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Monday 2nd October 2006
Good morning! Monday morning - a new week, a new day, a new start!
Happy Bookending! :)
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pro's first and last check-in
Bedtime routine all done - even showered. I'll finish unpacking tomorrow.
shana tova
:)
shana tova
back atcha. next year i want to actually participate. didn't this year.
thank you, scarlett!
I was wondering if I'd get a response of recognition from anybody. :)
This was the first year I ever fasted. I've never been able to do it in the past because the low blood sugar triggers migraines, but this year I took migraine medication prophylactically, and that fixed it.
It was a really nice family time. Also, it gave me the thought, once again, that I want to learn more about what's going on. I never did the "13 year old thing" (trying to be subtle here), and I'm thinking of doing it now, at age 50. One niece did it last year, the twins will be doing it next year (nieces are 12 and 14). I'm going to call today about it - also Friday night services, which are nice.
i'm a mutt.
one parent christian, the other jewish. we celebrate both. i meant to tell my folks to get me tickets for the services this year, but it snuck up on me again.
i wouldn't mind chatting more about this, but i guess we should take it offline if we do that.
???????
You've got me there. Have no idea what you mean!
or better said...
It was meant for those who would know what it meant. For others, it doesn't matter.
that's okay
Those who know will know. :)
I'm guessing..
It's a Jewish greeting or similar... :).
My name is of Jewish origin. Closest I get! :lol:.
it's...
Hebrew for "Good Year" (i.e. "Happy New Year"). Today was Yom Kippur.
Thought so :)
Is it okay for me to say shana tova back or do I have to be Jewish???!! :P
Oh, well, I will anyway, it's a nice thing to say either way - shana tova, pro!!!!!
I'm guessing that's why you went to your brother's place.
thanks, Milo
:)
Yes, that was the occasion for the visit to my brother's house. It was especially good because we've been arguing a lot. It was a peace offering for him to invite me, and I couldn't very well say no. It's hard to continue fighting with your relatives on that day - especially when going to a service that says explicitly in many places that you are not to get into resentful spats with your kin and stop speaking to them. :P
1Focus 9:11
Done:
Clean up kitchen
Office chores
Catbox
Blowing off:
Working in garage
On my way to-do:
Yoga
1Focus 8:20
I feel like its getting late. I really want to fit yoga in tonight!
Proudly Accomplished:
Morning Routine
Work Routine
Work Plan
• Check in with staff at work
• Pickup spray and deliver some to hornets, also got gas for home equipment while I was out.
• Take CD to IT to see who's not working
• Call about project DA
• Process inbox
• Weekly Review
• Knock off a couple little things before heading home
Evening Routine
• Help in kitchen
• Dinner and hang with family
• Farm chores (include kids)
I give up:
• Deliver eggs to customers (they were frozen, try again fresh tomorrow)
Blew off:
• Move trees to other location
Out of time:
• Grounds inspection
I want To Do:
Evening Routine
• Clean up kitchen
• 30 minutes in garage
• Scoop catbox
• Office chores
• Yoga
• Early to bed (lights out 10:00pm)
Get help from neighbor on other tree
One big focus:
Garage storage project
• Hang wall slats
Norm 10.15 pm BE and last CI
Well I'm very pleased with what I ~have~ got done, and strangely I'm less worried about what I haven't got done. (Disappointed that I didn't do it, but ran out of time due to earlier anxiety induced procrastination). I think I'm less worried because when I came to prep the talk the whole thing was outlined, and some of it was written in detail. I don't talk from detailed notes anyway so it was pretty much done. And I suspect the same is true of the retreat planning - I just need to pull it together. It still needs to be done, so I'm going to see if I can get any of it done tomorrow night. Might cry off meeting my friend on Wednesday night - we'll see how it goes.
Still got quite a bit to do before bedtime, so no more work tonight (I managed not to make those froggy phone calls - I'm sure it's procrastination - one of those ones that happens when you're not looking because you're busy doing something else).
~~~TaDa~~~
*Most of Morning Routine including:
*Zone work - Bedroom: Put clean clothes away
*Sort out clothes for tomorrow
*Hand washing work clothes
*Boob check (I screen each month)
*Finish MR (breakfast, supplements, clear up)
*Took phone call from someone interested in pregnancy class (I really need to plan that course!)
*Book exercise class for next week (I've no money left to do any more this week, plus I don't see how to fit it in this week)
*Start of Work Day Routine
*Contact two potential clients
*Also Emailed details to the retreat venue - will ring them after lunchtime talk. Will also need to ring the place I'm staying at too.
