Procrastinators Anonymous is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience, strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help others to recover from chronic procrastination.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
clement ci - day 223 attempting abstinence, 143 from self
I like that graphic of hope. bookend 11:48am.
11:53 = 5min
Abstinence from unplanned time.
Abstinence from relying on self. AA Big Book says to rely on God. Quoted in my bookmarks : scroll down to "AA Big Book on fears : relying on God not self-reliance:"
My Plan is this:
ci
start Instant Boss
v task
cl
time log
quiet time
r task
s task
t task
11am pa phone mtg
sort tasks
*capture all * tasks here
j task
do tasks
do tasks
do tasks
do tasks
do tasks
do tasks
put away clothes
reflection
pre-plan tmrw
11:55am :
[not tracking <15 min anymore (for now)]
It's been 00days 07hrs 13min since i last went on an off-plan bender >15min (2hrs 5min, 2:37-4:42am 6/21 early morning surfinq)
It's been 00days 07hrs 13min since i last went on an off-plan bender >1hr (2hrs 5min, 2:37-4:42am 6/21 early morning surfinq; abs his: 13,1,1,5,6,6,3,6,8 old-new)
It's been 00days 07hrs 13min since i last went on an off-plan bender >2hrs (2hrs 5min, 2:37-4:42am 6/21 early morning surfinq; abs his: 5,14,8,6,12,9,8 )
It's been 09days 07hrs 49min since i last went on an off-plan bender >3hrs (4hrs 1min, 11:25pm-3:26am 6/12-13 q surfing binge; abs his: 25,14,36; corrected 5/24).
It's been 10 days since i last went on an off-plan bender >4hrs (4hrs 1min, 11:25pm-3:26am 6/12-13 q surfing binge; before that: 78days).
It's been >87 days since i last went on an off-plan bender >6hrs (6hrs on 3/25).
It's been 223 days since i last went on an off-plan bender >1day
It's been ~323 days since i last went on an off-plan bender >1week
It's been 09days 01hrs 10min since i last relied on self. (6/10-6/13 10:45am overwhelmed with too many medium important tasks, no MITs; abs his: 14,50)
THINGS I COULD HAVE DONE BETTER
THINGS I AM GRATEFUL FOR (everything i "did well" comes from god, either thru gifts he's given me or the way he's transformed me)
fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb
Elvira's Friday
get price for postge of mo's hatcontact mo to tell her how muchwash kit for weekendcontact RandallsVic 6/21/13
show up (done), exer, plan, follow through
Thanks Jalla for starter, it was exactly what I needed to see. Feeling so"battlerworn" fighting for legal issues, and other issues. Hope there is always hope. and right now need acceptance.
@ Vic
Dear Vic. I am wishing a speedy resolution as easily as possible. iwill be thinking of you and sending solidarity hugs through cyberspace your way. hang in there . You are doing a brilliant job managing so much. Battleworn is a good word to describle all the ongoing concerted effort you are putting in. For me when im feeling that i have to just hold on ( literally!) and remember dawn is coming.I always get so much from your posts. They have helped me alot. I hope you have a good weekend and take extra good care of yourself. Hugs! xo
(jalla)
Dear Jalla, got on late today and your post meant so much to me. I feel the same about your posts, I love your starters. Thank you for your support andkind words. xo Hug back.
KF CI Fri 21st June
Update 3pm.
So I made the dinner and put it on. I made myself lunch (I was really hungry I think and hadn't realised. I feel so much better now) I made a great start on the menu and watched a TED talk while I cooked and ate. Now all I have to do is spend 10 mins finishing the menu and writing the shopping list and I can go shopping. I plan to do this at about 4.30pm
That gives me 3 poms to do some work. I can acheive a lot in that time, if I allow myself to.
1.30 pm
Complete disaster of a morning. The only good thing I have done is gone for a run. The rest was reading forum posts (elsewhere) replying to them. Playing a game. Chatting with people on FB.
And now it's lunchtime and I need to eat and I've done no work. ANd I've done only 3 hours chargeable work in the previous 2 days. I'm so ashamed of myself.
But my insight is better now. So my instinct is to try and get work done before lunch. But I'm already hungry and I need to put the dinner in the slow cooker soon anyway. SO rather than chop and change, I will do the slow cooker meal, eat lunch, do the shopping list etc THEN get some work done. That way I don't have to change tasks twice which increases the risk of further proscrastination. Then once I have done a couple of hours work, I will go shopping so that my DH doesn't have to think about it this weekend.
