I did it! I lost my Bujo…

I finally did it! I lost a BuJo somehow. I couldn’t find it for the last few months so I eventually gave up last month and started making a new one for myself.

What to do when you’ve lost your BuJo

First of all, don’t panic like I did.

Even though I knew I didn’t keep everything in that BuJo I still panicked for a few days after realising I couldn’t find it anywhere in my room. I only ever kept it in there, occasionally bringing it downstairs but never out of the house. Just so I could keep up with what I’d need to be doing during the day I would put the appointments and due dates down in my google calendar too which did save me a bit during the time I didn’t have a BuJo.

The next thing to do is to look around where you normally keep it, exhaust all the places it could be. After you’ve done this, if you still haven’t found it, then make a note on a piece of paper of what you’d need to make a new one.

Wait a couple of days and still check around the place, then start setting up your new BuJo.

Setting up a BuJo

1. Find a book you want to use

2. Make a note of what pages you want to include

3. Sketch a design for those pages

4. Start adding in those pages to the book, being careful of how much space you have

5. There you go! That’s the main bit set up!

Okay so that’s a really simplified version of how to set up the journal but it’s broken down into the key elements that I use. I always have these pages included and so it’s really simple to set up these:

1. Index (symbols key)

2. Year Calendar / Year View

3. Future Log

4. Year Goals

5. Books I’ve read

6. Films I’ve watched

7. Academic tracker

They may go in different places, not all at the beginning of the journal but most of the time these are included and kept up to date. The books and films are some of my favourite pages – I use them sometimes for academic things, other times for going hey I did all this with friends. It’s a great thing to be able to look back on at the end of the year.

Year goals keep me motivated throughout the year, it’s what I want to focus on and achieve. These aren’t usually very long but they’re detailed enough that I have a nice little page to look at when I need a boost. This year? Learn how to sew better, be more focused with university, and the main one? Get my stuff organised.

Create pages like these that are going to be useful to you, and there you go!

Using your new BuJo

I’ll admit, after losing my last one I didn’t want to use this new one. I set it up, had the pages I wanted at the start, had my weekly spreads done for June and July and …. then I hit a block.

It wasn’t my BuJo. It wasn’t the one I had started the year with, so full of excitement and ready to tackle all the challenges this year posed. I had spent so much time on that last one, making it pretty, doing different themes for the different weeks. I got a bit disheartened.

So it took me a couple of weeks to actually start using it, I’d finally got into the swing of making notes in this new journal. It’s different to my last one but in a way I kind of prefer this. It doesn’t feel like I’m being as neat as I could be but I have the rest of the year to work on that.

And I’m finally enjoying getting back into BuJo-ing

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