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how to use the check-in board

Here's how we organize the check-ins in this forum.

  1. Every day someone (whoever gets to the forum first) starts a thread for the day. The first message is just a general welcome for everybody - not a personal check-in. Lots of times people like to use graphics to make the opening message welcoming. If you look to the left, you'll see a link for "Graphics for Forum Posts". If you don't want to do that, that's fine. I'll add a pretty graphic when I log in.

How and why check-ins work...

Checking in (or "book-ending") means doing this:

  1. Post a message committing to do a specific task during a specified period of time.


  2. At the end of that period of time, post a message reporting on what you did.

This sounds simple-minded, but it's a surprisingly effective tool. It works for several reasons:

  1. It makes you accountable.


  2. It provides social support. People can cheer you on when you succeed, or encourage you try again when you don't. Plus it ameliorates the sense of loneliness and isolation that people can feel doing certain tasks, making them easier to do.

Friday May 18, 2012

HAPPY FRIDAY, EVERYBODY

PA Promise Five:

We will arrive at our appointments on time, prepared–and organized, our lives will be less stressful, clarity will replace confusion, and details will be easy to see.

Peace

Thursday, 17 May, 2012


Thursday, 17 May, 2012

P. A.  Recovery Tool #5:
Avoid Time-Bingeing

One reason procrastinators dread starting is that
once they start, they don't let themselves stop.

Plan to work on a task for a defined period of time,
then set a timer.

When the timer goes off, you're done.


Wednesday, 16 May, 2012


Wednesday, 16 May 2012

P.A. Promise #4:

Well-planned and completed actions
will be our new way of life;
organizing will become second nature.

The desire for any unhelpful daydreaming,
.  the avoidance of tasks,
.     and the dread of actions
.        will disappear ...

as we find pleasure and spiritual fulfillment

Tuesday 15 May 2012

 

Monday 14 May 2012


Monday 14 May 2012

Promise #3:
As we learn to commit each task to our Higher Power
for divine ideas and guidance,
* confidence will replace fear,
* enthusiasm will replace dread,
* and self-esteem will replace self loathing.

We will take the next right actions, as they are required,
easily and effortlessly.

Sunday May 13, 2012

HAPPY SUNDAY, EVERYBODY

Happy Mother's Day (For those in the US)

Tool Three of PA:  Ask Yourself Why:

While you are visualizing doing the task, see if you can detect what it is about the task that feels odious to you, what uncomfortable feeling you are avoiding. Knowing what's behind the avoidance can help you get past it - for example, address real problems or ignore irrational fears.

Peace

Saturday May 12, 2012

HAPPY SATURDAY, EVERYBODY!

Promise Two of PA:

We will find joy and serenity in doing routine tasks, making daily action plans, and completing all tasks and meet deadlines on before they are due.

Peace

Friday May 11, 2012

HAPPY FRIDAY, EVERYBODY!

Tool Two of PA:  Visualization

Plan what to do, then imagine yourself doing it. The more specific and vivid your visualization, the better. See yourself doing the task, and doing it well.

Peace

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