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Julie's Late Night CI
Completed:
Morning routine
Give T her meds
Mail ticket to school
Write-15 minutes*
Plan clinical visits for week*
Make rental car arrangements*
Print out and review audit for 2 pm appt.
Email student about possible clinical site change-will see him tomorrow and discuss it then
Grade Amazing Grace-one question*
Clothes to cleaners
Schedule appt. with J.
Advising appt. 1:45, 2:00?-call student
Call clinical site
Email D at church about article
Email committee about dates for meeting
Meditate*
To Do:
Unpack suitcase and put things away
Fill out graduate faculty form for work
Complete Spanish-chapter 4*
Look over L’s document
Julie's 5 pm CI
Another long list, but I did pretty well yesterday so I'm hopeful about getting through most of it. I'm going to try starting with the items with the astericks. These are things that are either urgent/not urgent, but important. It seems like I usually finish the urgent things and don't get to the important ones so I want to change that today. Hope everyone has a happy, productive day!
Completed:
Morning routine
Give T her meds
Mail ticket to school
Write-15 minutes*
Plan clinical visits for week*
Make rental car arrangements*
Print out and review audit for 2 pm appt.
Email student about possible clinical site change-will see him tomorrow and discuss it then
Grade Amazing Grace-one question*
Clothes to cleaners
Schedule appt. with J.
Advising appt. 1:45, 2:00?-call student
Call clinical site
Email D at church about article
To Do:
Email committee about dates for meeting
Unpack suitcase and put things away
Fill out graduate faculty form for work
Complete Spanish-chapter 4*
Look over L’s document
Meditate*
lad blitz & CI
Sorry everyone. I've been procrastinating a bit... or maybe not. Anyway, spent some time I hadn't intended to in order to reply to a backlog of replies to old threads of mine. If someone could give me some tips on this particular forum program (i.e., how to know if someone has replied--more easily), I would appreciate any help. Thanks!
NOW: to work!
- thesis/presentation
- 5:30 shower
- 6:15 leave the house
Amy's CI 2:25
Tuesday:
Clean off table in office
Sweep
Vaccum
Get loan paperwork for class
Take pictures of house
Watch classroom video
Work on homework for 1 hour
Make cookies
Walk
Try to work on
Need to be completed but can wait
Amy's CI
Tuesday:
Clean off table in office
Sweep
Vaccum
Take pictures of house
Watch classroom video
Make cookies
Walk
Try to work on
Need to be completed but can wait
Mark CI 3:11 PM
to do by 2 am:
Julie's 1 pm CI
Another long list, but I did pretty well yesterday so I'm hopeful about getting through most of it. I'm going to try starting with the items with the astericks. These are things that are either urgent/not urgent, but important. It seems like I usually finish the urgent things and don't get to the important ones so I want to change that today. Hope everyone has a happy, productive day!
Completed:
Morning routine
Give T her meds
Mail ticket to school
Write-15 minutes*
Plan clinical visits for week*
Make rental car arrangements*
Print out and review audit for 2 pm appt.
Email student about possible clinical site change-will see him tomorrow and discuss it then
To Do:
Email committee about dates for meeting
Grade Amazing Grace-one question*
Unpack suitcase and put things away
Fill out graduate faculty form for work
Complete Spanish-chapter 4*
Look over L’s document
Clothes to cleaners
Schedule appt. with J.
Meditate*
Advising appt. 1:45, 2:00?-call student
Call clinical site
Email D at church about article
Edge's CI - 6:24PM
Important
X SEND ICE LETTER AND THEN SEND TO WORK
X CREATE AND SEND FL J LIST!
* Finish off the leftover bits from unfinished chapters
* Cover as many chapters as possible (minimum two)
X DCS
Regular
)
* Morning med (skipped it yet again
X Evening med
Postponed
* Talk to B about DVDs
* Reply to Jen
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Edge's Closing CI
I don't like myself very much right now. *stares morosely at unfinished to-do*
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
not liking oneself
edge,
been there, done that, yesterday.
today, begin again, take your own great advice, celebrate what has been done.
Also, do you sleep? your closing remarks were 1.5 hours before today's opening! Sleep is a wonderful way to begin the day.....
Oh I sleep!
Lol, oh I sleep! In fact, I would rather sacrifice efficiency for the sake of sleep, which is why that to-do list wasn't completed
I posted my closing check in this morning just to give my list closure so I'd know what I finished/have left whenever I need to refer to it in the future.
But you're right - it is a new day, and there's no need to carry yesterday's negativity to cloud today's clarity :-) Thanks, Elisaveth.
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Julie's 10 am CI
Another long list, but I did pretty well yesterday so I'm hopeful about getting through most of it. I'm going to try starting with the items with the astericks. These are things that are either urgent/not urgent, but important. It seems like I usually finish the urgent things and don't get to the important ones so I want to change that today. Hope everyone has a happy, productive day!
Morning routine
Give T her meds
Email committee about dates for meeting
Mail ticket to school
Grade Amazing Grace-one question*
Unpack suitcase and put things away
Fill out graduate faculty form for work
Complete Spanish-chapter 4*
Look over L’s document
Clothes to cleaners
Write-15 minutes*
Schedule appt. with J.
Plan clinical visits for week*
Make rental car arrangements*
Meditate*
Advising appt. 1:45, 2:00?-call student
Print out and review audit for 2 pm appt.
