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.

Thursday 13th May

Vic 5/13

Wow, Freaky looking cat in starter!! Really gets the ole imagination stirred up, esp after the eyes stop blinking!!

 Show up (done) work fo to chatbox and unfin b. link.

In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
Carl Jung

Kitty 8:23 CI

Today's reminder:  Watch for time bingeing

Morning prayers
Wake up in time for 7:30 Central phone meeting

Work out/Stretch
Shower/eat snack

10:30 Central CI phone meeting 

Make dentist appt (emailed, now waiting for callback)
Call JW
Lunch
Study one lesson of UR course and complete online quiz

Reassess all undone tasks and make realistic plan for rest of day/tomorrow

2:30 Central CI phone meeting

Gratitude journal

 

OK, off to gym

Small victories:  Got up early for phone meeting, ventured into the outside world, worked out for first time in 2 months
Small victories part 2:  Took nap after big burst of activity, but did get up and got back to doing things instead of letting myself slide for rest of day

Rexroth Check In

Thanks Helen for the mystic cat and starting today's thread

Done:
Up prayer reflection and plan
Bath wash hair and trim beard - this is a sign of recovery as I smarten myself up to face the outside world
Check emails
Look at email which I need to work on
Opened post

Todo:
Make appointment with solicitor if he phones
Wash up and clean up in kitchen
Out to buy bread and collect medication
Look at email and email queries on it
Write journal
File post

Regards Rexroth

kromer 8:40 CI

OK, lots to do today.

MITs:
*Email about psets, deacons
*Prep for exam (mostly done w/ this)
*Plan for mRNA-seq, place orders (have made good progress on this)
*Finish EA's project
*genotype (have done more than half of this)
*Pack
*Call MT

Scheduled: Class 1-2:30, mtg 2:30-3:30ish, harambee 6-8ish

Other tasks:
*Organize closet
*Plan for scheduling/prep
*Email LL
*Ask about Sohlh2

OK, right now I'm going to do the planning for mRNA-seq

Journey 8 am

 Happy Thursday!   I am working from home again today thanks to the sore foot.   It is definitely getting better but I am still not up to going to the gym.   I am planning to swim Saturday; that should be ok.   Maybe by Monday I'll be up to riding the bike or something that's easy on the foot.   You know it feels like a vacation, sleeping until 6 or 7 every morning and working in my pjs all day.   I'm getting a lot of work done because anything else I want to do requres standing up and/or walking lol.   But I'm getting restless, I'm ready to get back to the gym. 

Anyway, I just checked email and calendar and now I'm going to get dressed and make my todo list for the day. 

wave

Jo

"Bless the present. Trust yourself. Expect the best." --Steve Nobel

stefinle ci

  • Prayer and Meditation
  • Eat
  • PA phone bridge
  • Shower
  • Brush Teeth
  • Get dressed
  • Paper written
  • Study for final
  • Drive to school
  • Take final
  • Work
  • Home
  • Gratitude List
  • Brush Teeth wash
  • Go to sleep

Completely blew this day so far did not take final or complete paper. Maybe the consequences will motivate me to act differently in the future. It's like I am throwing my whole life away and I don't seem to care. And if I don't care who should?

Being here means you do care about yourself

Procrastination robs us of our lives.  And if we didn't really care about it, we wouldn't feel guilty or angry at ourselves, and we wouldn't have come here.  We'd all go blindly through life without recognizing that we even have a problem, and without doing anything to fix it. 

I always heard the cliche that "recognizing you have a problem is the most important part of fixing it," and thought it was stupid.  I'm beginning to figure out what that really means now.  And you aren't the only person who cares about you--you have a lot of other people thinking about you and sending you prayers.  Keep trying.

Thanks Helen.

Thanks Helen.Smile

keep fighting!

Hi Stefinle,

 

sorry to hear that! i know this feeling too well. but you've only failed when you've given up. keep up the fight! you're not alone! for the time i'm here i've found that this last thing is what mattered most for me so far. like you said 'if i don't care who should' - but due to p. somehow i too often didn't seem to care when i should have, no matter what the consequences were. being here and out of this isolation really helps me to care about myself. i hope it'll do the same for you!

thanks tuffl

Tuffl,

 Thanks! That it is a big difference as you said"out of the isolation". That's big stuff for me. Last couple of weeks of coming to PA have made some difference.

late check in

thanks for starting the thread Helen! it's almost 12 but today's a holiday anyway. things do not seem to be as bad as yesterday! my supervisor answered almost immediately to my email and was very understanding! looks like it might not be as hard to get an extension as i thought it would. if i get it i'll be eternally grateful and will work my ass off to derserve it... well, i have to work my ass off anyway

 

things to do:

check in

finish 4,3,(2)  (2-8) (completed outline for 4)

check other PO & write an answer to supervisor !! (by 1)

cooking (by 3-5 7.30-9.30)

call JN !! (by 3 4.30)

call O (by 4.30)

call R (by 8 )

pack bag

prepare room for guests

text M

list for Friday:

 

check in around 8 am

based on outline write sec4

outline structure/ arg for 'h' in sec4 (write 2 paragraphs)

lunch at 12

outline structure/ arg for sec3 'A' (write 2 paragraphs)

rough outline for ch3, ch4, ch5

pick up guests

 

 

 

 

 

 

Helen's Checkin

I started off OK but as soon as I ate breakfast I got sleepy and demotivated. Now I am going to read for a couple of hours. I think I might calll this my day off as I will be busy over the weekend. I expect I will do some washing up and a have a study meeting this evening but otherwise I will take it easy today, return to the fight tomorrow.

 

 Oh I wrote to wrong topic

 Oh I wrote to wrong topic but the magic happened anyway :D

 

-Laundry, vacuuming, carpets DONE

-write M DONE

-Eat moderate BF & lunch DONE

-clean up the kitchen

 

-When I look into the future, it is so bright it burns my eyes ~ Oprah Windfrey