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.
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.
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.)
One of my New Year's resolutions for 2014 was to write daily. I'm happy to report that I only missed a total of three days in 2014. I'm currently on a 250-day writing streak, and it's become kind of addictive [edit: at 812 now, a year and a half later].
To build a habit of daily writing, try to get three pages of writing done every day. It can be about anything and it’s important that you write all without editing or censoring.
Come up with trackable goals like a number of words or pages per day. The specificity is important because being able to measure it allows you to keep track of your progress and better change your behavior.
Keeping track of streaks is a very powerful tactic for developing any new habit. Knowing that you have consistently succeeded for a number of days helps you push through the days who are unmotivated.
Other ways to foster regularity: writing in a different style or genre, and doing your writing first thing in the morning.