I must be kind to myself, what other option is there? Hating myself is not going to improve this situation is it? I just wish my automatic thoughts could know that. I am giving myself a hard time right now.
Hypatia's check-in
last day before a week's annual leave - always turns out to be a rush.
research ticsWS referralK's prescription - no rpely to phone callI's listring H's mum - no replysort today's notesclinic return to BJ's typingring F re laptopsemail managersemail E and LH.
@ms. Solidarity. You can do it.
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thanks knitfisher. x
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ms friday. IN WHICH I DID SEND THE PROPOSAL
bursts on text (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)bursts on imgages (1,2)refemailInnertruth's check-in for Friday
Get up at 7:30 am
7:30 to 8 - Shower, breakfast & get ready for work
8:00 to 8:30 - phone calls
8:30 to 2:30 pm - Work
2:30 to 6:00 pm - Apply to Woodgreen, Global Village, ILSC & SPEAC
6:00 to 7:30 pm - Run & dinner
7:30 pm to 10:00 - Apply to 3 community agencies
Evening after 10 pm
Wash dishes
1 hour papers and recycle
riddled's Friday ToDos
get up 04:30(managed more)start inventory kitchen cupboard: lower shelf
5 pages textbook D in train to work
workday(managed more)5 pages textbook D in train from work
correct A.'s tranlationfinish inventory kitchen cupboard: lower shelfThe daystarter reminds me...
Warning: The rest of this post is just my personal soapbox speech about ecological tealights! It might distract you! (Then again, it might also be useful.)
I've recently changed from normal tealights (petrol products with disposable aluminium cup) to the more ecological variant: reusable steel cup, tealights sold without cup and made from plant matter. (I've tried reusable glass cups before - they are easier to find - but I'm always afraid they'll get too hot when the candle burns down, and crack one day.) If anyone here intends to make the same change and lives in or near Germany: I got the steel cup from an online shop... uh, shouldn't advertise here, but the name contains the words "bio" and "candela". Just telling this because the steel cups were really hard to find. (But just keeping a bunch of the aluminium cups and reusing them with ecological candles will do for a while, too.) Ecological tealights (plant wax, sold without cup), on the other hand, can be found in most organic shops nowadays. As far as I've read, they are also healthier (= pollute the air in your room less).
If more people use them (or just use a Thermos bottle...), there will be more reason for hope!
Also, interestingly, the German Wikipedia article about tealights offers advice on how to better use up the last drops of wax of your tealights by slanting the cup slightly at the end. (The English article doesn't.) This makes reusable cups easier to refill and one-way cups cleaner for recycling.
If anyone got REALLY interested now and wants an English translation of the wikipedia and/or online shop texts, I might assign that as next week's homework to my math/English coaching pupil...
Mole's check in
Dear jalla - thank you again
7.30 cafe contac L and B, report to Cc and to C. Find out about SW system
9-12 word count
12.30 lunch with K - take Anders
2-3.30 prov w project
spectra and taco?
home/ review
relax
check in
bed by 11
DONE WELL
completed word count and print Out/compilation
prov project on target
COULD DO BETTER
still need to do CC and C review/report
haven't done exercises
GRATEFUL FOR
exquisite proper winter day -4.. Clears night , joy of hot water bottle.
feeling well and trusting an inner rhythm, even one that puts my arm out of action.
lunching with K, old shoeing, decryption s etc
T and L inviting me to go spectra watching
My Day Today
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.
I want to thank jalla for starting this trend.
Things I will do today
1. Go to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting
2. Go to the 6:45 a.m. telephone OA meeting
3. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting
4. Go to the 7:30 a.m. telephone OA meeting
5. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone CLA meeting
6. Eat breakfast7. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone CLA activity line8. Go to the library
9. Do numbers
10. Give an e-mail to my OA sponsor
11. Check my EA meditations
12. Go to the 12 noon telephone ACA meeting
13. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
14. Cook and eat lunch
15. Go to the taped CLA meeting
16. Take shower
17. Get dressed
18. Fix dinner
19. Go to work at 5:30 p.m.
20. Go to the 10 p.m. telephone DA meeting
Thanks for letting me share