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ygor — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:20:00 -0400

The .zip file is fine. I just downloaded and unzipped it to check.

Please try again.
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

I am interested in seeing

Kacey — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 15:30:30 -0400

I am interested in seeing this menu/grocery planning page, however, am having difficulties opening the .zip file.

Would someone be willing to email it to me? [admin: email removed]

Thanks in advance!

Kacey

I really like your form.

micalela1 — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:41:59 -0400

I really like your form. It's very easy to follow. I've been diagnosed a couple of years and anything that makes it easier is good. Best form I've seen. Thanks for creating it. :)

Lost in the land of disorganization

Diabetes Log

Anonymous — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:53:45 -0400

I'm glad to found this. I've been diabetic for since age 6. It's been a 32 year struggle, now. Anyway, just wanted to thank you for posting this. I have difficulty using Excel, and this was a great tool to have on hand.

Many thanks, again.

This rocks!

Kari — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 03:21:17 -0400

I was just looking at a bunch of cheesy "mom planners" and trying to figure out how to just make my own (with adequate space to write menus...not to mention all of the other billion things I need to remember). Imagine my delight when I found this...and I could easily edit the files in OpenOffice. So very cool! Thank you so much!

I like it - and a question

ygor — Tue, 5 Aug 2008 14:53:45 -0400

Did you mean to have 8 pages in the letter size version ?
I see no difference in the pages. It looks like 4 copies.
Not a problem other than my own confusion.
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"I think the surest sign that there is intelligent life out there in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." (Calvin and Hobbes/Bill Waterson)

Time constraints, tough to find 40 minutes a day for anything

CathMac — Tue, 20 May 2008 15:11:42 -0400

Wikeh2004,
Great article from Time magazine. I was particularly struck by these comments:

“One recent study found evidence that the daily practice of meditation (for 40 minutes) thickened the parts of the brain's cerebral cortex responsible for decision making, attention and memory.”
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The forms of meditation Lazar and other scientists are studying involve focusing on an image or sound or on one's breathing. Though deceptively simple, the practice seems to exercise the parts of the brain that help us pay attention.
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Another benefit for employers: meditation seems to help regulate emotions, which in turn helps people get along. "One of the most important domains meditation acts upon is emotional intelligence—a set of skills far more consequential for life success than cognitive intelligence,"

The problem is that although the cerebral cortex measurements for people meditating for just 40 minutes a day compares favorably to Tibetan monks who spend inordinant amounts of time meditating, the average person just don't have that kind of time. Which is too bad because, as the article points out, this could have implications for staying sharp as you get older since this part of the brain thins with age.

However, perhaps this article will motivate me to try and carve out some time for meditating. I think there are benefits even with short bursts of meditation but it makes sense that longer stretches would be better, certainly for building concentration.

I have the same problem trying to find the time to excercise. I do wonder if it's possible to meditate while doing something repetitive and mindless like using a stationary bicycle.

~Cath

Here's another article on meditation as an aid to productivity..

wikeh2004 — Tue, 20 May 2008 03:37:57 -0400

Not sure if this will work, but here goes.

www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1147167,00.html

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"The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." Albert Einstein and Buckaroo Banzai

Great post!

David Jarvi — Mon, 19 May 2008 17:05:27 -0400

I loved your post. I'm looking to get into action on a morning ritual.

I'm curious what your thoughts are on integrating things like Bible, Koran, or just really great books into the whole process.

My Goal is a powerful spi-'ritual' including day planner/'scriptures'/meditation&prayer

"The best way to predict the future ..." Peter Drucker

CathMac — Thu, 8 May 2008 18:52:41 -0400

This topic reminds me of a Peter Drucker quotation I've been meaning to add to the Quotations and Aphorisms thread:

"The best way to predict the future is to plan it."
Peter Drucker

To the extent that deep breathing, relaxation, day dreaming, zoning out, visualization/imagination, meditation, self-hypnosis, etc. are useful tools for setting and reaching goals then you could substitute some of the words in this relaxation continuum for the word "plan" in this quotation. Your member ID "imagineyourreality" alludes to this concept. It's a kind of self-fulfilling prophecy for setting and reaching goals at a quasi conscious level.

Unfortunately it takes more work for some people than others. It's kind of ironic that relaxation can take that much effort ... in the form of "practice, practice, practice". Part of the problem for me is that I'm more of a verbal / analytical type than a "visual" type. For those like me "visualization" is probably a misnomer and the concept of "feeling" or "sensing" may be more useful.

Many years ago I toyed around with deep breathing and relaxation but I never really went anywhere with, probably because I was expecting to literally see something playing out in front of my eyes.

However, when I was pregnant with my second daughter I heard about self-hypnosis and child birth. I bought a self study program which uses the principles of "compounding" to teach the skills of what I call the "relaxation continuum".

Hypnosis and Child Birth may seem waaaaaay off topic here. However, the program also comes with a sample "Birth Plan" (actually they call it a set of "Birth Preferences" so as not to unnecessarily antagonize the medical professionals). I had heard of Birth Plans before but the whole concept struck me as earthy crunchy wishful thinking. After all, if any "plan" is likely to go off course it's probably a Birth Plan. But when I finally drafted mine --which included the primary goal of not using any pain medication and being relatively comfortable-- it struck me that one sure way to miss a goal is to not set it in the first place.

So I spent a couple of months learning and practicing deep breathing, relaxing more and more deeply, and trying to develop "mental anaesthesia".

I'm happy to say that I was pretty successful. I didn't need any painkillers and I was relatively comfortable, but obviously not pain free. Meeting these two goals would not have been possible if I had not at least "set an intention", as the expression goes.

I would encourage anyone to try deep breathing, relaxation, day dreaming, zoning out, visualization/imagination, etc. I've heard that even a couple of minutes can be beneficial so I try to "zone out", with a modest goal in mind, a couple of times a day. I'm guessing that, as you suggest, doing it regularly before sitting down with your planner could be very useful.

~Cath

Not alone, am using this log

R.K.T. — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:54:22 -0500

Not alone, am using this log for my father, I record mine in my tester, and, computer. Downloaded program from "Bayer" website, works pretty good, am still learning to us it. Maybe someday can afford the cable to connect tester to computer.

Thank you!

Maria Venegas — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 18:24:55 -0500

I've actually been looking all over the net this morning to find something to help me chart my sugar levels and track what I eat. I just met with a diabetes educator yesterday and was told I needed to make alot of changes because I was recently diagnosed with diabetes. So I just wanted to say thank you because it seems like I've found everything I may need right here on this site. I look forward to spending more time and reading more of the things you have on here!

< straight-faced > Get less

nvr-brkn — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 04:49:18 -0500

< straight-faced >
Get less sleep.
< / straight-faced >

Seriously though? I don't know. I guess you could use OpenOffice Draw to edit the PDF file? Or if you really do get 8 hrs. of sleep every night, it might not be worth recording. Or you could write at the top or something "9 hrs." and pray you'll remember later that it referred to sleep.

Blame

henrys — Sun, 11 Nov 2007 13:10:12 -0500

It seems to me that it is the duty of fathers to take the blame for theings they didn't see coming.

I have been able to blame my father for many things which he would hardly recognize. It is so much harder to be responsiible and like caligatia says to become conscious of our own foibles. Of course our fall back position has to be "I'm fine it is the world which is screwed up."

Nope.

caligatia — Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:35:42 -0500

I'm not safety conscious at all. Well, I wasn't. I have to be now and in the future, though...

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Steff
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