Improve your memory and increase your problem solving ability.
Preparation Gather calendar pages for the current month and next month. You can make copies of a calendar or make your own calendar pages using a ruler.
Position Sit at a table.
Directions 1.Place the calendar pages into the notebook. Punch holes in the pages if necessary to keep them in the notebook. 2.Determine today's date. 3.To make a daily schedule page, decide your typical wake-up and bedtimes. Begin on the top left hand margin of a piece of notebook paper and write the wake up time.
4.Continue down the left-hand marginwriting the time in 30 minute intervals starting with the wake-up time and ending at your bedtime. You may need to use another piece of paper. Write "Schedule For ________" on the top of the page. Write "To Do List" at the bottom of the page and leave several blank lines. 5.Make at least 7 copies of the daily schedule page. Keep the original in the notebook where it won't be written on. Save it for making copies of the daily schedule.
6.On one of the copies of the daily schedule page write today's date in the blank. Fill in your plans for the day on the daily schedule. Write in any appointments at the appropriate time slot. Write down anything you need to do or any place you need to go on the appropriate time slot. 7.Make a new daily schedule for each day of the week. You will need to continually update the daily schedules. 8.Write things you need to remember to do in the area marked "To Do List". 9.Put the daily schedules in order by date into the notebook. 10.As you go through your day, write down important events you want to remember in the appropriate time slots. 11.Write important dates on the calendar page such as birthdays and doctor appointments. Then add these reminders to your daily schedule pages also.