{"id":53250,"date":"2016-10-17T07:15:19","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T11:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/?p=53250"},"modified":"2021-05-17T05:41:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T09:41:49","slug":"bullet-journal-trend-stress-relief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyburn.com\/life\/lifestyle\/bullet-journal-trend-stress-relief\/","title":{"rendered":"How the Bullet Journal Trend Can Reduce Stress and Change Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Yana Weinstein\u2019s search for the perfect planner left her feeling like Goldilocks. This notebook was too big. This layout was too small. Online to-do lists<\/a> quickly lost their appeal. So when she read about the Bullet Journal<\/a> on Facebook, the 33-year old assistant professor of psychology at The University of Massachusetts and founder of The Learning Scientists<\/a> decided to give it a shot. After one month using the pen and paper system, she was sold. \u201cI\u2019m more productive and organized,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

The Bullet Journal (better known as BuJo to its cult of followers) is taking over Instagram and Pinterest feeds everywhere. While it may sound like a sibling of bulletproof coffee<\/a>, it\u2019s its own entity \u2014 a calendar\/to-do list\/journal\/notebook hybrid that you<\/em> design and use to organize your life.<\/p>\n

If the pretty photos aren\u2019t enough to convince you to test it out, the potential benefits might. Here\u2019s what you need to know about the productivity<\/a> hack du jour.<\/p>\n

RELATED: <\/strong>7 Daily Habits That Are Sabotaging Your Mental Health<\/a><\/p>\n

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The Bullet Journal Basics <\/strong><\/h3>\n

When traditional note-taking didn\u2019t work for Brooklyn-based designer Ryder Carroll, he developed a more efficient system to capture his ideas. Over the years, he\u2019s refined his method into what\u2019s now known as the Bullet Journal<\/a>. (For a brief overview of exactly how he starts a Bullet Journal, check out this video<\/a>, also seen below.)<\/p>\n