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.
Saturday April 10 2010
'I have confidence in confidence alone...'
I thought this was a good run-on from my threadstarter the other day... especially as Ziva loves 'The Sound of Music' :)
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huma CI
email quiz questions"It is never too late to be who you might have been" - George Eliot
"Fall seven times. Stand up eight." - Japanese proverb
Vic 4/10
My reliable confidence comes when I look up. My computer gave me problems, so now, off to the weekend party.
e's Saturday april 10
I woke up this morning after having gotten caught up in reading trash last night late and this morning HP literally blew open my door so I had to get out of bed and then had no excuse not to meet my sponsor and get to meetings. So, despite the fact that there are things I would rather not do, it has been an on task beginning. Today really needs to be about taxes. The house can wait if I only work on receipts, mail, and computer stuff. However, I want some sort of mild background entertainment going on so I feel less stressed about it. Music or reruns on television would be good.
beginning now and heading to the chatbox
best, e
"There are two different kinds of people in this world: those who finish what they start, and"
---Brad Ramsey
Hope-Faith CI 10:55 4/10/10
Major struggles the last 2 days. My Spring Break is about over and I know what is happening to me but I seem powerless to make it stop. I had high expectations for accomplishments for the past week. I have not met all of thoses expectations. At this point I can not complete everything that I would have liked to accomplish over the past week so I am hitting a wall trying to figure away to be successfull. Therefore I am in checkmate and not making any moves because I know what ever moves I make will not give me the advantage to complete all of my task or accomplishments that I had set in my mind. Two things need to happen
Smiley Key
hope-faith
Hope-Faith CI 9:35
hope-faith
h-f solidarity
man, i could have written that. i relate soooo much to that, especially:
that sense of failure, that exact sense, as you describe it, of, no matter what i do at this point, i will never be able to meet my goal by the end of the day/week. That just paralyzes me. I like how you say it "checkmate." How vivid!
this has been a huge, huge issue for me.
The ideas here and my walk with god, by god's grace alone, has given me progress in this area. This comes from starting to view myself as being obedient to god, rather than accomplishing certain things. It's much easier for me to get 20% done, when i feel like i am obeying god by doing that 20%. Otherwise, getting 20% done, when there's no way to get to 100%, that's paralyzing for me. Checkmate.
Along with this, i feel like, more and more, i'm facing my failure and giving it a big bear hug. Yep, this is me. I had a week (an hour, all afternoon, whatever) and (for whatever reason) i will not be done with X. Yep. That is who i really am. It's uncomfortable for me to even write this, but i am working on accepting it. It's part of the "accept the things i cannot change." And to the second part of that wonderful prayer, "the courage to change the things i can"--well that's the remaining time. The time when i am assured to not "succeed", but i CAN keep walking the path.
that's why all those chick posts about taking the next steps are so inspiring to me.
anyway, gotta run. Thanks for sharing and being here. It helps me to recover long side you and our other friends here.
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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
Thanks Clement
Thanks Clement I agree with you 100% recovery along side you and our other friends here is so very helpful. It helps to know that others have the same struggles as me. It is crazy I know, because I would not wish my struggles on anyone else, as a matter of fact I would do anything possible to help keep others from having to endure and face my struggles. However on the other hand I have grown and developed so much over the last year it is unreal.
I am blessed to have the will and determination to push myself forward. My will and determination comes from God. Today as I started and was struggling to get going I read an e-mail that had this scripture in it
This really helped push me forward today. God always has awesome timing and knows how to get messages to me. Thanks for your inspiration today.
hope-faith
re: proverbs
o man!!
does that cut to the heart. That seem SO true and SO full of wisdom and deep insight. O, that i could be that diligent person. I pray that god will make it so in me.
Thanks for that! This is what i need to hear (on mon)
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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
kromer 10:15 CI
Had a nice lazy morning; now it's time to buckle down.
Lots to do today!
