Tuesday, August 2, 2011

- forward T e-mail to N *done

- email N *done

- shower *done

- email T *done

- lunch *done

- write script*partly done

- find D items

- write e-mail addressed to A

- edit method

Tomorrow: photocopy M article, pick up books, fix intro, gym, read ch1 st.

More beautiful flowers--thanks, again, Rosebud!

Yesterday didn't go as well as I had hoped. I think I may have put too many things on my to-do list. Can I improve upon that, today?

Today:

To cultivate recovery motivation, I will:

• Post this at Procrastinators Anonymous
• Post at SR
• Check my balance mindmap (wip)

To improve my personal integrity and deal with personal life logistics, I will:

•  Pay rent!
• Do at least 4.5 hours of job work, including the following tasks:
  •  Work with team members to create release notes
  • Make progress toward filing a bug on one of the big categories of leftovers
• Load and run dishwasher (wip)
• Cook rice and artichokes
• Put at least 10 minutes toward washing up stuff in kitchen sink
• Make visible progress toward getting kitchen counters into reasonable order

To maintain or improve my physical and emotional health, I will:

• Use the Balancer
• Do at least 15 minutes of Qi Gong
• Choose between refraining from reading after 22:00, and doing some journaling about why I've been reading so much, as a positive step towards getting to bed at a more reasonable hour (preferably before midnight)
  

To improve my overall time use, I will:

• Postpone recreational computer & internet use and recreational print reading until after at least 4.5 hours of job work and at least 10 minutes of work on kitchen sink stuff (not doing well on this one)
• Allow the computer to shut itself off at 22:00, if it's on at that time

For EXTRA CREDIT, I may also be glad to:

• Buy vegetables for next batch of soup
• Review balance mind-map notes for info about ways I might motivate myself to go to bed earlier
• Do a Burns Mood Log exercise or another recovery exercise
• Make progress on one or more of the other job work items that are due this week:
  • Order new hardware, get ETA, and inform manager
  • List next round of features on designated wiki
• Further catch up my cell phone calendar
• Research &/or sign up for new neighborhood email list
• Research/think re R's Elements offer
• Watch part of a DVD

Good luck with your day, everyone!

I had a very unproductive long weekend and am checking in now after wasting the entire morning.

Yesterday I worked on a volunteer newsletter that was way way overdue and did not make as much progress as I would have liked. Instead of saying I will do it all in 4 or 5 hours or so, I should break it down into chunks and assign tasks to the time chunks. So her it is:

noon to 1:30 pm - Newsletter - Write cold calling article

1:30 pm - 2:00 pm - lunch, call Dr, campaign office, and MB 

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm - bank and errands

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm - Newsletter - Revise conference article

4:00 pm - 5:00 pm - Newsletter - Revise column

5:00 pm - 6:00 pm - travel time to appointment

6:30 pm - reception or campaign

9:30 pm - arrive home and wash load of dishes

10:00 pm - 11:00 - Newsletter - Test links and HTML coding 

Show up and suit up (done)

Cannot believe it is August already!!! I just sent my son's books back for his cyber school But it is done now. Car in for inspection, one day late, but is in now, chipping away at things with book end buddies. Forgot how much time and energy it takes to drive son 2 round trips to his summer job. I sm not where I want to be but I am better than I was. Preogress not perfection. Thanks for being here.

Today is a meeting-filled day!

Have lab mtg 10-12

And mtg about EA's paper 1-2

And  mtg about my own research 3-3:30

And ethics training 5:30-7:30

Whew!

For the mtg about EA"s paper, I need to get methods section written.
For mtg about my own research, I'm not going to be super-prepared, but I would like to do some reading about RXRs/RARs/Rdh10s.

And I want to add mtgs to claendar and finish a schedule for the week. 

Thanks for the flowers which give a bright start to the day

Done:
Up prayed and reflected
Checked emails and later post
Exercise walk completed
Tidied table and put stuff back where it should be
Put clean dry clothes away
Posted important letter

Todo:
x Bath, trim beard, wash hair
x Psychology personal work
Repack sheets and find receipt and correspondence
Write journal
Wash up and tidy up in kitchen
Prepare information for meeting with landlords tomorrow
Rest - it is very hot and humid