Tuesday, 19 April 2011

MY BASICS:

1.  EXERCISE. Exercise at 6 am during week / 7 am weekends / if can't
meet scheduled times, schedule other times.  [DONE Did 45 minutes run];

HAD AN OFF DAY - DIDN'T KEEP TO MY PLAN 

2.  1st 30 MIN OF DAY. Spend first 30 min of day on one of my top 6 tasks (before or just after am exercise);[Did NOT do - ]

3.  6 MIT.  Review or write down my 6 most important tasks Did NOT do

4.  CALENDAR. Check calendar AM (mine) (kids) / send email or text reminders if needed / add to master case list DONE - DONE 

4.a.  PREPARE FOR NEXT DAY. Check calendar PM / send email or text reminders if needed / add tasks to master case list;

5.  CONTROL FLOW OF DAY. Check voicemail & return calls at scheduled times: 6 am / 9:30 am / 11:30 am / 4:30 pm / 7:30 pm /write down calls or tasks in master list Did NOT do

6.  USE TIMER AND TRACK TIME DURING DAY.  IF NEEDED CHECK IN HOURLY AT PA. Check in at PA at 5 am / 6am / 7 am / 8 am / 9
am / 10 am / 11 am / 12 pm / 1 pm /  2 pm / 3 pm / 4 pm /  5 pm / 6 pm /
7 pm / 8 pm / 9 pm / 10 pm  Did NOT do

7. TIMESHEET/IN BOX.  Timesheet for day before & empty email in box

8.  PA BASICS Checking in; support calls(1x); affirmations; gratitudes; reading; positive recording 15-20 min; journal (mental mind bank)

9. MASTER CASE LIST.  Review and add tasks to master case list at end of day. Do top 6 list for next day

10. LIMIT INTERNET TO 5 MIN CHECKINS (except PA/certain worksites) from 6 am to 8 pm week / 7 am to 7 pm weekends
Did NOT do

11.  1 HOUR BILLING [TWO 30 MIN INCREMENTS] DAILY - 6 week goal. If I
don't meet that goal . . . $120 goes to a hated charity from the www.stickk.com website tool.
Did NOT do

Affirmations (said aloud as well):

I choose to show up and start my top 6 tasks, 15
to 30 minutes at a time. I complete my top 6 tasks -- in 15 to 30 minute
periods. If I feel any pain or discomfort while working on these tasks,
I embrace the pain or feeling the pain while I do these tasks.

I know that if I have that old feeling of pain or
anxiety while I am working on my top 6  tasks- I will embrace and love
that pain since it means that I am doing something important.

And remember . . . if I am feeling
resistance or "shame" or "screwed up" or if I procrastinated at
something lately, it's probably just the Dynamics of Human Change doing
its checks & balances . . . I am going to keep going!

tracy-la

I got up at 7:20, good start, but then I wasted four hours online. Meditating helped me to break that chain. All the things from yesterday are still mine to do today.

12 pm get lunch

1 pm clean inside fridge and freezer, clean stove top

2 pm  wash up

2:30 put music in order, practice

4:30 dinner

5:15 leave for bus stop

7 pm - 9 pm choral practice

9 - 9:30 come home (I get a lift)

9:30 pm get ready for bed, meditate

10 pm go to bed

OK, today I'm having a hard time getting started.

For today, I need to take care of a whole bunch of church stuff (reminder emails for Maundy Thurs, email JK about easter breakfast, call about Easter Lilies (maybe need to contact someone first to make sure I have the right number), figure out where to get small flowers, email FWC about baby stuff, email PR).

I definitely need to embed samples, check on expts, email MK, and tag M.

Finally, I have a meeting with my adviser, so I need to:
*Make proposed project priority list
*Put together D project summary

And I want to come up with a plan for getting less shrunken sections. (started)

11:01 AM: Got here early, went to an optional educational activity (I always used to miss arriving late), had breakfast, and then...ground to a halt. Facing one of my ingrained maladaptive patterns: how I handle a day that looks overall pretty light. Ironically, light days are at least as likely to make me anxious and make me want to procrastinate as heavy ones. The day stretches out before me like an open road, and focusing on the work I don't really want to do right now is hard. But if I try to work on something else, I feel guilty. So I try to do nothing...or at least nothing productive. Getting close to the end of tasks always causes me to slow down, in part because i worry what I will do afterwards. Too much worrying. Alright, I will have to try to plow through this.