MITs:
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Grocery shopping*Diff EQs chpts 1 & 2 (made some progress on this)
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Finish injection expt*
Work 1.5 hrs on comm. mtg write-up
Pretty important tasks:
*Finish going over pset
*Finish analyzing biosensor data
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Exercise*Bug about HPLC and GSEA, order tennis shoes
Lower priority:
*Look into mission trip
*Work on biosensor inventory
As a break, I'm going to
get lunch w/ a friend, and maybe talk on the phone w/ another friend.OK, right now I'm going to make a shopping list and get to the store
Rexroth Check In
It is early afternoon. I didn't sleep well writing letters in my head and woke feeling not good emotionally. Feeling muddled so:
Done:
Up and checked emails
Some time on travel sites looking at places I can't go yet
Opened mail
Put dates in diary
Todo:
Read needs and wants to remind myself of what is important to me
Plan next week
Check papers for official appointment tomorrow
File papers that are all over table
Put hospital papers away with note of possible actions to take - I need quiet and possibly support and advice as to what to do next
Write journal
Craft work
Finish reading craft journal and file it
Wash up clean up tidy up
Personal care
That will do for now. It is a bright sunny day. I have time, money and only minor health problems so I could feel a bit happier if I tried and I am.
Regards Rexroth
Rexroth Update
Done:
Most of above
Cleaned the kitchen floor
Todo:
Supper
Bath, wash hair and personal care
Important email I've been putting off
I'm beginning to feel better about myself and more relaxed and less confused.
Regards Rexroth
Rexroth Check Out
Done above
Todo - go to bed and go to sleep
Night Everyone
Rexroth
confidence
I love Sound of Music.
Anyway... today I had a big social event to attend but it is cancelled due to weather. So I'm going to do today what I'd planned to do tomorrow. Then tomorrow I can re-evaluate and see if I need to finish anything up.
The first part of last week was productive but I procrastinated a little on Thursday and a lot on Friday. I'm confident that today I'll shape up.
8-8:30
water plants 8:15- DONE
breakfast/coffee 8:30 -DONE
8:30 - 10:00
clean house, including sweeping, dusting, vacuuming 11:30 DONE
cook 10:00 DONE
UPDATE: I got caught up doing stupid procrastination stuff online and lost about an hour but then got back on top of things and cooked for the weekend. Now I'm behind but motivated.
10:00 - 10:30
spray fence weeds and pull weeds from small beds 1:15 - DONE
UPDATE - moving steadily, but much slower than I expected.
10:30 - 11:30
scrape paint on patio (SKIP FOR TOMORROW)
11:30 - 12:30
exercise routine 3:30 - DONE
12:30 - 2:00
lunch 2:15 DONE
shower 2:15 DONE
break, catch up on anything that took longer than planned (going to exercise)
2:00 - 4:00
minor org stuff (enter birthdays and doc appointments and pay bills) 6:45 DONE
finish filing on insurance (the big dreaded task) 4:45- DONE
email D and J - 6 PM DONE
call R about taxes status - 6 PM DONE
4:00 - PM
call dad 6:45 DONE
hang out with G and L
Busy day. I feel good
Busy day. I feel good about all I got done. Did everything but one task and only wasted about an hour and a half. It was a fun, pretty day. Now I'm off to chill out for the evening with G and L. I need to make a list for tomorrow so that tomorrow is as good as today. I really think this website helped this week because I was starting to slip back into procrastination habits yesterday but today I got up and got things done.
Lucky CI
I'm trying to give myself shorter tasklists but this feels SO much too short...*add, add*
Up by 6.30
Check in
Prayer time on sacredspace.ie
Prayer & visualisation over tasklist
Writing
Tidy room
Clean downstairs
Carpets upstairs
Chemist
Shopping
Rat cage
Shower
Laundry
Email/facebook/lj/forum - inc email backlog
Review past undone tasks and make a plan for doing them
Bird feeder
Vitamins
Clear kitchen
Tomorrow's list
Wash face/brush teeth - floss - clean contacts properly
Email report
Check in
Bed straight after check in!