Key concepts
Failure is inevitable
Beginning
You are worth the risk
We WILL make bad decisions,
but we should try to understand
why
P.133 - “Reflection is the
nursery of intentionality”
Cultivate a habit of checking in
with yourself and asking why
Reflection
AM reflection: a time to plan
PM reflection: a time to review
Reflection is built in to migration
Reflection helps you bring
things into focus
Hedonic adaptation = no longer
being satisfied with what we
have (constantly wanting more)
Happiness comes and goes (it’s
temporary)
Goals aren’t pointless, but
happiness can’t be the goal
P.145 - “Is happiness is the
result of our actions, then we
need to stop asking ourselves Meaning
how to be happy. Rather, we
should be asking ourselves how
to be.
Ikigai = the intersection of
what you are good at and what
you love doing
The question: what is
meaningful?
The seed of passion is curiosity
The seed of perseverance is Passion & Perseverence
patience
Create a Goals collection
5-4-3-2-1 Exercise
Goals
Information overload is worse
for our focus than exhaustion or
smoking marijuana
Break down your goals Mindfulness is the process of
waking up to see what’s the in
Have no major barriers to entry
front of us
Consist of very clearly defined,
actionable tasks Requirements of sprints “Intentional Living is the art of
making our own choices before
Have a fixed, relatively short others’ choices make us.” -
time frame for completion Richie Norton
What about this goal sparked Intentionality = “the fundamental
my curiosity? power of the mind to direct itself
toward something... a specific
What motivated me to want to object, purpose, or end.” (David
invest my energy here? Part 3: The Practice Bentley Hart)
What am I trying to accomplish? Brain Storm
We can’t be true to ourselves
What will it require? if we don’t know what we want
What is my definition of success For most of us, being busy is
for this goal? code for being functionally
overwhelmed
Reflect on your sprints
We need to reduce the
Kaizen = small good change
(continual improvement) number of decisions we burden
ourselves with so we can focus
What little thing can I change on what matters
to improve the situation?
First step in overcoming
Small Steps
Ask small questions decision fatigue = get some
distance by writing them down
Plan --> Do --> Check --> Act
Aim to make your life just a little Deming Cycle Part 1: The Preparation
bit better
We can’t make time, we can
only take time
Things you’re working
The quality of our time is
Make a mental inventory with 3 Things you should be working
determined by our ability to be
columns on
present
Things you want to be working
Mental Decluttering on
Time
Is this vital?
The Test
Does this matter?
This should take place
Flow outside your notebook
Structure Time boxing adds two key Allow you to break away from
motivational ingredients screens and think
Urgency
Give you complete flexibility
Memento Mori (“remember Notebooks
death”) Start fresh each day
Appreciate your achievements Notebook evolves as you do
Completed tasks are You retain more when you write
accomplishments it down than when you type
Add gratitude to your Daily Log How to incorporate gratitude into Requires you to synthesize the
Gratitude information
BuJo Handwriting
Create a Gratitude collection
The long way IS the short
You can’t be grateful for way
everything, but you can be
grateful in every moment Goal: help you efficiently
capture your life as it happens
We can control how we respond
to what happens to us Identify and describe content
Serve as an opportunity to
Topics and Pagination Topics serve 3 functions
clarify intention
Set the agenda for the content
• Tasks
Control
X Completed Tasks
Rapid Logging Tasks (things you need to do) > Migrated Tasks
< Scheduled Tasks
Reacting = instinctual
Reacting vs. Responding • Irrelevant Tasks
Responding = intentional
O Event
Radiance = ability to control the
world around us Can be scheduled preemptively
or logged after the facts
Events (your experiences) Unpack experiences soon after
the event (Daily Reflection)
Bullets 💬
🔑
💡
🗣 💡 💡
Use nested nite bullets to add
details
- Note
Radiance Notes (information you don’t Includes facts, ideas, thoughts,
want to forget) and observations
You can’t control people, but Information you want to
you can influence them remember but isn’t actionable
The people you surround * Priority
yourself with WILL shape you
Custom Bullets and Signifiers ! Inspiration
Action Item: log your
interactions Keep these to a minimum
The 5 Whys
Figure out your options Deconstruction
Life is full of dragons
Rubber ducking = solving
problems by verbalizing them to
a rubber duck
It should take two weeks or less
to complete Inertia
It should be u related to the Break-sprints = self-contained
project/problem that’s troubling micro projects Daily Log
you
It needs to have a defined end
Wabi-sabi = the beauty of an
object is found in its
imperfection
Embracing imperfection puts the
emphasis back on continual
improvement
Imperfection
“There is nothing noble in
being superior to your fellow
man; true nobility is being
superior to your former self.” - Calendar Page
W.L. Sheldon
Monthly Log
Tasks Page
Collections
Goals Future Log
Key Concepts Part 4: The Art
Challenges 3 sources
Part 2: The System
Tasks
Custom Collections
Mission Statement = “I want to
(what) so that I can (why) by
(how).”
Functionality
Legibility Design
Cycle
Sustainability
Lists
Schedules Planning
Trackers
No correct way to bullet journal
“What would make this more Part 5: The End
useful?”
The Index
Allows you to continue
collections in multiple places
Just add an additional number
next to the page number for
previous or next instances
Threading
Forces you to reconsider tasks
and rewrite them if they’re
worthwhile
Transcribe the open task to the
Tasks page of your new Monthly
Log (mark the old entry as >)
Transcribe the task into a
custom collection (mark the old
If a task is still relevant, it can be
entry as >)
migrated in three different ways
If the task is date-specific and
falls outside the month migrate it
into your Future Log (mark the
old entry as <)
Migration
Use a weekly log when you
have a lot going on
Migrate your journal at the end
of the year
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