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Baby steps: How do you measure your recovery progress?
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | Last Active: Aug 31, 2020 | Replies (33)Comment receiving replies
Great new topic, @hevykevy. Baby steps are really important to notice and celebrate. I look forward to hearing about the things @icydecember, Brady, @kimfeist and @luckylizardlady notice that indicate progress in their recovery.
@hevykevy and @mikemangan, besides recognizing new benchmarks, do you write them down and then set a new goal?
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I don't really set goals, although eating a hamburger surely was one. Now that I am retired, I don't have to be as smart as I used to be and I have a lot less deadlines and more time to do things. Pressure to get things done is usually not a good thing.
I do use the To-Do list that is now part of Windows 10. and I rely heavily on Outlook Calendar to make sure I don't miss appointments and forget to do important jobs. It's great to be able to mark them as finished.
Mostly, I go about doing the things I need or want to do, but I am very in tune to improvement in my capabilities.
One thing I still struggle with is setting out to do or get one thing, seeing something else, doing that and forgetting what I set out to do. Many tell me that this is normal for my age, but I know what I was like before the event.