Posted by Jost on July 16, 2006, at 10:57:19
In reply to Re: Diary cards » Jost, posted by canadagirl on July 16, 2006, at 7:44:37
Hi, canadagirl. I'm glad someone's out there with this.
The last two days, I've kept a record of a few things, not so detailed.
I decided too much detail makes it hard to get an overview of what's happening. (Esp. with my handwriting). A number system doesn't resonate for me, so I've used a poor-fair-good-excellent (no E's yet, though), with plus (+) and minus (-).
I took one of the diary cards, and redivided it, and renamed categories.
My categories so far are:
sleep, appointment , exercise, shoulder work, mood.
(Shoulder is for shoulder problems I'm trying to work on, esp. with posture,etc.)
For sleep, I put when I get up and when I get into bed, and when I actually go to sleep (more or less).
I use the accomplishment category for overall mood, or if anything notable happens. For example, I finally put down a drop cloth in my studio, which I'm been saying I needed to do for a few weeks--so I noted that.
Also in one of my T appointments, I said that it was a good appointment,and that I felt better, which my T really liked (I never say much that's good). So that is in the accomplishment section.
I'm esp. also working on not tearing myself apart after something good happens, which is a strong, self-destructive tendency (of course, as my T say, I'm protecting something by doing it, but at a great cost). So that's a big part of the mood element, which I'm conscious of.
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What things would you like to keep track of, or work on? Let me know how it's going.
Any particular categories for you? Have you used numbers (0-5)?
Jost
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