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.
journey 11:30
Status report sent out for updates, talked to the slow-moving project leader and hopefully encouraged him to move a bit faster. Checked on the status of my SL reimbursement and yay! it has been approved finally, finally, after months and months of dealing with them. And that was after months and months of me procrastinating about getting the request in! It will still be weeks before actual money appears, but at least I'm close.
Now, I'm going to make out a deposit for my club's dues and take a walk to the bank.
Jo
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey
hugs to journey
Gratz on your reimbursement! Isn't it great when the ice begins to crack around tasks we dread doing?
journey 1 pm
Turned out that our monthly officer's meeting for the club was at lunchtime today. It had been accidentally cancelled, so got rescheduled at the last minute . . . so I'm putting off the bank until the weekend.
Next, straighten desk and have it looking nice for the week I'm gone, and figure out what's most important to get done this afternoon before I leave. Um, gotta do my time sheet. Better do that first before I forget, and set up my voice and email out of office messages . .. .
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey
Journey 3 pm
Time sheet and other admin stuff done, forgot about a meeting that I am headed to right now, somehow it dropped off my calendar . ..
Jo
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey
getting up to get something
overcoming intertia to get up and get something...
done.
that was easy (to do, but hard to force myself to do).
9:19am CI for Lark
Hi everyone. The alarm went off at 7:20, I shut it off, and woke back up at 8:50. Someone's coming around noon, and I have errands to run first. Wow, this is exciting! This will be a quick check in, and I hope to follow up this afternoon. Good luck.
Today:
morning routine
spiritual time
run errands
take care of 12 o'clock client
dry out rug (before it smells)
pick up litter in lawn and driveway
tidy workshop
work on project A (I need to pay bills.)
kaoba 8am
So far:
(X) brush and floss
(X) pay bills
(X) morning dishes
I'm sitting down to do the newsletter.
( ) assemble and mail newsletter
( ) call Ia
( ) call Go
( ) call Cg
( ) send invoice for March consulting
( ) clear desk 15 min
( ) write to Cy
( ) call parents (if they haven't called me before)
( ) declutter 15 min
( ) take a 30 min walk on the hilly course
( ) do the plantar fasciitis stretching routine (it's working!)
( ) shower
( ) make and eat lunch
( ) drive child 1 to class
( ) taxes with husband
( ) assist child 2 with homework
( ) keep sink empty and dry through the day
kaoba 7am
OK, people are off to school and work, I have breakfasted and made my plan. There's routine stuff, and non-routine stuff here, including stuff that I have been sitting on forever (especially the calls). So, here it goes, and I also commit to checking in regularly through the day.
(X) send donations with husband to drop-off (it's on the way to his office)
( ) brush and floss
( ) pay bills
( ) assemble and mail newsletter
( ) call Ia
( ) call Go
( ) call Cg
( ) send invoice for March consulting
( ) clear desk 15 min
( ) write to Cy
( ) call parents (if they haven't called me before)
( ) declutter 15 min
( ) take a 30 min walk on the hilly course
( ) do the plantar fasciitis stretching routine (it's working!)
( ) shower
( ) make and eat lunch
( ) drive child 1 to class
( ) taxes with husband
( ) assist child 2 with homework
( ) keep sink empty and dry through the day
douglas CI
Beginning new phase of job today.
meet with T
Lunch with B & G
Call HDH and schedule re=-appointment
re-learn the habit of Prospecting... :-(
re-learn consistent cold calling
re-learn the drudgery of reports
ACCOUNTABILITY SUCKS...
Somebody please tell me how we learn to enjoy menial, mindless and worthless work activity in order to earn sufficient captial to pay our bills?
I need inspiration today. The idea of sitting with my superviosr and having him ask me, "did you do THIS today?... "did you do THAT today?" is so parochial and I hate it. I understand the need for accountability, so let me do something I love and I will gladly be accountable. I'm sure this sounds childish.
douglas
Douglas -- boss check-ins
Hi Douglas,
Best of luck with it! I'm impressed that you can do cold calls -- if I had to do those for a living, I'd procrastinate till I starved.
I find it helpful to schedule/initiate conversations with my boss -- either formal meetings or informal, depending on the boss & situation. That way, I have an incentive to get stuff done before the meeting, but instead of the boss sitting there asking "did you do this?" it's me going in & saying "here's what I've accomplished" -- same accountability, but it feels totally different (and impresses the boss a lot more!)
Falcon
re: Douglas CI
Thanks for the reminder - my monthly status report is due - yuck.
Jo
“The key is not to prioritize what’s on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.” - Stephen Covey
my week's due
too
Re: douglas CI
Hi Douglas,
> Somebody please tell me how we learn to enjoy menial, mindless and worthless
> work activity in order to earn sufficient captial to pay our bills?
What came to my mind is, don't have as a goal enjoying it, just doing it. But make sure that your day contains things that you do enjoy, and make sure to make them as nonnegotiable as your work.
Good luck with your day!
Mindless tasks
It's been quite a while since I've been accountable to a boss, but . . .
What I did was to get done with the mindless first and fast! Then I could spend what time I have left to do things I enjoyed. I was able to expand my job to the point of getting a raise!
Secondly, the 'mindless' judgment is where I would get into trouble. How one gets around judging something boring as 'mindless', I have no idea. But boredom is real trouble for me.
Peace,
Karen
i wish i could do the
i wish i could do the mindless first to get it out of the way. I'll work on it.
kaoba 5am
Good morning,
I am finishing my omnipresent cup of coffee, and am planning to plan the day.
A new strategy: I will not struggle. I will define a *very short* list of things to do today, in addition to all the routine stuff, and then I will *do* the list. No thinking, no second guessing, no ruminating. Just doing. And when I am done, I cannot add anything else to it.
This is to combat my two main themes: indecision (if I am doing this, then I am not doing the other, and how do I know which one is more important in the grand master plan?), and the feeling of infinite work that will never be done no matter what.
A great day to all!