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Monthly Recaps

September Monthly Recap | Review of my 1st Bullet Journal

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What!? Another month GONE!? Already!?

I don’t know if that’s how you’re feeling, but it’s definitely how I’m feeling. So, I hope you understand why this post is so late…

I’ll make up for it with the full post I have planned for today. I’ll be doing my September Monthly Recap and giving you an overview of what my first bullet journal looked like.

Books

So, this month I finished reading the series that I started in August. The title of the series is The Golden Filly Series, and it’s a set of ten books about a teenage girl who rides horses. Tricia Evanston, the main character in the book, hopes to become a jockey after high school, but she also has to deal with the fact that her father just found out he has cancer. Tricia struggles with anger at both God and her father. The series follows her horse-riding journey, and she attempts to win the Triple Crown. Tricia learns that she should trust and praise God in everything, and she and her family learn to deal with her father’s cancer.

These books are really good, and they give a good lesson for those willing to listen.

Since I knew October was the next month, I decided to reread the Harry Potter series. I got Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, the first book in the series, read before the end of September, and I plan to continue the series throughout this month.

Writing

Unfortunately, I didn’t get much writing done last month, and I probably won’t get much done in October as well. I’ve had tons of tests and studying to do in school, and this month, I won’t have much time because I’ll be packing boxes! My family is getting ready to move to a different house before the end of October!

But… I actually did get one big achievement done in my writing during September. My school has a writing prompt each month, and you can submit what you wrote in response to the prompt to the school. If they like your story or poem, then they will work with you for the next few weeks to revise it, and then publish it on their blog! Well, guess what! I submitted a story based on September’s prompt, and I got chosen!

Here it is if you want to read it: https://enlightiumacademy.freshdesk.com/support/solutions/articles/48000952365-the-final-letter.

The prompt was to write a story of poem about a letter.

Bullet Journaling

I feel like I did pretty well in my bullet journal last month. I filled it out almost every day, and I am proud of the hard work I’ve done to get my new bullet journal ready.

I’ve been working really hard on my new journal for the last couple of weeks, getting it ready for this month. You’ll be seeing pictures soon!

Blogging

So, I definitely didn’t get as many posts out as I wanted to… I only did one… oops… Please, forgive me. I’ve been super busy recently. This month I’ll try to do better.

Goals

My goals last month were:

  1. Fill out bullet journal every day. I did pretty good on this area.
  2. Write every day. Here, I did the opposite of ok…
  3. Be more productive. I feel like I was. I did lots of planning for my new bullet journal, and spent a lot of time studying.
  4. Get A’s and B’s. 95% of my school work was probably an A or B.
  5. Do 3 blog posts. Oops…

My goals for this month are:

  1. Get to where you’re drinking three cups of water every day.
  2. Bullet journal every day.
  3. Pre-plan posts and get them out on time.
  4. Be better about logging exercise.
  5. Read Bible every day.

Review of my 1st Bullet Journal

This is how much time was done in my bullet journal:

  1. 1 year
  2. months
  3. weeks

The following is a list of the pages I used in my bullet journal:

  • 8 habit trackers
  • 8 sleep logs
  • 6 mood trackers
  • 8 different weekly layouts
  • 3 dream logs
  • 2 gratitude logs
  • 4 pages for school: grade trackers
  • A list of birthdays
  • A page for books to read: a list of books I wanted to read
  • A water tracker
  • 3 quotes pages: pages dedicated to quotes or Bible verses
  • A weather tracker (which turned out to be beautiful)
  • A page for books of the Bible: a checklist where I could check off the books I read
  • A packing list: a list of things I always pack on a trip
  • A page for my ideal day: a schedule for a perfect day
  • A cleaning list: a list for cleaning my room
  • A fitness tracker: a place to track the exercise I did
  • A page for New Year’s resolutions: a list of my New Year’s resolutions and a tracker for them
  • A stress tracker
  • A page for Keeper of the Lost Cities: a page where I listed out my Would You Rather questions I had created

And that’s all the pages I did in my bullet journal. A few of them I probably won’t do again, but that’s ok. At least I know what pages work and what pages don’t.

Well, that’s it for this post!

How long have you been bullet journaling? Do you like bullet journaling? Have you tried it? How did your September go? Talk to me in the comments! I love hearing what you all think about what I post!

My next post will probably be next week, and it’ll be all about starting a bullet journal, so stay tuned!

