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.
Monday 22nd October 2012
We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right. -
- Nelson Mandela
I hope to do right - or at least not really wrong - today!
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InnerTruth's check-in
Slept in again and then spent an hour on the Internet.
Ready to tackle work for the day. To do
Email my resume to AWSend out email marketing for volunteer groupReview JL talk(partly done)Keep time log
Vic October 22, 2012 Monday
Show up (done), cslender, exer.
In the Duet for One,he says:
Life is always worth living, he says. So what if you’ve come
to end of one
road, you must go back until you find a fork in the road and take
the other
path…and so you continue on another way….because every way is a
way of life.
How very true! Every way is a way
of life. So, let’s
today give thanks for the ways we have already come and the
lessons we’ve
learned and the people we’ve met. Then let’s use these blessings
to meditate on
the meaning of life. And, please remember: There is something
special and
sacred about any way you would have chosen. Life is special and
sacred.
Reflecting about our paths can make us more sensitive to the holy
places along
them. It can deepen our awareness of where God has been and is in
our lives.
tila - Mon
Had a wonderful weekend with extended family. Plan for today:
make notesdishwasher, laundry (j, b, r), sort bkitchen, dinner (cauliflower!!), enter receipts, checks, RA, mail, trash, JCP, OD, HDBabarino ci 10.23.12
Getting through list of 8 items.
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Thank you all for being here.
kromer 11:30 CI
Today I need to:
Email S
Check on expts
Go to dentist
Start geno
Write 3 pages (one page done! yay!)
Make a schedule for the week
Finish second coat of paint
clement ci
9:28am.
went to bed at 12, or 12:30. could have been worse.
my problem today is i have several competing tasks.
fall down seven times, get up eight - japanese proverb
Lavida CI Mon. 10/22
Today I am not concerning myself with time too much, because dealing with demand resistance makes the whole issue of time management a moot point for me.
I am going to do the next right thing today. It is a question of what I want out of my life, what I would like, what direction I want things to go in, and then doing one step at a time that makes sense towards that.
Every time I have tried to manage my time with a schedule, I have failed. It does not work for me.
Having a loose set of simple goals I think at least gives me a framework to work within. More like priorities, so I'll list them here:
Small tasks (do not put emphasis on these, just take a small amount of time to get them done, and that's it):
-call friend in hospital
-do skin✔ /shower✔ /teeth
this week:
-mani/pedi
-call local PO about key/forwarding
-return keys to stores
-home test
-call/pay loan
-check Priceline.com
-cancel subscrip.
-inquire rates new car insurance/lower current ins.
-inquire letter for sec.
"Surrender and Take the Next Right Action"
(but only if you choose/want/like/prefer to!)
I can choose to if I want to
Kodos
Today my main goals are to get a major project in and to catch up on e-mails.
7:05-8:45 AQ (with breaks for breakfast, contacts, laundry and dw)
8:45-9:10 get ready for school
9:10-4:45 work (w/ breaks for lunch and e-mail)
4:45-9:30 B's bday
9:30-10:30 get ready for next day; read
Jack's check-in for the day
1. breakfast
2. weekly planning
6. lunch at 12:00pm
7. email RLT re mu
StH,JP, LUM, BrY (optional)13. buy booksMaximo's check-in Mon 22 Sept
Thanks to EleanorBE for starting this thread. Today, I will try to use my time wisely.
Today's list
1.
Tidy house ready for H.
2.
Hairdresser
3. Reply to B. re 3 Dec.
4. Ex bike - 20 mins
5. L's job
6. 1 load of washing
7. Inc/exp spreadsheet
8. Quiz night
9. FH project
10.
S. birthday cardMole's check-in
Thank you Eleanor, for the delicious quote. I love the idea of time being ripe - ready to drop lusciously into one's lap instead of always being too spare, too small...
I've been sick these last few days and very wary of the grey area between 'legitimate' convalescing and procrocrastination.
But so far - sketched out new scene 9-12.30, lunch, then hour's rest, checked out water rates, coach timetable and medical benefits, responded to A ( instead of giving in to Demand Resistence).
now it is 4 and I would love to sit down with a pot of tea - but also in the next two hours available want (yes WANT - there are parts of me that are not quite listening) to spend half an hour decluttering and spend another half hour on blue line learning, and make and eat something simple.
