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.
mj friday
today:
cars(half done)
cook (done)
housework minimums (done)
sign on to jc email(done)
fill out p 1 ew ap( mañana)
CI rightmeow 11:15 am
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Shower2.
Feed dog3.
Lesia (9am)4.
Call Costco5. Pick up meds
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Fix lunch7. Work on at least one outline (any class)
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Remind B to do homework9.
Message D10. Do at least one thing that you like doing.
Agnus checking in
Happy Friday! Thanks for the happy daystarter, Edge. Today I have this schedule:
Two observations today: in Step 11 my Higher Power unveiled a joyful project hidden deep in my heart for which I felt great passion. I am SO grateful for this because I was mourning the loss of passion along with all the other losses of the past year. Grief is a long process of rediscovering reasons to live: first you just survive, then you begin to accept living, and now I find that, sometimes, you still get a glimpse of what vibrant and abundant life feels like. Thank you, God!
My second observation is that I often spend way too much time on this site! But I love you all as dear friends and it's really good to get out of my own head sometimes by caring about what's happening with you. Thanks for sharing - and a special thanks to pro for being an instrument of God's peace.
re: Agnus.
"But I love you all as dear friends and it's really good to get out of my own head sometimes by caring about what's happening with you. Thanks for sharing - and a special thanks to pro for being an instrument of God's peace. "
AMEN!
"The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson, and every person I meet is my teacher" - Craig Harper
Agnus ending the work week - yay!
(Thanks, jo!) Did fairly well today for a qualified PA-er:
NOW: AH notes, draft agenda11am: prep for DR11:45 DR12:45 lunch1:30 EM call maybe2pm prep for Mondaypause & pray: Sabbath Saturday or Sunday?5:30pm walk dog6pm prep dinnerMy prayer-break is leading me to take the following actions for the next 24 hours: read enough AH to see how I can best be of service, go to the gym just for fun, have a nice hot bath, keep my commitments tomorrow morning and then do a little shopping and yard work. My Sabbath can begin when we go to a fun social event with friends late Saturday afternoon, and continue until after church and family time Sunday. Talk to y'all Monday - have a great weekend.
Journey 10 am
I'm still not feeling my best, don't know what's going on there, I'm not sick but I'm not well. Wasn't that a song lol? So anyway, I'm going to continue working on the tedious Project P this morning, and see if I can get it completely finished. There will still be some follow up and some work for other people to do, but I will have done all my research and submitted all my requests - and I'm gonna declare victory and this project will no longer be on my mind or my todo list. By Monday I should be ready to tackle some harder tasks again.
Jo
"The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson, and every person I meet is my teacher" - Craig Harper
OCz TGIF
Thanks God it's Friday!
Yesterday was such a busy day I didn't had a chance to check in, mostly meetings. A good day though!
I commited wednesday to deliver a report today... which I have not yet started. It will be this morning top priority so I'll check in again later when I've managed to get some progress on it.
Show up!First of all, make a stop and have a minute with God!Start the file!Tmxkromer 9:40 CI
Today I have a lot of stuff to do, but it's all pretty straightforward (pretty much mindless lab and computer work :P )
I want to:
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Finish genotyping, wean mice*
Do midiprep*Finish computing correlations, see if I can get GSEA working w/ ANOVA
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Go to seminar (1-2)*Organize papers, freezer, and lab nb
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Check on cells, make plan for transformations(turns out someone gave me the wrong cells, grr. But I'm going to borrow them from someone else on the floor, meaning that I can do my experiment in a week or so.)*Help w/ youth group thanksgiving potluck
That's a lot, but I think I can do it. Right now, I'll try and pull my lab notebook together, then I'll do midiprep.
Vic 11/20
1. Listen to CLA meeting now 8:30 am, get out of self
I'm a great believer in luck,and I find the harder I work...
the more I have of it Thomas Jefferson
Be ready when opportunity comes. Luck is the time when preparation and opportunity meet. Roy D. Chapin J
AA Big Book (my "luck") Changes and new conditions are the inevitable result of living life, on life’s terms. (pg 85). The idea that what is now known is enough to deal with any new situation is an egotistically attractive but "erroneous false belief in personal omniscience". That "all knowing" quality generally gets reserved for an idea of "God". (pg 55). Old ideas may not always apply to new and different conditions. (pg 58). The desire to enlarge awareness of "the Great Reality" (i.e.: "God" - pg 55) is a personal desire for more "spiritual growth". (pg 60).