Thanks for reading! Happy writing!

For his anger is but for a moment, and his favor is for a lifetime. Weeping may tarry for the night, but joy comes with the morning. Psalm 30:5 ESV

Monthly Recaps

July Monthly Recap

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Hey, everyone! July is officially over, and August has begun! School is about to start back, and I am super excited! Let’s get started!

Reading/Books

This month, my goal was to read four books. Unfortunately, I only read three.

  • A Common Life (The Mitford Years book six)
  • Neverseen (Keeper of the Lost Cities book four)
  • Lodestar (Keeper of the Lost Cities book five)

I was supposed to have finished two more books by the end of this month, but I just didn’t have enough time.

Writing

Unfortunately, I didn’t get much writing done this month either. 😦 We’ve definitely had a busy summer! My goal was to do twenty minutes each day, two hours each week, and ten hours for the entire month.

  • July 1-6: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • July 7-13: 2 hours
  • July 14-20: 45 minutes
  • July 21-27: 1 hour 10 minutes
  • July 28- August 3: none
  • Entire Month: 5 hours 5 minutes

My excuse for the last week is that I didn’t have access to my writing since I was staying at my grandmother’s house. 😉 Overall, I’m pretty proud of myself for sticking with it and getting it done.

Bullet Journal

I was super pleased with July’s pages! They were exactly what I needed, and I’m probably going to stick with the same design for next month. If you missed the pictures for July’s bullet journal pages, click here to see.

I am very proud of myself because I bullet journaled almost every day this month! It’s been a struggle for me to find the time to fill out my journal, and keep up with all the habits and trackers, but this month, I did pretty good!

Now, onto August’s pages.

I didn’t really have a theme this month, so I decorated the title page with school supplies, as seen at the top of the page.

I did end up changing the layout of my Monthly Log a little. Of course, first I have my calendar, which is on the top of the left page. The space under that is divided into three sections: Events, Goals, and Notes. I also did a quote underneath the Notes section.

On the right page, I have a section for Books (to write down the books I’ve read), Memories (to write down memories and fun times to remember), School (to write down the subjects I’ll be taking this year), Blogging (to write down my blog plan for this month), Bullet Journal Ideas, and Writing (to write down how much time I spent writing/editing each week and for the month).

I decided to go back to my original Habit Tracker layout. The one I used last month was too time-consuming and confusing.

This month, I had time to take a picture of my first weekly layout. This is not how I usually do my weekly layouts; I just did a simple layout last week since I knew I wouldn’t have a lot of time to work on it.

Blogging

This month I did not do as many posts as I would’ve liked to have done, but like I said before: it’s been a busy month.

These are the two other posts I did this month.

Goals

My goals for July were:

  1. Write for twenty minutes every day. I did miss a few days, but other than that, I did pretty well.
  2. Drink more water. Sadly, I didn’t do very well in this area.
  3. Bullet Journal every day. Yay! I did do this almost every day!
  4. Be on phone less. Oops . . . I did ok the first part of the month, but the second part is another story.

My goals for August are:

  1. Be on your phone less.
  2. Don’t stress about school too much.
  3. Drink more water.
  4. Write every day.
  5. Bullet Journal every day.
  6. Pre-plan blog posts and work on them in advance.
  7. Practice piano every day.

Life

July was a pretty busy month, and I have enjoyed my last month of summer. I filled the time with binge-watching Netflix, taking morning walks, writing/editing, bullet journaling, and reading. I spent a lot of time at home this month, but I also stayed at my grandmother’s house last week. That was definitely awesome, because she has a pool!

Just a few days ago, my mom and dad presented me with a new laptop! I’ll mostly use it for school this year, but I can also use it for my writing and blogging.

I start school next week, so this week I’ll be getting school supplies ready, setting up my new laptop (yay!), and watching orientation videos (I do online school). That means I probably won’t get posts out until Saturdays or Sundays during this first month of school- but I promise I’ll try to work ahead.

That’s the end of today’s post! If you have any questions, please let me know in the comments. Also tell me: how was your July? Are you looking forward to school starting? Also, if you have any topics you would like me to do a post on, please let me know!

Thank you so much for reading! Have a wonderful week! Happy writing!

The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make His face to shine upon you and be gracious to you; the Lord lift up His countenance upon you and give you peace. Numbers 6:24-26 ESV