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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
- Let The Show Begin
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Got confused - I don't have
Got confused - I don't have to be to work early tomorrow so that gives me an extra hour of working/chilling time :)
Also been thinking, if I manage this + the big proofreading task I have on Monday, I'm pretty much going to give myself a day off on Tuesday. Do my job, have my prayer time, and that's it. (I wonder if I can manage that!)
Great job Lucky!!!!
I knew you could do it!!!
Thanks, huma!
Thanks, huma! :)
Lucky progress check 1 13.3.10
Hope and huma, I'm loving your posts! :D
I'm doing really well! 2/3 done with clearing my room and at this rate, I'm expecting to have it cleared well before 8. Thanks to everyone for the awesome support!
Also, can't believe I only just found THIS:
YAY for Progress
Super job on the progress on your room
hope-faith
H-F Progress Check 2 3-13-10
Look at all the progress keep working
Just getting started this am I will start with my am routine. Here I go. JUST DO IT
First four items
3/12/10 8:45 Done
Next two itmes are 8:30 Done
AM Routine is Done
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Just hit...
I just hit 100% on am stuff for the day. I need to adjust my daily routines.
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H-F Progress Check 5 8:00pm on the 13th
PM routine is almost done
Back to my am task
Check back in a bit and see what I will plan next.
This will will be my last leg of progress for today at least from my routine, I have a few other items I would like to try and accomplish.
hope-faith
H-F Progress Check 3
It has been a good day so far. AM routine is done now I am ready to move on to my am task. My Plan I have 20 min until I have to get ready to take my Son to help sell tickets with his Boy Scout troop. So I will work on getting pics moved and saved for 20 min.
CD's are done YAY me and I have completed todays task for CD's as well as 10 mins off of my 20 extra mins that I wanted to work on it over the weekend.
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H-F Progress Check 4
K back from selling Boy Scout Fundrasing Tickets. So for the next 2 hours I am going to work on some of the am task (not routine items they are done
) Specificaly
All is done next I am moving into PM routine supper has been started
But first I have to run to store and buy worms for DS and nephew so they can go fishing.
hope-faith
Great job Hope!!!
Keep going -- you're inspiring me!! :-)
Thanks
You inspire me as well.
hope-faith
Hope, (She's being
Hope,
(She's being modest, people - that CD task was a 3-week epic! I wish I'd been in the chatbox to offer congratulations in person - I was on a roll and trying not to get distracted by beeps, but THOSE beeps I should have listened to! :)
)
Thanks
Ok that you did not see it in chat until I was gone because now I can look at the wonderful post all weekend and get motivation.
Thanks for the encouragment.
hope-faith
We can do this!!!!
1 hr web work in AMpost officecar paymentlaundrydishes1 hour office sort by 4pm1 hr office sort by 7pm1 hour office sort by 10pmclean downstairs bathchick ci/ tks hope for an awesome starter
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Lucky BEDROOM PLAN!
So this is the state of my tasklist for today. I've put time estimates by the undone tasks, which I'll explain in a minute.
Up by 8
!!!
Check in
Prayer/bible reading time - remember to pray for C, E & L & prayer diary
Prayer & visualisation over my tasklist
Creative writing time 9-11
To shop - 2 60w screw bulbs, floss - 20m
Change bulbs - 5m
Empty all bins - 10m
Start room tidy
D birthday - phone! - 45m
Charge phone
Email/facebook/lj/forum - 1h
Check/fill bird feeder -2m
Exercise - 15m
Vitamins - 1m
Clear kitchen - 15m
Tomorrow's list - 10m
Wash face/brush teeth - floss - clean contacts properly - 10m
Email report - 5m
Check in - 2m
BED straight after check in!
(The three smileys for creative writing are because I'm freaking overjoyed that I did that. I want to be a professional writer, and for a procrastinator, that's quite the career ambition. But I'm really getting the feeling lately that my HP wants me to do it and will make it possible.)
Now then, I need to make a detailed plan for tidying my bedroom. It's just gone 12 noon now, and by my estimate, I have about 3 hours of other tasks to do. I'll call it 4h because things tend to take 30% longer than predicted!
Assuming I want to be in bed by midnight, I'll say that from now until 8pm is potential tidying-time, and then I need to start on my other tasks. (I'll do the shopping first and then phone D, as those are the only things I can't do in the middle of the night!)
My first task is to categorise everything. So I'm going to take upstairs:
My computer, so I can stay connected to you lot :) and listen to music
Bin bags
I'm going to put on the bed:
A box for books
A bin bag for rubbish
A bag for clean clothes
A bag for dirty clothes
A bag/box for objects
My backlog file for papers
As things get full, I'm going to move them downstairs out of the way and replace with empty containers.
My aim for today is to get all the mess downstairs and do the laundry.
