New Personal Development Resources

I’ve added three new templates in the personal development resources section of the site. This follows up on the free templates first seen in “Progress Tracking and Beyond“. After a request to convert these templates into PDF format, I looked around on my PC to see what other templates I could share.

Free Templates

There are three new templates in total. They’re very simple, but they were designed that way so it wouldn’t matter if I spilt tea on them or made a mistake. The first template is a blog scheduler, the second is a to-do list and the third is a daily planner.

Blog Schedule

blog-schedule

This is the template I use on all of my blogs to try and keep some form of order in the chaos. It’s setup to use four steps for creating each post, which I outlined in “How a blog article is born“.

Microsoft Word Document BlogSchedule.doc (109KB)
Open Document Format BlogSchedule.odt (12KB)
Adobe Acrobat BlogSchedule.pdf (40KB)

To-Do List

todo-list

I usually have a dozen or so projects going off at any time, so I created this little to-do list to be used with any project. It’s meant to be as generic as possible, so it can be used for just about anything.

Microsoft Word Document ToDo-List.doc (56KB)
Open Document Format ToDo-List.odt (11KB)
Adobe Acrobat ToDo-List.pdf (27KB)

Daily Planner

daily-planner

This little template breaks the day into half-hour chunks that can be used to schedule your day. See “How to create an effective schedule” for a complete guide on creating a schedule that works.

Microsoft Excel Document DailyPlanner.xls (25KB)
Open Document Format DailyPlanner.ods (10KB)
Adobe Acrobat DailyPlanner.pdf (14KB)

These templates are released under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Licence, which means you’re welcome to share and modify them as long as you keep the original link and don’t use them for commercial purposes.

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1 Comment by Douglas Woods | October 9, 2007 @ 9:33 am

Hi,
I can’t recall quite how I came upon your site but I am sure glad I did. Some great resources here and brilliant ideas, thanks.

2 Comment by Trisha | October 12, 2007 @ 8:24 pm

What a great resource! Thanks for sharing this!

3 Comment by Suzann | October 13, 2007 @ 7:18 pm

Hey Phil, great Blog! Lots of awesome information. Love your scheduling templates – thanks!

4 Comment by Steve Mills | October 18, 2007 @ 2:27 am

Great list of resources. Keep up the good blogging

5 Comment by Phil Newton | October 18, 2007 @ 8:43 am

Thanks for the compliments everyone!

6 Comment by Pete Moring | October 27, 2007 @ 5:28 pm

Hi, I found this site through the ‘Blogosphere’.
What a great resource for us bloggers without any order.

Many thanks,

Pete.

7 Comment by Ilan | October 29, 2007 @ 9:39 pm

Hi Phil
Great Blog u have created – I too manage a Blog which deals with self improvement and personal growth – I would be glad to refer my visitors to your books and templates – I think this is a great and very useful idea to build such.
Can I please get your permission to point them to your blog?
I would be very glad to get some professional opinion and feedback from you as well regarding my blog content
If u find my articles interesting please refer your visitors to my blog as well

Many Thanks
Ilan

8 Comment by Demond | January 2, 2008 @ 12:08 pm

Phil, thank you for these wonderful resources.

9 Comment by Dennis | February 1, 2008 @ 6:57 pm

Do you allow me to post your templates on my website for free? I will mention it is from you!

Dennis,
http://www.dennisli.com

10 Comment by Phil Newton | February 3, 2008 @ 1:39 pm

Dennis: Yep, you’re free to post them on your website and modify them as long as you keep the original link and don’t use them for commercial purposes :)


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