The Bullet Journal Method

In the end it’s not the years in your life that count, it’s life in your years. —ABRAHAM LINCOLN

The complex tactile movement of writing by hand stimulates our mind more effectively than typing. It activates multiple regions of the brain simultaneously, thereby imprinting what we learn on a deeper level. As a result, we retain information longer than we would by tapping it into an app.

Curiosity points the needle of our inner compass toward the hopeful magnetism of possibility and meaning. It’s the force that compels us to venture out of our comfort zone into unfamiliar territory filled with uncertainty and risks. The question becomes: How do we best harness our curiosity while reducing the risk of failure? We set goals. When set

To thread these instances together, all you have to do is add the page number of one instance next to the page numbers of the other instances. So if you’re at the start of instance 2, you would write “10” next to this page (threading back to instance 1, which is on this page). At the end of instance 2, next to this page, you would write “160,” thre

Our notebook serves as a mental sanctuary where we are free to think, reflect, process, and focus.

The best way for your radiance to serve others is to challenge yourself to grow. To that end, make deliberate learning an ongoing focus of your life. Being intentional in your pursuit of knowledge will help you engage with the world and open it up in ways you would have never considered, or been willing to, otherwise.

Many a great idea, “keeper” thought, or important “note to self” has fallen victim to a misplaced scrap of paper or an outdated app. It’s a compounding inefficiency that drains your bandwidth, but it’s completely avoidable. The Bullet Journal is designed to be your “source of truth.” No, this is not some dubious invitation to worship this methodolo

As Joshua Fields Millburn of the Minimalists once quipped, “You can’t change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.”53 You get to choose who you spend your precious time with. Surround yourself with people who want the best for you. That doesn’t mean they’ll always agree with you or be indiscriminately supportive. No, find

When we put pen to paper, we’re not just turning on the lights; we’re also turning up the heat. Writing by hand helps us think and feel simultaneously.

This technique has since been further expanded by community member Kim Alvarez to work with threading entire notebooks! If you wanted to continue a Collection, say, “Books to Read,” in a new notebook, but you don’t want to copy everything over, you can thread it. If the first instance of the “Books to Read” Collection is on this page in your second