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.
Procrastination is the grave in which opportunity is buried.
V 2-9-12
All this seems pointless most days. It doesn't amount to anything. This is not a criticism of the site or the methods, just a nihilistic appraisal of events. It's so easy to slip back into slothe and inactivity - so incredibly simple to forgo any hopes of a balanced life. But what else is there to do? After all, one must take notice of the bevy of new members on the site, all of whom must have some notion that things can improve.
ONGOING
afternoon/evening- "A procrastinator's work is never done."
Kodos 3:00
I'm having a hit-or-miss day so far, but here's the rest of the day planned out:
3-4 clean
4-5 iron/get ready
5-6:30 furniture store/driving
6:30-9:30 Julie and Bill's
kromer 3:20 CI
OK, I'm having a bit of a hard time today. I'm feeling exhausted after church and I haven't done any work. I think partly I'm frustrated that I haven't made much progress this week...though I have been working on a literature search and have also made good progress on figuring out sync. issue.
OK, so I'm going to:
Do a load of laundry
Clean the bathroom
Check on expts
Finish requesting fast cycle refsGo through 20 articles
Go to the grocery store
Cook
Clean my room
Vacuum
Progress of a sort!
I've just heard myself make an amazing statement. I was looking for something to do while the dinner was cooking and I heard myself say "I'll just put the washing in the washing machine - that doesn't take long"
Doing the washing has been one of my greatest struggles, probably due to demand resistance as I had to do so much of it when my husband was ill.
H.
@hypatia -- congrats on breakthrough
Welcome, susiesue!
Nice to have you alongside us!
fudoshin: checkin: 9:55am
Please do not leave advice or feedback. Thank you. Prayers welcome.
My vision for myself includes the following:
Lavida CI Sun. 9/2
DONE: Church online + Food shopping
TO DO TODAY:
WRITE (note to self: do whatever you can, I just don't care anymore)
Prayer: God, I need this money, approved before deadline. Or I will start to have services I need cut off. Please help me. Please make sure I'm able to earn and get this money approved in time so I can pay my bills this week. It's in your power today, not mine. Thank you. Amen.
Step 1: I admitted I was powerless over my compulsion to avoid working and getting work, and my compulsion to debt as a result -- and that my life had become unmanageable.
"If you feel you're about to drown, remember Tool 1 and Break .. It .. Down"
Vic 9/2/12
Show up (done). calender, walk
Caught Oprah on tv saying “In God I Move and Breathe and Have My Being”
time to pray for willingness to be willing to do what works. sooo grateful for pa(ers) connection
Sunday - finsihing up preparing for upcoming week
Hi everyone,
Today I will:
1. Complete and submit my research paper.
2. Plan my Twitter marketing campaign
3. Set up recurring post.
4. Schedule Facebook and email time during the week (these are my two biggest time wasters.
sunday
happy sunday everyone and welcome to all the new members!
get readyreadingsring sponsortidy uprefs organisemeet n for coffeeask re editsrehab excercisessusiesue's check-in sunday
Hello
I am very new to the site and not quite sure if I am doing it right. Anyway my tasks for today
sort washing
hoover hooray one thing to check off
jet wash i started it but then the jet wash broke and i decided that seeing as I had already done lots last weekend i was just being a perfectionist and it is done enough so two things done. hooray for me
make card / pirate stuff - done some of it so pleased that i have managed to do so much of my list today. as my son would say 'good try mummy!'
will now just post and see what happens!
Salamander's check in - Sun 2 Sep 12
0928
Sort Angels stuffPrint out BYY materialTidy and sort deskRead/print out emails from accountant (the first part of my September goal to get my taxes up to date)Back up crucial documents onto pen driveDefrag computerClean kitchen sinkClean cooker hobAfter 1800
Attend PA meeting 2030 BST2214: That's enough for today. I'm going to pack up and follow my bedtime routine now. Tomorrow is another day!
"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." (Anais Nin)
EleanorBE Sunday
Thank you Lavida.
Today I plan to do
4 x 1 hour writing sessions but I also have other, social things to do so will write today as a timetable.
8.10-9.10 - Session19.10-10.10: write day up on PA website, have breakfast with partner, get dressed.
10.10 - 11.10 - Session 2
11.10-12.30 - make lemon biscuits (= cookies - v aware of different Englishes here!) and have R round for coffee. Discuss her R3.
12.30-1.30 - lunch
Session 3: 1.30-2.30
2.30-3.30 - break
Session 4: 2.30-3.30
3.30-4.00: make broad plan for week, with diary
4.00: Book train ticket to S. Write to P re. H/N.H.
After that - do what I like for a bit, then take goddaughter out for dinner for her birthday, hurray!
Great to read everyone's schedules. Best of luck to all.
One thing I found useful today - doing something on my list first, before posting here. I love new things and new starts and can easily use them to procrastinate so it's important to get underway with a day's programme before posting here, or posting here becomes a way of putting off starting.
EleanorBE Sunday - How I Did
So, here's the list again, everything done! Perhaps a bit silly to copy it out again here, then, but it feels so good to see it like that! Timetable didn't quite work due to recurrence of very persistent stomach bug. But I did all the things on it, only in a slightly different order:
8.10-9.10 - Session19.10-10.10: write day up on PA website, have breakfast with partner, get dressed.
