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Writer's pictureTotally Twila

Nearly 200 ways to fill a bullet journal

Updated: Mar 23

Hey Skwad!

Lately, I’ve been trying to reduce the amount of time I spend online and y’know, actually start living my life? As well as trying to get a better hold of my emotions and overall spend my time more wisely, organise my life and quite frankly, get it together. So what better way to get a better understanding of and plan out your life without being all "Dear Diary" this and “Dear Diary” that? The answer, my friend, is bullet journaling!


I found that bullet journaling is far more like creating a scrapbook of memories and plans that you can doodle all over to your heart's content without it looking (god forbid!) messy. On top of using it to log your innermost thoughts and emotions, a bullet journal can help you plan out your week (month or even year!) and keep track of your habits. Whilst there are many apps you can get on mobile or tablet, I found my results on such apps to be fruitless and end up deleting them after about a week. Furthermore, I've found it's an excellent way to fill up the *ahem* small mountain of notebooks I've gathered over the years with hundreds of empty pages, so without further adieu...

 

All about me (or rather you)

  • “Me in 500 words or less”

  • “Me from A-Z”

  • “10 facts about me”

  • My family tree

  • My horoscope

  • My Meyers-Brigs

  • My hobbies

  • “My favourite personality traits”

  • “What do I enjoy?”

  • “I feel most confident when…”

  • How much do you truly love yourself?

  • What is your favourite topic to talk about?

  • What do you like doing so much that you lose track of time?

  • “Things I find romantic”

  • “Things I collect”

  • “Things that make me happy”

  • “Things that motivate me”

  • “What makes me happiest in life?”

  • “I am. I can. I’ve done. I will.”

  • “I will never”

  • “Things I never thought I would do”

  • “Ways I have changed

  • My favourite things”

  • “What currently inspires me”

  • “The people I most admire”

  • “People tell me I’m good at…”

  • “Currently I’m…”

  • “What I LOVE about spring/summer/autumn/winter”

  • Whose life do you envy the most and why?

  • “Why I love my favourite colour”

  • “Why journaling is important to me”

  • What have you done recently that you never got to brag about?

  • If you had 5 minutes and the whole world was forced to listen, what would you say?

  • What would you do with your life if you had no fear/a guarantee of success/money wasn’t an issue?

  • “Most embarrassing moments”

  • “I wish I had a lifetime supply of”

  • Something that shaped you as a person (book, person, experience)

  • “The best advice I ever got”

  • A funny story that makes you laugh every time

  • Bad habits to break

  • “My perfect day”

  • “My ideal morning/afternoon/evening routine”

  • “How to have a good day”

  • My Wishlist (Want vs need)

  • Habits to make (& break!)

  • The person I aspire to be

  • The glamorous teen girl lifestyle I once fantasised about

  • becoming “that girl” - the indefinite guide to being your most authentic self

  • Princess etiquette tips

  • A chivalrous lady…


Goals/reflections

  • Goals for the year

  • Monthly review (Goals, things to improve next month, successes, new finds; music, tv, hobbies)

  • “5 things for the bucket list”

  • “Highlights of the month/season/year”

  • “My best accomplishments”

  • “Moments I wish I could do-over? None.” (What have you learnt from your past mistakes?)

  • My word of the month/year

  • 30 things to do before I turn 30

  • Who I am vs who I want to be

  • “Things I’ve learned in life”

  • 10 things I would like to do every day

  • What was your favourite thing to do growing up?

  • When you were a child, what did you dream of doing when you grew up?

  • “Things I want more of in life vs things I want less of”

  • “I want to learn how to”

  • “My proudest moments”

  • What do you need to start saying “yes” to?

  • “If I could change one thing about my life”

  • “When did I last?”

  • My dream home

  • “My dream life” (plan out your perfect life, what would you wear/do/drive, where would you live, what do you want to achieve if you could do whatever you want?)

  • My top 4 goals in life

  • What would you do differently with your education if you got a chance to start over?

  • Write a letter to yourself (past/present/future)

  • My earliest memory

  • Where were you 1 year ago? 5 years ago? (mentally, emotionally, literally)

  • “My dream jobs”

  • “My childhood memories”

  • Small ways to improve your life

  • “Progress not perfection; things I’m trying to improve about myself”


Mental health

  • “Ways to de-stress”

  • “What to do when” (you’ve been left on read, feel left out, had relationship troubles, felt stressed & overworked)

  • When you feel sad/down

  • Daily affirmations (read at least once a day to boost your self-confidence)

  • Self-care ideas

  • My worry tree

  • 14 ways I can love myself

  • “What am I looking forward to?”

