The annotations in each highlighted area refer to the page number I can find each task/meetings in that particular bullet journal. The yellow is for anything side hustle related. tasks, activities, term/holiday dates) that I need to remember. The pink and green highlighted areas in my personal bullet journal are work plans (e.g. My magic number of tasks for the week seems to be capped at 15, and I use this to plan in my daily log. I will always have three priority tasks for the week in both personal and work bullet journals, any more than this and it gets too much. I tend to limit myself on the number of tasks I have in any one area. This gives me a snapshot of everything that’s happening in all areas of my life. There’s also some colour coding in my personal bullet journal monthly calendar. I dedicate about two days a week to this, so planning can sometimes be tricky. My side hustle bullet journal works mainly on a monthly calendar, which are really goals I set myself to achieve. I also work across different schools, so my calendar looks significantly different from everything else I use. I work in the education system four days a week in a 10-week term, so I do take the time to set this up over the school break ready for the start of each term. My other two bullet journals are in the traditional grid and dotted notebook formats. My husband and I also share digital calendars on our phones, and my girls have their version of a calendar at home so they’re aware of what’s happening on each day. Having the predated personal bullet journal helps my brain’s constant future planning mode when it comes to scheduling all the members in my family, let alone my own schedule! Having the weekly format laid out for me takes the pressure off setting up each week, or the entire year, in advance. The latter does capture both work and side hustle tasks and agenda from time to time, but having those bullet journals in their dedicated physical work spaces helps me focus on the tasks that need to be completed. On top of that, I keep my work bullet journal at work, my side hustle bullet journal in my home studio, and my life/personal bullet journal is always with me. Oftentimes, having one bullet journal to house different aspects of my life got overwhelming, that’s why over the years I’ve used different journals for each area of my life – life/personal, work and side hustle. I see the Collections in the bullet journal as boundaries within the journal – reference points to refer back to over time. I’ve been using the bullet journal system since 2013 from postgraduate studies to ‘adulting’ in most of my early 30s to the family/work/life juggle. There’s an assumed understanding that these physical boundaries are to be respected, and everything is kept and compartmentalised in its space. Physical boundaries can be anything that separates one thing from another, like a fence between houses, walls between rooms, dividers in a planner. I see boundaries as either physical or mental. What makes this all possible is both setting intentional boundaries aligned with my values, and the act of balancing. I’m a handlettering artist with a side hustle. I’m a blogger who shares planning/organisation ideas on social media, and creates digital planner products. I have a career as a clinical allied health professional working within the education system. I’m a mum of two girls under five – one in the throes of toddlerhood, another who has just started school.
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