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.
Wednesday 24 January 2007
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jj's last CI - 12:14 am (Thursday)
X fill water bottle
X eat breakfast/take vits/watch taped tennis
X do dishes
X turn TV off and put music CD on
X take recycling downstairs
X make bed
X check email
X phone R to see what time he's working until tonight
X wash hair
X wash face/brush teeth
X get dressed to go out
X decide what to make for supper
X make grocery list
X grocery shopping
X put groceries away
- dust bedroom
- ironing
X feed cat
X make supper - tried 2 new recipes!
X do dishes
X take recycling downstairs - R did this
- walk with R?
X watch tennis
X check email
X bath/wash face/brush and floss teeth
X read before sleep
Today I'm thankful for: good food, good wine.
Lark's last CI at 11:50pm
Actually I did enough to cross everything off my lists today, but again I'm not really pleased with how well a few of them came out. This has been a problem for me lately. Good night eveyone.
pro's last check-in - 11:55pm
I'm very tired - I hope I can sleep!
Good night!!
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Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
DoItNow CI 08:25pm PST
accounts:
pro's CI - 10pm
I need to get ready for bed - no stalling.
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pro's CI - 9pm
I stopped working at 3pm. I like that I did it as a time log because I can go back and count how many hours I worked. I did office work for four hours, and errands for two hours. I'm not sure that's a full day's work. I didn't do anything useful after 3pm. At 5pm I went to meet a friend for dinner and a movie. I just got home a little while ago.
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jj's 2:24pm CI
Just eating a yogurt before I go grocery shopping.
X fill water bottle
X eat breakfast/take vits/watch taped tennis
X do dishes
X turn TV off and put music CD on
X take recycling downstairs
X make bed
X check email
X phone R to see what time he's working until tonight
X wash hair
X wash face/brush teeth
X get dressed to go out
X decide what to make for supper
X make grocery list
- grocery shopping
- put groceries away
- dust bedroom
- ironing
- feed cat
- make supper
- do dishes
- take recycling downstairs
- walk with R?
- watch tennis
- check email
- wash face/brush and floss teeth
jj's 12:55pm CI
Up way too late last night, therefore, up later this morning than I'd prefer.
Alarm set for 8:40 - up at 8:55
X fill water bottle
X eat breakfast/take vits/watch taped tennis
X do dishes
X turn TV off and put music CD on
X take recycling downstairs
X make bed
X check email
X phone R to see what time he's working until tonight
- wash hair
- wash face/brush teeth
- get dressed to go out
- decide what to make for supper
- make grocery list
- grocery shopping
- put groceries away
- dust bedroom
- ironing
- feed cat
- make supper
- do dishes
- take recycling downstairs
- walk with R?
- watch tennis
- check email
- wash face/brush and floss teeth
DoItNow CI 11:51am PST
accounts:
DoItNow CI 11:28am PST
accounts:
pro's CI - 2pm
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pro's CI - 12:20pm
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Mollie's CI 10:30am
I've done my morning routine, made some important phone calls. Now I'm back to a bad procrastination place (psychologically speaking) on this writing project I've been muddling through. I hardly accomplished anything on it yesterday b/c I just couldn't focus, couldn't concentrate. I think I was too stressed out about it, or too distracted by the cafe noise--sometimes it's just right for helping me focus, but sometimes the music & conversation are too loud & if I try to drown it out w/classical music on my Walkman, it's blaring in my ear & I can't work then either. Anyway, being unable to concentrate on writing, when much of my working involves it, really freaks me out. So now I'm having trouble getting myself to go back to the cafe (or a different one) or to work here. What I want to do is go buy The War of Art, which has been reserved for me at a bookstore across from the cafe. Maybe if I did that I could settle in to some reading first and then work. That seems at least bearable. Sorry to be so whine-y.
writing (and "The War of Art")
You'll love The War of Art.
A trick I use to get past writer's block is to tell myself I'm just doing a brain dump, this is just trash - it's not the real thing, I'm just putting random ideas on the page. That usually shakes me loose.
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Writer's block & other issues
I got & read "The War of Art." I liked it a lot. Unfortunately, it was not the solution to all my problems. :O I also started Mary Pipher's "Writing to Change the World." I used to have terrible difficulty with writer's block--sitting there unable to figure out what to say. Now it's more frequent that I am unwilling to even put myself in a position to begin writing (but if I do put myself in that position, I don't have trouble writing something--I tell myself to do a "shitty first draft," a la Anne Lamott "in Bird by Bird"). But at the moment, the issue is that I have 43 pages of shitty first draft that need to be reorganized, edited, added to, etc. At any rate, I did some work today and that was good.
pro's CI - 10:20am
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Lark's 9:20am CI
Good morning everyone. I like your new time scheduling idea Pro.
Done:
morning routine
To Do:
meditation and reflection
heat on in shop
order supplies
get food (while the above two things are done)
focus on today's project when I get back till noon
lunch for half hour/45minutes
go back to project till three
At around three o'clock, I'll have to finish my plan for today
pro's CI - 9:10am
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pro's CI - 7:35am
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pro's CI - 7:25am
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pro's CI - 7:10am
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pro's CI - 6:40am
I think I'm going to log my time today rather than post a checklist.
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pro's first check-in - 6am
I woke up at 4am, went back to sleep, and got up at 5:50am. Suddenly my body wants to get up at 6am. That's good. Pretty soon I'll be going to a job in the morning.
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Monica's CI - 5:15 am EST
If I can't do it perfectly, I'll do it anyway. If I can't do it all, I'll do some. If I do nothing, nothing gets done.
"I don't feel like it" is a poor sacrifice for your dreams.
Rexroth 07.23 GMT
Todo today
up prayer reflection meditation
deal with post phone messages emails
get ready for going out
travel across city to see person with craft machine for sale
negotiate with them
lunch out somewhere
see poorly friend that side of city and see if I can do anything for them
come home
clear up a bit
phone friend re lawyers meeting on Monday
reflect on lawyer's advice
rest and relax
prayer and reflection
bed and sleep
Having met lawyer on Monday felt very confused and didn't post yesterday and I feel much clearer today. Note to myself.. Lawyers do law not business.
Have a good day folks Regards Rexroth
Rexroth 18.00 GMT
I've got to 'come home'. Journey to look at craft instrument took three and a half hours as we have snow and 'severe weather' i.e. 1" of snow! Normal time would have been an hour and a half. Unsure about instrument. I want it but I'm not quite sure it is right i.e. undamaged so I'm finding out before buying it. Thank's DA.
Thanks for being here.
Regards Rexroth