  • “What am I holding on to?”

  • “What do I need to let go of?”

  • “Where am I putting my energy into/where do I want to direct my energy”

  • Things I wanted to say but never did (how the conversation should have gone [in your opinion])

  • How to feel together & organised

  • Questions to ask before giving up

  • Things I can control/Things outside of my control

  • Things that suck

  • Courage doesn’t always roar (what are you proud of yourself for, however small)

  • Personal crisis plan

  • “What’s on my mind”

  • Self-discipline tips

  • I know that

  • Emotional First Aid

  • Ways to start feeling again

  • “Things I should stop doing to myself”


People

  • Birthdays & important days to remember

  • Questions to ask others

  • Date night ideas

  • Letter to those important to you

  • Letter to someone you need to forgive/apologise to

  • Letter to someone 100 years+ in the future

  • “Random acts of kindness”

  • “How to make others happy”


Trackers & lists

  • Medication tracker (& any side effects you've experienced)

  • Mood tracker (either monthly, yearly or both)

  • Habit tracker (drinking water, alcohol, exercise, sleep, study, etc)

  • “oh bloody hell”: a period tracker

  • Project tracker

  • “Stop spending money on stupid s***!”

  • 15-minute tasks

  • 24 hours: an ideal day

  • Home cleaning plans (what do you need to do daily, weekly, monthly, annually?)

  • (regular?) bucket list

  • Gratitude list

  • A “Yeah, I might buy that” list

  • Shopping list

  • “Tasks I must complete before I can watch Netflix”: a to-do list

  • “A list of things I’ve been right about”


Education

  • Homework and assignment deadlines

  • Study plan

  • Exam Countdown

  • Timetable

  • Grades log (track improvement over time)

  • Assessment feedback I keep getting (make a log of the comments you get back from professors each time and see if there's any correlation, what are your strengths? Your weaknesses?)

  • When exams are over (study motivation)

  • Avoiding burnout tips


Fashion

  • Fashion faves (fabrics, cuts, brands, pieces, subcultures, etc)

  • My favourite shops

  • Capsule wardrobe

  • “What I wore to…”


Food

  • Recipes

  • Weekly meal plan

  • Restaurants to try

  • “Favourite snacks”

  • “My favourite sweets”

  • “I have a sweet tooth…”

  • “My favourite dishes”

  • Restaurants to try


Telly, films, music, podcasts, books, et cetera, et cetera...

  • Movies to watch

  • TV shows to watch but never got round to (go check out my blog post for ideas!)

  • Podcasts to check out

  • Books to read

  • Music to get

  • Song lyrics

  • Playlist for the week/month/year (either favourite songs, newly discovered songs or songs that remind you of something)

  • “Feel-good songs”

  • “My fave tv shows”

  • “My favourite apps”

  • “Oldies but goldies”

  • “My favourite websites

  • My favourite video games


Travel

  • Weekend getaway ideas

  • Travel bucket list

  • Games to play in the car


Christmas

  • “Favourite Christmas films”

  • “Favourite Christmas carols”

  • “Favourite Christmas songs”

  • Christmas baking ideas

  • Gift ideas

  • Your letter to Santa

  • Reasons to love Christmas

  • Advent calendar

  • Things to do this holiday season


Other

  • 6-word stories

  • Jokes & puns

  • Poetry

  • Fortune cookie predictions

  • Ideas for novels

  • Ideas for characters

  • ~lovely words~ (native & foreign language vocabulary)

  • Philosophical thoughts

  • Polaroids

  • Quotes

  • Write a short story, one line a day

  • Dream log

  • Remember to Google (because your brain sucks sometimes)

  • Sending Log

  • Useful telephone numbers

  • Streams of consciousness

  • Diary entries

  • Moodboards

  • Ideas/plans for projects

  • Drawings/doodles

  • Dried flowers

  • Potential baby/pet names

  • Useless inventions

 

I hope this helps you set aside some time for yourself (away from a screen!) for at least half an hour each day as it's very easy to get caught up in it all. If you think of anything I've missed please let me know in the comments below as I'm oh so slightly *miffed* at myself for not being able to reach 200 haha!


Sending you all hugs and happiness,

XOXO Totally Twila

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