Welcome to this task, “First Month Spread” where
what we're going to be doing is making a spread in your Bullet Journal that
enables you to easily see, in one glance, the month ahead.
This page is also going to be a great place
for you to schedule time for working on the tasks for this course.
You can use this month spread to schedule any project you're working on
or just your everyday, day-to-day appointments.
I always use the same layout, because I don't have to think about it, or research
how many days long the month is,
because this grid can be adapted to accommodate any month that starts on any day of the week
and however many days long. They all fit within this grid - all the different permutations.
All the measurements for marking this grid out are in your download PDF below this video.
But you can see that what I'm doing is just making up a grid here .
The weekend days are slightly smaller -
Saturday and Sunday - but the Monday Tuesday Wednesday,
Thursday Friday, are two centimetres by three centimetres each,
which is just enough room to write down a few things each day.
If you check on something like “timeanddate.com”
just to make sure you're starting the month on the correct day of the week,
then you can go through and number the days of the month from the first through to the end.
And because I'm planning for this course to come out in May 2020,
This May begins on Friday the 1st and ends on the 31st,
which is a Sunday.
You can see I've now marked that out on the grid, and what I'm doing now -
and what I'll encourage you to do in this task - is mapping out my regular commitments.
So I've put in there that I'm doing my fulfillment every Thursday.
I also have my different arthritis medicine injections on a
Thursday and I have some other appointments going on during the
week and you can see I've marked all that out. And I'm now going in and allocating time -
I've chosen from 9 - 9.20am on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays
and Fridays - to spend on my Bullet Journal tasks.
Your schedule will look different
and you might need to find your 20-minute slots elsewhere in your week - that’s fine!
Just schedule in a time that works
for you, for working on this course.
What I'm doing here is just setting a phone-reminder to remind me that I
have committed every day from 9 - 9:20am
to spend a 20-minute session on my Bullet Journal which is kind of roughly
what I've asked each of you to allocate as well.
So, when you're doing this in your Bullet Journal, after you've
filled out all your existing commitments,
it's going to be time for you to work out
when you can work on this course
and make an appointment with yourself to do that
and just set aside that time for three or four 20-minute sessions a week,
to show up and work on the course tasks to get the most out of this online course.
And now what I'm doing is I'm just filling in those blank spaces.
I'm just filling in where there's a box
but there isn't a day, because that makes it possible to just easily
see and understand the shape of the month in one go.
And then because I'm me, and I love stationery,
and I love playing, you can see I'm just going in - and this is a totally optional step;
you don't have to do this,
- but I'm just going in and I'm playing with my stamps
and coloring-in my First Month Spread, and making it look really inviting and fun.
However, one thing that I would recommend you do,
for functionality, is that you use washi tape or stickers -
I use two stickers stuck back-to-back on the edge of the page,
but you can just as easily use a small piece of washi tape folded over, either, to make a tab -
and that just makes that page really easy to find when the book is closed.
Likewise - I've gone with a bit of a dot theme with this page -
and just to show you another way of indexing the page, I’ve just
folded a piece of washi tape along the edge
and that does the same job.
We'll cover this more in the Indexing and Labeling task in the next section of the course,
but I want to establish these habits from the very outset.
So I'm showing you here as well. You can see I've made a side-tab
and a top-tab for this page
and they’re both dotty, and I've written in the Index at the front of the book, “First Month Spread”
so that I can always find this page. Watch this video as many times as you need.
Download the PDF to help you with the task.
And if you have any questions, email them to knitsonik@outlook.com.
And when you're done, huge congratulations on creating your First Month Spread!