CPD TALK:
*Finish prepping talk
*Acetates - ditched the idea
*Handouts
*Photocopy handouts
*Set up flip chart
*Give talk
*Eat, clear up
SESSION PLANNING:
*Plan session for tonight
TEACHING:
*Monday classes
*Eat
*End of Work Day Routine
*Check Email: reply to friend who's had bad news
*Check Phone: reply re Buddhist group meeting
~~~ToDo~~~
*Finish Daytime Routine incuding DDog walk half hour
*Before Bed Routine
~~~Another Day~~~
SESSION PREP:
*Plan Mon sessions for next week
*Plan Thurs sessions for two weeks
RETREAT PREP:
*Phone retreat venue
*Phone place I'm staying
*Plan retreat sessions
*Prep handouts
*Prep flipchart
*Pack teaching box
*Phone Sandra
*Reading - Road to Nab End (would like to release at Nab this weekend)
Great day, Norm!
Gribbit!
Sneaky frogs, always hiding under a piece of paper or something on my desk when I'm looking at something else.
1Focus 4:29
Proudly Accomplished:
Morning Routine
Work Routine
Work Plan
• Check in with staff at work
• Pickup spray and deliver some to hornets, also got gas for home equipment while I was out.
• Take CD to IT to see who's not working
• Call about project DA
• Process inbox
• Weekly Review
I give up:
• Deliver eggs to customers (they were frozen, try again fresh tomorrow)
Blew off:
• Move trees to other location
Out of time:
• Grounds inspection
I want To Do:
• Knock off a couple little things before heading home
Evening Routine
• Help in kitchen
• Dinner and hang with family
• Farm chores (include kids)
• Clean up kitchen
• 30 minutes in garage
• Scoop catbox
• Office chores
• Yoga
• Early to bed (lights out 10:00pm)
Get help from neighbor on other tree
One big focus:
Garage storage project
• Hang wall slats
tomorrow is another day
during which I hope to focus better. Grr.
Sleep
Hope you get a good snooze in tonight then.
I'm the same as you seem to be - lack of sleep leads to procrastination. Took me a while to realise (actually I noticed it the other way first - that when I was well rested I was more task focused, then later I realised it worked the other way too - duh!).
1Focus 3:46
Need a break from my weekly review. I'm restructuring my to-do list, so it's taking longer than I expected.
Going to deliver eggs. Will be back to finish review.
1Focus 2:20
Processed inbox
monday means...
... that every darn thing on my list is croaking like mad.
part of the problem
is that i didn't get enough sleep last night. i just tried to get away from my computer so i could work on the demo review, and started falling asleep. so i had to come back to my computer (and phone) b/c that's where my music is, which will help keep me awake.
Can you wear headphones?
I know you can't in some places, but I was wondering if you can listen to music anyway that maybe you could make your music portable.
I do have headphones.
I also have an ipod but it wasn't charged. Now it is, so my music is portable. :)
scarlett CI 1:50 pm
This is why it's good for me to get on the important stuff first thing in the morning - stuff keeps coming up and distracting me.
Until it's done, my focus today will be: the demo review. I will CI at TOTH and BOTH. Once I'm done with that, I will alternate working on my frogs and the other stuff that's been hanging around my list.
Already done:
Eat breakfast
Take pills/allergy meds
Frog 1 (started)
Review calendar
Check work/personal email for urgent stuff
Catch up on work-related reading (pro-cras-tin-a-tion)
Impromptu meeting
Follow-up
Deal with chair issue
To Do:
demo review
Frog 1
Frog 2
Frog 3
Frog 4
slate - what happened?
update grid
file photos
process emails (15 min)
Wilson – windows? Call K.
update start/finish grid
update $$ on each tab in spreadsheet
LOL
If you break it into syllables do you get out of it quicker?
No.
In my head I was singing it. Which didn't really help either. ;)
To the tune of 'Congratulations' by any chance?
Fits pretty well - hmm, I can feel a new song coming on...I usually do little songs about my DDog, and I once did one about gingko biloba to the tune of Frosty the Snowman - I've even sung it to my workmates who think it's absolutely bonkers :)
1Focus 1:03
Proudly Accomplished:
Morning Routine
Work Routine
Work Plan
• Check in with staff at work
• Pickup spray and deliver some to hornets, also got gas for home equipment while I was out.
• Take CD to IT to see who's not working
• Call about project DA
I want To Do:
Work Plan
• Process inbox
• Weekly Review
• Deliver eggs to customers
• Grounds inspection
• Move trees to other location
Evening Routine
Get help from neighbor on other tree
One big focus:
Garage storage project
• Hang wall slats
good job!
on getting that phone call out of the way.
