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Weekend Madness 3-13-10 Through 3-14-10
POST YOUR SUCCESS SO WE CAN
Quotes To Motivate
- "I know the price of success: dedication, hard work and an unremitting devotion to the things you want to see happen." Frank Wright
- Make your plan for the weekend
- "To aim is not enough, you must hit! German Proverb
- Work your plan
- "A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance." Tim Flores - NFL coach
- Be committed to your plan
- "The difference between the impossible and the possible lies in a person's determination." Tommy Lasorda
- Find your determination inside to work your plan no matter how impossible it may seem
- When you start thinking that your plan for the weekend is not working
- "Just do it." Nike
- "The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." Vince Lombardi
- At the end of the weekend reflect back on your hard work and dedication and you will see what you have accomplishe
- Get around the right people.Associate with positive,goal-oriented people who encourage and inspire you. Brian Tracy
- Check in, chat post weeked successes here
- "Life has no rehearsals, only performances." Anonymous
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huma with a Rescue Plan
Ok, well this is what our problem is all about right? Great intentions, and then we see our day disintegrate through procrastination. I'm having one of those days. Got one major thing done by 10pm and nothing else.
On the "plus(?)" side, I took a 2 hour nap so I can stay up later. Need to be in bed by 3am.
So here's the Rescue Plan:
1030: send emails
11: 1 hr office cleanup
1215: 1 hr office cleanup
130: 1 hr office cleanup
Rescue Plan
Great job for developing a rescue plan. It may not have gone the way you wanted it to go today but you did not give up. In time you will develop routines that will work for you. Just keep going and do not give up.
hope-faith
12 mid update
Ok got the emails out but it took a lot longer than expected. That's ok...now on to the next item.
1am update
I did NOTHING last hour. I got sidetracked and web surfed again, and listened to music. Having a rough day.
Ok, still determined to make progress. Going to clean my office up. Saying a little prayer.
2 am update
Done a bit of work, maybe 30 min out of an hour. Slow going. Just having a real struggle. But the good part is I'm not giving up.
More office cleanup...
3am update
Did a little more work, combined with the web surfing distraction again. My gosh, I wish I could control this problem.
Still trying -- staying up one more hour. If I can put up a solid hour, this would have been an acceptable (albeit way too long) day. Gotta do it though.
*Hugs* Watching somebody
*Hugs* Watching somebody struggle like this and still hang in there is really inspiring. Well done!
I hope you don't have to be up early in the morning...!
4am final
Well, it was ugly, but I stumbled through. I got a good solid hour's worth of work in from 3-4am. So I'm happy, but my gosh I have to stop putting myself through this.
WELL DONE!!!!! Yes, I
WELL DONE!!!!!
Yes, I can see why that's not something you want to do every night (!) but still - it takes a LOT of guts to keep slogging through in the face of massive resistance and exhaustion, and you've just done that - I'm really proud of you :)
agree, agree, agree
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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
Bravo
Standing ovation! Bravo! Suoerb! Excellent! Encore!
Lucky saying goodnight!
Well... I'm going to bed at 2am instead of midnight, but I finished everything! Not just everything on the room, but everything on my normal tasklist as well!
The last item was what took the time... around a quarter to midnight I'd got everything done but this one item. What was it?
Making a Mother's Day present.
For my housemate.
From the dog.
Somehow I was expecting that to take half an hour... :D it took two hours.. but she will now have a lovely bouquet of paper chihuahua-flowers waiting when she comes home from her weekend away... :D
on all your achievements... wow, we are SO much stronger together.
I love you all
Done for the weekend
Thanks to all,
What a great weekend alot has been accomplished. Did not get everything done on my list but but but I did get my buttt up and move and did not sit around the whole weekend wandering what to do not taken any action at all because could not would not make a commitment or decision. So with that being said........
hope-faith
hope-faith
Thank you so much, Hope -
Thank you so much, Hope - you've been absolutely awesome!
