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.
Wednesday November 16, 2011
HAPPY WEDNESDAY, EVERYBODY!
HAPPY HUUMPHDAY!
Have a great proactive day!
Peace
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tracy-la check in 11-16-11 - daily readings
Reading #1
Rigidity is prevented most of the time as love and compassion mesh us into tolerant human beings.
—Kaethe S. Crawford
Looking outward with love, offering it freely to our friends and family, makes fluid, flowing, and fertile our existence. Each expression of love engenders more love, keeping tender our ties to one another, encouraging more ties.
The more flexible our lives, the more easily we'll be attracted to an unexpected opportunity. And flexibility is fostered by a loving posture. As we approach the world, so it greets us. We are not mere recipients of life's trials and tribulations. We find what our eyes are wanting to see. When our focus is rigid and narrow, so are our opportunities.
The Steps are leading us to be freer with our love, more tolerant in our expectations. The level of our compassion, fully felt and fully expressed, is the measure of our emotional health. Rigid attitudes, rigid behavior, rigid expectations of others recede as the level of our emotional health rises. Our approach to life changes and so do the results we meet.
I will love others. It's my only assignment in life, and it guarantees the security I crave.
From Each Day a New Beginning: Daily Meditations
READING #2
A wise man never loses anything if he have himself.
—Montaigne
As recovering men and women, perhaps we have learned more fully what it means to have ourselves because we know the extremes of losing ourselves. In the past we weren't honest with others, or ourselves; we didn't have our self-respect, and our compulsive actions and procrastination violated our values. In that condition, we were incapable of believing in ourselves or of standing up for ourselves. Some of us felt like phonies or nobodies.
In this program we pray for wisdom, and it comes to us as we take possession of ourselves. We develop a better match between our inner feelings and our outer actions. We become willing to make choices, and we are able to take a stand based on our personal feelings and hunches. The things we possess like our gadgets, our cars, or our audio equipment are just temporary. Our integrity, our selves, can never be taken from us.
Today, I am grateful for the growing feeling within that who I am and what I believe is acceptable to me.
From Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations
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wrkinprogrss: 11/16/11
Hi, All -- good wishes for your day!
done on Wednesday, 11/16/11:
x attend 8:00 meeting
x~ attend 9:00 meeting
x make and post this to-do list
x shower, etc.
x~ cook rice, artichokes, sausage (done but need to cool and put away)
x email check-in buddy
x do 10 minutes of DOE rsch
x attend 19:15 group therapy session
x 15+min. Qi Gong
x take bedtime prescription
in progress:
wip continue D gde rct wk: touch all open r2 feat.s
not done on Wednesday, 11/16/11:
submit timecard
unload/load dw
use balancer
aim for bed with lights out by midnight
Steppin Check In
What needs to be done:
Piano practice. That is all. Piano.Practice.Missed yesterday's check-in & 5:45 pm update
5:45 pm check-in (in red). 11 pm check-in in blue
Off for a run, will feel energized and ready to work once I get back. Great run!
Spent the day yesterday dealing with the government on getting proper ID for my new part-time job.
Provincial government gave me the runaround. Couldn't do anything unless they had an offer of employment. Spoke to future employer to ask for letter. Wouldn't give it to me as that's not their policy. Tried to contact the head office of future employer and couldn't find their telephone number (they make to difficult for people to contact them).
Decided to go the passport route and completed documentation, got my picture taken, went to visit a friend to have her sign the guarantor form. She almost blew it by putting the date in the wrong place and not printing clearly. Good God! It's an important government document. Can't you read it first and print clearly. it's not as if you're completing a ballot to enter a contest.
Tried to buy subway tokens with my credit card at the Rx and they told me they don't sell them. So saw a sign in a grocery store and bought them. Need to find password for my VISA. Finally went to passport office and waited for less than 1/2 hour. In pre-internet days I'd wait for 2 hours to get an application. They are going to rush my passport and I'll get it first thing tomorrow morning and then I can bring it to my potential employer.
Decided not to explore exploitive work from home scheme concocted by by cell phone porvider. I'd hate myself while I was doing the job. (This is outsourcing for my cell phone provider. After the problem I had contacting them about my voicemail on my landline - which was their fault, but they didn't tell anyone about it and my cell phone problems wasting about 4 hours over the past 2 days, I'm glad I'm not working for those jerks! )
Went to networking event last night. Came home to find a message on my land line that I couldn't access. Thought problem was me. Spent 45 minutes trying to solve it and found that the telephone company's voice mail was being serviced. Now it's up and running.
Work for day:
Have 1 hour napPhone cell phone provider for help in loading extra minutes(took over 2 hours the frustration took over and I couldn't check my voice mail)Review client workFinish newsletter and email notificationNeed one last review on newsletter, will take it on the subway to read and then as soon as I get home I'll check the HTML links. Then off it goes!Connect with person on LIkromer 10:50 CI
Really late start today (mostly b/c I needed to catch up on sleep, so that's OK)
I need to:
*Make a schedule for the week (working on this now)
*CM, cf
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Finish lit. search,read 2 papers*Go to small group
*Find slides, plan expt., notes(working on this now)
Journey's back to basics checkin
I had a great day yesterday! I started a bit late and ended up working late, but I completed all but one of my MITs. It's really helping to focus on the MITs and keep all the stuff of lesser importance off of my list. I still struggle with figuring out what to do about stuff like dishes, that really have to be done, but they are daily chores not urgent tasks. Although since I did not do the dishes yesterday, it really is an urgent task today lol. I have no more room in my sink for dirty dishes.
So, I am off to make my todo list for the day, then exercise, then come back here and post my MITs, since that helped me a lot yesterday. It seems like I do pretty well for a while just keeping my todo list on my own, but once in while, I have to come back and put it in here to get back on track.
MITs
PlanningExerciseCheck RFCsPR2 - double check everything (2 hours)RH planning (1 hour) - actually took 2-3 hoursreorganize work areacancel g.christmas - find the thing I wanted to order for A.dinnerdisheslaundryteam meeting - 1 hour - almost forgot about that!Jo
I value my time and use it wisely - Journey
My Day Today
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.
Things I will do today
1. Go to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting
2. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting3. Go to the 8:30 a.m. telephone PA meeting
4. Go to the 9:45 a.m. telephone CLA meeting5. Cook and eat brunch6. Take shower7. Get dressed8. Go to the 12 noon telephone ACA meeting9. Go to he 1 p.m. telephone CLA meeting10. Wash dishes
11. Clear chair
12. Pay bills13. Do numbers14. Go to the 3 p.m. telephone CLA meeting15. Go to work at 5:30 p.m.Thanks for letting me share