Phone call
I had to leave a message this morning, but tried one of those "avoid phone tag" tips and it worked. On the message I left, I told him when the best time to catch me in my office. Sure enough, he called me back and I was here.
What's a phone tag?
Playing phone tag
Is when you keep calling each other and getting voicemail and leaving messages back and forth. :)
ps - 1Focus, that's a great tip, one I'll use in future, for sure!
Great!
Picked that one up at my time management seminar. You'd think that solution would be self-evident ;)
Phone tag
Thanks - that makes sense. I try not to tell anyone when I'll be available because I don't want them to phone me, LOL! I try to persuade people to use Email - the phone is my last resort! (I'm not recommending this behaviour, BTW!).
another solution
I usually have the ringer off on my phone because I don't like receiving phone calls. Occasionally I'll turn it on if I'm expecting a call. 8)
Old technology
Can't do that on my phone. I've always had phones given to me - when I've got cash to splash I'm going to get one of those ones!
1Focus 10:47
Today's going quite well, so far. Wasted a little time running errands, but its stuff I wanted to get done anyway. Let me make that phone call and get it out of the way. Least favorite first :O
Proudly Accomplished:
Morning Routine
Work Routine
• Meet with staff/general plan
• CUOP
• Time Sheets
• Clear my head
• Specific plan for the day
Work Plan
• Check in with staff at work
• Pickup spray and deliver some to hornets, also got gas for home equipment while I was out.
I want To Do:
Work Plan
• Take CD to IT to see who's not working
• Move trees to other location
• Grounds inspection
• Call about project DA
• Process inbox
• Weekly Review
Evening Routine
Get help from neighbor on other tree
One big focus:
Garage storage project
• Hang wall slats
scarlett CI 10:45 am
You and me both, Normy. An hour since my last check-in and I haven't started on my focus item. Ahhh, Mondays. So. Once again. Right now I'm going to go outside for a few minutes to get centered, then I will come back in and start working.
Until it's done, my focus this morning will be: the demo review. I will CI at TOTH and BOTH. Once I'm done with that, I will alternate working on my frogs and the other stuff that's been hanging around my list.
Already done:
Eat breakfast
Take pills/allergy meds
Frog 1 (started)
Review calendar
Check work/personal email for urgent stuff
Catch up on work-related reading (pro-cras-tin-a-tion)
To Do:
demo review
Frog 1
Frog 2
Frog 3
Frog 4
slate - what happened?
update grid
file photos
process emails (15 min)
Wilson – windows? Call K.
update start/finish grid
update $$ on each tab in spreadsheet
oh well
Impromptu meeting altered those plans. Off to eat lunch, and then I'll regroup yet again.
Norm 3.32 pm BE
Hi there Scarlett :)
Been over an hour since my last post and I've not started the next thing on the list yet:
*had lunch and cleared up
*got out of wet clothes (got rained on rather heavily)
*returned a phone call from a client wanting to rearrange appt
*received a phone call from a colleague re a client
*somehow I ended up transferring stuff from my old diary to the new one just started (found a couple of clashes - oops :O)
Hmm, looks like procrastination to me.
scarlett CI 9:35 am
Morning. It's okay that I didn't come in yesterday - my meeting this morning was canceled. But I still need to get that review done.
So, until it's done, my focus this morning will be: the demo review. I will CI at TOTH and BOTH. Once I'm done with that, I will alternate working on my frogs and the other stuff that's been hanging around my list.
Already done:
Eat breakfast
Take pills/allergy meds
Frog 1 (started)
Review calendar
Check work/personal email for urgent stuff
To Do:
demo review
Frog 1
Frog 2
Frog 3
Frog 4
slate - what happened?
update grid
file photos
process emails (15 min)
Wilson – windows? Call K.
update start/finish grid
update $$ on each tab in spreadsheet
Norm's 2.10 pm BE
Good morning 1Focus - you're off to a good start!
My talk went very well - a sad time because a colleague who'd set up the talks died unexpectedly last week - part of my talk addressed death but it wasn't the major focus - wondered about taking it out, but it seemed appropriate to leave it in. Suddenly, a weight is lifted off my shoulders - there're are still several other weights there though, so I shall crack on!
~~~TaDa~~~
*Most of Morning Routine including:
*Zone work - Bedroom: Put clean clothes away
*Sort out clothes for tomorrow
*Hand washing work clothes
*Boob check (I screen each month)
*Finish MR (breakfast, supplements, clear up)
*Took phone call from someone interested in pregnancy class (I really need to plan that course!)