Call clinical site
Email student about possible clinical site change
Email D at church about article
Journey 9:30
Good morning all!
DONE:
-Gym (on time!)
-Email
-Daily Planning
TO DO:
-PoC meeting at 3 - 1 hr.
-Prepare for SAD test - 1-2 hrs
-Finish panels - 1-2 hrs
-The Yucky Project - 3 hrs.
-Mail t.t.
-Finish TM Roster - 1 hr.
-stop by h.d. on the way home
-ck. bal.
-start on Nov. budget
-personal email
-dishes
-laundry
-email cleanup - 15 min
J.
Journey 2 pm
DONE:
-Gym (on time!)
-Email
-Daily Planning
-ck bal
-panels - finished half, took longer than planned (doesn't everything?!_
do the rest tomorrow
-mailed tt
TO DO:
-PoC meeting at 3 - 1 hr.
-Prepare for SAD test - 1-2 hrs
-The Yucky Project - 3 hrs.
-Finish TM Roster - 1 hr.
-stop by h.d. on the way home
-start on Nov. budget
-personal email
-dishes
-laundry
-email cleanup - 15 min
Gonna work on yucky project until 3 pm meeting
Frogs taste worse when you eat them after lunch.
J.
Journey 4:00 pm ugh froggy
ugh - been staring at this frog for 2 hours and have done some paper shuffling but haven't made any real progress. Posting here for inspiration. Just took a short break and got a cup of tea, and making another stab at it.
I'll work on this for one hour and stop. Let's see how much I can get done by 5 pm.
J.
Journey 6:15 - whoopee!
I was on a roll on the froggy project once I FINALLY got started - I actually "published" the first draft of my document. It still needs polishing and some areas fleshed out, but is good enough to present to my boss and my team for review.
It's amazing how this stuff gets done if I can just GET STARTED! I swear I stared at it for two hours before actually putting pen to paper.
See youse guys in the am.
J.
That's great, Journey!!
I bet it feels like such a relief getting rid of the bulk of the work, doesn't it? :grin: Great job!
(thought you might like another frog :grin: :-p ;-) )
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
c i 2:23 PM Athens
Today has been a wasteful useless day: I could not bring myself to post here 6 hours ago. I am fearful of what I must finish, and have been brought to my knees by that fear. The only thing I feel like I can do in an effort towards progress is to be honest with myself here in writing.
For today:
post check in
take medicine
work on annual report
plan dinner
call office
reschedule office appointments
verizon
sort papers
Elisaveth
Honesty is your friend, Elisaveth. I'd suggest taking 30 minutes to sit somewhere quiet and let your fears, worries and whatever comes to mind out on paper or on a word ducument. Not only will writing to yourself about your fears clarify them, you might actually give yourself answers and solutions that you'd never have thought of. That's how I got over some rough patches when I felt exactly how you feel now. It's extremely uplifting, really helps dispel the pent up pressure caused by dread and anxiousness. Also, it will give you many insights into your character, things that you never knew about yourself before. Like why you've procrastinated on certain tasks, why you behave in certain ways in certain situations, and what you need to do about it.
I would suggest reading some of Steve Pavlina's articles, he has some really good ones on this subject specifically. I'll send you the links to some of them if you like, or I can post them around here; they could prove useful to others.
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Thanks to everyone for your
Thanks to everyone for your support: truly I am bottoming at this point. Yes, Edge, please post the links here: I have found solace in following links when that is all that I can do.
Steve Pavlina
is the best!
J.
re: Steve Pavlina
Totally! I came across one of his articles a while back and I got hooked almost immediately :-D
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Rexroth 08.37 GMT
Todo today
up post this
prayer reflection meditation
deal with phone messages emails post
landlords files
solicitor email
take it easy and rest
write journal
prayer and reflection
bed and sleep
Regards Rexroth
Rexroth 12.51 BST
So slowly...
I had a letter from landlords and a rent statement and it is wrong and I was also wrong so I phoned them and did not succeed in resolving it. So now I've written a long letter which I hope will sort things out.
Rexroth
Fruitful endings
Good luck with that, Rexroth.
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Rexroth 22.23 GMT
Thanks Edge. I have done my best.
Not looking forward to seeing psychologist tomorrow I have difficult stuff to work on.
And so to bed.
Rexroth
Edge's CI - 9:45AM
Good morning :-)
Got several pressing things to get done ASAP today. So far feeling optimistic. *crosses fingers*
Important
- SEND ICE LETTER AND THEN SEND TO WORK
X CREATE AND SEND FL J LIST!
- Finish off the leftover bits from unfinished chapters
- Cover as many chapters as possible (minimum two)
- DCS
Regular
- Morning med
- Evening med
- Reply to Jen
* Talk to B about DVDs
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Edge's CI - 3:15PM
I wrote the email I need to send to prospective employers, but I'm waiting for an experienced friend to check it for me before I send it.
Finished creating the FL list and I sent it, but it sure did take a lot of time to get it done. I also spent a few hours watching a movie and taking picutres while playing with my kitten, so I did waste a good part of my day needlessly
But never mind all that :-) I'm going to start studying now. Two more days to go - need to cover a lot of chapters.
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Edge's CI - 4:32PM
I'm going to go for a quick walk. The studying is going alright.
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson