My New Bullet Journal: A New Beginning

Hello Friends!

If you are reading this, you may have come over from my new bullet journal video on my YT channel, so thank you for stopping by if that is the case. If you have not seen the video yet, go on over if you like and check it out. Every view helps me out, so thank you.

For those who might know, this is my 3rd bullet journal for the year and I wanted to write about the new journal, and why I made another change.

I started 2020 with the desire to start bullet journaling again and I thought that a lined ruled note book would be fine. By the end of January I wanted to change to a different notebook and didn't want the lined pages anymore. I personally find that the spacing between the lines a little big, and I just find them annoying. (first world problems hey?). After buying a second notebook (which was a J. Burrows grid note books) I enjoyed working in it for 3 months. However this is when I started to notice some things, and I knew that I needed to change yet again.

I am the kind of person who likes a few different styles when it comes to looks, what I wear and the things that I have around me and I know this reflects in my journals as well. I have shown in my older videos that I tend to keep my bullet journals pretty simple but in the J. Burrows notebook I decided I wanted to add more than just my tasks. As I wrote more in my bullet journal, and started to add images and thoughts etc but I  noticed that I seemed to be focusing a bit more of the negative things in life. I don't think this had to do with this pandemic that we are all going through, but rather my depression that rears it's ugly head from time to time. This is a subject that I tend not to talk about with people other than my husband or a close friend, but I wanted to be honest with you as I knew that this was connected to my journal. 

As my plan for my bujo this year was to help me with my executive functioning skills and tasks that I needed to complete and so on (as someone on the Autistic spectrum), I go to my bujo several times a day, every day and I just noticed that my journal was not making me feel happy. I found that it kept reminding me that I was not in a good place, mentally and emotionally. I believe that we shouldn't ignore any mental health struggles, but I needed to have a place that made me smile. A place that contained things that lifted me up and brightened my day when I was feeling low. And it was this realisation that made me want to change.

I decided to finally try a Leuchtturm1917, in Nordic Blue and I a so happy that I did. I am in love with the colour ( as blue is my favourite colour)  and so far I have done things in it that I never really did in my old bujo's. Playing around with cute stickers, trying to get back into drawing and practice my skills and I am really happy that I decided to make the change.

 I have always believed that a bullet journal does not have to the the latest and greatest product out there, and it doesn't have to be expensive. My two previous journals where around AU $10 each and were totally fine notebooks, so I didn't feel like I wasted my money. I used any left over paper for scrap paper for myself and for the kids to draw on, so I don't feel bad about moving into my new book. I have said in my videos before that the best journal is one that works for you. If  you are unhappy with it, change it. Try something different in the same book, or if you can afford it, buy a new one and recycle the old one if you can. I know that I am happy with changing to something new and I look forward to seeing how the rest of the year goes.

So anyway, that is what has been happening over the last few weeks and months and I hope that this has given you a bit more of a look into my life and how I see bullet journaling. 

Hope you are all well and staying safe.

B.