50 Bullet Journal Ideas to Keep Your Life on Track
A bullet journal is a completely customizable journal in which you can track whatever you want. You can use your journal to keep track of everything, from your sleeping habits to your side hustle tasks.
You can also use a bullet journal to exercise your creative muscles because you can design each page exactly how you want it.
Before you begin, consider where you want to be financially in the next one, two, or even six months and what goals you need to achieve now to get there
. For example, if you want to increase your emergency fund to $5,000 by the end of the year, it may be time to start a side hustle or work toward a promotion at your current job.
Whatever goals you want to achieve this year, you may need a little help getting there. Check out our 50 bullet journal layout ideas to get inspired to plan for your best financial future.
Ideas to Get Your Health on Track
Your health has an impact on almost every aspect of your life. Everything from your mood to your performance and decision-making abilities is affected.
Keeping up with daily health regimens, such as drinking enough water or taking a few minutes to yourself, can, however, add stress to your routine.
Instead of trying to remember everything, create the ideal sleep trackers, water check-ins, and habit creation plans to ensure you never fall behind.
We’ve come up with ten of the best health-focused bullet journal ideas (along with printable stickers) to help you perform at your best every day.
1. Create Good Habits
Create a habit tracker page if you already have your best habits nailed down or if you’re struggling to keep them up.
On the vertical axis, write down everything you want to accomplish, and on the horizontal axis, write down how you want to hold yourself accountable for this goal each day.
Mark off each day that you completed this action.
2. Keep Track of Your Exercises
Keep track of your workout schedule and stay in touch with your body. Make a separate chart for your monthly measurements and the days you exercise at low or high intensity. Make a list of boxes to check off each time you go on a hike, climb, or bike ride.
3. Check to See If You’re Getting Enough Sleep
Create your own sleep tracker to ensure your body is well rested and ready to tackle any project that comes your way.
Make a line graph with your hour count on the vertical axis and each day of the month on the horizontal. Track how many hours you slept each morning and forecast your energy levels for the day.
4. Reward Yourself for All of Your Major Victories
You must reward yourself once you have completed a major goal. Create and sign a contract for each goal you want to complete as an added touch. Write down why you want to complete this goal and what you’ll get if you do, as shown here.
5. Every Holiday or Event Should Be Remembered
Make a photo journal of all your favorite memories to look through later. Make polaroid or Instagram-like outlines to tape your photos to, or write down your favorite thing that happened.
Repeat for each month of the year, as well as any special events or holidays that you’ll want to remember.
6. Make Time for Yourself on a Regular Basis
Make an intentions tracker to ensure that you take time for yourself throughout the day. Create a page in your journal with a list of your daily intentions on the left and a record of when you reviewed them on the right.
7. Section on Creating Your Own Anxiety Toolbox
Anxiety affects 40% of Americans on an annual basis, so make your own toolbox to use whenever you’re stressed. Make a list of your daily activities to help prevent this, as well as quick tips for dealing with an anxiety attack and some of your favorite relaxation tools to use.
8. Write Down What You’re Grateful For
Because gratitude practices have been shown to improve your health, increasing your happiness and mood by tracking this practice on a daily basis.
Set aside a section of your journal to write down what you’re most grateful for, or simply keep track of when you practiced gratitude.
9. Monitor Your Stress Levels
When you go to the doctor, they will almost always ask you about your stress levels. Create your own honeycomb, box, or other shaped diagram to color in your stress levels every day or week. Make sure to include a color key for easy reference.
10. Keep Hydrated
Even during the busiest of times, make sure to stay hydrated. Create a water chart for each day of the month.
Write the day of the month on the vertical axis, and make a box for each glass of water you need to drink on the horizontal axis. Check off each box as you drink your required glass of water throughout the day.
Ideas for Creating Your Dream Job
To advance in your career, you must be proactive in expanding your skill set. To keep your resume relevant in this competitive job market, manage your time to maximize hours spent at work and developing your skills.
