Welcome to my penultimate blog of 2023!
This week I will be showing tips for how I have created Self-Care and Reading Trackers for 2024. I hope they are helpful in providing examples and ideas for your own bullet journals.
Creating Self-Care Trackers for 12 Months across 2 pages
Step #1 - Design
I drew up this design on a post it note, trying to work out how I could fit all 12 months onto two pages. I then went into my collection of mandala stencils and found one with a diamon shape that worked best with my idea. This then enabled me to draw up the table you see above in pencil and mark out a diamond for each day of the month.
Step #2 - Titles
Always make sure you pre-plan the titles and write them faintly in pencil. As I discovered, if you write the words too big then the rest of your design doesn't work. I had to adjust the size of my titles and the key for my Self-Care tracker (as shown in the bottom left hand page) but I am very happy with the result. I wrote in fineline pen that doesn't bleed through onto the next page, I highly recommend these for outlining and writing in bullet journals: Faber Castell Finepen 1511 Document.
Step #3 - Using the Tracker
The main purpose of a tracker is to be easy to use on a daily basis, something that can be done in a relatively short amount of time. I will be sharing these trackers once I begin using them in the new year, but I am looking forward to not trekking through my journal and having this all on two pages. As the year has gone on, I realised how pre-organising the layout of logs, trackers and spreads into an order helps when it comes to finding and actually using the trackers every day. So my 2024 set up is a lot more organised than 2023.
Setting Up A Reading Challenge and Reading Trackers for 2024
2024 Reading Challenge
I decided to create a bookshelf housing around 25 books so if I read more than 24 I have space to add them onto the page. I drew outlines in pencil, so I could ensure I had enough books for the year. I added a key so that whatever month I finish a book that will be the colour of the spine on the bookshelf. For example, if I read a book in January it will be green, May will be red, September will be purple and November will be blue.
I adapted my 2023 reading challenge where I had a monthly total of books alongside the bookshelf design. This combines the two into one simplified tracker.
Reading Tracker for 2024
I will be tracking chapters in two places, in every monthly log and in the reading tracker shown above. I changed the design from this year which was a rainbow coloured bookshelf, to a chart with a colour coded key to show how many chapters I read each day. I will colour in each square using a pencil to track the total chapters for each day, when I complete a book I will populate the tracker on that month's log.
I hope this week has given you some ideas for how you can track self-care, books you have read and chapters too. There are many more ideas on Pinterest and Instagram if you want even more inspiration.
Thank you for reading,
See you next week for my final blog of 2023!!!
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