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Cross-Reference !

ygor — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 16:56:41 -0400

Matdredalia 's original Daily Mood Journaling / Tracking Page
It has some How-To-Use information.

Great form, kmorris
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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)

THANK YOU

Melody — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:59:34 -0400

kim,
thank you SO much for posting this! i was very recently diagnosed with rapid cycle bipolar disorder (basically meaning my moods do whatever they want, whenever they want) and i just started medication for it. it's so nice to have something to track my moods and the effects of my meds especially for someone as scattered as me. i would have never been able to put a template together myself. thank you so much!!

Hm...

jonglass — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 08:02:34 -0400

Yeah, just what we want--manipulating peoples' good intentions to further your own aims. And we call that managing humans

-Jon

I asked the poster...

ygor — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 02:03:31 -0400

...to fix the broken link
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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)

Template?

Anonymous — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 20:34:11 -0400

Just exactly does one get the template?

INTROVERT, THAT'S ME

Anonymous — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 08:18:47 -0500

I am an introvert; however, people don't think I am because I can be very articulate and handle myself fairly well in public. The catch is, I cannot maintain my verbal communication energy level for any significant length of time. I have to build up energy to communicate verbally.

Chunking....Thank you.

zippytex — Sun, 2 Nov 2008 17:46:51 -0500

Thank you for all the time and effort you put into this article. It motivated me to try it in my ordinary life. I am thinking of those projects that never seem to get done. Simple ordinary things like cleaning out all the closets in the house. I never seem to get around to accomplishing this task. Perhaps all of those hours spent browsing the pen section of various stores....? I sat down and decided that I had four closets to clean. I chose one and divided it into shelves, floor, walls, etc. So now I am doing one shelf a week. Eventually it will get done. I know this is a very simple thing, but until I read your article, I never thought of approaching it in this manner. Now as I walk by the closets, I no longer feel guilt but know one day they will reflect order. Thanks.

This is great!! I was

Anonymous — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:08:41 -0400

This is great!! I was amazed, but it's hard to find anything on the web on breaking down projects.

Oh my goodness. Someone

Jess — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:17:30 -0400

Oh my goodness.

Someone please call the waaaaaaaaaambulance for Big Ol Red.

And while you're at it, call the cops to hunt down the crazed person who held a gun to his head and made him read the article all the way through to the end.

Honestly.

Can't you just be grateful that someone thought to share a tip that might make completing your next project a little bit easier?

Even if you can't be grateful, please don't waste the time of the hard working people who run this site with your petty complaints.

Stepwise Refinement

reepicheep — Thu, 22 May 2008 20:56:01 -0400

In Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), there is a concept called chunking. In chunking, a person takes information and either breaks it down into manageable parts (i.e. focusing on the details, or breaking down the information into smaller pieces so that it makes sense in relation to the big picture), or takes a detail and asks questions to fill in the big picture around that detail.

As a computing scientist I do this sort of thing all the time and did so for many years before NLP was even a twinkle in the eye of those who think it is a good idea. I look back to the late 1960s/early 1970s and the work of computing scientists like Edsger Dijkstra, Niklas Wirth, Tony Hoare, Don Knuth, Ole Dahl, Michael Jackson, and many others who devised various methods that we computing scientists now called stepwise refinement.

Also as a computing scientist writing programming language compilers and run-time libraries I'm well used to chunking (or in the parlance of the 1959! Algol-x report thunking) by putting information on the run-time call stack.

Now as a sign language interpreter I use chunking to over-come the limitations of my short-term memory (mine's only about four or five items deep rather than the average six or seven deep). Collecting related information together into chunks. Don't need NLP to do this; so suggest that this is a NLP technique is gross misrepresentation.

Using NLP across disciplines

Imagineyourreality — Thu, 22 May 2008 19:01:19 -0400

I used the NLP concept of chunking and applied it to a project. How I used it might not fit the strict definition of how it's used in NLP, but then again the point of NLP is to create flexibility in thought and communication. IMO, using the concept of chunking in a project still works and is just an application of the concept in a different medium than it might normally be used.

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Hmm... The more I search on

brontide — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:24:53 -0400

Hmm...

The more I search on NLP the more my "psycho-babble" and "pseudo-science" meter goes off. Everyone seems linked to things like hypnotherapy, "breakthrough" weight loss, and motivational speaking.

If it works for you then great.

The thing to remember about

elf_man — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:35:07 -0400

The thing to remember about NLP is that it can be effective, but you have to actually use it instead of just addicting yourself to seminars. Unfortunately, peak experiences are a problem with any of these things. Although it occurs to me that GTD has some of the same problems, when people constantly rework their system instead of actually using it. Hehe.

Immediate halt

reepicheep — Wed, 21 May 2008 17:21:08 -0400

I didn't notice the topic assignment for this article; the recent posts page is where I start. However, I stopped two words in at NLP ... no waste of my time. But reading your comment was useful and not a waste.

Nicely done, and a good

Metropolitan — Wed, 21 May 2008 16:49:00 -0400

Nicely done, and a good reminder to reduce the scope of things. I work in software testing, and breaking projects down into little pieces is pretty much the only way to get them done!

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