Hello, and Welcome to Week Two of the KNITSONIK Bullet Journaling Course. This week's theme is all about making your bullet journal home… …and I suppose the simplest way to think about the Course Tasks I've made, is that I was thinking about “if this is our home for our thoughts and our plans and our hopes and our dreams then what are the rooms that we want to have in here? And and what are the ways that we want to use those rooms so that this is genuinely a very nurturing space for us?” So to stick with this sort of domestic/home metaphor, the first Course Task - Indexing And Labeling - is really like sorting out your cupboards, because this idea of having all your stuff in one place is so brilliant and so helpful and so supportive, but if you haven't got a system for organising stuff, then it's kind of like a big toy box that you’ve just dumped everything into. And how are you going to find any of your stuff? So we're giving things labels. Two - two types of labels; like a big label at the top, for if it's just a standalone piece of information - a Reference Page that you need to be able to very easily and quickly find. It’s kind of like you should always leave your keys somewhere where you can easily find them because you always need them. And there are pages in your bullet journal that are like that; you just need to be able to find them and then the other thing that we're looking at is labeling of ongoing projects. I really feel that, with your bullet journal, you should be free to just pick it up whenever you want. Do whatever you want in it. The problem with that is that if you've got an ongoing project that runs all the way through the journal, how are you going to find that stuff later when you need it? And so this is a really good example of using washi tape on the side of the pages and this is when I was working on the Stranded Colorwork Playbook, and I just had a lot of charts to make, and I prefer to chart on paper when I'm first coming up with my ideas. So there's all these different charts all the way through this bullet journal, but because of the pink washi tape that marks them out, really clearly, I can just go from page to page - wherever the pink and white washi tape is. And I think that's so helpful, and has been really useful for me as a kind of way of giving myself the freedom to just pick up the book and use it whenever I need to use it. But at the same time then be able to track the progress of those kinds of projects through my bullet journal. Then, in the next Course Task in this section, we're looking at Everyday list-making Everyday list-making & Habit Trackers is about breaking down those big tasks that we laid out at the start of the month and turning them into actionable things that we can do, day by day, to move those things forward. And Habit Trackers is a way of really looking at what we wrote down, when we were thinking about what we WANT, and carving out a space in the bullet journal that cultivates those intentions that we set - that's what we're looking at in the second course task. And I separate out WANTS and NEEDS in that way, because I think that otherwise all the fun stuff can just get lost in amongst the “I've got to do this, and I've got to do this, and I need to do this, and there's this other thing I've got to get done…” And I just quite like to see as well, by making a Tracker, where you're able to see all the things that you wanted to do this month in one place. It's very easy to also see the gaps and see “where am I not? what’s thing that I want to do, that I'm never getting around to doing?” I find that really useful. So I’ve shared that in the second Course Task for this section. And then, finally, the last one - Custom Spreads - is really all about, if this is going to be like a home, for your thoughts and dreams and hopes and plans and projects, what rooms would be really great to have in there? Do you need a room… …that's about your plants? …Do you need a room that's about your books?… Do you need a room that's about your cooking? Do you need a room where you can plot the future? So it's kind of, the Custom Spreads is just looking at all the different ways that you can create pages to help you in different areas of your life. So the theme for this week is make bullet journal home. And I've been thinking about that and I've been thinking about how everyone I know is constantly changing their home to suit what they need. So they might decide “I really need this room to be blue. That's just the color I'm into and the room needs to be blue” or it might be, - “you know, the way that this corner of the kitchen is organised really isn't working for me. So we need to rearrange that”. And I really think that how we use the bullet journal is very similar to that. So it's like you move in and you decorate all the rooms - all the different pages - and then you live in it for a little while. And then you realize “now I need to move this around and this isn't working and I need to do this differently”. And I think that's really important and something I just really wanted to emphasise, and I've said it time and time again throughout the Course Tasks this week, but everything I'm suggesting is just what works for me, in my bullet journal. And, as ever, everything comes with the caveat that you need to feel at home in your own journal. So, if anything I suggest in any of the Course Tasks just doesn't work for you, change it. Change it around. Be like ”no, I don't want that there; the cupboard is better over here. I prefer this color on the wall”. And I think that that process of taking ownership of your journal - decorating it however you want; setting up the rooms, if you like; or the themes and ideas throughout it - I think that's really going to make it be something that you feel really comfortable using all the time. No one wants to live in a house where you hate the furniture and you don't like the walls. And you think it just doesn't feel comfortable… and it's exactly the same with your bullet journal. And you have to live in it a little while, before you understand, how it needs to be. All that remains to be said is I hope you enjoy Section 02 of the KNITSONIK Bullet Journal Course. And I hope the Course Tasks help you feel right at home in your bullet journaling practice. I'll see you in the next video.