24 Hour daily agenda (30 minute blocks)

This was from David Burns Feeling Good and I found it quite useful at various points. Basically:

1 Use a form or make your own spreadsheet with all 24 hours of the day covered but split up even further into 30 or 15 minute blocks. It also has a section to report what you scheduled vs what you ended up doing

2 Brainstorm all the things you need or would like to get done and give a time estimate for each based on how long its taken you ideally in the past

3 Schedule each item based on how much effort/complexity it requires (earlier = more complex/energy-intensive) and make sure the tasks are spaced so that there is enough time and a little buffer for breathing room (based on your durations)

Sorta looks like this, can’t seem to find the original necessarily but you get the point

Very useful and practical tool

Please name the tool/exercise and limit to CBT for this thread (I want to cover and discover others in future topics focused on them). I really want to avoid boilerplate namedropping “this or that therapy but you’d have to pay to see a therapist, you wouldn’t understand”. That just not helpful, please elaborate Any pedantic replies not answering question won’t be entertained

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    3 months ago

    I’ve seen VA support of CBT in several avenues. I wonder if it’s just the visibility I happen to have to it or if they really do use it as their preferred treatment type.

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      3 months ago

      Its definitely the most scalable which makes sense and demographically its probably the most vanilla so it can be tolerated by the most diverse range of people

      They have several interesting apps