Back at you
Lucky,
You have been absolutely awesome as well, major accomplishments this weekend.
hope-faith
Lucky progress check 5 14.3.10
HERE'S WHERE I AM!
Apart from the final clearing-up, I am DONE DONE DONE! Took me till 9 rather than 8.30 to finish, but I was so close by 8.30 there was no way I was going to stop.
Shred paper for rat cage
Clean rat cage
Hoover
Clean windowsill and inside drawers
Bed
Sort stuff downstairs - books/papers in living room, objects in dining room, clothes in kitchen
Get stuff out of cupboard and wardrobe and sort likewise
Books/papers - divide into 'keep out', 'throw away', 'cupboard', and 'attic'
Clothes - ditto
Objects - ditto
Fix bed again because it went again from all the standing on it
Hoover downstairs
Hoover bedroom AGAIN because the carpet got messy again
Attic stuff to attic
Bin rubbish
I have a bedroom. Thank God, I have a bedroom!
YAY and Super Job.
AWWWWW! Wow, that's the most
AWWWWW! Wow, that's the most fuss anyone's ever made of me on here. Probably the most fuss anyone's made of ANYONE on here! Thank you, thank you! xxx
Lucky progress check 4 14.3.10
Books are now DONE, after a lot of fuss about exactly how to arrange them :) I'm taking a quick dinner break, then back to it...
Shred paper for rat cage
Clean rat cage
Hoover
Clean windowsill and inside drawers
Bed
Sort stuff downstairs - books/papers in living room, objects in dining room, clothes in kitchen
Get stuff out of cupboard and wardrobe and sort likewise
Books/papers - divide into 'keep out', 'throw away', 'cupboard', and 'attic'
Clothes - ditto - 1h
Objects - ditto - 1h
Attic stuff to attic - 30m
Bin rubbish - 5m
Fix bed again because it went again from all the standing on it - 10m
Hoover downstairs - 15m
Judging by how long the books took, this might well be more than 3 hours' work. On the upside, I found a card while tidying, which will save me going to the shops to buy one, so I'll be surprised if my non-room-tidy tasks take me as much as 3 hours.
So I'm giving myself till 8.30 to work on clothes and objects, and then any bags/boxes that haven't been dealt with are going in cupboards to deal with another day. Which I think is fine.
I AM ACTUALLY GOING TO FINISH THIIIIIIS :) :) :) :)
H-F Progress Check 1 3-14-10
Stayed up late got up late this am but I am now rolling. Look forward to seeing all of our accomplishments.
I have to get back to work now. Good Job all
To day is DS's b-day
To Do List
hope-faith
Last Progress Check For H-F
PM routine is done and I am calling it a night (weekend)
hope-faith
Aw, happy birthday
Aw, happy birthday DS!
(And GO HOPE!!!!)
Sunday's going to be GREAT for hope-faith!
You worked too hard on Sat to lose momentum today! I know you're going to have a good day, and I'll be right there with you! :)
Lucky progress check 3 14.3.10
Lunchtime and here's where I am:
Shred paper for rat cage
Clean rat cage
Hoover
Clean windowsill and inside drawers
Bed
Sort stuff downstairs - books/papers in living room, objects in dining room, clothes in kitchen - 30m
Get stuff out of cupboard and wardrobe and sort likewise - 1h
Books/papers - divide into 'keep out', 'throw away', 'cupboard', and 'attic' - 1h
Clothes - ditto - 1h
Objects - ditto - 1h
Attic stuff to attic - 30m
Bin rubbish - 5m
Hoover downstairs - 15m
And here's my excited babble in the chatbox:
‹Lucky› bed is done and it looks WONDERFUL
‹Lucky› first time in months I've made my bed, or slept on a mattress that wasn't SLOPING
‹Lucky› something had gone wrong with the slats and I hadn't been able to get to it to fix it because of the mess
‹Lucky› lunch now!
Lucky's ROCKIN' on Sunday!
It's not fair, you get to accomplish things 5-6 hours before the rest of us every day!
