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- Hey everyone, it's Amanda, welcome back to my channel.
Now, I know that a lot of you guys
have started your bullet journal or your planner
for the new year, for 2018,
and hopefully it's going well for you.
I've been getting some messages
saying that you guys have been having fun
getting organized and getting a fresh start,
so I'm really happy to hear that.
So since we're all just fresh
off of that new year high of organization,
I thought it would be the perfect timing
to do a new year bullet journal spread ideas video.
So that's what today's video is going to be.
I'll show you a couple different spreads
that are perfect for the beginning of the year,
just to get yourself in the right mindset
for the next 12 months.
This week, I'd like to thank Skillshare
for sponsoring this video and supporting my channel.
I know a lot of you guys, like myself,
have New Year's resolutions to learn new things
and learn new skills for 2018,
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I actually have a really special New Year's deal
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but without further ado,
let's just get right into this video.
All right, so starting off with the first spread,
this is the 2018 Goals page.
I actually did a version of this
in my very own 2018 bullet journal setup,
which you guys saw if you watched my setup video.
Pretty self-explanatory.
I'm sure a lot of you guys set goals
and New Year's resolutions at the beginning of the year,
so this spread is just meant for you
to keep track of all of those goals.
As you can see,
I sectioned off the page into different categories
so that I can separate all of my goals.
I have Fitness, Wellness, Work, School, Productivity,
but you can do whatever categories
work the best for your lifestyle.
Personally, I really like separating my goals
into different categories so that I can really focus
on major things for each facet of my life,
and I find it very, very effective.
The page next to it that I'm doing right now
is the 2018 Bucket List page.
Now, this one is slightly different from the goals.
I kind of categorize a bucket list
as fun, quirky things that you just want to do this year.
Maybe it's, you know, go skating,
or jump off a building. (laughs)
Maybe not that crazy, but you guys get what I mean.
This spread that I'm doing right now is a vision board,
which is something that I have been meaning to get into,
so I'm really excited to implement it
into my bullet journal.
And you basically just paste pictures
of what you want your life to manifest this year,
and it's a nice visual tool.
I'm all about visualization and manifestation,
so this vision board is gonna be great.
Once I paste all the pictures in,
it's gonna look really great.
So this page is something that is more of an exercise.
Again, you don't need to do all of these pages,
I'm just showing you guys a couple different options.
But as you can see, I wrote two lines.
One says, "Leave it in 2017,"
and the next one says, "Bring it in 2018."
So you're going to write down some things
that you want to leave behind in 2017,
all of the negative things,
and then what you want to bring into the new year.
So what you did well last year
that you want to continue on.
Long-winded way of explaining it,
but I hope it makes sense.
You can either do a list
or more of a journaling paragraph exercise.
Okay, so the page next to it,
this is a cleaning schedule.
I saw a spread similar to this on Pinterest,
and I thought it would be such a great idea.
Ever since I moved into my own place,
I'm actually shocked at the amount of cleaning
(laughs) that it requires to keep up,
so I found this really helpful.
I'm sectioning off the page into daily tasks, weekly tasks,
biweekly tasks, monthly tasks, and then biannual tasks.
Then, as you can see, each box has the cleaning,
small cleaning tasks that have to be done for that.
For the weekly, I have, you know,
dust, laundry, clean floors,
and then I drew 52 circles next to it
because there are 52 weeks.
So then every single week that I do it,
I'm going to fill in one of the circles.
And then you do the same thing
for the biweekly, monthly, and the other sections,
except for biweekly, you obviously do 26 circles,
and then for monthly, you do 12, one for each month.
So, obviously this looks really complicated and confusing,
but it's really not.
I think it's just a great way to keep track
of all of the cleaning tasks
that you have to do in your household.
And you can come up with a different layout,
but I thought this would be a nice hub for me to look at
and make sure that I am keeping up to date with everything.
Here is just an example of me filling in the circles.
I color-coded it, so for the weekly ones,
each month is a different color,
but you don't have to do that.
My next spread idea is a savings goals tracker,
so I'm sure a lot of you guys set goals for saving money.
Maybe you're saving up for a new camera, a phone, or a trip.
But whatever it is that you're saving up for,
you can track it in your bullet journal
by doing this kind of thermometer/level type thing.
So I wrote out a couple of goals.
They're not (laughs) my actual goals that I'm saving up for.
I don't think a car is in my near future, not quite yet.
But then I'm putting the total amount at the top
and then filling in the lines with the amounts,
so that it's a scale,
and then as you save your money,
you can color in the different sections of the scale
so you can see how much you have been saving.
I feel like money is always a tricky thing to handle,
so putting it down on paper is always a great way
to keep yourself accountable for saving
and encourage yourself to save more.
Next spread idea is a health tracker.
Now, this is something that is very personal to everyone.
Everyone's gonna have something different,
have different goals in mind.
I personally don't do a lot of
health trackers in my bullet journal,
but I know that, for a lot of people,
the new year is a great time to get a fresh start
on maybe a weight loss journey,
maybe working out more,
so I wanted to do a couple of ideas
that might help you out.
These aren't fully detailed and fully formed spreads.
I just wanted to throw a couple brainstorm ideas out there.
So the first one is a weight loss tracker.
Maybe you have a goal
that you want to lose a certain amount of weight.
So you can do that by either
tracking your weight month by month,
or filling in a box or circle
every time you lose a certain amount of weight.
Next one, you can do diet and meal plan
where you write out your meal plans for the week.
You can also do a workout planner.
As you can see, I have done a little calendar
where I outline which days
I want to do abs, legs, arms, cardio, that type of thing.
Or you can do more of a tracker style,
where you fill in circles or boxes
depending on when you actually work out.
Another thing you can do is more of a graph layout.
This is applicable to workouts, weight loss.
Depends on what you want to track.
You can do either a line or a bar graph.
And then, finally, you can outline your workout routine.
I always find it hard to keep track
of how many reps and sets I need to do for a circuit,
so it's a good idea to write it all down in one place.
There are a ton of different ways
that you can do health trackers.
This is why I didn't really create set spreads to show you,
because it's gonna be very different for everyone.
Anyways, here are all of my New Year's
bullet journal spread ideas.
Hopefully you guys find something you like.
All right, everyone, so I hope you enjoyed this video.
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Love you guys, keep doodling,
and I will talk to you in my next video. Bye, everyone.
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