*Book exercise class for next week (I've no money left to do any more this week, plus I don't see how to fit it in this week)
*Start of Work Day Routine
*Contact two potential clients
*Also Emailed details to the retreat venue - will ring them after lunchtime talk. Will also need to ring the place I'm staying at too.
CPD TALK:
*Finish prepping talk
*Acetates - ditched the idea
*Handouts
*Photocopy handouts
*Set up flip chart
*Give talk
~~~ToDo~~~
*Daytime Routine (incuding DDog walk - may do after classes)
SESSION PREP:
*Plan Mon sessions for two weeks
*Plan Thurs sessions for two weeks
RETREAT PREP:
*Phone retreat venue
*Phone place I'm staying
*Plan retreat sessions
*Prep handouts
*Prep flipchart
*Pack teaching box
TEACHING
*Monday classes
*End of Work Day Routine
*Phone Sandra
*Before Bed Routine
*Reading - Road to Nab End (would like to release at Nab this weekend)
Good going!
With your colleague's death,:( you probably have a doubly big weight off your shoulders now that the talk is through. Sending you good vibes for finishing the rest. :) Also, I like the Clean Sweep idea. 8) Would be great to do regularly, like once a month!
hi normy!
Glad to hear your talk went well - sorry to hear about your colleague.
Talk & Funeral
My second talk was for Monday, but it clashes with the funeral, so we've postponed the talk until the week after to allow people who want to attend to go. (I did some of the planning I usually do on Mondays today so I would be able to go too). I opened my mail at work and there was a memo from her advising me someone had died. Ironic - She had no idea that by the time I read it she'd be dead too. There are pros and cons to knowing you're dying. Another ironic thing - turns out she had cancer. It's freaking out some of the other therapists. Statistically, people who work with people with breast cancer are more likely to get it themselves, and now they're panicking that they're putting themselves at risk just working there. Wasn't breast cancer this colleague had though, and the levels of cancer amongst our staff are below average (I suspect because we are all health conscious anyway, or we wouldn't be therapists, and a heightened awareness of the risks motivates us to make healthier lifestyle choices). Doesn't matter how healthy the lifestyle though, something's going to get you one day (unless you're physically immortal, but I don't think there's many of those about!).
I've been getting excellent feedback from colleagues about the talk - two of them have even joined my mainstream class!
1Focus 8:46
Proudly Accomplished:
Morning Routine
• Out of bed 6:30 (target 6:00)
• Ready for anything
• Feed DD0
• Breakfast
• Unload dishwasher
• Head to work
Work Routine
• Meet with staff/general plan
• CUOP
• Time Sheets
• Clear my head
• Specific plan for the day
I want To Do:
Work Plan
• Check in with staff at work
• Take CD to IT to see who's not working
• Move trees to other location
• Grounds inspection
• Call about project DA
• Pickup spray and deliver some to hornets
• Process inbox
• Weekly Review
Evening Routine
One big focus:
Garage storage project
• Hang wall slats
Norm 12 noon BE
OK the talk's good to go - I'd done most of it already, but got caught up in the idea of acetates etc (perfectionist? Moi?). Anyway, I've ditched the acetates idea, and I'm going to use a good old-fashioned flip chart. Going off to work now to do the photocopying and set up the flip chart!
~~~TaDa~~~
*Most of Morning Routine including:
*Zone work - Bedroom: Put clean clothes away
*Sort out clothes for tomorrow
*Hand washing work clothes
*Boob check (I screen each month)
*Finish MR (breakfast, supplements, clear up)
*Took phone call from someone interested in pregnancy class (I really need to plan that course!)
*Book exercise class for next week (I've no money left to do any more this week, plus I don't see how to fit it in this week)
*Start of Work Day Routine
*Contact two potential clients
*Also Emailed details to the retreat venue - will ring them after lunchtime talk. Will also need to ring the place I'm staying at too.
CPD TALK:
*Finish prepping talk
*Acetates - ditched the idea
*Handouts
~~~ToDo~~~
CPD TALK:
*Photocopy handouts
*Set up flip chart
*Give talk
*Daytime Routine (incuding DDog walk - may do after classes)
SESSION PREP:
*Plan Mon sessions for two weeks
*Plan Thurs sessions for two weeks
RETREAT PREP:
*Phone retreat venue
*Phone place I'm staying
*Plan retreat sessions
*Prep handouts
*Prep flipchart
*Pack teaching box
TEACHING
*Monday classes
*End of Work Day Routine
*Phone Sandra
*Before Bed Routine
*Reading - Road to Nab End (would like to release at Nab this weekend)