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Setting up your Bullet Journal – Part 3 – Weekly Spreads

Your monthly spread looks great. Let’s get weekly!

The Weekly spread is where I start getting into the nitty gritty of planning out my days. This is also where I track and log my blood sugars as a way of keeping my type 1 diabetes under control. There will be a post specifically about that in the future, but for now, let’s plan our week!

So let’s break it down – these are the essential parts of my weekly spread:
  • A small monthly overview
  • A task list for the week
  • My challenge tracker (if I’m participating in a challenge)
  • A space for doodles and/or notes
  • The days of the week with space for appointments and events
  • My blood sugar tracker (which takes up the whole right-hand page)

As you can see, my Weekly Spread only allows one page for the actual week. This is because I want to have my blood sugar tracker right next to the days of the week. This doesn’t leave me with very much space to write in each day, but that’s okay.

On my weekly page, I keep tasks appointments, events and holidays – more detailed day planning goes on my daily pages.

If you are very busy, you might want more space to note down meetings and appointments. Or perhaps you want to add a water intake tracker or something else to your weekly spread. This is perfectly fine! One of the really neat things about the Bullet Journal system is that you can adapt it to work for you.

If you need more space than I have in my layout, you can try a different weekly layout – perhaps one where the days of the week take up two pages like this lovely, clean layout by @bam_journal:

I do recommend you have a look around the web to find inspiration for a weekly spread that works for you. Both Instagram and Pinterest are great places to try.

Other things you can add to your weekly page include:
  • Gratitude log
  • Mood tracker
  • Meal planner
  • Grocery list
  • Weekly goals
  • And so much more. Check out this great post by Christina77Star for more ideas!
Let’s talk about the weekly task list

When I set up my weekly task list, I choose a few things from my Monthly list that I want to get done during the week. I then look at my weekly and bi-weekly housework tasks and add what needs to be done from there. Once that’s done I have a quick ponder to see if there’s anything else that needs to get done during the week which wouldn’t have been significant enough to appear in my monthly list – like posting a letter or watering my tomato plants.

Once that’s done I have a quick ponder to see if there’s anything else that needs to get done during the week which wouldn’t have been significant enough to appear in my monthly list – like taking photos for a blog post, posting a letter or watering my tomato plants.

On my weekly task list, I like to add things which will take me closer to my monthly goals.

Let’s say I have a monthly goal of writing ten extra blog post for my post-buffer. Adding a weekly task to write 3 extra blog posts will take me towards that goal, but won’t feel overwhelming.

As with my monthly tasks, the tasks on my weekly list don’t have a specific due date – if they did I would put them on the relevant day, not on the task list. I’m sure you can see where I’m going here – when I plan out my daily page, I’ll pick tasks from the weekly task list and add them to my daily plan.

In the end, everything gets done (most weeks anyway)

If I happen to have unfinished tasks left at the end of a week or month, I’ll review them to see if they need to be carried over to the next week or month, or if I can mark them as cancelled. A task that didn’t get done can often be something you’re procrastinating because it’s boring or it’s something you’re uncomfortable with. In that case, you need to come up with a strategy to get it done. That could mean breaking it into even smaller steps.

A task that didn’t get done can often be something you’re procrastinating because it’s boring or it’s something you’re uncomfortable with. In that case, you need to come up with a strategy to get it done. That could mean breaking it into even smaller steps or reframing the way you’re thinking about the task in question.

Sometimes, though, a task which didn’t get done might be redundant, or perhaps it turned out you didn’t need to do it after all. If that is the case, I mark it as cancelled and forget about it.

It is important to review your tasks both on a monthly and a weekly basis in order to keep on top of what needs to be done, what’s been completed and where you might need to rethink your strategy.

How do you manage your weekly tasks? Tell me in the comments!

Supplies used

Notebook: Leuchtturm1917 Dotted Journal

Black fountain pen: Black/Gold Carbon Desk Fountain Pen by Platinum

Black ink: Platinum Carbon Pen Ink Cartridge

Coloured pens: Faber-Castell Pitt Artist Pen

Fineliners: Staedtler 334 Triplus Fineliner

Washi tape: Polka Dot, Cats

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