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Show Page 10 The Ogden Valley news Volume XXV Issue X June 15, 2019 The Bullet Journal Method: A Book Review where you can get to know yourself better . . . . It forces us to go offline. The blank pages of your notebook offer a safe playground for your mind, where you’re completely free to express yourself without judgement or expectation. As soon as you put pen to paper, you establish a direct link to your mind and often your heart. Another reason we use notebooks? Flexibility. . . . Notebooks are beholden to their authors. Their function is limited only by the imagination of their owner.” What the author is trying to tell us is that by using notebooks as part of our Bullet Journal, we are in control of our lives and the many decisions we must make. Mr. Carroll also writes about handwriting, indicating that doing our Bullet Journal in our own handwriting has some valued benefits over the use of an i-Phone or i-PAD. This seems like it might be counterproductive in our fast-paced and busy world, but as he demonstrates, doing some things the old-fashioned way can improve our abilities. A growing body of recent research points to the practicality of handwriting in our digital age. The author explains this by using research that was recently undertaken. “A University of Washington study demonstrated that elementary school students who wrote essays by hand were far more likely to write in fully-formed sentences and learn how to read faster. Much of this is due to how handwriting accelerates and deepens our ability to form—and therefore recognize—characters. “The complex tactile movement of writing by hand stimulates our mind more effectively than typing. It activates multiple regions of the brain simultaneously, thereby imprinting what we learn on a deeper level. As a result, we retain information longer than we by tapping in into an app.” An important thing to keep in mind is that the Bullet Journal can become your to-do list, your journal, your diary, your planner and calendar, and your sketchbook all in one. It is an entire system that can Working on Should be working on Want to be working on integrate practicalTaxes Workout plan Plan trip to Hawaii ly everyPresentation for Acme Co. Learn how to invest Learn to cook Cleaning up photo library Weekly meal plans Learn another language thing in your life Emmy dinner party planning Set 5-year goal Read more into one Call parents Write more structure Get a physical Lose ten pounds that is Retirement plan More time with friends flexible enough depth. Item by item we create a mental inventory to give you the freedom to organize it as you of all the choices that are consuming our attention desire. The next part of the book breaks downs the and our time. It is the first step to taking back control of our lives and the beginning of your Bullet core building blocks that lay the foundation of Journal. The author states, “Creating a mental the system. The key components of the Bullet inventory is a simple technique that will help you Journal are: 1) the Index, 2) the Future Log, 3) quickly take stock of what you’ve been jamming the Monthly Log, 4) the Daily Log, 5) Rapid into your mental closet. Chances are there are a Logging, 6) Collections, and 7) Migration. The Index is used to locate the content in lot of useless responsibilities hogging valuable your journal using topics and page numbers. The mental and emotional real estate.” The next section of the Bullet Journal book Future Log is for storing upcoming tasks and discusses notebooks. According to the author, events that fall outside the current month. The having a physical notebook is vital because “it Monthly Log provides an overview of time and provides a personal space, free from distractions, tasks for the current month and also functions as By Forrest Brown Most of us want to be organized, on time to meetings and activities, and proficient in all that we try to do and accomplish. We look for ways to help remind us and ways to keep us focused, such as day planners, smart phones, and personal journals. The Bullet Journal by Ryder Carroll is much more than how to organize your notes and a to-do list. Its centers around “intentional living” and weeding out distractions in order to focus your time and energy on the pursuit of what’s really meaningful in all aspects of your life. Join me as we explore this captivating book. The first thing in the book that the author discusses is ways to declutter your mind. In our present world, most of us are bombarded with almost constant texts, emails, phone calls, which are all demands on one of our most precious resources— our time. Each of us only has twenty-four hours in one day to work, sleep, eat, and to accomplish our life’s mission. If we are relentlessly distracted by persistent interruptions, then we typically fail to get the vital and critical things done that we need to accomplish in our busy lives. The author helps us with this by first introducing ways to get rid of those unimportant and un-necessary things that keep us from achieving our real mission in life. He starts with a simple thing called the mental inventory. He says it’s “just like when organizing a closet, we need to take everything out before we can decide what stays and what goes.” This is done by simply taking a sheet of paper and drawing three columns on in and labeling