10.10 - 11.10 - Session 2
11.10-12.30 - make lemon biscuits (= cookies - v aware of different
Englishes here!)
12.30-1.30 - lunch
Session 3: 1.30-2.30
2.30-3.30 - break
Session 4: 2.30-3.30
3.30-4.00: make broad plan for week, with diary
4.00: Book train ticket to S. Write to P re. H/N.H.
It feels to nice to go out for dinner with all this done.
EBx
Wow!
Thanks, you've inspired me!
Somu's Sunday (posted 0845h UK Sun 2 Sept)
Newbie here, joined yesterday having read Rowan Pelling's article in the Daily Mail. Here goes:
1) Draft poster for client, which could have been done months ago and is now making me dread a meeting next month. Might only take 30-40 minutes!
2) Reward for doing 1) is to write personal introduction for this site.
3) Reward for 2) is nice espresso and 20 minute break.
4) Same scenario as 1) with new text for a client's website.
5) At 2030h UK time, join this week's meeting here.
Yesterday, adopted microburst technique with some success. Today, instigated personal do-it-now talisman in the form of wearing favourite sporty G-Shock write-watch.
Best wishes to all.
SS
Somu's 2220h update
1) Draft poster for client, which could have been done months ago and is
now making me dread a meeting next month. Might only take 30-40
minutes!
2) Reward for doing 1) is to write personal introduction for this site.
3) Reward for 2) is nice espresso and 20 minute break.
4) Same scenario as 1) with new text for a client's website
5) At 2030h UK time, join this week's meeting herePleased :-) Same routine/process tomorrow. Good night all.
Hypatia's check-in
Off to a needlecraft exhibition today with friends. The plan is to buy myself a load of needlework materials so I've got something to do that I actually enjoy, rather than just all the things I HAVE to do.
exhibitioncut long grassmake and eat dinnerput rubbish outdo washingwatch paralympicsH.
let's get started
I have to be somewhere for two hours todayScrap that, it turns out, I'm not going anywhere. I don't have anything planned anymore and there is only one type of tasks that I need to do these few day. Hence, I'll just put a smiley for every half an hour of work.
:):-):):-):)
My Day Today
I want to thank my Higher Power for this program, this website, the telephone and online meetings, and my life.
I want to thank lavida for starting this trend.
Things I will do today
1. Go to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting2. Go to the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting3. Go to the 8 a.m. telephone OA meeting4. Go to the religious meeting at 10 a.m.5. Get medicine ready for the next two weeks
6. Eat breakfast7. Go to the 1 p.m. telephone CLA activity line
8. Wash dishes
9. Clear tables
10. Go to the 3:30 p.m. telephone PA meeting11. Write my questions for tonight's meeting12. Prayer and meditation morning and evening
13. Put clothes away
14. Do numbers15. Eat dinner
16. Go to the 6:45 p.m. telephone OA meeting
17. Go to the 7 p.m. online EA meeting
18. Go to the 8 p.m. telephone CLA meeting
19. Go to the PA workshop at 9 p.m.
20. Read the meditations
21. Test blood sugar twice22. Take shower23. Get dressed24. Read the EA reflections for todayThanks for letting me share
Mole at midday
I love Sunday mornings because I have three fixed commitments. I know where I have to be, do what I have to do and am with a bunch of people I really like. Punctuality for this kind of thing is one of the few things I don't procrastinate about. But afterward I took ages dawdling indecisively tring to find three birthday presents. I do have a system at home - a file for each friend and relation where I in theory put in things I want to do or say or give to that person whenever it occurs to me so I am not faced with a last minute dilemma.
So now I need to check in for those elusive tasks that run away if I so much as glance at them out of the corner of my eye.
Lunch eat calmly but do'nt dither.
Curly leaf grunge on nectarine
Rest of bindweed from apricot
This should be completed by 3pm
Prepare food for tomorrow
Fill in ringing survey
4-5.30 walk with S
Prepare plan and review for CC and comment on notes and cv q
Eat
Skype R
Go to be by 11
sunday 2nd september 2012
today (saturday) has been a wash out, not well and tired
i did ok on friday, made a good start on cleaning home but totally under estimated concentration and stamnia. inability to make descisions is also costing me a lot of time and stress. got a phone call to go out and i should have declined but as i lead a lonely life i went but actually i wish i had stayed on track with what i was doing, my list.
on sunday
meet family for lunch
come home after not on to anywhere else
in morning have bath
clear up kitchen
clear space in spare room ready to take photo's before lunch date
after lunch take photo's and list on line til 10pm
Elvira's Sunday
Here's what I want to get done on Sunday:
Go to churchput some clothes on to wash (make sure I've got some for Monday's lunch)read some of the papers and magazines that have been piling up, then chuck or put awaymovingalong's Sunday hopes -- check-in
Thanks for starting today's thread, LaVida!
On Sunday, I hope to:
release my perfectionism
and embrace a wiser course of action.
Update: I was able to let go of some perfectionism, but not all of it.
For the rest of the evening, I hope to simplify, surrender, and go forward.
Welcome Newcomers!
:)
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Sunday 8:30 PM
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