Bullet Journal Method

The Bullet Journal Method

Brenda Castro

"Has helped people with OCD"
"Information overload is worse for focus than exhaustion or marijuana"
"Have nothing in your homes you do not know to be useful or beautiful"
"The benefits of writing by hand stem from the complaint: inefficiency"
"We often mistake convenience for efficiency"
"Keep your future self in mind"
"BuJo uses subcollections, threading, dedicated indices, optional weekly logs"
"Start a new notebook at the start of every year (unavoidable cultural milestone)"

"Useful to have a collection of emergency info with medications/dosages, phone numbers, allergies"

"maybe it will never stop, until we die, and that’s a part of life — life is a constant striving for improvement, and we’d hate to ever stop wanting to improve, because that means we’re dead, right? Even if that means that as we die, we wonder if we could have been better, and our last thought is, “Am I adequate as a person?” Even if that means we are never happy with ourselves, at least we are striving to be happy with ourselves, right?
"What if instead, we learned to be happy with ourselves?
"What would happen?
"Would we stop striving to improve? Would that be horrible, if we were just content and didn’t need to better ourselves every minute of every week? Would we be lazy slobs, or would we instead be happy, and in being happy do things that make us happy rather than make us better? And in being happy, perhaps we would show others how to be happy? And crazy as it might sound, maybe we’d start a little mini-revolution of happiness, so that people wouldn’t feel so inadequate, or need to spend every dime on products, or spend all their time on self-improvement."

"Pleasure is a commodity now, marketed as a substitute for happiness and on demand"
"Perfection may be meaningless. We define the inability to transition between emotions as mental illness."
"Happiness is the result of our actions directed toward other goals"
"There is no intellectualizing what resonates with you. Meaning is hard to define."

No major barriers to entry
Clearly defined, actionable tasks
Fixed, relatively short time frame. If it would take more than a month, split into smaller sprints.

"Take the time estame and triple it." Finishing early is great. Falling behind makes things harder to stick.
Celebrate accomplishments. It's not self-indulgence but a means to build momentum, optimism, and resilience. For instance, write down your accomplishments.
ken: one's range of knowledge or sight
Use clarity logs to identify purposes/meaning for challenges/chores.
Five Whys to deconstruct problems.
When you're stuck or out of ideas, it usually means you've lost perspective.
Rubber duck debugging.
Break Sprints: 2 weeks or less. Unrelated to problem troubling me. Defined end.
Wabi-sabi: the beauty of an object is found in its imperfection. Forgiving path with limitless opportunities for growth.
Can intergrate a tracker directly into Monthly Log.
Calendex
BuJo communities
First name and phone number to locate lost journal. Cash reward/personal messages.
Custom bullet for recurring tasks.
Author uses 3-4 notebooks per year.