it in the following manner: The primary purpose of doing this activity is to help us declutter our lives and our minds because writing these things down allows us to capture our thoughts and examine them in more your monthly mental inventory. The Daily Log serves as your catchall for rapid logging of your thoughts throughout each day. The Rapid Logging section of your Bullet Journal is used for shortform notation paired with symbols to quickly capture, categorize, and then prioritize your thoughts into notes, events, and tasks. The Collections parts of your journal is the entire assortment of your Bullet Journal. Finally, the Migration part of your journal is used for the filtering out of meaningless content from your notebook. Another chapter in the book discusses goals, or those sometimes elusive things that we set at the beginning of a calendar year in order to improve our lives. According to the author, the main concern with goals is determining how we can best harness our desires and our curiosity while reducing the risk of failure. He says you must prioritize your goals and determine which goals are short-term and which ones are long-term objectives. Breaking down short-term and longterm goals into smaller, self-contained goals can turn what seems like a marathon into a series of small sprints. Sprints achieve the same thing that our short and long range goals accomplish, just in smaller, more manageable time periods. Putting our goals into sprints mitigates the risks of feeling overwhelmed and fatigued. A great example of this is having a long-term goal to learn how to cook. The following is how the author breaks this down into short-term manageable sprints: Long-term Goal: Learn How to Cook Possible sprints to accomplish the longterm goal may include the following: • Learn knife skills • Learn how to sauté • Learn how to sear • Learn how to select fresh vegetables • Develop tasks for selecting meats • Learn how to cook eggs In summary, the Bullet Journal Method by Ryder Carroll is one of the best manuals I’ve found to help us organize our lives by tracking the past, putting the present into order, and by helping us prepare for the future. I hope you will take the time and read it. Weber Fire District Deploys Drone Team to Locate Injured Skier at Snowbasin battalion chief asked Dispatch for the GPS coordi- According to the Weber Fire District, at approximately 5:00 p.m. May 25, Weber County Sheriffs and Weber Fire District responded to a lone skier at Snowbasin who had fallen and injured his hip. His injury was serious enough that he could not make it down the mountain, and since the ski resort was closed, responders contacted Snowbasin and dispatched Life Flight—just in case a hoist was needed. Upon arrival of the Weber Fire District, the battalion chief called the skier on his cell phone and spoke to him. The skier reported that his condition was good, but he could not get himself off the mountain. He reported that he thought he was at the top of the Porcupine lift, but to verify, the GARAGE SALE cont. from page 1 Hillstroms, starting June 15. We have received tremendous support from valley residents throughout the years. Please feel free to donate good furniture, appliances (working only), sports equipment, clothing in great condition, shoes and boots, craft items, dishes, seasonal decorations, toys, games, and books in good condition. Please bag clothing separately, as those will be sorted in a different area. New items are also greatly appreciated. NO outdated computer monitors or TVs, please. We also welcome volunteers who can help set up the items Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday, July 22, 23, and 25. The Charity Garage Sale is now organized each year by a group of dedicated Ogden Valley volunteers who work tirelessly to keep the original tradition alive. At least 200 families donate nates, which revealed he was actually a half-mile away from the lift. Ski Patrol then found him at Middle Bowl where Ski Patrol used a snow cat to move the patient to a waiting ambulance. Also worth noting, the call was the first time Weber Fire District deployed their new drone team on a call. As the drone was not currently close by, the skier had already been found; however, from launch, it only took four minutes for the drone to find the ski patrol and skier. According to a Weber Fire District representative, “This is a tool we believe is going to be very useful on these type of calls in the future.” It was also reported that the skier would be okay. items to the Charity Garage Sale yearly. You can be a friend of the Garage Sale in any of the following ways: (1) donate things to sell, (2) come and shop, (3) tell your neighbors and friends about the Garage Sale, (4) help us set up the Garage Sale on July 22, 23, 25, (5) donate treats or bottled water for the hard-working volunteers, or (6) help us take down the Garage Sale on Saturday, July 27, at 1:00 p.m. Please go to our Facebook page--Ogden Valley Charity Garage Sale--and like us so you can receive updates and notifications. And please support this wonderful cause any way you can. Contact people are Liz (801-710-7221) or Leslie (801-564-5137). Items can be dropped off at the Hillstroms’ starting June 15. Don’t forget to come and buy something too! Mark July 26 and 27 on your calendar, and follow the signs to a great sale for great charitable causes! |