5 pm Really struggling today- family of origin issues and Thanksgiving, dealing with same old rejection, jealousy, sickness, target of judgement and hatred, and yet looking and wanting something that is not there,etc.was not invited to mom's,school issues dealing with crazy people who don't care about my son and are offended if I question their authority, tend to beat myself up for other peoples issues and shut down. Was using more food, but stopped, want to just shut down, but the truth is I grow when I don't shut down.Hope to walk and not get paralyzed. Maybe let son drive somewhere.Need to make gratitude list. Have this and other loop sites, have one son in home school doing 1000% better and now can opt to do the same with the other. Have a decent husband. Have health. Have 2 beautiful, wonderful, boys. Cat's paw is getting better. Personal relationship with HP.
Lucky CI
Awesome threadstarter, Edge :)
Euuuuuuuuuuuuuuuugh! Spent this morning essentially staring at my work and having trouble breathing... rather a low point!
I've had an interesting time of it since deciding that I was scheduling and timetabling myself too much... initially fantastic results followed by slow collapse into a heap of chaos.
I think I went from feeling overwhelmed by too much structure, to feeling great, to feeling overwhelmed by the now shapeless, orderless, where-do-I-start mass of STUFF TO DO. I may be coming to the remarkable conclusion that a medium amount of structure is just right :)
I basically need to try and order things so I don't feel overwhelmed. I'm thinking my current plan looks like:
* Blitz one backlog at a time at work and one at home
* As each backlog disappears, put some time aside daily/weekly to stop it building up again!
* Work out some goals for myself and what I'm going to do towards them
* Try to keep in my head that THE STRUCTURE SERVES ME, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND and that it's not a standard of perfection for me to fail at, it's a way for me to make my life easier.
Lucky's remarkable conclusion
LOL, Lucky. I love how we all can relate to these a-ha moments, when we get something that the non-PA world has somehow always known. (HOW do they DO that, just know this stuff and have it work for them? grrr.)
CL daily overcoming
not as productive as i hoped this week.
step 2. only god can help me. that keeps getting more and more confirmed in my life.
i'm here, god, so help me.
ci :)
emerg only email & ck mtgs :)
quiet time :)
daily maint tasks :)
work plan :)
work
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the touch of the master's hand: http://procrastinators-anonymous.org/node/1898#comment-27748
"fall down seven times, get up eight" - japanese proverb
Hope-Faith CI 5:50
Good Morning All, and thanks for the thread starter Edge.
Well my week is not going the way I have planned it but I have accomplished a whole lot more than what I would have if I had not planned, and going into the weekend I have my goals set so it works.
Frig Drawers
Daily Declutter
Items to plan
hope-faith
Hope-Faith CI 8:15
Thanks Lucky and I have fun doing it, fun make me more productive.
Frig Drawers
hope-faith
AWESOME CHECKLIST! I might
AWESOME CHECKLIST! I might have to try that :) I love anything that shows a sense of humour about this stuff.
re: awesome checklist
Yes it's quite inspirational and made me laugh because I read "Frig" as "F-ing"
Jo
"The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson, and every person I meet is my teacher" - Craig Harper
Edge's CI - 11:31am
Good morning :)
Came across a quote yesterday that really got to me:
How you spend your days is how you live your life
x 8am meds
x hmed 1
x bmd 1
- call M and cancel today?
- finish A assignment and submit
- do laundry
- kitty litter
- contemplation
- create list of minor tasks
- create med calendar
- bran
- bmed 2
- 4pm med
- go to gym and transfer account
- bmed 3
- hmed 2
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
re: how
Great quote! I'm seriously considering stealing it for my sig.
Jo
"The world is my classroom, each day is a new lesson, and every person I meet is my teacher" - Craig Harper
Thanks, journey :)
And please, go ahead and use it :)
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
Edge's CI - 4:57pm
x 8am meds
x hmed 1
x bmd 1
- finish A assignment and submit
x do laundry
x wash dishes
x create list of minor tasks
x create med calendar
x bran
x bmed 2
x 4pm med
- go to gym and transfer account
- bmed 3
- hmed 2
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson
quotes
Love your quotes :)
edge's quote on how
Love that, thanks, edge. It reminds me of something I heard in AA about Step 3: my will = my thoughts, and my life = my actions. In recovery we strive to improve these one day at a time, but it is true that over time, my cumulative thoughts become Who I Am, and my accumulated actions become My Life.
Thank God for "one day at a time"! :-)
Thanks, rightmeow :D
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Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action - Walter Anderson