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Welcome back, although we have one more day till 2020 comes around. A new year! A new decade! And most importantly a new bullet journal! Today I have my 2020 Academic bullet journal which goes from January to May and starts again from September to December! This will exclude all the summer months just because for me I wanted to keep a purely academic journal, so when the summer months roll around, I will have another journal separate from this. So let's get started!

I'm going to quickly explain what I included in my bullet journal, so to start off I have this cute BTS print (i forget which era from) and just my information in case this were to get lost. Then I just started with a small introduction page to 2020, which I left the page adjacent white because I love black and white themes.

To continue I have another picture of my favorite member of BTS, and a quote that I want to take to heart in 2020. 2020 will be a big year of self-reflection and really self-improvement for myself. So I wanted to have that quote opening up the year, something I see to be reminded throughout the year.

My Weekly Happiness is something that I did try to implement in 2019 and I, unfortunately, did not continue it all 52 weeks. But this is just a self-reflection and gratitude journal, where I write one positive thing or attach something that I was proud of during that week.

Now we get into my January Monthly Set Up, where I just plainly wrote Jan in calligraphy and I was trying to incorporate a kpop journal into this as well so I have a cute little page on my favorite group, Stray Kids. If you know them, you can tell that I really prefer the rap line as my bias is Changbin. 

Then we have my monthly calendar, surprised? It's just a way for me to look at everything in a holistic view and afterward, I have my mood calendar, which is a small mini calendar where you mark the mood. On the next page, I have my 6 habit trackers 3 for academic and 3 personal; so my three academic habits that I would like to track are Korean, AP Stats Review, and AP Calc Review.

Afterward, I have my favorite songs from my January playlist, and so I decided to link my January playlist. Next is my brain dump which I just put anything I would like to remember for late in the month.

Then my weekly spread which is a simple more classy than my normal ones from last year, so this is the end of my 2020 January Bullet Journal Set Up! Thank you for making 2019 such a wonderful year, and I hope 2020 will be an amazing year for everyone!

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Plan September With Me

September is the official month where many students around the world are finally in school and also this is the month when I am going to be doing a lot of final touches for my college preparations! I have been wanting to do this theme for over a year actually from May 2018! So finally I chose this month to be my (drumroll please) KPOP THEMED PERSONA ALBUM! Now I did make this up all by myself so I really hope you all like it!

So to start off every month, I do an introduction page which is just a cute backdrop and the month, so for this month I did a crescent (croissant shaped) moon, which on the outside if very pastel pink, purple, blue and then on the inside is more demonic and scary. So this is from the conspiracy theories, Persona is the side of you that you show the world which is different that who you actually are and the second album “Shadow” is your inner demons. Then I put a nice inspirational quote by Oprah. 

Next we have our monthly calendar, I continued the starry pattern and the pastel colours because I like the way that they don’t really fit together under normal circumstances but with Heartbeat’s music video; it was able to connect these two themes beautifully. I did mess up the days on this one which is why you can visibly see the whiteout and the fact that I wrote fridayday. Oops 0:)! I wrote out when my stats assignment is due and when my friends/bias’ birthdays are, but nothing else is really there for now. 

Finally we have my mood and habit tracker which for my mood tracker is this galaxy and universe type of ovular thing. It has the Sun in the center, planets (dwarf, giant, gas, ice), rockets, twinkles, moons, even a shooting star (which was poorly drawn sorry)! But it’s very simple to draw and turned out super cute. 

Then we have a normal habit tracker where I have three habits to track which is my ACT studies as my ACT is Sept. 14, my morning stretches which can be some shoulder workouts or even five push ups when elevated on the stairs, and I have decided that I want to learn my fourth language, so I am starting Korean!

So this was actually a lot longer than I thought it was going to be and now I am so happy with how it turned out, I know that this is super simple and I didn’t even include weekly spreads or anything but this is just for right now because I take a holistic approach to everything that I do which is why my monthly view is right now working very nicely for me! I hope you guys all enjoyed this months plan with me!

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November Bujo Set Up

November is the month where I have finished all of my college applications and am starting to get myself prepared mentally for the end of this beautiful year, I also have been working on my bujo for the next year as I won't have much time with everything that I have planned so I figured that if it's pre-planned I might enjoy it more.So this month did not have a prevalent theme besides a black and white theme.

So starting out each month I have my month and mood tracker, for November I did a simplistic N.O.V. and a light bulb mood tracker. This is simple as it's just the light bulbs which you can colour/shade in depending on your mood.

Then our monthly calendar is what I enjoy quite a bit as I can see everything in a more holistic way of me to what I have to do. I am able to see who's birthday is how far away and I have a countdown of my concert too!

Then I stuck with my very simple weekly spreads that have finally made their reappearance! These are to keep me on task and I prefer how these look even if they're not as creative and cute as others are.

Then with my last weekly spread as I am at school for only 3-ish weeks next month, I have my habit trackers, which I have sorted into 3 academic and 3 personal goals and habits that I want to track for myself.

I know that recently my spreads haven't been very aesthetically pleasing, it's because I finished them in June when I realized I was running out of ideas and room and I didn't want to use another journal. So here is my monthly bullet journal spread, and what would you guys think of me filming these from scratch and posting them?

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August Bullet Journal Spread

August which is the initial starting of the fall months, pumpkin spice, and school! Although the month, ends in a dreary mood, I decided to not focus on any negative or mundane that you see in literally everyone’s fall journal. So I did a french leaves theme, last November/December many of my friends went on this French foreign exchange trip and they showed me pictures. So I took some of their photos and tried to recreate the tree leaves and then I just googled the leaves after a bit because they were too hard to draw by a blurry picture. So I did a nice french leaf theme this August, and my cover page is just the month in french surrounded by a wreath of France’s beautiful leaves.

Then the quote page, I actually turned into a music theme, because in August 2017, JYP announced that they were going to launch a new reality survival show to launch a male group and that group though hardship and many heartbreaking moments (Felix and Lee Know) is now known as Stray Kids.

 So they’re my quote page of the month, and over the top, in french it says “Vous faites rester les stray kids” (you make stray kids stay) and then at the bottom, I wrote stray kids in Korean (which I am also learning very slowly though). 

Then we have our normal monthly spread which doesn’t have much except for college tours and the beginning 1.4 weeks of school! 

Then our mood tracker is sticking to those leaves, these I just googled and found how to draw them online, and my habit tracker which includes studying for my ACT, my morning stretches, and making sure I am keeping up with my blog and Tumblr!

This is just the way I choose to keep my bullet journal for right now, especially because I am trying to keep my life with school and college application under control, so soon I will be using a weekly journal and just seeing how things work out because right now many things are up in the air. So keeping a bullet journal definitely helps me keep my thoughts on paper, and who knows maybe at the end of this bullet journal, I will be able to do a year’s flip through!