in the video
I've done a bunch of these videos in previous years
so I'll be sure to link them down below in case you're
in need of any more inspiration for your bullet journals.
I'll also leave the other set of videos like the 2021
set up, the January 2021 set up,
all of the things down below.
So make sure you check those out.
And I think that should pretty much wrap up today's video,
the very first video of 2021.
Wow, I can't believe it still.
So happy New year.
Hope you all stay healthy and happy this year.
Keep doodling and I will talk to you in the next one.
Bye everyone.
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