Tomorrow, I'll aim to:
Clean the rat cage and put in shredded newspaper instead of the current bedding that gets all over my floor
Hoover and clean the room (including skanky insides of drawers)
Put all the stuff back in a coherent fashion!
There'll still be a lot of stuff in cupboards and boxes that I've never unpacked since moving a year and a half ago. I'm not going to try to get to that this weekend - if I do then great, but just getting what's all over the floor in order would be fantastic for now.
Lucky plan for the weekend
THANK YOU, Hope, for this awesome thread! Really put a smile on my face when I woke up this morning. :)
As a Mary Poppins freak, I'm going to have to add my favourite motivational quotes...
'In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun.'
'"It all depends."
"What on, Mary Poppins?"
"On you."'
'Anything can happen... if you let it!'
My first challenge for the weekend is to spend 9 to 11am working on my creative writing. It's nearly 9am now, so I'll be back after that to make a plan for the other main event of the weekend... TIDYING MY BEDROOM! (Perhaps that's why Mary Poppins is on my mind right now... ;) )
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Hope-Faith Plan For The Weekend
Hi all please feel free to post your weekend plans here visit often and post your accomplishments as well as provide support to all who are here trying to make the most out of their weekend time. At the end of the weekend we can all reflect back on our successful weekend. Do not forget that you can use chat as well as daily CI's. Lets make it fun use graphics, post often.
The least productive part of my week is my weekends. Granted I do alot with my children but I do not move forward on my "other stuff". Part of the problem is that when I get to the weekend I have so many things running through my mind that I need to do that I will not commit to doing anything because I can not do it all. As I reflected on my week and my accomplishments with my routines a wonderful plan for the weekend transpired. So here it goes.
Usually at the end of the day if I have task that I have planned to accomplish and did not I just mark them off as not done and move on the next day. (I do not have but so many hours in my day) So this weekend I am going to go back through my weekly task and make a list of all that I did not accomplish and that is what I am going to work on this weekend. So here is my list for the weekend.
Weekend commitment.
Well there is my list of things I am going to work towards accomplishing this weekend.
Update to Weekend Madness List
Do for the day it has been a very successful day. Thanks to all the encouragment and support.
hope-faith
Hope, you've been fantastic
Hope, you've been fantastic today (er, yesterday now!) I'm in awe of how much you've managed to achieve while seemingly cheering everyone else on every second!
ROUND OF APPLAUSE!
I love that you've put
I love that you've put 'Bless my home'.
Wait, did you say goats? :)
Yes Goats
DS and DD show a goat in the annual livestock show.
Much work them there goats.
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Helen's plan
I am sort of not sure if this is the right place for this post as I am not going for a successful full-on busy weekend. Today even posting is a start. I will cheer you all on though! You give me hope that recovery is possible.
I am still not 100% well, (headache, stomach problems, sore throat, tired and general malaise). I did a few things yesterday and felt good about that. I started to feel ill again so I stopped and I have woken up today feeling drained and demotivated.
I know my motivation varies with my energy levels and my energy levels vary with my health. I will make a doctors appointment on Monday, (made a note) as my problem has been hanging around for too long and I feel I might need some extra help.
So my list is about looking after myself today. Actually if I do everything on my list I think I could call the day successful as I often don't look after myself properly.
Brought a hypnosis MP3 about procrastination.
Brought a book about accessing my strongest self
More washing up (at least two bowls )
Breakfast
Defrost bread
Cook some lunch (Eggs on toast)
Bath
Clean teeth
Read 1 chapter of Getting Things Done
DVD
Make a study plan
Read 1 chapter Marketing for Dummies
Sleep
Cheer everyone here on to great heights
Dinner (Stir Fry).
P.S. I found a free paraliminal download about Peak Performance
http://www.stevepavlina.com/blog/2009/04/free-paraliminal-download/
Thank you for joining us!
Thank you for joining us! (Helen) I know just posting is an achievement sometimes!! Especially when you're not well - I do hope you feel better soon.
I'm really happy to see you making a list that's all about looking after yourself. So many of us don't think we deserve to or have time to, but so much procrastination is CAUSED by self-neglect, malnutrition, exhaustion, boredom and the habit of thinking you're worthless. It's easy to think that every time you fail you need to beat yourself harder, but actually we need more carrot and less stick :) and sometimes we even need the carrot BEFORE we do anything rather than after!
Yeah, just really happy whenever I see someone on here showing compassion to themselves. :)
And of course I particularly approve of this line:
'Cheer everyone here on to great heights'
:D Thank you! Cheering you on too! :D
H-F Progress Check 1 Fri 10:00
Completed sorting and organizing 20 desk items.
Friday pm routine is in progress Done
Next 3 task are 10 mins each
It is getting a bit late so I will stop for the night and pick back up in the am.
hope-faith
WELL DONE, HOPE! (Gotta
WELL DONE, HOPE!
(Gotta love the dancing banana icon...)