6.15 walk to town
6.45-7.15 pre practice with JC&D
7.15-9 main practice
9 social or home
11 bed
Calypso's check-in
Good morning all!
Today I will stay in service of my hp while I work. I am going to remind myself of right motivation for doing this work and aim to maintain an empowering context. Writing little bits one piece at a time today will do it for me, now I will do 1 hr of focusing on the findings section. I admit that I got stuck yesterday, I think it was because I made my goal too big and this made it too difficult to even start. I did make progress, I coded interviews, and found a lot of good articles, and was in communication with supervisor, and learned how to write the various sections. However I did not rtie the whole findings section, which was my goal, which is too big for me to have as a goal for 1 day. So today I stay focused on small tasks, many small pieces make a whole. Thanks for being here.
Calypso
Hamlet's checkin
1. FOY exerise(DONE)
2. meditate
3. eat 3 healthy snacks
4. Wellesley Tax
5. Target Mail
6. Declutter Study
7. Water Plants
8. IRS Requess
9. Gardening Blog
10. cook veggies and chocalate sauce
11. Qi Gong at bedime
elvira's evening
I've been ill for over a week and making a point of only doing what's immediately necessary in order to rest.
On this day I'm going to
try and go back to workand i hope that start will help me get moving again.
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 Eleanor for starting this trend.
Things I will do today
1. Go to the 5:45 a.m. telephone ACA meeting2. Go to part of the 6:45 a.m. telephone OA meeting3. Go to part of the 7 a.m. telephone DA meeting4. Go to see the nurse at 9 a.m.5. Eat breakfast6. Prayer and meditation
7. Read the meditations
8. Read the EA reflection for today
9. Go to the 9:30 a.m. and 10:30 a.m. telephone BDA meeting10. Go to the 12 noon telephone ACA meeting11. Go to Free Conference and make an appointment12. Give my spreadsheets to prepare to my PRG on Saturday13. Wash dishes
14. Cook and eat lunch
15. Clean the apartment
16. Call and make a work order17. Wash up18. Get dressed19. Fix dinner20. Go to work at 5:30 p.m.
Thanks for letting me share
Salamander's check in - Mon 22 Oct '12
Thank you, EleanorBE, for starting this thread.
I'd prefer people not to offer comments here so that I can continue to edit the day as I go through my list. But if anyone has constructive feedback or encouragement to offer, please feel free to get in touch by private message.
Alarm set: 0800
Shower and dress1000
Drive to GYM (TOP PRIORITY FOR THE DAY)1230
Eat healthy snackBuy Cat Litter/dried fruit/onions (2nd PRIORITY)1400
Have healthy lunch (20 mins)Report in to EleanorBE & PA about going to GYM (5 mins)1530
1700
WELL! This whole day has been a miserable failure. I knew I should have gone to that PA meeting yesterday. I have no idea where or how to start.
"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)
ms monday
eave for work at 8.do planning for morning.do 1hr work on march (something physical).w/o even if just a walk or a swim.get a card for aand post it.EleanorBE's Monday List
Look through diary and plan week
Write to CD and remind them today is not t. day
Write to C re work and contact if nothing from her
Write to C re C
Write to J at SP's re Wed meeting
Write to JD to get alternative rehearsal space for M
Get N's email re emp.
Get Guard infor re D's emp.
Write to M and add info about emp. to ret. document.
Get email re. SB article and
Do proofs for SB article. These were impossible as the proofs that were sent me were in a dodgy file I couldn't open. But it was a really unrealistic aim anyway given everything else I had to do today.
Write to BB
Write to JC at St P's
WORK ON LA CHAPTER.
Read 25 ps of J's work, in 2 batches- nearly there. May do even more than this now and finish the task altogether
Write to J with work
Put T.obs in diary - nope, carry over til tomorrow
30 mins pilates at home
Yuk, what a day. V. pleased I did the pilates and I got a fair bit done but spent SO little time on the chapter and didn't feel as though I was concentrating well at all.