Write your goals

Accomplishments make people more motivated and positive. Checking them from time to time makes you remember how far you’ve gone and how valuable these achievements are to you.

Create a "goals log" in your journal. You’ll always see that you’ve got something to look forward to.

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Bullet Journaling for Beginners (and Impatient, Unartistic People Like Me)

One notebook and just 15 minutes a day can change your life This is Part 2 of a two-part series on bullet journaling, exploring the rise of its culture, its many uses, and the benefits of this productivity practice. When bullet journal creator Ryder Carroll first developed the BuJo method, he had no idea it would inspire a productivity craze.

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Adjust Your Mindset

Your first notebook will be your learning notebook. Like any productivity method, it will take time to find a bullet journaling flow and structure that works for you.

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The first steps

Get a Journal and Writing Utensils
Start an Index Page: The backbone of your BuJo system, like a table of contents in a book
Create Logs - places where you can brain-dump tasks, projects, goals
Pick Signifiers: Many people use bullets for lists of tasks, circles for events, and dashes for notes.
Document Items with Collections: Collections are running lists and anything you want to remember for later(like blog topics, books you want to read etc.)

The 3 common types of logs:

A future log helps you keep track of items that aren’t yet on your immediate radar.
Monthly logs include things like calendars and categorized goal lists for the next 30 days.
Daily logs may includes entries of to-dos, meetings, and reminders.

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How to Overcome Your Brain's Fixation on Bad Things

Why can't we pull our attention away from a traffic accident or stop watching news about the latest viral outbreak? Why are we waylaid by criticism or unable to get past a minor snub from our best friend? That's our negativity bias.

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The negativity bias

We have the tendency to give more weight in our minds to things that go wrong than to things that go right—so much so that just one negative event can hijack our minds in ways that can be detriment...

Findings about the negativity bias

We get upset when someone doesn't fulfill a promise. However, if they do more than promised, we're not grateful enough for it.
People learn more and faster from punishment and reward. If you have to pick one, negative feedback stimulates learning faster than positive feedback.

The Negative Golden Rule

Do not do unto others what you do not want to be done unto you.

It is about focusing on eliminating the negative more than encouraging the positive. Because there’s abundant evidence from multiple sources that relationships are far more strongly affected by negative things than positive things.

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