Goal 1: Get 3 new case reports looked at by lunch time and make decisions as to whether additional info is needed or if the assessment can be finished today.

Goal 2: Spend 1 hour trying to clean up older cases with pending details, another area of weakness. Once the bulk of the work is done, it becomes hard for me to muster the will to complete little followup tasks.

Goal 3: Spend 1 hour on a very long case that needs to be finished this week before I travel (i.e., between today and the end of work Thursday).

Goal 4: Spend 1 hour on another case from last week that promisses to be very long. I need to chip away at it.  

Goal 5: Spend some time on self-development work.

Goal 6: Leave work no later than 7:30 PM. Looking at what needs to be done, there is no real reason I can't get all of this done if I don't put it off any further. There may be unexpected surprises along the way, but I will try to deal with those when they come.

Boss gave me the day off since I worked so many hours over the weekend.   I don't often ask for a day off but I was truly exhausted.   I slept until 9 am and I feel much better today.   It's gorgeous outside and I'm going to take a walk in the park and then go to the Social Security Administration and hopefully I will finally get my name changed to my married name.  I've been procrastinating on this for about 30 years.

   Well, it's actually only been about 3 years since I realized I had to change it.   I never planned on doing it at all, I was just going to leave it in my maiden name but the gov't won't let you do that any more.   I gathered all the doc they asked for and spent the day in the SSA office a couple of years ago only to have them tell me I needed another piece of documentation.    So, two years later I finally got that doc and I'm headed down there today.   If they tell me again that I don't have the right doc you may see me on the news tonight.  

Although this is a relaxed day, I am going to make a todo list/schedule and get started!  I do not want to waste this beautiful day sitting in front of the computer.  

Jo 

Self-improvement is the name of the game, and your primary objective is to strengthen yourself, not to destroy an opponent. Maxwell Maltz

Done:
Woke early and worked to complete my letters etc. and they are now done at 2.00pm - done means letters posted, reciepts for postage filled and everything filed and put away - phew. I have been on a work bender to get this finished over the last few days and now
Dealt with emails and post

Todo:
Prayer and reflection which I missed first thing
Take it easy - my mind is still buzzing
Tidy up a bit
Reflect on what is next - which is the rest of my life

Happy to be here - here is this fellowship, and this world

Love and Peace

Rexroth

I feel sad today and am a little tempted to hide out and not do anything. But I haven't taken that route in a long time, and I don't plan to today. A long, difficult and unpleasant rewrite on today's task list may explain some of my blue mood. I feel good about getting taxes done yesterday and am slightly hopeful about my financial situation. l am also hopeful about tomorrow's coaching session. It will be interesting to work one-on-one with somebody who specializes in helping people reach their goals in a real-world, practical manner. I suspect it will be somewhat like having a 12-step sponsor without the spirituality. With all due respect to devout 12-steppers, I never heard of anybody's higher power, say, preparing a tax return. When it comes down to it, it's pretty much all on me, and how hard and smart I work. Of course, I have to be lucky enough to avoid getting hit by a bus, but I think looking both ways before crossing the street is going to be more effective there than prayer. But that's just me. On to it...

Prep

• Get up at 6 (6:45) 
• Make bed
• Healthy breakfast
  
• Coffee, paper
• Check-ins
• Exercise
• Sightreading practice

Morning

• Rewrite cruise
• File cruise rewrite
• Deliver Meals on Wheels

Afternoon

• Healthy lunch
• Update Quicken
• Query - BN
• Send 5 music emails
• Email TH re:kerrville
• Draft Monroe piece
• Do coaching paperwork
• Outline franchise
• Draft franchise
• Proof franchise
• File franchise
• Send franchise f/c

I got the (justifiably) dreaded cruise article rewrite done by working on it all day until 6 p.m., but nothing from the afternoon list. A couple of the items on there have to be done before tomorrow, so I suppose I'll work on them tonight.  But for now I"m going to go watch my son practice soccer and try to mellow out some. 

Evening

• Healthy dinner
• Soccer practice w/B
• Move camping gear to front of garage
• Work on campout menu
• Read, relax
• Bed by 10:30 or so

Thanks, movingalong!

- email TO

- talk to TO

- study

- exercise

- CT status report

- auditing

- publish USP

- email LR about referral

- call TH