Saturday, July 28, 2007

Organizing via Customizable Planners in General & Specifically for Mental Health Issues

I stumbled across a site called DIY Planner - this site happens to have all sorts of printable forms, pages, what-have-you, for pages to fit both physically as well as with the principals of most any planner system/organizing methodology out there, such as Stephen Covey's or David Allen's GTD (Getting Things Done). You can also create your own templates (there will be a guide to facilitate this, as well), and browse, download, and print those which have been designed by other users. I note that a recent template created or suggested by a user is a Radio/chemotherapy side effects journal, which states that it

"is a powerful self-monitoring tool for use in conjunction with a personal diary.

This is a week on two pages, Radio/chemotherapy journal in Classic/half-letter as requested by one of our members."

As you can see, the potential for a great deal of personalization and usefulness is inherent in this excellent and most helpful array of personal productivity printable pages, templates, and such.

There is more helpful information to be had there; I highly recommend browsing the Article Topics at the top left side of the page, as clicking through will pull up all the posts regarding that subject.

I'm not endorsing any particular method, system, or school of thought on time, life, or personal management, but I DO like to cherry-pick concepts that I feel are enlightening and beneficial for me and use them when and where applicable. There are a variety of personal/time/life management topics efficiently tagged and organized at this website, as an additional resourcel.

I am not affiliated with any of these sites in any way; I just appreciate a potentially helpful resource when I see one and thought that I'd share my finds with you. Also, one could customize some planner pages for PieBolar-blog related topics such as tracking your moods, which would be helpful for assessing your stability and effectiveness of your meds; remembering therapy and/or psychiatrist appointments; tracking your meds themselves including dosage, changes, instructions, side effects, things to watch out for, for which side effects you've been instructed to call your doc ASAP or for which do you go to the ER, etc.

In fact, I may customize a template or two for the medications issues, myself! In many illnesses, chronic conditions, injuries, etc. and combinations thereof, one can end up on a sometimes daunting array of prescriptions. I think centralizing the information on my medicines will be helpful to me, because instead of having a variety of Rx bottles floating around the apartment with the associated name, dosing, date, whether refills are left, pharmacy number, prescribing doc, etc., information also scattered hither and yon, I'd have a beneficially simple process and conveniently accessible locale for this supremely important personal data.

One last thing I found, that I may be utilizing for myself that I discovered today is Free Goal Setting.com; you can have your goal email itself to you weekly, as a nice reminder, if it suits you.