Looks like you're off to a good start!
We have something in common -- I've been sleeping on a couch for months, because my bed was piled up with boxes and bags of files and papers. Last night I cleaned it all up, and my bed looks fantastic! Doesn't it feel nice to see a made-up bed? :)
and, ummmm, GO RATS!
Super WOW
hope-faith
AWESOME, huma! I'm
AWESOME, huma!
I'm really, REALLY happy to hear this :)
(Oh, and yes, I get to achieve things before you're up, but then I have to knock off for the night while you still have another 5-6 hours to do things in! :) )
WOW Lucky
Keep Going
hope-faith
Thanks Hope!!
Thanks Hope!!
Lucky progress check 2 14.3.10
Sweeping and hoovering the carpet took well over AN HOUR! You know how a floor gets when a room's been messy for a year or more - then add a load of rat bedding to that... It still doesn't look perfect, but in view of how much I've got to do today, it'll do :)
More detailed plan for the rest of the day below, with time estimates:
Shred paper for rat cage
Clean rat cage
Hoover
Clean windowsill and inside drawers - 20m
Bed - 20m
Sort stuff downstairs - books/papers in living room, objects in dining room, clothes in kitchen - 30m
Get stuff out of storage and wardrobe and sort likewise - 1h
Books/papers - divide into 'keep out', 'throw away', 'cupboard', and 'attic' - 1h
Clothes - ditto - 1h
Objects - ditto - 1h
Attic stuff to attic - 30m
Bin rubbish - 5m
Hoover downstairs - 15m
That's 6 hours of work and it's 1pm now, so allowing for breaks and things taking longer than expected, I actually have a decent chance of finishing by 8. And I don't think the world will end if it takes me till 9 :)
Phew, feel better for having made this plan!
Lucky progress check 1 14.3.10
I DID THE RAT CAGE!
Shred paper for rat cage
Clean rat cage
Hoover
Clean windowsill and inside drawers
Bed
Get stuff out of storage and deal with it
Deal with everything downstairs
I'm so happy about this - my rats have been living in squalor along with me, and rat guilt is my WORST kind of procrastination guilt - because they depend on me absolutely and there's no way I can explain to them. Watching them running around happily exploring their new home and vast piles of new bedding is SO wonderful.
Now to attack the room with a dustpan and brush, and then I'm going to spoil my rats' 'woo hoo' moment by bringing in that noisy hoover... :)
Happy Rats
hope-faith
Lucky Sunday morning
I'm up, done prayer time and breakfast and off to start on the room project! I forgot a stage when I was making my list yesterday - see if I can get the weirdly sloped mattress I've been sleeping on for MONTHS to lie flat, and make the bed. So..
Shred paper for rat cage
Clean rat cage
Hoover
Clean windowsill and inside drawers
Bed
Get stuff out of storage and deal with it
Deal with everything downstairs
First step is to find the newspapers I excavated from my room yesterday - off I go!
Wishing everyone a stunningly awesome day!
Getting rid of stuff
Hi. If you want to get rid of stuff you could try googling Freecycle. This is where you advertise your stuff and local people come round and pick it up for you. Saves on removal costs and recycles stuff.
Thanks Helen!
Thanks Helen!
Sunday Madness
Update weekend list of things to accomplish
To Do List
hope-faith
Go get 'em hope-faith! :)
You were an inspiration to me on Sunday!
Let's all push each other on Sunday too! Best of luck! I'll be up a little late, due to my late work tonight, but I'll see you at about 1130-ish or so EST.
You push
You push I will pull and we will get it done
hope-faith
Here's why this site is great
I expected to have a great day. It has not been so far. Before I found PA, I probably would be completely defeated in this situation.
It's 7pm and I still have a ton to do. But I have strength thanks to the posting and encouragement of my new friends here at PA. I'm not giving up. I'm trying to forge ahead and experience the same joy you others are today, by accomplishing most of what is on my list.
