DOUBLE YOUR ODDS OF SURVIVING--BY REB MACRATH
You and I have never met. But I know at least two things about you.
1) At some point in your life you've been in sudden trouble. Medical, financial, career, relationship. So you understand the assignment: you've got to stay focused and faithful, organized and calm, while your world seems to be swirling about you.
2) Whether you work from your smart phone or handwritten notebooks and planners, somehow you must find your own eye of the storm. Your way to keep your (bleep) together when the turmoil threatens to addle your brain and you don't even know where your keys are. Where the devil is that all-important link to your GoFundMe account? Where's the ID you'll need? Have you gone shopping but left your debit card at home? Where did you put that all-important number you got during a call on a bus? And so on. Friends, I'm with you.
As a non-techno soul, my solution is grounded in hard copy. But you can tailor it simply, I'm sure, to your smart phone you adore. You might even combine the two with ride scheduling done on your smart phone, etc.
When I lost my job, I was relying on a half-dozen different notebooks: a small daily planner, a notebook logging my planned rides with Uber and the ADA van, a pocket security note book, a nutrition log, a zippered notebook cover for pens/pencils/ID/an emergency notebook for notes on the fly, and notebook with my writing correspondence, a new job search notebook. I'd also lost major notebooks through the years--one containing my bucket list of a 100 wishes with notes when I checked them off...
Whoa! I had to centralize. And in the end I settled on a pair of notebooks. The brown one, the larger, is what I call my War Book.
A game changer in itself and I'd be lost without it. But I needed something else, something I'd take with me always. This would be my Master Mind: a sort of central station for brief daily mental reset notes, daily quotes from studies on negotiation/promotion/presence, a section for recording writing correspondence and results...and finally, at the back end, inserts for business cards/medical appointment cards ID/one debit card/insurance card/refills for my favorite pen.
This trim red notebook is called the Momento from Still Archive. Here are a few photos to show it in use.
This is my report.
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