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My Approach to Bullet Journaling

November 2, 2022February 22, 2020 by Ken Newquist

A close-up view of three notebooks, each covered with stickers.

As I move through middle age, I find one of the things I value most is focus. My family and I lead active lives. Not busy in a keeping-up-with-the-Joneses way, but busy in an engaged embracing-life sort of way. My wife and I work full-time and our kids complement school with a host of after … Read more

Nine Months with a Bullet Journal

April 3, 2019January 26, 2019 by Ken Newquist

Three pens sitting on a grid-style bullet journal notebook. The colored squares of a habit tracker appear in the background.

I started a bullet journal in Spring 2018. Nine months and one completed journal later, I’m still journaling and still happy with the results. Life is busy. As I’ve joked before, my wife and I hit peak kid last year. That’s when the kids have the maximum number of activities they can be involved in and … Read more