You're all many miles away from me, but I feel as if you are in my room giving me a hug and a "you can do it". Thank you so much.
(I'm a guy - my eyelashes are NOT that long! just so you know...)
I promise to help you all when I can.
Spectacalicious night!!!
As I said in my March Challenge thread, I had a SUPER-productive night! Thank you to my friends for cheering me on! You rock!
Let's keep it rolling on Sunday! Together, we can do great things!
This comment and the one
This comment and the one before it give me SO much joy - thank you!
And just so you know, you make us feel the same way... :)
Huma you are doing good
Keep going you can do this, even when you feel like you are not your really are. In a year you will look back and will not belive how much you have changed. It will come. Just the fact that you are comming back every day is victory. Your daily star rating and post to Lucky about working together this weekend is what inspired me to create this post for the weekend so a super big
goes out to you.
Remember we are in this together. We will face challanges and road blocks, fall of the wagon get back on try again but it will work.
hope-faith
Lucky off to bed...
I've completed my tasklist for today! Finished at 11.15 -I did say I was going to stay up until 12 and do something fun after all that, but I am SHATTERED so my definition of fun is going to be reading in bed!
- to all of you, and to my awesome HP, who I'm sure won't mind being thanked with wagging dog art...:D
Lucky in need...
Lucky in need work in that area as well. I just do not know how to put aside work, task etc and have fun. I am so wrapped up in getting over my procrastination I do not know how to have fun. But I did have fun working on this post today. As Huma said we are miles apart yet we are not.
Great working with you today and hope to see you tomorrow.
So until tomorrow
hope-faith
(((Hope))) Looking at
(((Hope)))
Looking at this thread today, it seems to me you have a gift for making work fun.
Maybe that's what you need to focus on for now, and having fun in non-work-related ways will come.
Lucky DID IT!
I've cleared out my bedroom and the last load of laundry is in the wash! Finished at 5.45, over 2 hours earlier than planned :) I CANNOT BELIEVE I JUST DID THAT, PEOPLE. Much, MUCH gratitude to my HP and to all of you -
The font is actually quite appropriate, as I spent the whole 5+ hours listening to my 'Cheerful Disney Work Songs' playlist - my poor rats!!
I cannot believe how much stuff I have. Getting it back into my room in a coherent order tomorrow is going to be epic. The stuff in storage in the cupboards is going to have to come out whether I like it or not, just to make room. This will take planning!
I've done tomorrow's tasklist and reckon I have about the same amount of non-room-tidying tasks tomorrow as I did today (minus the writing). So I'm going to allow 1h in the morning for check-in/praying/breakfast, and 4h in the evening for non-tidying tasks.
On Monday I need to be at work an hour early, so up by 6, so in bed at 11 on Sunday night.
So if I get up at 8 tomorrow I have from 9am to 7pm (with breaks!) to work on my room. That's 10 hours, which should be plenty.
So the room-tidy plan for tomorrow looks something like this:
Shred paper for rat cage - 20m
Clean rat cage - 40m
Hoover - given the state of it 30m
Clean windowsill and inside drawers - 30m
Get stuff out of storage and deal with it - 2h
Deal with everything downstairs - 6h
Those are really rough time estimates and I will need breaks, but it's that sort of thing. And it doesn't have to be perfect!
One thing I am wishing is that I'd grouped the different types of stuff when I brought them downstairs - I've just got them in a mishmash. I might sort them before taking them back up. I should also remember that I have attic space!
Anyway, that was a very planning-heavy post but the long and the short of it is:
Well done
I am jumping up and down Cheering you from the sidelines.
Aw, thank you!!
Aw, thank you!!
YAY for more progress
Great job Lucky you did it and with time to spare. Make sure you spend some of the extra time on yourself because you deserve it.
hope-faith
Oh Hope, thank you! I love
Oh Hope, thank you! I love stars :)
I'm going to get my tasklist done, teeth brushed etc. and then spend all the time between then and midnight just chilling :)