Every career path is unique, but you should always be setting and achieving new goals. We’ve created printable stickers to motivate you as you work toward your bullet journal career vision.
11. Make Your Own Monthly Checklist
With a monthly review, you can keep track of your job, side hustle, or even small home projects’ successes and failures. Make a list of what worked, what didn’t, and what you need to work on. After a few months, go back and write down the changes you’ve made.
12. Maintain Your Job Search Focus
Stay updated during your job search, whether you want to find a new job or are looking for one during a short break. Keep track of when you applied, when you should follow up, and when your interview is scheduled.
Leave a small notes section for any additional information or tips you may want to leave yourself during the interview process.
13. Examine Your Career Mood in Pixels
Color-coordinate your mood each workday to keep track of it (happy, sad, mellow, and exciting days). Draw small boxes all over your journal page and include a color key at the bottom.
By the end of the year, your page will be colored differently depending on your mood. You may be able to recall specific instances when you completed major projects and overcame obstacles to advance your career.
14. Make a Plan for Your Ideal Productive Morning Routine
Your mornings set the tone for the rest of your day. When you have a productive morning routine, you can accomplish far more than if you slept in and rushed to work.
Create a timeline for your ideal morning routine. Review this before going to bed or as soon as you wake up to ensure you start your day on the right foot.
15. Keep a Record of Everything You Read
Make a bookshelf with books you want to read. As you finish each book, color in each outlined book on your shelf until they are all completed.
Add the title of the book you read and a rating out of five stars beneath your shelf to refer to when your friends ask which ones are your favorites.
16. Keep All of Your Passwords in One Location
Nothing is more frustrating than being locked out of your accounts because you can’t remember your passwords.
Create your own password vault with all of the passwords you’ll ever need. Sort them into business, personal, and family accounts.
17. Encourage Lifelong Learning
Whether your company has a development budget or not, look into online programs or local events to help you grow your skills.
To hold yourself accountable, make a monthly study or work schedule with at least four tasks you want to complete. Add this to your resume or bring it up at your next job interview to get a raise.
18. Your Career at Level Ten
Choose ten areas of your career where you want to advance. Make a graph with each goal on the vertical axis and the numbers 1–10 on the horizontal axis.
As the year progresses and you begin to hone in on these goals, begin coloring in boxes to the right of each goal until you have leveled up your career goals.
19. Make Your Career Vision a Reality
Create a career vision bullet journal page to put that vision on paper. Divide your vision into three goals, then finish with your favorite boss quote of the year.
Write down at least three actionable ways you can achieve those goals over time. As you begin working on this goal, draw at least ten boxes at the bottom to color in.
20. Make Your Favorite Project Tracker
Keeping your deadlines and projects on track reduces stress. Create your own project tracker to ensure you can deliver what you need to when you need to.
Make a list of each day of the month and what is due. Add anything else you need to finish before the end of the month to the bottom of your sheet.
Suggestions for Managing Your Side Hustle
Building your time management and organizational skills while growing your side hustle is similar to developing your skills while working full-time.
Create simple frameworks to streamline your practices when you’re not on the clock before taking on your side gig.
Setting up 15-minute task lists to complete during your work lunch break, or creating a strategic guide to building your social media, are two examples.
With these bullet journal ideas, you’ll be well on your way to meeting your side-hustle savings targets in no time.
21. Make a Social Media Strategy
Keep track of all your profiles in one place because most entrepreneurs create their own social media platforms for their businesses, and you may be one of them.
Create a page for each platform with alternating tags and hashtags, and schedule when each post should go live.
22. See How Much Money You Make from Your Side Hustle
Create your own side hustle savings tracker to see how much this side project contributes to your bank account. Distribute your earnings to any savings account you want and keep track of them, just like these savings goal trackers.
23. Create an about Me Page
Many people you meet along the way will ask you to tell them about yourself as you build your side hustle. Make a page in your journal that lists all of your favorite things, your strengths, and the characteristics that define you.
24. Keep Track of Your Company’s Milestones
Make a point of applauding each step your side hustle takes. Write down every accomplishment you have throughout the month, similar to the monthly review.
When you’re finished reviewing your month, you’ll have an easy reference for what you should be proud of.
25. Keep a Record of Every Textbook You Borrow
Make the ultimate textbook tracker whether you’re in school or borrowing from the library to save money. Create your own chart, similar to this required reading list, with the name of each, the class or project it’s for, and the due dates.
26. Create a Vision Board for Your Dreams
Instead of gluing all of your favorite things to poster board and cutting out magazine clippings, create your own vision board to look at whenever you need a productivity boost.
Make your biggest goals for the year based on where you want to travel and how much money you want to save.
27. Set Quarterly Objectives
Set quarterly goals for yourself, just as you would for your full-time job. Divide your page into four quadrants and come up with at least three goals to focus on for each three-month period.
28. Build Your Own Tax Vault
Create your own tax payment tracker using your previous year’s payments or earnings. Make a box on the left for the last five years, payments, or earnings.
If you normally have to pay taxes each year, keep a column off to the right to track how much money you have in savings to pay taxes as the New Year approaches.
29. Check to See Which Tasks You Completed Most Recently
Keep track of which fifteen-minute tasks you completed on another page as you check them off. Each task should be written on the right side, with a date to the right of it.
This way, you’ll have a quick reference guide when checking off your to-do list during lunch.
30. Make a 15-Minute Task List
Make a list of quick side hustles that will take no more than fifteen minutes of your time. Use your work breaks or lunches to cross one or three items off your to-do list.
Ideas for Caring for Your Family
There are many factors to consider when caring for your family. You’re the go-to person for everything from meal planning to remembering doctor appointments and medical bills.
Keep all of your family’s records and plans in one place — your bullet journal.
We’ve compiled ten of our favorite bullet journal family layouts, as well as a printable family game, to help you get started on your next family movie night.
31. Make a List of Family Game Night ideas
Keep track of new ideas that come to mind to make your family nights a little more special. Make a special list for your family to choose an activity to do together each week.
32. Make a Packing List that You Can Refer to
Packing for your family can take hours at times. Instead of pondering what you’ll all need each time you travel, create your own packing list, such as this one, to simplify your own family’s packing process.
33. Be at the Top of the List for Birthdays and Holidays
Birthdays and holidays can be easily overlooked. Create a birthday page in your journal, listing each month of the year and the birthdays that fall under each month.
34. Motivate Your Family to Volunteer
If your family enjoys or wishes to participate in volunteer activities, begin with this bullet journal template. Write the organizations you want to assist on the right side of your page.
List the days and dates you want your family to participate in the middle. Once you’ve finished your time, record it on the right side of the page for future reference.
35. Keep a Record of All the National Parks You Visit
As summer approaches, make a list of all the national parks you and your family want to visit, similar to this bullet journal. Add specific symbols to remember which ones you liked best.
36. Organize Your Cleaning Records
When your house is in order, you usually feel like your life is in order. Create a cleaning schedule for your family that includes daily, weekly, biweekly, and monthly cleaning.
Divide your journal into four sections and write down each chore you want to assign to each member of your family. Then get to work cleaning!
37. Keep All of Your New Recipe Ideas in One Place
Make your own recipe book that includes all of your and your family’s favorites. Instead of researching meal prep recipes every week, you’ll have them right at your fingertips.
Make this journal even more special by having your family color in each recipe page.
38. Check Out Which Fruits and Vegetables are in Season
Map out which produce is the best of the month each month. Refer to this when planning your grocery budget to get lower prices and longer-lasting produce.
39. Have All of Your Medical Records in One Place
When your family expands, so does your schedule. Refer to your appointment tracker page when scheduling doctor, dentist, and other health-related appointments.
40. Make Your Ideal Food Menu
Make a list in your bullet journal of each day of the week and what you want to cook for dinner on that day.
Then, color coordinate each food group — fruits and vegetables, dry groceries, and frozen groceries. Make a list of the ingredients needed for each meal to use as a guide when shopping.
Suggestions for Improving Your Financial Situation
When it comes to money management, it’s best to check in with your budget on a regular basis and ask yourself the tough questions.
Scheduling weekly check-ins in your bullet journal can be enjoyable when you get to color coordinate each addition to your savings account.
We’ve come up with ten bullet journal ideas to help you achieve your financial goals in style, including free printable materials to help you get the most bang for your buck.
41. Make Weekly Financial Check-ins With Yourself
Create a calendar that is dedicated to holding you accountable for checking in on your finances. On a monthly calendar spread, highlight one day of the week that you would like to check in with your budget.
Use our app to view all of your credit card payments and charges in one convenient location. Each week, go over your finances to stay on top of your spending habits.
42. Organize Your Own Monthly Money Challenge
Choose a month on the calendar and commit to a no-spend month. Draw a box for each day of the month to check off when you don’t buy anything unnecessary.
Make a list of what you consider “necessities” and “extras” to ensure you don’t spend money on things you shouldn’t.
43. Make a SWOT Analysis of Your Goals
Make a page for your goals, potential earnings, and roadblocks. Using this framework, analyze each goal’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats.
Examine how each goal can help your finances, where it may fall short, opportunities for growth, and what might prevent you from achieving this goal.
44. Keep a Record of the Things You Want to Try
There are numerous free resources available to help you advance your career, finances, or even start your own business.
Normally, when you hear about a new resource, you don’t have the time to investigate it right away.
Add or create a section in your monthly layout for your goals, and at the bottom, list new things you’d like to try when you have the time.
45. Set Long-term Financial Goals
Paying off debt and increasing your savings takes time. Create a long-term savings tracker to stay motivated to build your finances and stay on track with your goals.
Track your savings balance from our app each month to see how your account grows month after month.
46. Make a Motivational Website
Make a page for your favorite boss quotes and where you want to be in the future. When you’re stuck or need a quick pick-me-up, turn to this page for an enlightening message.
If you come across another quote or idea that you like, please add it to this page!
47. Perform a Brain Dump
You may experience bursts of creativity at random times. Create your own brain dump page for when ideas come knocking. Write it down, whether it’s what you need to do in the morning or a great business idea!
48. Take on a Side Hustle Without Putting in Any Work
If you aren’t organized when taking on extra projects in addition to your full-time job, things can quickly spiral out of control.
Make a monthly calendar with all of your side hustle project “to-dos” and their due dates.
Add these to your weekly work schedule in this manner to ensure that you complete all of your tasks for your side hustled business.
49. Maintain a Record of Your Credit Card Expenses
Make a page or two in your journal to keep track of each card you use on a regular basis. Make a chart with the month on the horizontal axis and your statement balance on the vertical axis.
Color code each credit card and include a key at the bottom for easy reading. Create a line chart like this over time by adding a dot for each credit card balance each month to see your debt decrease with each payment you make.
50. Keep an Eye on Your Utility Bills
In your bullet journal, create a line chart to analyze each month’s utility usage. Make a small chart for your electric, heating/cooling, water, and other expenses such as trash.
Create a vertical axis with money value metrics and a horizontal axis with the month. Determine where you spend the most money on each resource at the end of the year.
Creating your own bullet journal to reflect exactly what you’re attempting to accomplish can help you stay on track while also documenting your journey.
Begin managing your goals in a more innovative and creative manner than simply writing them down in your planner and heading out the door.
By strategically planning each step, you can start growing your savings, improving your health, and launching that side hustle you’ve been thinking about for years.
Keeping a bullet journal can help you stay on track. Remember why you set each goal in the first place, and use our app to easily stay on top of your budget when updating your journal.
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